Let's Learn Astrology, page 5

Contents:

Introduction

Creating your birth chart:
1. Calculate your chart
2. Draw your birth chart

Understanding your birth chart:
3. Interpretation essentials
4. First impressions
5. Interpreting your planets
6. Special features
7. Working with astrology

Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements

Comment:

The book is printed on heavily coated paper & each section has its own unique page color. Ie, all the pages of that section are in pale yellow, or pale blue, or pale pink, etc. As would be expected in a book with four-color printing on every page, along with lots of graphics & illustrations, the result is quite handsome.

Don't get this book for its calculation instructions, which even I found murky. Daily motion - 24 x GMT birth time, from pg. 30. What is that, exactly?

The sections on planets in houses, planets in signs, ascendant/descendant pairs, are brief, and, I think, mainly because of the brevity, relatively good.

Moon in Leo: You have a real need to be noticed & appreciated. Without some kind of recognition you lose interest in what you are doing. You can work hard, but think play is more fun.

Mercury/Saturn Trine: You excel at details & planning. You never promise anything you can't deliver.

In sum, a promising start. I would like to see more from this author.

Sterling, 144 pages, almost oversize in format.

List of charts
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Looking a chart in the face
2. The Sun, Moon & Ascendant - working partners or family feud?
3. Plugging in the individual planets
4. What planet are you from?
5. A guided tour of the hard aspects
6. Soft aspects - when the living is easy
7. Piecing together the major configurations
8. Understanding transits - another way to use aspects
9. An overview of transits - seeing the whole picture
10. How aspect analysis illuminates chart comparison

Bibliography
Index
About the author

Comment:

Have you read book after book but still don't know how to read a chart? Stop learning by rote. Learn to reason astrologically! This is an "anti-cookbook", designed to free you from a simplistic cookbook approach to reading charts. Learn to strip a chart to its basics & start at the beginning with Donna's detailed and well-written analysis.

Weiser, 204 pages.

I. How to look at a chart: Horoscope houses: dark enchantments at the gazebos' 12 unit motel; Welcome to the zodiac zone; the rising sign: your world view & the world's view of you, too; Those shocking squiggles in your chart: how to read them; Rulers: they make the horoscope hang together; Aspects: what's the angle?; Retrogrades; Fire signs, air signs, jell-o & dirt signs - elements & qualities; How to read a chart in less than five minutes;

II. The Planets & Other Celestial Bodies: Moon- the things you can't live without; Get the moon to work for you everyday; Entering the twilight zone: avoiding trouble on the void of course moon; Born on a void of course moon; Eclipses; The sun - where are you going in life?; How do you speak? Mercury & the yak-yak tables; Don't sign, don't buy - Mercury retrograde; Venus - sleaxy sex & eternal love; Mars - how you drive people crazy; Jupiter - merciful fatso; Saturn - what's stopping you from getting there?; Chiron; The outer planets; Uranus - rude awakener; Neptune - ecstasy express; Pluto - below the boom-boom room;

III. Astrology in Daily Living From A to X: Astrological birth control; The chart of a.... building???; Critters; Enemies; Food; Gifts; Astrology & health; Horary: burning questions; Horoscopes of nations; How do you make the world a better place?; Maniacs; Marriage; Megabucks, tycoonery & moolah; Old age; Past lives; Rock'n'roll horoscopes; The astrology of sports; Synastry: the sinister art of getting along with human beings; Travel; X-ray relationship charts;

IV. How to use the tables in this book: What time zone do you live in?; How to win at nearly everything, achieve nirvana & screw your enemies with black magic astrology; Red lights, green lights; How to use the red lights, green lights tables; Red lights, green lights tables;

V. Intro to the Outro: Eyeballs & spaceballs; The exoplanets; Checking it out; Outro & exos.

Comment: Supposedly a book for beginners, but far better than that. Both off the wall & full of the most penetrating insights, written with devastating impact. Scads of sneaky tricks & techniques: How to read a chart in 5 minutes, lots on the void of course moon, the astrology of enemies, buildings, critters, gifts, maniacs, marriage & more. Almost all of it excellent & almost all of it unique to this book. The notes on Saturn, while brief, are the best I've read anywhere. A classic in the small Bantam edition that saw a quarter million copies in print, now in a new, bigger, easy to read format.

529 pages. Topquark press, paper.

Introduction

The zodiac: Zodaics, Omens & influences, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces

The planets: The Sun, The Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

The heavens: In the beginning, In the end, Time, Mapping the heavens, The quantum universe, Celestial sites, Cosmic clocks, Working with the planets, The cosmic state, Cosmos & culture, Science & fiction, Reaching for the stars

The constellations
The discoverers
Glossary
Bibliography & useful addresses
Index

Comment:

A coffee-table book, full of photos, illustrations, art, etc., many in color. The text, like the author, is scholarly. The focus of the book is a combination of mythology & astronomy. There is only a little astrology in the book, and none of it of immediate use. This book will appeal to academics.

Tralfalgar Square Publishing, 288 pages, hardcover.