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Secrets of Astrology
By: DK
Secrets of Astrology tells you all you want to know about astrology, from the meaning of zodiac signs, to how to read a birth chart. Simple, readable text clearly explains the origins of astrology, the role of the planets, and the significance of the 12 Houses.
Young astrologers are guided through all of the different zodiac signs, and can learn more about themselves in the process. Bold, colorful illustrations bring key concepts to life, and make this the perfect addition to your bookshelf. This book is the perfect gift for budding astrologers, or those who love the night sky.
The Complete Guide to Astrology
By: Louise Edington
Astrology has been used for thousands of years to help predict events, understand the meaning of life, and communicate more effectively with other people. Whether you’re new to the field or have long been looking to astrology for answers, The Complete Guide to Astrology will help you unlock the wisdom of the stars.
Start with the basic elements of astrology like the signs, modalities, and houses. Then, learn how to structure, interpret, and take a closer look at your birth chart. From there, detailed charts give you further insight into how to live up to your highest potential at work and in relationships.
This astrology book includes:
- Intro to astrology―Learn the foundations of astrology, including its historical origins and its context in modern society.
- More than sun signs―Explore more complex astrological associations, including nodes, moon signs, the influences of planets, and more.
- Inclusive approach―Discover a non-binary approach to astrological concepts that helps make the wisdom of the cosmos accessible to everyone.
Better understand how your stars align with The Complete Guide to Astrology.
Astrology: Using the Wisdom of the Stars in Your Everyday Life
By: Carole Taylor
Learn how to interpret the positions of the zodiac signs, sun, moon and other planets to better understand yourself and your place in the world around you.
The book outlines the key principles of astrology and pinpoints ways you can use it as a form of self-help. This ancient art can help you improve many different areas of your life–from your personal and professional relationships to your health, wealth, and well-being.
You’ll also see how astrology can help you when you need it most, with practical advice about handling life’s key moments, including changing jobs, starting a family, coping with financial difficulty, or facing retirement.
Written in plain language and with sample case studies and beautiful graphics, Astrology is your essential guide to navigating all of life’s challenges and opportunities.
The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life
By: Steven Forrest
This bestselling astrology classic was the WINNER OF THE 1985 PAI AWARD (Professional Astrologers Incorporated) “for outstanding activities in furthering the goals of Astrology.” Published to almost immediate critical acclaim, The Inner Sky is beloved by both beginning and seasoned astrologers. The book introduces all the astrological basics–signs, planets, houses, aspects–and pulls them together in a step-by-step strategy for synthesis that anyone can learn. One of the most popular texts for beginning the study of astrology, the book has received praise by professional astrology teachers as well as celebrities such as Sting and Robert Downey Jr.Readers will learn an approach to astrology that is positive and affirming, and which celebrates human diversity, in the style of Evolutionary Astrology that Steven Forrest has become renown for the world over. The writing is both accessible and poetic, reaching the reader through clear imagery and storyline that is easily memorable and retainable. Differing from astrology texts that are simply descriptive, The Inner Sky takes the reader on a journey into the astrology of freedom and choice, where we discover the interplay of celestial influence and free will, and the magic that we all can find there.
The Secret Language of Astrology
By: Roy Gillett
The Essential Guide to Practical Astrology
By: April Elliot Kent
Astrology and the Authentic Self
By: Demetra George
Astrology for Yourself
By: Douglas Bloch
Astrology for the Soul
By: Jan Spiller
Astrologer Jan Spiller shows you the key to discovering your hidden talents, your deepest desires, and the ways you can avoid negative influences that may distract you from achieving your true life purpose, as revealed in your chart by the position of the North Node of the Moon. With insight and depth impossible to gain from the commonly known sun-sign profiles, the enlightening self-portrait offered by the Nodes of the Moon can explain the life lessons you came here to learn and how to achieve the fulfillment and peace you desire. Jan Spiller shows you how to locate the all-important North Node of the Moon in your astrological chart and provides a detailed interpretation of its influence and exclusive exercises to help you learn about:
• The SPECIAL TALENT that is waiting for you, a unique gift that could easily be turned into professional success
• The SELF-DEFEATING TENDENCIES in your personality that can hold you back and sabotage relationships
• The LOVE PARTNER who can be your soul mate—and the partner whose hold over you can lead to heartbreak
• The TRAP or temptation from a past life that can lead to disaster if you are not forewarned
• The HEALING AFFIRMATIONS designed to help you release your positive energy and strengthen the qualities that can bring you true happiness
The Junior Astrologer's Handbook: A Kid's Guide to Astrological Signs, the Zodiac, and More
By: Nikki Van De Car, Illustrations: Uta Krogmann
Harness the power of your signs to navigate friendships, family, and school. Invoking mindfulness, self-care, creativity, and a connection with nature, The Junior Astrologer’s Handbook is the perfect guide to teach young readers the art of astrology.
