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Elements of the Human Spirit

A Living Guide to Astrology, Energy, and Human Experience

By Michael Joseph Cotton · First edition · 2026

An inviting guide to astrology as a living language of human experience. Beginning with the Sun, Moon, and rising sign, it moves through the elements, modalities, signs, planets, houses, and chart interpretation before exploring collective currents and galactic soul symbolism.

Paperback ISBN 979-8-18-041063-4 · Hardcover ISBN 979-8-18-041400-7

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A home for curious minds.

Thirteen Thirteen Press is the publishing imprint of writer, composer, and astrologer Michael Joseph Cotton. Its books cross genres while returning to a shared question: how do we find meaning in the patterns that shape a life?

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The author

Michael Joseph Cotton

Writer. Composer. Astrologer.

Michael Joseph Cotton is a Massachusetts writer, composer, and astrologer whose work explores the meeting place of cosmos, spirit, memory, and story. Across fiction and nonfiction, he approaches the page as a space where structure and mystery can speak to one another.

He earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition with a focus in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music in 2011, then received an MFA in Film Music Composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2015. His composer’s sense of movement, resonance, and architecture shapes the way he writes.

Michael Joseph CottonThirteen Thirteen Press · Massachusetts