I’ve always had a very simple guideline for deciding which books to write: I try to write books that only I could write.
Vertex, Anti-Vertex, and the Fated Path in Astrology is one of those books.
I was first drawn to the Vertex about 15 years ago and began writing about it occasionally on my blog. At the time, there was very little out there on it. Most of what I learned, I didn’t learn from other people or from other books, but instead from my own private investigations into how it applied to my own life.
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The Posts That Started It
Last fall, I was looking at my blog traffic stats and realized that over time my most popular posts had shifted from empaths and narcissists to astrology — in particular, the Vertex and Anti-Vertex.
Although it’s certainly not as popular a topic as something like synastry and love in astrology, I found that my blog was ranking exceptionally well for some astrological keywords, and that my posts related to the Vertex and unusual elements of astrology were ranking in the top five in SEO.
When I started looking back at how many Vertex-related posts I had written over the decade — and their popularity — the thought struck me: I could gather all my posts, expand them, and turn them into a guide for people who are really interested in understanding the Vertex and how it works in their own lives.
AI Was Already Using My Words
The other thing that struck me while I was looking at traffic data was how frequently AI searches were gobbling up information about the Vertex from my website so that research using AI was returning answers to people who never saw my original writing.
I understood fully at the time that no matter what nonfiction book I created — particularly one that included knowledge that has been written elsewhere — search engines would always deliver that information quickly, and with the emergence of AI searches, that information would be delivered even faster, even deeper, and specific to the question being asked.
And still, I thought: this book would be one that no one else could write and that AI itself could not write for a non-expert because I bring something to it that no one else does, even those who are experts at the Vertex and Anti-Vertex.
What Only I Could Bring
What I bring to it is how it applied to my life — deeply personal and thoroughly presented examples from my own lived experience.
Other authors can tell you how to apply a particular aspect or maybe even the basic details of how a Vertex conjunction should look in theory or how it often appears in people’s lives. AI can tell you what a Vertex transit is supposed to mean.
But only I can tell you how it felt when I experienced it in my own life.
Only I can tell you how that same aspect played out across decades for me and looked a little different each time, while still carrying certain commonalities, so that the reader can begin to recognize those patterns in their own lives and have some idea of what to expect — and whether their own experience of it might feel positive or difficult in the moment.
The Hard Part: Personal Assessment
During the writing of this book, the expansion of old blog posts was relatively quick and easy, but the harder part was going back through my own astrological charts and looking specifically at what was happening in my life under a particular aspect.
It wasn’t even the finding and organizing of that information from my personal files that was hard, but rather the personal assessment that went with it.
For example, looking at Vertex-Jupiter aspects, I realized that I might have assumed they would manifest in an expansive, obviously positive way. Yet while they were positive in the long run, they were often far from easy at the time, and the idea of expansion was very different from what I might have guessed.
On the other hand, whereas I might once have feared a Saturn-Vertex aspect and thought it would feel super restrictive, it ultimately became a positive experience.
These are things I would not have known to pass on to others — and not even reflected on fully for myself — had I not spent the time examining exactly how the Vertex and Anti-Vertex applied to my own lived experience.
AI can’t tell you how those things felt to live through.
Nor can any other author.
No other book on the Vertex, written from scratch, will read like mine.
And that’s why only I could write this book.
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