The Secrets of Astrology
By: DK
Secrets of Astrology tells you all you want to know about astrology, from the meaning of zodiac signs, to how to read a birth chart. Simple, readable text clearly explains the origins of astrology, the role of the planets, and the significance of the 12 Houses.
Constellations for Kids: An Easy Guide to Discovering the Stars
By: Kelsey Johnson
Over thousands of years, stargazers have noticed shapes in the stars, also called constellations. Different cultures have seen mythical animals and heroes within these constellations, and many travelers have used the stars as a guide for their journeys. Constellations for Kids will show young astronomers how to read the night sky as they discover more than 25 unique constellations.
Star Signs for Little Astrologers
By: Philomela Rose, Emanuela Mannello (Illustrator), Cottage Door Press (Editor)
Explore the zodiac in this delightful celestial book designed for curious little astrologers! Learn all about the 12 zodiac signs twinkling in the night sky featured in this gorgeous glitter speckled book filled with beautiful illustrations and fun astrological findings for every sign. Discover your birthstone, birth flower, common personality traits, and more! Are you a leader like Aries? Nurturing like Cancer? Brave like Scorpio? Charming like Libra? It’s all written in the stars!
The Moon Book
By: Gail Gibbons
An up-to-date, clear and interesting introduction to our magnificent moon from the the award-winning author of science books for children. Shining light on all kinds of fascinating facts about our moon, this simple, introductory book includes information on how the moon affects the oceans’ tides, why the same side of the moon always faces earth, why we have eclipses, and more.
Kidwheels
By: Cornelia Hansen
Why is it that some children sail through school with no problem at all, while others find it a difficult or unhappy experience? And why do some children develop behavioural problems while others don’t? Cornelia Hansen believes that each child is unique and needs special management in order to thrive. While working on a Master’s Degree in Child Development, Cornelia was introduced to a longitudinal study done in the Fifties on temperament in children. At the time, she was also studying astrology and the idea came to her that she might be able to connect the child development study to astrology. After all, hadn’t the concept of temperament been with us from ancient times? Isn’t it still part of analyzing someone’s natal chart?
Growing Pains
By: Alex Trenoweth
The mere mention of the word `teenager’ can strike fear into the heart of the bravest soul, and yet there are some truly heroic individuals who make it a life-long mission to teach them. Alex Trenoweth is one such teacher. She also happens to be an astrologer. Her official subjects are Religious Studies, History and English, but from reading ‘Growing Pains’ you will quickly find that her true passion is the actual students themselves. Using the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn she untangles the confusing conundrum of why groups of students are so different from each other year on year, and sometimes even within year groups. How is an already over-worked teacher supposed to cope with this ongoing challenge? Alex Trenoweth has the answer.
Momstrology
By: Ophira Edut
Planets in Youth
By: Robert Hand
To Robert Hand, children are adults in the process of becoming. Parents will welcome this book and use it to help their children learn to cope with the complexities of modern life. Readers of all ages will use it to understand their own patterns of early development. The first four chapters define the roles of mother and father, explain the effects of various planetary energy systems and discuss the meaning of elements and crosses in a child’s chart. Hand analyzes the charts of three children, including Judy Garland and Shirley Temple, to illustrate the astrological principles and psychological insights set forth in his intriguing study of personality development. The major part of the book consists of delineations of horoscope factors, written with young people in mind. Every planet in every sign, house and major aspect, as well as every rising sign, is interpreted in about three hundred words that stress possibilities rather than certainties.
