Recent and Ancient Astrological Reads I Would Recommend and Astrology Books I’m Going to Read Next…
Modern Western Astrology
Astrology: a Cosmic Science: The Classic Work on Spiritual Astrology Paperback – by Isabel M. Hickey. This handy reference book provides a strong foundation for the beginner as well as new insights and self-knowledge for more advanced astrology students. Isabel Hickey’s inspirational approach has been extraordinarily popular for years, and her emphasis on the deeper, more metaphysical aspects of astrology’s mysteries has resulted in continuous word-of-mouth recommendation.
The Contemporary Astrologer’s Handbook: An In-Depth Guide to Interpreting Your Horoscope Paperback – by Sue Tompkins. Complete guide to horoscope interpretation by Sue Tompkins, author of the modern classic Aspects in Astrology. Drawing on Sue’s 30 years of experience as a leading light in her field, this manual presents an in-depth exploration of the planets, signs, houses and aspects, and guides the reader through the essential stages of chart delineation.
Aspects In Astrology: A Comprehensive guide to Interpretation Paperback – by Sue Tompkins. What are astrological aspects and how do they show themselves in a horoscope? How do they relate to the zodiac as a whole and how important are they ? Most importantly, how can they best be put to use in understanding our individual needs and relationships? Included is a section offering interpretations for every planetary combination. Also featured are examples drawn from the lives of many well-known people, along with charts and diagrams. Not simply another book on astrology, this is informative and useful guide will appeal equally to the experienced astrologer and to the beginner who wishes to know more.
Predictive Astrology: Tools to Forecast Your Life and Create Your Brightest Future Paperback – by Bernadette Brady. Predictive Astrology shows the reader how to use Time Maps to approach to the fate of the transits, and includes new methods for calibrating and filtering progressions, returns of all kinds, eclipses, and planetary areas. By combining these techniques, you can reveal the future and put various aspects of your life into perspective.
Solar Arcs: Astrology’s Most Successful Predictive System Paperback – by Noel Tyl. This simple astrological prediction system harnesses the individualized symbolism of the sun in the mechanics of future times. The text provides case studies and analytical synthesis of each of the 1130 possible solar arc and solar arc mid-point pictures.
Solar ARC Handbook Paperback – by Frank C Clifford. In this greatly expanded edition of his popular work, Solar Arc Directions, Frank Clifford will demonstrate how Solar Arc is one of the most powerful and reliable astrological forecasting methods. With over fifty case studies, this book will help you learn to pinpoint landmark periods in your life and enhance your interpretive skills.
How to Use Vocational Astrology for Success in the Workplace: Modern Practical Techniques – by Noel Jan Tyl. What are specific money patterns and earning powers in the horoscope? What is a key astrological strategy for making productive business decisions? How can astrology time job changes and reward cycles? How does choosing a profession fulfill personal needs? How can you help your clients with the most asked questions about choosing a profession, managing job changes, and making money? And how can you boost your own career as a professional astrologer? (Here are fully detailed, “how-to” guidelines to professionalism!)
The Only Way to Learn About Relationships Paperback – by March & McEvers. Synastry Techniques. The Only Way to Learn about Relationships focuses on the relationship needs that are reflected in the natal chart, and teaches you to compare two charts to evaluate compatibility. Includes house activation, interaspects and composite charts. Although romantic relationships are the main focus of this volume, the authors delineate business and family relationships as well.
Identifying Planetary Triggers: Astrological Techniques for Prediction Paperback – by Celeste Teal. Pinpoint future events accurately with this technical approach to the science of astrology * Chart illustrations and commentary lead you step-by-step through the process of planetary returns * Introduces the Anlunar chart, Sunrise chart, and Diurnal chart * Includes Dr. Heber Smith’s classic reference on the function of transit planets * From the author of Predicting Events with Astrology.
Cycles of Light: Exploring the Mysteries of Solar Returns Paperback – by Lynn Bell. There is an appendix including further examples of the application of solar returns to actual lives. There is little current literature on solar returns satisfactory to those seeking greater depth and accessibility from this ancient yet perennially useful approach to interpreting the cycles of individual unfoldment. This book fills a long-neglected gap, and is essential reading for any astrological student concerned with understanding the meaning as well as the manifestations of the different stages of the human journey.
Rulership Book: A Directory of Astrological Correspondences – by Rex E. Bills. It is the only place where all sign, planetary and house rulerships have been brought together and put in a good workable order. It is organized in such a way that one can use the book for quick and easy reference, and it eliminates the need to search through various other volumes. In four parts: an alphabetical listing, a listing by planets, a listing by signs, a listing by houses.
The Art of Predictive Astrology: Forecasting Your Life Events Paperback – by Carol Rushman. This book clearly lays out a step-by-step system that astrologers can use to forecast significant events including love and financial success. Readers will be able to predict cycles and trends for the next several years, and give their clients important dates for the coming year. The emphasis is on progressions, eclipses, and lunations as important predictive tools.
