Every parent wants the best for their child – and that starts with understanding how they learn. In astrology, Jupiter is the planet of growth, wisdom, and confidence – qualities every child needs to thrive, whether they have a comprehensive, a private education or are home schooled. With its 12-year cycle, Jupiter offers a cosmic roadmap to your child’s educational development.
In Zeus on the Loose, teacher and astrologer Alex Trenoweth blends real-world classroom experience with astrological insight to help parents and educators tap into the powerful timing of Jupiter. Discover how to work with Jupiter’s rhythm to support your child through key learning milestones – from early education and tricky transitions to exams and higher learning. You may even find ways of unleashing your own inner thunderbolt.
Alex Trenoweth
Alex Trenoweth, MA, DFAstrolS, ISAR CAP Alex Trenoweth is an internationally recognised research astrologer and educator. She holds the...
Show moreDelighted to receive a copy of my friend Alex Trenoweth‘s brand-new book on astrological Jupiter, Zeus on the Loose. Like much of her existing body of published astrological writing, it’s greatly informed by her experience of working with children, as a professional teacher; and I always admire her courage for someone in that role where reputations can easily be damaged by the slightest perception of deviation from the values expected of educational role models to children, which in the UK’s conservatively scientific educational culture are expected to lean towards the rejection of any disciplines perceived by the scientific establishment as pseudosciences.
What’s more, there’s a particular focus within the pages of Zeus on the Loose upon Jupiter cycles experienced during childhood and youth, up to and including the second Jupiter Return at the age of 24. Thus, the book is unashamedly using astrology to help understand children and the major developmental experiences connected with elements of Jupiter’s cycle at different times in their early lives.
Alex is implicitly holding up a mallet to the stranglehold of the scientific orthodoxy upon educational values and shattering its opaque veneer, to open up new vistas upon childhood itself, seen through the lens of astrology. Again, I admire her courageous stand in boldly going where few teachers would dare. In this respect (and I hope she doesn’t mind me saying so), she personifies the expansive and optimistic values traditionally associated with Jupiter itself.
I think it can fairly be said that humour is also somewhat associated with Jupiter, and there’s a playfulness to the rhyming title ‘Zeus on the Loose’ that brings back memories of similar 20th-century memes such as ‘There’s a moose loose about this hoose’ (which actually makes sense if you know how people from parts of northern England pronounce ‘house’).
Philip Graves
