Edith Hathaway

Edith Hathaway is an international consultant in practice since 1980, author, teacher, and lecturer of Vedic astrology and among the few contemporary astrologers trained and certified in systems of both East and West. She holds the NCGR-PAA Level IV Certification as Consulting Astrologer from the National Council of Geocosmic Research (1989), Master Astro*Carto*Grapher certification from Jim Lewis (1988), Jyotish Kovid from the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences (1996), CVA Jyotish Visharada and CVA Jyotish Kovid from the CVA (Council of Vedic Astrology (2010)), and Jyotish Brihaspati from the CVA (2012). She was a founding member of the American Council of Vedic Astrology (1993). Since 1992 she has served as a faculty and board member of both the American Council and the American College of Vedic Astrology.

Many of her lectures and videos are available for purchase at her website store in MP3 format. Her previous book "Navigating by the Stars" (published July 1991) was on Western tropical astrology. Her most recent book "In Search of Destiny: Biography, History & Culture As Told Through Vedic Astrology" (published April 15, 2012) is a winner in the category of Nonfiction E-book from Eric Hoffer Book Awards. In May 2013 they announced their winners for books published in 2012. Established in 2001 "as a means of opening a door to writing of significant merit... [it] honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer [1902-1983] by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers." Hoffer Book Awards are covered in The U.S. Review of Books, where "In Search of Destiny" is cited as "[bringing] an understanding of the astrological science via explanation and examination wrought through the lens of time and culture."

"In Search of Destiny" is also a Finalist in the San Diego Book Awards in the category of Nonfiction: Spiritual and Inspirational. A Certificate of Excellence as Finalist was delivered at the SDBA's 19th annual Book & Writing Awards ceremony in San Diego on June 22, 2013.

The book is available in book stores in paperback and in both paperback and e-book at Amazon USA (Amazon.com) and Amazon Europe (UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy), as well as in India, Japan, Brazil, Canada and elsewhere via Kindle Direct Publishing. All other editorial reviews and testimonials appear in full at the author's website, along with over 530 pages from a wide selection of her articles (62 of them as of spring 2018, with 21 articles in French translation by Patricia Depasse, Belgium).

From Feb. 16, 2018 the French edition of "In Search of Destiny" is now available at Amazon worldwide:"À la recherche du destin: Biographie, histoire et culture selon l'astrologie védique." Translation is by Patricia Depasse, Belgium.

See www.edithhathaway.com. For an index of the author's articles,please see http://edithhathaway.com/index-of-articles/