Little Book of Fixed Stars, by Elizabeth Hazel. KozmicKitchenPress, kozmickitchenpress.com. 154 pages, paper. $28.

The use of the fixed stars is, I would guess, a relatively small area of astrological practice, and it presents several interesting conundrums for those who want to use them. Specific stars were actually the basis, somewhere in the 5th-century BC or earlier, for what scholars of astrological history call the “uniform zodiac” made up of the 12 30-degree symbols all of us