Hellenistic Astrology
By: Chris Brennan
The Soul's Code: In Search of Charater & Calling
By: James Hillman
The Changing Sky: Learning Predictive Astrology
By: Steven Forrest
The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life
By: Steven Forrest
Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and REincarnation
By: Steven Forrest
Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul
By: Jeff Green
The 12 Astrological Houses
By: Dane Rudhyar
Astrology and the Authentic Self
By: Demetra George
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World-View
By: Richard Tamas
The Sabian Symbols in Astrology
By: Marc Edmund Jones
The Planets Within
By: Thomas Moore
An Astrological Mandala
By: Dan Rudhyar
Some three decades ago, in an attempt to produce a series of symbols that would be relevant to contemporary students of astrology, Marc Edmund Jones and a clairvoyant friend formulated the so-called Sabian symbols. Now Dane Rudhyar has taken these symbols and reinterpreted them to emphasize their character as a cyclic and structured series which formalizes and reveals the archetypal meaning of 360 basic phases of human experience. Rudhyar also demonstrates how the Sabian symbols can be used for divination. Like Tarot cards and the I Ching, they provide clues to the best way to face anxieties, or suggest what alternative courses of action might mean in one’s life. In the form of pictures that are easily recognizable to people today, these symbols can be said to constitute a contemporary, American I Ching, a series of symbols that goes to the very root of planetary significance for our present era.
Planets in Youth
By: Dane Rudhyar
This pioneering classic provides a new dimension in the use of astrology as a powerful tool in understanding life patterns. “The Lunation Cycle” is a unique technical breakthrough revealing the significance of the cyclic relationship of the sun and moon as phases of a larger process. Rudhyar formulates and describes here for the first time, the eight Soli Lunar types of personalities and the importance of the ‘new moon before birth’ and the ‘progressed new moon charts’. Rudhyar’s innovative presentation of the ‘progressed lunation cycle’ is an invaluable technique providing insight into how to use all life events in the actualisation of inner potentials.The meaning of specific events are viewed as an ordered series of Lunation phases, within the context of your whole life pattern, from birth to death. This is a practical and clear way to anticipate major turning points and transition periods and to understand our individual schedules of unfoldment. This groundbreaking book includes: the sun and moon as a dynamic pattern of relationship; the part of fortune as an index of personality and happiness; the art of fortune in the houses and zodiacal signs; the part of spirit; and, the planets in relationship to the lunation cycle.
Hellenistic Astrology
By: Chris Brennan
The Moon - Discovering Astrology's Lost Dimension
By: Steven Forrest
Humans have been meditating on the Moon since the beginning of our time on earth. As long as there has been anything we could call astrology, it has been central to all theories of celestial influence. But why do astrologers pay so little attention to its phases? In these pages, Steven Forrest, bestselling author of The Inner Sky, shows how we have been blinded to the lunar phases by a set of cultural attitudes now drifting into extinction. He demonstrates that our Celtic ancestors held the key to understanding lunar phase and he skillfully, clearly, and eloquently turns the key in that lock for us.
Along the way, he also presents the latest research on the powerful but little used tools: the Out of Bounds Moon, lunar speed, and lunar parallax. You’ll also find rare descriptions of the progressed lunation cycle, planetary phase angles and nodal phase. Discover the soul of the moon in this lucid explanation of the Moon’s place in modern humanistic astrological counseling.
The Lunar Nodes
By: Judith A Hill
The most complete textbook on the Lunar Nodes in print, by award winning author. Beautifully illustrated by the author. No stone left unturned! Vivid examples. Transit and Natal Nodes. East and West interpretations. Medical Nodes, Nodes and Death, Transits to and from the Nodes, Signs and Houses, Philosophy of the Nodes. Includes transcribed rare lecture material and much, much more.
