Standard edition PDF: $95 USD
Standard edition hardcover: $115 USD
Deluxe edition hardcover: $165 USD
"Absurd About Astrology is truly Christopher's Magnum Opus!
This is a substantial, worker-focused project that meaningfully advances the current wave of prop-less Mentalism. It's a coherent toolkit for creating readings and full performance pieces centered on Astrology and star signs. But where the book really earns its place on a professional's shelf is in its deep dive into framing.
Christopher relentlessly steers you away from 'look how clever I am!' reveals and into using Astrology as a vehicle for useful, emotionally resonant readings.
There is clear, practical thinking on how to disguise a method as a meaningful process. The emphasis on disguised ambiguity, listening skills, and living as a poet and artist feels much closer to seasoned reader-thinking than to typical magician-level thinking! I feel this book genuinely elevates how this type of material is perceived. This is not a skimming book; it rewards those willing to internalize a few key structures and then live with them in real-world performance.
For the working mentalist who wants modern, prop-less leaning material, this is a highly recommended addition to your library!"
Marc Paul
"Absurd About Astrology: The Complete Works is a modern-day treatise on the star sign divination. Christopher is passionate about this subject and provides a lot of hard-earned wisdom and knowledge. If you are new, or even knowledgeable, in this area of Mentalism, you will find good value here. Reading the book feels like being brought up to speed by a knowledgeable expert. He shows you countless ways, all tried and tested in real working environments, to both secretly gather and then reveal a person's star sign. There is a lot of flexibility and variety described here. Each approach feels layered and unique, often revealing the depth and various angles that can be exploited with a star sign. This is not the same tired approaches we've all seen. But, more impressively, it shows how to get more out of a star sign than the common direct throwaway reveal we see far too often. Hopefully, these illustrations will inspire and compel us all to do better with all of our reveals. 'Dalí' is one of my favorite examples of this in the book, such an excellent approach! I will enjoy performing it! If you are exploring what's possible with star signs, then do yourself a favor and read this book!"
Brandon Bell
Your book is fabulous! Your writing style reads like a transcript of you speaking directly to me; that is a welcome change from most magic books that seem clinical to me. Very enjoyable: Five Stars! I love your thoughts about performing Mentalism. Make it feel real to the audience instead of like a riddle that they need to solve. No version of “twenty questions” in your performances!
Millard Longman
I highly recommend this book.
Unquestionably the best resource on the topic of zodiac divination.
Matt Overd
Absurd About Astrology: The Complete Works is not a collection of push button tricks, but expert level techniques for propless (and propless SEEMING) zodiac divinations. The closest comparison I can make is the original Psychological Subtleties books. While some techniques may not ‘fit’ every performer who reads it, there’s enough solid, usable material to create your own effects and routines. While I read through the entire thing already, I know I’ll be continuing to study & reference this work for years to come.
Joe Diamond
* The Deluxe Edition of Absurd About Astrology contains an additional 45 pages of powerful propless and billet-free Mentalism from Christopher Parrish. One of the deluxe chapters teaches a technique that elevates any zodiac reveal from a quick, casual reveal into an elegant act of divining emotional states, vivid imagery, and genuinely building an empathic connection between the mentalist and the participant. Christopher considers this his best creation and is sharing it only with the 50 people who choose to invest in this deluxe collector's edition. 10 copies of the deluxe edition are left in stock.*
Over the last five years, Christopher Parrish has been sharing his approach to propless and minimalistic Mentalism with the community. Once, a completely underground thinker within the space.
Now, his brand of thinking has been praised by modern giants such as Peter Turner, Lewis Le Val, Pablo Amirá, Phedon Bilek, and Marc Paul. Many products will teach you a clever method to know a stranger's star sign, but they almost never teach you HOW to reveal it!
Many products teach you how to narrow the 12 options throughout a reading/performance. Christopher will teach you how to narrow the zodiac options down to a manageable size BEFORE the performance has even begun! Many products teach methods that restrict the reveal to a script you have to deliver every single time. Christopher will teach you flexible methods that give you the freedom to reveal star signs however you'd like. This means that your reveal will be uniquely curated for the person you are performing to.
Many products kill the element of surprise by opening as a star sign effect. Christopher will teach you how to know a person's star sign before they ever know that's the path you're about to take them on.
The standard edition of Absurd About Astrology is 230+ pages and 22 chapters dedicated to the most magical and original ways to reveal and leverage a person's star sign. If a real mind-reader and/or psychic could divine star signs, they would do so using the scripts taught in this book.
No anagrams, no confusing linguistic jargon, and no long-winded fishing methods. Every method, subtlety, out, and routine has been intentionally designed to give the mentalist total presentational freedom in revealing a star sign, and nothing here is restricted to the English language.
When it comes to astrological Mentalism, Christopher doesn't teach you how to jazz for information; he teaches you how to jazz WITH information! Conversational reveals, surreal and direct mind-reading, and healing rituals. If it doesn't look and feel real, Christopher doesn't teach it here.
Propless, EDC props, and billet-based methods and routines are taught, giving you a wide range of options for secretly acquiring and powerfully divining an individual's or a group's star signs.