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.

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.

The easiest way to learn astrology is to start with yourself. Your astrological birth chart is a powerful tool for gaining a deeper understanding of your unique gifts, talents, challenges, and life's purpose. As you begin to decipher the wealth of information in your own birth chart, you'll experience astrology in a personally meaningful way—which makes it easier to understand and remember. Once you learn the basics of astrology, you'll be able to read the birth charts of yourself and others. This friendly guidebook is the most complete introduction to astrology available. Popular astrologer Kris Brandt Riske presents the essentials of astrology in a clear, step-by-step way, paying special attention to three areas of popular interest: relationships, career, and money. She explains the meaning of the planets, zodiac signs, houses, and aspects, and how to interpret their significance in your chart. Over 30 illustrations, including the birth charts of several famous people—Al Gore, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt, and Tiger Woods, to name just a few—add a helpful visual dimension to your learning experience. Practical and positive, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Astrology offers techniques for using astrology to identify the qualities you seek in an ideal mate, realize your career and financial potential, calculate your luck, and discover your inner strength.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance. Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology's cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart--a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath--reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities. Fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to. Marrying the historic traditions of astrology with a modern approach, You Were Born for This explains the key components of your birth chart in an easy to use, choose your own adventure style. With journal prompts, reflection questions, and affirmations personal to your astrological makeup, this book guides you along the path your chart has laid out for you. Chani makes the wisdom of your birth chart accessible with three foundational keys: The First Key: Your Sun (Your Life's Purpose) The Second Key: Your Moon (Your Physical and Emotional Needs) The Third Key: Your Ascendant and Its Ruler (Your Motivation for Life and the Steersperson of Your Ship) Astrology is not therapy, but it is therapeutic. In a world in which we are taught to look outside of ourselves for validation, You Were Born for This brings us inward to commit to ourselves and our life's purpose. --Los Angeles Magazine

This is the colour version of the astrology course available in black and white, hardcover and paperback on Amazon worldwide.445 pages to learn the essential basics of the art of tropical astrology. This book is dedicated to beginners and advanced students alike. It is the compilation of the astrology course taught by ABLAS (A Better Life Astrology School). It has been updated to suit anyone wishing to learn and practice astrology at their own pace.Each of the 19 chapters is a lesson. Each lesson is based on the reader's own birth chart. The lessons are backed with supplementary sections with hundreds of aphorisms intended to allow the reader to immediately put into practice the subjects of the lessons.Last but not least, the book is enriched with many colour illustrations, example charts and drawings to support and facilitate comprehension in an attractive and easy to follow presentation.

The Best Self-Teaching Guide for Beginning Astrologers Learn the basics of astrology in one easy-to-read book! This popular introductory guide starts with the philosophy of astrology, and simple definitions of its terms. Next, it explains all of the essentials, including planets, houses, aspects, and chart construction and interpretation. With this book, you can learn: ·How to create and interpret your own birth chart ·The basics of timing and prediction techniques ·Simple methods to construct a rough chart in minutes without using math ·An easy method to calculate an accurate chart mathematically Astrology for Beginners includes a free birth chart offer to help you get started, and references to more detailed material for those who wish to go further with their studies.