Astrology for Yourself By Douglas Bloch and Demetra George

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Astrology for yourself: A Workbook for personal transformation. How to understand and interpret your Own birth chart
By Douglas Bloch and Demetra George

Absolute novices who have discovered this book rave about its clarity, comprehensiveness, and, above all, effectiveness. Astrology for Yourself introduces you to the language and science of astrology by investigating the subject you know best–you. This book contains a unique, programmed–learning text that walks you through a step-by-step series of simple exercises and journal entries so that by the time you are done with the book, you’ll have your own, complete interpretation of your birth chart, and you’ll understand why the astrological symbolism means what it means. Aside from providing a wealth of knowledge about your birth chart (and therefore yourself), Astrology for Yourself promotes personal growth and change in your life. By filling out the workbook, you will gain one or more of the following benefits:

A basic understanding of your talents, abilities, and strengths, and how you can best express them in your life;
An overall understanding of your life’s meaning and purpose;
Insight into your life’s challenges – and how you can transform them into opportunities;
A deeper and more comprehensive understanding of a variety of important dimensions of your life, such as: career and vocational needs; relationship needs; health; finances; child rearing; Your major life cycles when they will occur, and what they mean.

No matter what your level of astrological interest or experiences, astrology for yourself offers an innovative approach to personal growth that promises to transform the quality of your life.

Douglas Bloch and Demetra George are professional astrologers and teachers living in Portland and Eugene, Oregon. In addition to also writing Asteroid Goddess with Demetra, Douglas has written several books on psychology, healing, and spirituality, including Healing from Depression and Words that Heal the Blues. Demetra George is also the author of Mysteries of the Dark Moon and Finding Our Way Through the Dark. She is a professor at Kepler College.

Table of Contents

Figures in this book
Tables in this book
Exercises in this book
Acknowledgements N
Introduction: getting started

Part One: Learning the Basics
Chapter 1: Introducing the Zodiac
Astrology as a language of energy
The building blocks of the Zodiac: Element, Polarity, Modality, Orientation
A final synthesis: writing your sun sign interpretation

Chapter 2: The Structure of Your Birth Chart
How to Read Your Birth Chart
Reading your planets by sign and house position
An overview of the alphabet: keywords for the planets, signs and houses
Summary of the astrological alphabet

Chapter 3: Writing Your Personal Profile
The sun, moon and ascendant
The four angles in the birth chart
The planets in the birth chart
The sun
The moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
The trans Saturn planets: ambassadors of the Galaxy
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
The Asteroids and Chiron
Chiron
Cerus
Palace
Vista
Juno
The New Asteroids in the Birth Chart
Psyche
Eros
Lilith
Toro Sappho
Amor
Pandora
Icarus
Diana
Hidalgo
Uranium

Chapter 4: Work Signs and Love Signs
Astrology and your vocation
Sun sign careers
The workhouses
Astrology and your relationships
My birth chart’s love potential
Compatibility and connectedness

Part Two: Digging deeper
Chapter 5: The Birth Chart as a Whole
Hemisphere emphasis
The moon’s nodes
The part of fortune and moon phases
Retrograde planets and intercepted signs

Chapter 6: Planetary Patterns
The Planetary Aspects
How to locate the aspects in the birth chart
Interpreting Planetary Aspects
Astrological Timing
Astrological Transits
Looking at Transits in a Birth Chart
Interpreting the Transits in the Birth Chart

Chapter 7: The Applications of astrology
Astrology – Psychology
Vocational astrology
Synastry- the Astrology of Relationships
Medical astrology
Astrology and child Rearing
Electional Astrology – The Art of Timing Events
Mundane Astrology
Astro-Economics
Historical Astrology
Horary Astrology

Chapter 8 Looking Inward
Discovering What I’ve Learned

Appendices
Appendix A: Keywords for the signs
Appendix B: Keywords for the houses
Appendix C: Keywords for the planets
Appendix D: How to Obtain a computer printout of your birth chart
Appendix E: Martin Luther King Junior Birth Chart
Appendix F: A Planetary Ephemeris – Mars-Pluto: 1932 – 2000
Appendix G: Progressions
Bibliography

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