Asteroid Goddesses
By: Demetra George
This book shows how the discovery of the asteroids Ceres, Pallas Athena, Juno, and Vesta coincided with the shift of a woman. The creating, supporting, nurturing aspect held by the goddess Ceres, the universal mother, brings us to how we feel nurtured and how we function with our roles of mother-child. She embodies the principle of unconditional love. Pallas Athena is our Warrior Goddess, a woman in a man’s world, carrying the principle of creative intelligence. Vesta, our goddess of Focus and Commitment, is our High Priestess. Juno, the Queen of Heaven and Divine Consort, is our capacity for meaningful relationships. Understanding the themes that each goddess holds enriches our understanding of that function and expression in our lives.
The Inner Sky: How to Make Wise Choices for a More Fulfilling Life
By: Steven Forrest
This bestselling astrology classic was the WINNER OF THE 1985 PAI AWARD (Professional Astrologers Incorporated) “for outstanding activities in furthering the goals of Astrology.” Published to almost immediate critical acclaim, The Inner Sky is beloved by both beginning and seasoned astrologers. The book introduces all the astrological basics–signs, planets, houses, aspects–and pulls them together in a step-by-step strategy for synthesis that anyone can learn. One of the most popular texts for beginning the study of astrology, the book has received praise by professional astrology teachers as well as celebrities such as Sting and Robert Downey Jr.Readers will learn an approach to astrology that is positive and affirming, and which celebrates human diversity, in the style of Evolutionary Astrology that Steven Forrest has become renown for the world over. The writing is both accessible and poetic, reaching the reader through clear imagery and storyline that is easily memorable and retainable. Differing from astrology texts that are simply descriptive, The Inner Sky takes the reader on a journey into the astrology of freedom and choice, where we discover the interplay of celestial influence and free will, and the magic that we all can find there.
The Changing Sky: Learning Predictive Astrology
By: Steven Forrest
Steven Forrest, author of the award-winning and critically acclaimed book on basic astrology, The Inner Sky, sequels that outstanding work with this dynamic text on predictive astrology. Here you will find a brief review of the astrological basics (planets, houses, signs and aspects) and then the heart of the book: Transits – the current positions of the planets in the sky compared to one’s birth chart. Outer planets are discussed in terms of their “Teacher” or “Trickster” potentials. Also addressed is the cycle of the houses and the tasks represented by each. Progressions – a day symbolically equated to a year in one’s life. Thorough explanations of progressed Moon through the houses and signs, and changing angles (Midheaven and Ascendant) are presented. And the Art of Synthesis – how to put it all together. This practical guide to predictive astrology shows the reader how to make better life choices, with a focus on personal freedom and responsibility.
Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
By: Steven Forrest
Behind your familiar astrological chart lies another chart entirely, one whose existence you may never have suspected. It carries your treasures and your wounds. Where the astrologer’s predictions and the realities of your life might not in all honesty have lined up, this chart-behind-the-chart will help you see why. This second, hidden chart tells the tale of who you were in a prior lifetime. It speaks of what wounded you then and what work you left undone. It reveals the old ghosts that still haunt you today and it describes what happens when you let them grab the steering wheel of your life.
This chart explains the reasons you have the chart you have today and it clarifies how you can get on with your evolutionary journey. In Yesterday’s Sky, Steven Forrest completes the picture he began painting in his best seller, The Inner Sky, over twenty-five years ago.
Elements Series: Book of Fire
By: Steven Forrest
In The Book of Fire, award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest offers a triumphant celebration of human resilience. Supported by all nine astrological “Fire” symbols, your spirit can survive anything – and still go dancing the next day. Regardless of your Sun Sign, the healing magic starts with mastering the paths of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius. It continues as you learn to embrace Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun itself. Your resilience finally blossoms in the three Fire houses: the first, fifth, and ninth.Together, these nine powerful words in astrology’s rich vocabulary are the Life‑Givers. With them on your side, you can eat the Devil for breakfast and spit him out before lunch. In these pages, you will learn how to make friends with each one of these human allies, both as they appear in your natal chart and as they move through it via transits and progressions. Each one of them promises a vibrant gift from the sky – and each one of them is as close to the core of what it takes for you truly to thrive in this human world as the marrow in your bones.Next up: watch for three more volumes in Forrest’s epochal Elements series: The Book of Earth, The Book of Air, and The Book of Water.
