Door Unlocked: An Astrological Insight into Initiation

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki is a third generation psychic who has worked with magic since childhood. She studied under the late W.E. Butler and with him was a founder member of the Servnats of the Light School of Occult Science, of which she is Director if Studies. She travels the world lecturing on all aspects of the occult and is the author of many successful books, Including The Shining Paths, Inner Landscapes and First Steps in Ritual. Stephanie V. Norris is a writer and professional astrologer. For many years she worked in television and radio production before going freelance as a scriptwriter, producer and director. She has been practising astrology for well over 20 years and holds the diploma of the Centre for Psychological Astrology. She has an international clientele and writes, teaches and lectures on astrology. She is most recently the author of Secrets of Colour Healing. Stephanie first met Dolores in the early 1990s.

'This an unusual and very interesting book... it is slender and carefully written and produced. The graphics (astrological charts and tables and a diagram of the Moon's Nodes) are exceptionally clear and easy on the eye. This little book is hard to write about...Astrologers who are interested in the spiritual journey, especially those who are contemplating an initiatory process, will find 'The Door Unlocked' to be a fine introduction to that mysterious quest." Mary Plumb, The Mountain Astrologer February 2010. This is a particularly thoughtful and far-reaching account of what it is to go through the three degrees of one school, 'The Servants of the Light', in the Western Mystery Tradition. Initiation, 'an enclosing of the soul within the group mind of the school or order', has not been the subject of many written guides in this tradition, unlike in Paganism, and this book is an invaluable handbook for the aspiring student. The real innovation, however, lies in Stephanie's astrological sections that begin and end each chapter. Here the personal, inner process of initiation is mapped onto the movements and configurations of the 'visible gods', the planets in the sky... "The whole reason for this book", writes Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, "is that up to now there has been nothing about the importance of those moments in time when you are spiritually at a crossroads in your life." This book will help redress the balance.' Pagan Dawn Imbolc 2010