Traditional Astrology
Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-emerging Feminine 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.
Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice: A Manual of Traditional Tech Paperback – by Demetra George. Developed under the shadows of the Egyptian temples, Hellenistic astrology is an ancient form of divination inherited from Mesopotamian wisdom traditions. Distilled in Græco-Roman antiquity, and refined in the fires of philosophy and astronomy, it forms the bedrock of traditional western astrology (while also bearing profound similarities to Jyotish or Vedic astrology). Drawing on a body of Greek texts that have remained largely untranslated for almost two-thousand years, Demetra George brings the contemporary practice of astrology back to its ancient roots.
Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice: A Manual of Traditional Techniques, Volume II: Delineating Planetary Meaning Paperback – by Demetra George. Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice is, in essence, a training manual for the study and practice of Hellenistic astrology. In two volumes, it provides the complete foundations and detailed dynamics of ancient chart-reading techniques. Each volume and each technique is richly illustrated with diagrams, example charts, and practical exercises.
Horoscope Symbols Paperback – by Robert Hand. Whether you’re a beginning student or a practicing professional, Horoscope Symbols takes you beyond your present conception of astrology into a whole new realm of understanding. Horoscope Symbols takes the beginner beyond cookbook interpretations to genuine insight, beyond superficial keywords to the fundamental principles that underlie astrology, beyond overemphasis on signs to the primacy of planets and angles.
Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living Paperback – by Robert Hand. This book covers complete delineations of all the major transits – conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition – that occur between transiting Sun, Moon and all planets to each planet in the natal chart and the Ascendant and Midheaven, as well as complete delineations of each planet transiting each house of the natal chart.
Christian Astrology, Books 1 & 2 Paperback – by William Lilly. This is the most famous, the most celebrated astrology book in the English language. It has been prized by students ever since its first publication in 1647. The Horary Astrology in these pages, in the hands of a master, is no mere parlour game. It is demanding and precise, combining science and art. Properly used, it will give answer to any well-defined question. William Lilly, famous throughout England for his almanacs & forecasts (he predicted London’s Great Fire of 1666), lived during the English Civil War & was a minor historical figure in it. Into his studio came the rich and poor, nobles and commoners, with problems great and small.
The Martial Art of Horary Astrology Paperback – by J. Lee Lehman. Horary is the astrological method for answering a specific question by examining a chart drawn for the moment of the question. Horary astrology shares with martial arts training the teaching of a combination of method and intuition. In both, repetitive practice results not merely in good technique, but ultimately in Art that goes beyond all technique. Horary possesses this martial quality because it is the only branch of Astrology that functions exclusively in the moment. With nativities, we are always going beyond the birth moment with transits, progressions, etc. Because Horary is immediate, its skills must be sharper…
Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune Paperback – by Chris Brennan. Hellenistic astrology is a tradition of horoscopic astrology that was practiced in the Mediterranean region from approximately the first century BCE until the seventh century CE. It is the source of many of the modern traditions of astrology that still flourish around the world today, although it is only recently that many of the surviving texts of this tradition have become available again for astrologers to study.
Rapid and Reliable Analysis Paperback – by Reinhold Ebertin. Reinhold Ebertin explains his method for rapid and reliable analysis of the natal chart and predictive factors, including the three basic factors used in chart interpretation and forecasting. He begins by explaining the use of midpoints as a valuable tool in both natal and predictive astrology, and how they can identify periods of career success and medical issues.
Directions: Co-Determinants of Fate Paperback – by Reinhold Ebertin. The author appropriately terms planetary directions as co-determinants of fate. Rather than view directions as simply fateful, he sees them as life companions along with the many other circumstances, conditions, and influences that shape life and human destiny. With this central philosophy in mind, the author first defines planetary directions and their significance in astrological forecasting.
Planets In Youth : Patterns of Early Development Paperback – by Robert Hand is a widely acclaimed astrology book that focuses on using a birth chart to understand personality development during childhood and adolescence. The book is designed for both parents and individuals seeking self-understanding. 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.
Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil Paperback – by Liz Greene. 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.
Evolutionary Astrology
Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Volume 1 Paperback – by Jeffrey Wolf Green. 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 the deep 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!
Pluto, Vol. 2: The Soul’s Evolution Through Relationships Paperback – by Jeffrey Wolf Green. By incorporating past-life dynamics with modern astrology, Green creates a powerful new paradigm … evolutionary astrology. Pluto: Volume II elucidates Green’s theory that once you understand your past life dynamics, symbolized by Pluto, you will be able to focus on key astrological principles and methods that propel you forward. If you’re tired of making the same mistakes again and again… isn’t it time that you resolve to evolve?
