Bending the Light: Early Reviews and the Road to Australia

My new astrology book, Bending the Light: Saturn’s Lessons in Time, is heading to Australia for its official Australian launch in Sydney on 12 September 2026. Exploring Saturn, adolescence and the developmental journey from childhood into adulthood, Bending the Light draws on my decades of experience as both a teacher and astrologer. As I prepare to take the book to Australia, I’m delighted to share two wonderful early reviews from astrologers Marjorie Orr and Michael Bartlett.

Marjorie Orr has written a wonderfully thoughtful review of Bending the Light, looking closely at the book’s central argument: that Saturn need not simply be regarded as the traditional bearer of restriction, difficulty and bad luck. Properly understood and supported, Saturn can help young people develop resilience, structure and an increasingly confident sense of who they are.

Marjorie writes:

“Parents and teachers will benefit from an awareness of the Saturn transit points on the trip through childhood which Alex Trenoweth lays out, allowing them to nudge their pupil or offspring in the right direction. Nurture can take nature to a higher level.”

She also highlights the way the book follows Saturn through its major developmental staging posts — including the first Saturn square at around seven, the opposition around fourteen, the second square around twenty-one and ultimately the first Saturn return — while using the charts and lives of well-known figures to explore the different ways Saturn can manifest.

Her conclusion particularly delighted me:

“Saturn’s benefits do need to be emphasized to retrieve it from its traditional baleful reputation, which makes this book so valuable.”

Another wonderful review from Michael Bartlett

I’ve also received a beautiful review from Michael Bartlett, Master Metaphysical Astrologer, who particularly understood something that is enormously important to me: astrology should never be used to put a young person into a box.

Michael writes:

“What I particularly appreciate is that Alex does not use astrology to put young people into boxes. Instead, she uses it to help us recognize the individual who is emerging and to ask a much more useful question: How can we better understand and support who this young person is becoming?”

That gets very close to the heart of Bending the Light. The Rebel and Truth Seeker pathways aren’t labels for children. They are ways of helping adults reconsider how they respond to the individual developing in front of them.

Sydney — here I come

The next stage is Australia.

I’ll be launching Bending the Light in Sydney on Saturday, 12 September 2026, with the Astrological Association of New South Wales.

And getting there is going to be quite a journey.

After an August Thanksgiving dinner with my family, I’m leaving Michigan for Kalamazoo and beginning the long journey west. From there, the route eventually takes me across America to Los Angeles — and then across the Pacific to Sydney.

There will be plenty more news from the road.

And Facebook? Still locked out…

For those wondering where I have disappeared to on Facebook: I’m still locked out of my account.

I’m continuing to escalate the problem and trying to get an actual human being at Meta to work with me on recovering it. It has been an extraordinarily frustrating process, but for now Instagram, my website and my other channels are very much alive.

Perhaps there is something appropriately Saturnian about being forced to find another route when the familiar one is suddenly blocked.

In the meantime, Bending the Light is heading out into the world — and so am I.

One planet. Two paths. The choice is yours.