Essential Astrology: Everything You Need to Know to Interpret Your Natal Chart

by Amy Herring

Overview

Your natal chart is a tool to help you build the life you want. It's a map to consult when you are feeling lost or when you want to explore the deepest parts of your true self.

Join expert astrologer Amy Herring as she shares simple, step-by-step instructions to reading your natal chart in a way that provides profound insight into your inner workings. Essential Astrology reveals the meanings of the signs, planets, houses, and aspects, showing you the vital details of interpreting natal charts with skill and ease.

Astrology is a symbolic language for the heart and soul. With this book, you will discover how to apply the deepest layers of astrological wisdom to questions about relationships, careers, and everything that's most important in your life.

Praise:

"I cannot think of a better gift to offer any astrological beginner than Amy Herring's Essential Astrology. Her approach is modern in that it is oriented to psycho-spiritual development and to making wise and responsible choices in life...In short, she writes without ego, helpfully, with the needs of the reader always in focus."—Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky

"Amy Herring's Essential Astrology is clear, comprehensive, yet rich in detail and easy to understand. It will awaken the beginner and inspire the expert. A joy to read."—Virginia Bell, astrology writer for The Huffington Post

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738735634
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	505,966
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Amy Herring (Shoreline, Washington) has been a consultant and teacher of astrology since 1995. A graduate of Steven Forrest's Evolutionary Astrology Apprenticeship program, her articles have appeared in various astrology publications, including Dell Horoscope. Visit her online at www.heavenlytruth.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Section One: The History and Astronomy of Astrology

Chapter 1: The History of Astrology

Chapter 2: The Astronomy of Astrology

Chapter 3: The Natal Chart Map

Chapter 4: Reading the Map

 

Section Two: Astrological Meanings

Chapter 5: The Planets

Chapter 6: Nodes of the Moon

Chapter 7: The Signs

Chapter 8: The Houses

Section Three: Interpretation

Chapter 9: The Basics of Interpretation

Chapter 10: The Aspects

Chapter 11: Chart Themes

Chapter 12: Interpretation Techniques

Chapter 13: The Nodal Foundation Checklist

Chapter 14: One Chart, Many Methods: Steve Martin

Chapter 15: Steve Martin’s Life Notes

Chapter 16: Steve Martin: The Chart and the Life

Chapter 17: Troubleshooting the Chart

Chapter 18: Tips & Tricks of Chart Interpretation

 

Conclusion

Glossary

Appendix: Recommended Reading and Resources

Editorial Reviews

03/14/2016
Herring's handbook is complex but not complicated, aimed at beginners who are ready to move beyond the popular stereotypes of the sun signs (e.g., Taurus is stubborn and Leo is a loudmouth) toward reading and understanding their own natal charts as a "map to living life at your maximum potential." Herring covers the symbols and grammar of the astrological map and then systematically offers insightful and casual but not too chatty guidance on characteristics, nuanced interpretations, reflective questions, and descriptions of how each archetype manifests in action for each of the planets, moon nodes, signs, and houses. The interpretive section covers aspects between planets, then offers short primers on several interpretation techniques before diving more deeply into the nodal foundation method, Herring's system of choice. To provide examples, she applies each method to the chart of comedian Steve Martin. But Herring never brings her readers explicitly back around to feeling confident with their own charts, or with bringing astrological insight into their own lives, leaving them with methodology but not inspiration. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"I cannot think of a better gift to offer any astrological beginner than Amy Herring's Essential Astrology. Her approach is modern in that it is oriented to psycho-spiritual development and to making wise and responsible choices in life...In short, she writes without ego, helpfully, with the needs of the reader always in focus."—Steven Forrest, author of The Inner Sky

"Amy Herring's Essential Astrology is clear, comprehensive, yet rich in detail and easy to understand. It will awaken the beginner and inspire the expert. A joy to read."—Virginia Bell, astrology writer for The Huffington Post

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