Elements Series: Book of Air
By: Steven Forrest
In The Book of Air, award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest continues his investigation of the four elements which began with The Book of Fire and The Book of Earth. In this third volume of the series, he focuses on what seems to be a very simple idea: the fine art of truly paying attention. He writes, “Air is what connects our hearts and our minds to the world around us. Astrologically – but also in plain speech – it is the linking element, telegraphing an endless stream of information to us – and letting us send a few telegrams in return. Air makes a mockery of the delusion that we are separate from each other – or, for that matter, from anything else. Air connects. It is what allows us to pay attention, and perhaps to create some good reasons for other people to pay attention to us.”In these pages, Forrest offers a detailed exploration of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, along with their planetary rulers and their associated astrological houses: the third, the seventh, and the eleventh. Together, these powerful words in astrology’s magical vocabulary are the key to nothing less than aligning your mind with reality as it actually is.
Elements Series: Book of Earth
By: Steven Forrest
Award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest continues his epochal Elements Series which he began with The Book of Fire. In this second volume, he offers nothing less than a manual for turning dreams into reality. Regardless of your Sun Sign, the magical art of transmuting aspiration to biographical fact starts with mastering the higher purposes and potentials of Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. It continues as you learn to forge working alliances with their planetary rulers – Venus, Mercury, and Saturn. Finally, the rubber meets the road in the three Earth houses: the second, the sixth, and the tenth.Together, these nine powerful words in astrology’s magical vocabulary are the key to Making It Real. With all nine of them on your side, you can – quite literally – make your dreams come true. In these pages, you will learn how to forge a deal with each one of these powerful allies, both as they operate in your natal chart and as they move through it via transits and progressions. The Book of Earth promises to help you build a gateway that links sky to earth, imagination to manifestation, and dreams to actual biography.
Elements Series: Book of Water
By: Steven Forrest
In The Book of Water, award-winning astrologer Steven Forrest completes his epochal investigation of the four astrological elements. In this fourth volume of the series, he focuses on how people bounce back from hurt and tragedy. In the opening pages, he invokes the haunting image of an old woman dancing on a moonlit beach. He writes, “Every line on the dancer’s face tells a story. Many of those stories are sad ones . . . and yet we are confronted with an inexplicable miracle: the old woman still dances. Of all of life’s mysteries, is there a deeper one? Not that terrible things happen, but that we dance anyway. That we can recover. That spirit regenerates . . . Finding our way back to that dancer is what this book is about. Let’s meet the good medicine of the Water signs – the guardians of the sacred mysteries of healing, regeneration, and recovery.” In these pages, Forrest offers a detailed exploration of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, along with their planetary rulers and their associated astrological houses: the fourth, the eighth, and the twelfth. Together, these powerful words in astrology’s magical vocabulary are the key to returning to joy and wholeness no matter what life throws at us.
Neptune, the 12th House, and Pisces
By: Maurice Fernandez
In this comprehensive study, Maurice Fernandez explores the evolutionary meaning and lessons of Neptune, the 12th house, and Pisces, and lifts the veil on one of the deepest and most misunderstood archetypes of the zodiac. The 2018 edition significantly expands on the original publication (2004), following further extensive research.
Maurice Fernandez shares these stellar insights with tremendous expertise and unprecedented clarity and detail. The evolutionary approach covers seven stages of development for each placement of Neptune, 12th house planets, and planets in Pisces.
Included:
- Neptune in each house and sign.
- Planets and signs in the 12th house.
- Planets in Pisces.
- Transits of Neptune.
