Find guidance on your life and love through the stars This practical and sensible introduction to the science behind astrology will help you use the ancient practice to enhance your understanding of your own personality, pathway through life, and future potential. The book introduces the history behind astrology, explaining precisely what it is--and isn't--before helping you construct, interpret, and learn from your own natal, or birth, chart. Rather than offering "predictions" Take Control with Astrology guides you toward a full understanding of your relationship with the planets and the conjunctions, and the ways in which these can be used constructively to understand and manipulate the influences of the natural world on your own life. It offers valuable advice on relationship compatibility, along with guidance on career and other lifestyle choices and is accompanied by plenty of useful resources, diagrams and guides to finding out more. You can also visit teachyourself.com for extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

If you want to make better lifestyle, relationship and professional choices, Take Control with Astrology will give you the skills you need. It will show you how to correctly read your natal chart, so you can learn your strengths and weaknesses, and will help you to understand the connection between you, the sun and the stars - and what it means for your life. Even sceptics will be amazed by the enhanced self-awareness that an informed approach to astrology can offer, as this sensitive but practical book explains. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of astrology. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Written to introduce readers to the complexity and elegance of astrology as a tool for discovering your identity, appreciating your values, improving communication, understanding family dynamics, expressing your creativity, maximizing your skills, connecting successfully with others, finding and sustaining love and intimacy, pursuing your area of expertise, charting your career path, recognizing and participating in your community, and growing into and evolving your spiritual life purpose, this book sets out to accomplish three tasks: 1) take readers deeper into the interpretation process than most beginner books by providing a formula for and examples of over 1,700 specific energy combinations, 2) treating the subject matter as significant and important as medicine, engineering, business, physics, law, or any other profession that requires years and years of dedicated study and practice, and 3) offering a reading strategy that will allow readers of this book and any other books on astrology to quickly enjoy their first foray into the subject. Purposeful repetition of ideas, personal stories from the author, and a worksheet process all work together to show you the remarkable power and usefulness of astrology and what it takes to start down the path to unlocking its secrets for your benefit and the benefit of those people who are important in your life.

This complete and practical guide to planetary cycles offers insight, support, and awareness concerning the critical stages of life, including emotions, growth and development, status and responsibilities, addictions and inspirations, and endings and beginnings. Line drawings.

Become a better modern mystic with the help of this invaluable handbook. Through easy-to-follow, step-by-step chapters, you'll find all you need to know in order to read your own astrological birth chart, from the movement and meaning of the Sun signs and planets to understanding astrological elements, houses, aspects and transits. Star Power reveals how your birth chart can all help you learn more about yourself, your life and your future. You'll find out which sign you're compatible with, how the universe impacts your approach to love, wealth, creativity and careers, and ultimately learn to take cosmic control of your universe.

For the first time ever, a famous spiritual astrologer shares the secrets, previously known only to professionals, that hold the key to your future. 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

“Intuitive Astrology is simply wonderful. I’ve used and studied astrology for many years, and this is one of the most accessible and practical guides ever written.” — Christiane Northrup, M.D. Author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdsom and The Wisdom of Menopause “A user-friendly gift of intelligence, accessibility, and depth.” —ELIZABETH LESSER Co-founder of Omega Institute and author of The Seeker’s Guide Is astrology destiny? Of course not! Your birth chart does not foresee a future written in stone, and predictive astrology is just a parlor game. The original purpose of astrology was to help you tap into your inner wisdom, ask yourself the right questions, and find your own answers to life’s challenges. Now this unconventional and refreshing guide helps you reconnect with the sea of intuition that flows through each of us—so you can discover your true purpose. Based upon the author’s nearly twenty years of experience as a professional astrologer, this amazing book gives you a secure orientation in the basic principles of astrology and teaches you highly effective techniques for identifying your talent, your passion, your spiritual support, and your connection to community. • Clear instructions on technically reading the planets, signs, and houses in your birth chart as well as a primer on the meaning of each • Easy-to-follow intuitive exercises to connect with your “cosmic database,” a wellspring of creativity that encourages you to trust your potential and to love who you are in the present • Helpful ways to trust your own limits and use them as inner teachers • Twelve true life stories that illustrate the inspiring and uniquely brilliant way in which each of us can bring an astrological script to life If you are drawn to astrology but are intimidated by its apparent complexities, this generous, comprehensive book is the book for you. It presents the basics of astrology with crystal clarity and prepares you to use them with a subtle, finely honed precision that no other source provides. Even if you’re an experienced astrologer, you’ll be enlightened and stimulated by Elizabeth Rose Campbell’s affirmation: When you follow your best instincts, you follow the stars.