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The Complete Idiot's Guide To Astrology

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This book is completely off-base when it says that it is for complete idiots. Take a look at this book and you will find that nothing is clearly explained. They jump around a lot when writing. In order to be capable of understanding this book, you have to be well adjusted in the world of astrology, probably even a certified astrologer, and I do not exaggerate when I say this. I am pretty well-educated in astrology and thought this book would explain things I didn't know a little clearer, but it doesn't. Sorry, yet another failure from the line of Idiot's books. Instead of this book, I might recommend the one for Dummies instead as that one is a bit easier to understand.

This book takes a complicated subject and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces. While not a detailed technical manual, it exposes the reader to the components of astrology, and encourages further study.

In addition, the author presents several techniques I have not found in other books on astrology such as determining the astrological signature of a chart, and determining reaping or sowing lifetimes.

This book is an excellent introduction into astrology for newcomers. Parts of it may become confusing without a birth chart in hand, but sites like astrolabe.com can help anyone get their birth chart. If you don't know anything about astrology except your sign, but you want to know more, I suggest you go out and get this book.

This is a wonderful book to use as an introduction to astrology. The explanations are oderly and easy to follow. The beginning student will get a thorough understanding of the basics. The technical terms of astrology are barely covered. The more confusing astrology techniques are barely touched upon. I guess they think an "idiot" wouldn't understand them. This book will only give you an idea of real astrology in action. This book just talks about the planets in the different signs and houses, with a heavy dosage of sign traits. Humor is this books strength. I find humor missing from far too many astrology books. This is a "fun" book, reading is enjoyable. There is a small chapter on tarot cards, palmistry and numerology, enough to peek your interest. In conclusion, even a professional astrologer would have fun reading this book and the beginner will receive a clear introduction.

This book takes one step-by-step through the process of determining one's astrological chart. It also teaches one how to interpret the chart. The book is written in a very friendly, personable, and easy-to-follow manner. Excellent choice.

This guide is a good reference text to take a beginner to the next step. I'm using this book to take my chart's information I got free, online, and extracting the correlating data. With a simple list of my planets and houses and their motion, I've been using this book to create a much more wonderfully in-depth and descriptive chart than I've ever had before.

Is it a perfect introduction, especially for the purposes of drawing and reading one's own chart the "old fashioned" way? No. However, through reading the explanations of different individuals' charts, you will pick up the general understanding of what is where - what these symbols mean.

It's a really fun book that doesn't provide too much or too little. It doesn't claim to teach everything, but they give you a lot.

Free online profiles helped me get started -helped give me that first "Wow! That's really me!". The authors recognize the ease of this, and I'm glad they note it in their text.

It's a good start.

This is a great book for anyone interested in astrology, especialy for a beginner. It is so much fun to read and it is very user friendly.

This book does a serious disservice to the public, by propogating the view of birthcharts as fatalistic, set in stone, unchangeable predictions of a person's destiny. Pick up something by Steven Forrest or Jeff Green instead.

This book will have you rolling on the floor! The authors actually try to convince the reader that the stars determine how a person's life will turn out! I my view, this work has to go down as one of the best attempts at satire in history. The funniest part about this book is that, based about some of the reader's comments on this page, some readers actually feel for this hoax!!!