Episode 494 - Interview with Astrologer and Author Vanessa Montgomery

Now, tell me about your books.

So you've ...

The first one you wrote was Star Power.

So what was the inspiration for that? Were you already writing the column at that point?

No, I wasn't, wasn't writing the column.

So for Star Power, I was just thinking, I really want to write an astrology book, and I was just thinking about, well, what would be the most useful? What would be a useful book to write? And, um, a publisher must have picked up on my vibration because they approached me-

Oh, wow

... and so we just worked it out together, and I said, "Well, uh, considering it's gonna be, you know, for popular culture, let's just write an introduction so that everyone can understand how to read a birth chart.

Like, what is that? How do we approach it? And we'll give them a little bit of everything for it." And, uh, voila, that was book number one, Star Power.

Oh.

Wow, okay.

'Cause I was looking at the transits for the date that it was published, um, because, um, Amazon has the date of publications of books, and it came out on the 18th of September 2018.

And you had a really nice Neptune transit that was slap bang onto your natal Mars.

So I thought that was quite nice for a publication of a book to ha- on astrology to have a Neptune transit.

I mean, none of the other stuff was as significant, so I thought, "Oh, I like that one." So, so when you'd written it, what happened then to your practice after that? 'Cause normally when you write a book, like practices can get more busy.

What happened for you?

Yeah.

Well, the Glamour horoscope came off the back of that because they were sent my book-

Right

...

it must have been by the publisher.

And so they had it just sitting there ready for when they wanted to get an astrologer onto their digital platform because America migrated their magaz- their print magazine onto 100% digital.

So it was just sitting there in the office waiting.

So when they were ready, they contacted me, and so I got that column in mid-2019.

That one came along.