Evolutionary Astrology: Pluto and Your Karmic Mission – by Deva Green. Every aspect of the self, from our ambitions and motivations to the soul’s evolutionary journey, can be traced back to Pluto. This powerful planet of transformation is the key to understanding the factors in your natal chart, ultimately revealing your karmic mission. Gain insight into your psychological makeup, identify your soul’s evolutionary stage, and discover your true purpose in this life. As you master these techniques, you will reconnect with an evolving sense of purpose and actualize your potential for spiritual growth.
Uranus: Freedom From The Known Paperback – by Jeffrey Wolf Green. Uranus: Freedom From the Known primarily focuses on the archetype of liberation from existing inner dynamics that are preventing the evolution of the Soul, the archetype of trauma(s), and the archetypal correlations to anatomy, physiology, and the chakra system.
The Soul Purpose: Attaining Fulfillment and Security with Astrology Paperback – by David Railey. Does your soul play a part in the choices you make? Everyone says they want fulfillment and security, but this book provides clues and insights often obscured by the surface drama and circumstances of our lives. Learn how to recognize what’s at the core of your motivations and find out how to widen the circle of your life’s possibilities. Discover the many well-known individuals you share a life path with, and the themes you have in common. Gain insight into family and friends.
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View Paperback – by Richard Tarnas. This brilliant book points to a radical change in our understanding of the cosmos, shining new light on the drama of history and on our own critical age. It opens up a new cosmic horizon that reunites science and religion, intellect and soul, modern reason and ancient wisdom. Whether read as astrology updated for the quantum age or as a contemporary classic of spirituality, Cosmos and Psyche is a work of immense sophistication, deep learning, and lasting importance.
Healing the Soul: Pluto, Uranus and the Lunar Nodes Paperback – by Mark Jones. Healing the Soul offers profound insight into the powerful soul dynamics that shape our experience. Its triumph is that it teaches us how to identify and transform powerful internal conflicts and feelings while acknowledging our regenerative capacity for spiritual healing and soul evolution.
Chiron and the Healing Journey: An Astrological and Psychological Perspective Paperback – by Melanie Reinhart. A wise and fascinating exploration of the nature of the healing experience as delineated in the horoscope, in particular through the archetypal pattern of the Wounded Healer or Shaman. An indispensible book for anyone wanting to understand the symbolism and meaning of the recently discovered Kuiper Belt object called Chiron. Extensive mythological, cultural and historical references enrich this book. This major revision contains a wealth of entirely new material, and an elaboration of themes previously included.
Lunation Cycle: Key to the Understanding of Personality: A Key to the Understanding of Personality Paperback – by Dane Rudhyar. Rudhyar formulates and describes here for the fist time, the eight Soli Lunar types of personalities and the importance of the “New Moon Before Birth” and the “Progressed New Moon charts”. 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 Part of Fortune in the Houses and Zodiacal Signs; The Part of Spirit; The Planets in Relationship to the Lunation Cycle.
Other Useful Books
The New American Ephemeris for the 21st Century at Midnight Paperback – by Rique Pottenger. In 2006, celebrating the 30th anniversary of first publication of the first volume of work that grew to become Michelsen’s comprehensive American Ephemeris series, Rique Pottenger continued the work that Neil began. Within The New American Ephemeris for the 21st Century 2000-2100 at Midnight is the familiar data and format long used and trusted by astrologers worldwide, now updated and expanded, with new features.
How to Predict Your Future: Secrets of Eastern and Western Astrology Paperback – by James T. Braha. Demonstrates two of the best predictive methods offered by the world of astrology. The book presents the predictive accuracy of ancient Hindu astrology with the spiritually rich astrology of the west. How to use the vimshottari dasha system, the predictive method that allows startlingly accurate predictions about periods in a person’s life.
The Healer’s Manual: A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Healing for Yourself and Others (Llewellyn’s Health & Healing) Paperback – by Ted Andrews. Noted healer and author Ted Andrews reveals how unbalanced or blocked emotions, attitudes, and thoughts deplete our natural physical energies and make us more susceptible to illness. The Healer’s Manual shows specific techniques–involving color, sound, fragrance, herbs, and gemstones–to restore the natural flow of energy. Use the simple practices in this book to activate healing, alleviate aches and pains, and become the healthy person you’re meant to be.
Where Science and Magic Meet Paperback – by Serena Roney-Dougal. The root of the word science is knowledge; the root of the word magic is wisdom. Serena blends these two spheres of human experience and shows how the latest scientific research and parapsychological study interact. The quantum view of matter is overturning the traditional world-view and the fantastic discoveries being made bring new insights into the connections between all forms of magic and science. Drawing on her ground-breaking work on the pineal gland – something called the third eye – and the phenomenon of second sight, she shows that the greatest implication of psychic phenomena is that each of us is potentially aware of the natural magic of our earth and of everything in the universe.