Rafael Nasser

The Zodiac was not handed down from the heavens. We made it—and we can awaken it.

The Divine Image Makers, Book One: Awaken the Zodiac. Coming in 2027.

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Cover of The Divine Image Makers by Rafael Nasser: a zodiac wheel of twelve hands, haloed in light above the clouds

The book

In The Divine Image Makers, Rafael Nasser traces the Zodiac to its source: the structure of the human hand that mastered fire and the mind that uses the logic of fire to create meaning. That embodied consciousness, projected skyward, brought the symbols of astrology to life.

Through eighteen tales, the twelve signs emerge as living forces, born from the darkness of their polarities. Negativity is never the end of the story: every shadow carries the seed of light. This weaving of darkness and light generates the Zodiac.

The first book in a three-part series, Awaken the Zodiac offers a new way to know the signs not as fixed traits or forecasts of fate, but as living archetypes we can awaken within ourselves. In this view astrology does not predict the future. It empowers us to create it.

Coming in 2027 from Shepaug River Press.

What’s inside

Prologue

Part 1 Hands and Fire

  1. The Remarkable Story of the Human Hand
  2. The Embodied Zodiac
  3. Fire in the Mind

Part 2 The Six Axes

  1. The Aries–Libra AxisThe Tale of Linda Fierce
  2. The Taurus–Scorpio AxisThe Tale of Bettie Stone
  3. The Gemini–Sagittarius AxisThe Tale of Julian Quill
  4. The Cancer–Capricorn AxisThe Tale of Luna Stern
  5. The Leo–Aquarius AxisThe Tale of Noor Kaur
  6. The Virgo–Pisces AxisThe Tale of Isaiah Wells

Part 3 The Twelve Directional Pivots

  1. The Pisces-to-Aries PivotThe Tale of Emma Rivers
  2. The Aries-to-Taurus PivotThe Tale of Kael Storm
  3. The Taurus-to-Gemini PivotThe Tale of Thomas Wilder
  4. The Gemini-to-Cancer PivotThe Tale of Wade Emerson
  5. The Cancer-to-Leo PivotThe Tale of Rory Zane
  6. The Leo-to-Virgo PivotThe Tale of Patrick Donovan
  7. The Virgo-to-Libra PivotThe Tale of Edna Corsetti
  8. The Libra-to-Scorpio PivotThe Tale of Seraphina Ravelle
  9. The Scorpio-to-Sagittarius PivotThe Tale of Phoenix Ashbourne
  10. The Sagittarius-to-Capricorn PivotThe Tale of Miriam Hopewell
  11. The Capricorn-to-Aquarius PivotThe Tale of Edith Ward
  12. The Aquarius-to-Pisces PivotThe Tale of Lilian Finn

Part 4 The Twelve Signs

  1. The Living Zodiac
  2. Higher Mind
  3. Awakening the Zodiac Part 1
  4. Awakening the Zodiac Part 2
  5. Awakening the Zodiac Part 3

Intermezzo: Book One

Engraving of a traveler on a ridge, looking out over range after range of mountains toward the dawn

A series in three books

  1. Book One

    Awaken the Zodiac

    The human hands as the design template of the Zodiac. The human mind as the abstract expression of fire. Elemental intelligence. The six axes and twelve pivots that structure the Zodiac and move thoughts. Stories to spark deep insight into the nature of the Zodiac. The anatomy of the signs and how to awaken their essence.

  2. Book Two, forthcoming

    Awaken the Planets and Houses

    The planets, the Nodes of the Moon, and the houses, mapped to the bodymind. Cultural evolution and planetary emergence interwoven with the history of astrology. How consciousness imprints the cosmos. Being in the world as an astrologically awakened soul. More tales framing abstract ideas, giving astrology a human face.

  3. Book Three, forthcoming

    Awaken the Birthchart

    Combining astrological symbols into a fluent language. Playing the Astrological Scales. Synthesizing compound symbols, creating meaningful stories, and reading birthcharts. The five major aspects as expressions of the bodymind. Analyzing birthcharts through planetary matrices, awakening your story, and embodying your destiny.

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Read the first tale

Each pair of opposite signs forms an axis, and each axis has its tale. The book begins with Aries and Libra in The Tale of Linda Fierce, followed by the commentary that reveals the Axis of Grace at its heart.

Read The Tale of Linda Fierce

About the author

Rafael Nasser came to astrology as a skeptic. A blind reading of his own birthchart baffled him and left him determined to learn the subject and understand why it works. That curiosity led to his first book, Under One Sky, an experiment in which twelve leading astrologers—among them Robert Hand, Demetra George, and his teachers Steven Forrest and John Marchesella—interpreted the same birthchart without knowing whose it was.

A longtime Qigong practitioner, he co-authored two books with Qigong master Robert Peng: The Master Key and The Way of Virtue. Through that work he came to the conviction that consciousness actively shapes the world—an idea at the heart of this series. He lives in Western Connecticut.

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