Pluto - Finding Wisdom in Darkness & Astrology
By: Steven Forrest
Follow master astrologer Steven Forrest on an astrological journey into the realm of both darkness and the powers that can transform it: the planetary body Pluto. Whether officially named a planet or not, astrologers everywhere agree that Pluto is a major force. With this groundbreaking work, Steven emerged as one of the foremost voices merging astrological practice with the most courageous forms of humanistic psychology. Upon its initial publication, DELL Horoscope magazine described him as “not only a premier astrologer, but also a wise man.” Written with both the astrologer and the layperson in mind, his words convey practical and useful information that will help anyone navigate Pluto’s labyrinthine passages. Along with detailed cookbook-style explanations of Pluto in the houses and signs, the reader will also find comprehensive information for working with transits and progressions. This book is your one-stop shop for all things Plutonian. But most of all, it’s a beacon of light in some famously dark terrain, pointing the reader towards the transformative gifts Pluto can bear, if we choose to face our lives with consciousness and compassion. This revised second edition includes new Introduction and Afterword.
Pluto, Volume 1
By: Jeff Green
Over two decades ago, this book exploded onto the scene and has continued to set a new pace for the evolution of astrology itself. Jeff Wolf Green’s writing embodies everything you would expect from Pluto; intense, powerful,riveting, transformative and penetrating .A book that satiates both the desire for knowledge and the deep yearning for true understanding is a rare find indeed, and just as profound as the information included here, is thedeep intuitive awakening it will bring to your own soul. If you want to help yourself and assist other in conscious evolution, rather than simply waiting for it to happen, this book is the essential map for that journey!
Saturn - A New Look at an Old Devil
By: Liz Greene
Saturn’s darker persona is recognized universally in myth and fairytale. In this classic astrology text, renowned astrologer and Jungian analyst Liz Greene offers a fresh perspective on how to handle the influence of this much-maligned astrological symbol.
In Saturn, Greene shows us how the frustrating experiences connected to this planet can be turned into opportunities for greater insight and meaning in our lives. Saturn, she says, symbolizes a psychic process—one that allows us to utilize the experience of pain for self-discovery and a more fulfilling and complete life.
Greene retraces Saturn’s character through sign, house, aspect, and synastry in a brilliant analysis that reveals his other face: that of the initiator who, for the price of our honesty with ourselves, offers us greater consciousness, self-understanding, and, eventually, freedom.
The 12 Astrological Houses
By: Dane Rudhyar
The material for THE TWELVE ASTROLOGICAL HOUSES: The Way of Creative Accomplishment, was written in 1943-44, immediately following THE ZODIAC as THE UNIVERSAL MATRIX. Like its companion book, it is one of Rudhyar’s most accessible and easy-to-read works. It provides comprehensive descriptions of each of the ten astrological planets in each of the twelve astrological houses. In common with THE UNIVERSAL MATRIX, the astrological interpretations are more striking, psychological and critical than what we came to expect from Rudhyar during the second half of the 20th century. The electronic publication includes hyperlinks to the birth charts of dozens of interesting example nativities.
REFERENCES, TOOLS, TECHNIQUES
American Ephemeris, 1950-2050 at Noon (or at Midnight; a variety of time references) Trans-Century edition, N. Michelson and R. Pottenger (2011), ACS Publications.
The Archetypal Universe, Renn Butler (2018), CreateSpace
Hellenistic Astrology, Chris Brennan (2017), Amor Fati Publications
Predictive Astrology—The Eagle and the Lark, Bernadette Brady (1992), Weiser Books
Vibrational Astrology, Interpreting Aspects, D. Cochrane and L. Berry (2016), Cosmic Patterns Software
The Solar Arc Handbook, Frank Clifford (2018), Flare Publications
Planets in Transit, Robert Hand (2001) Schiffer Publishing LTD, PA
Planets in Youth, Robert Hand (1977), Whitford Press, PA
An Astrological Mandala, Dane Rudhyar, 1974 (not in Print, but may find ‘copies’ online)
The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Marc Edmund Jones (1953, 1993), Aurora Press
Inside Planets, Ellias Lonsdale (1995), North Atlantic Books
Inside Degrees, Ellias Lonsdale,(1997), North Atlantic Books