Lucky Stars: Use Astrology to Get the Scoop on Life, Love, and Friendship [Paperback]

Amanda Owen (Author)

Book Description

What’s Your Sign?

Are you a freethinking Aquarius or a loyal Taurus? Does Pisces light up your creative side? Does Capricorn get your butt in gear to achieve your goals? Do you share a sign with Britney Spears, Tiger Woods, LeeAnn Rimes, Prince William, Tara Lipinski, Kobe Bryant, or Martin Luther King, Jr.? Answer these questions and more with Lucky Stars.

If you spend your days fantasizing about that dreamy Pisces, planning the future with your best Leo bud, struggling with your Sagittarius dad, or stewing over that Aries algebra teacher, veteran astrologer Amanda Owen has written this book especially for you. Lucky Stars lays out the lowdown on each Sun sign and provides strategies to consider in every situation, from dating to school to dealing with your parents. Lucky Stars also gives you a chance to find your celebrity birthday twin and offers info about your Sun sign color, birthstone, and other fun stuff, including:

* Ways to increase your self-confidence
* Separate sections within each sign on friendships, home life, careers, and relationships
* Compatibility guides so you can find your perfect mate

With tools and resources to find out even more about yourself or your friends through astrology and tons of practical tips for day-to-day life, Amanda Owen delivers an astrological guide with everything you need to be the best you can be.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Lucky Stars is an astrology book written for teens and young adults, although its information is applicable to people of any age. It introduces them to the astrology older adults have been using for years to improve their lives. Lucky Stars was written with the goal of helping young people to become more confident, empowered human beings, to support them in liberating their individual potential, and to provide practical strategies to assist them in negotiating their world.

Drawing from the lives of current and historical people, Lucky Stars illustrates the themes and characteristics unique to each Sun sign. The gifts, talents, and strengths as well as the difficulties associated with each sign are outlined. Activities that promote confidence and strategies for overcoming behaviors that decrease confidence are provided. Lucky Stars addresses all of the important areas of life including friendships, home life, career, and spirituality. A relationship section contains a Compatibility Guide, which matches up each sign with every other sign delineating both the areas of ease and difficulty with every combination. Each sign's chapter ends with 10 special tips for creating a successful life.

From the Inside Flap

What?s Your Sign?

Are you a freethinking Aquarius or a loyal Taurus? Does Pisces light up your creative side? Does Capricorn get your butt in gear to achieve your goals? Do you share a sign with Britney Spears, Tiger Woods, LeeAnn Rimes, Prince William, Tara Lipinski, Kobe Bryant, or Martin Luther King, Jr.? Answer these questions and more with Lucky Stars.

If you spend your days fantasizing about that dreamy Pisces, planning the future with your best Leo bud, struggling with your Sagittarius dad, or stewing over that Aries algebra teacher, veteran astrologer Amanda Owen has written this book especially for you. Lucky Stars lays out the lowdown on each Sun sign and provides strategies to consider in every situation, from dating to school to dealing with your parents. Lucky Stars also gives you a chance to find your celebrity birthday twin and offers info about your Sun sign color, birthstone, and other fun stuff, including:

* Ways to increase your self-confidence
* Separate sections within each sign on friendships, home life, careers, and relationships
* Compatibility guides so you can find your perfect mate

With tools and resources to find out even more about yourself or your friends through astrology and tons of practical tips for day-to-day life, Amanda Owen delivers an astrological guide with everything you need to be the best you can be.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (September 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609806874
• ISBN-13: 978-0609806876
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Amanda Owen's research during the last twenty years into the nature of receptivity and its link to manifestation led her to develop a system that helps people manifest the lives they want by developing their capacity to receive. She reports her findings in her latest book 'The Power of Receiving: A Revolutionary Approach to Giving Yourself the Life You Want and Deserve' (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2010)

Amanda has been presenting lectures and workshops since the mid-eighties on a variety of topics in the spirituality, empowerment and self-improvement genres. She works with individuals and groups, traveling throughout the United States and Canada and reaches an international audience through her tele-courses.

With a B.A. in Psychology, a background in social work and a twenty-five-year practice as a counselor and coach, Amanda's passion is to help people create the life they desire. She counsels those looking for greater benefits from their self-improvement and spiritual studies. She specializes in counseling empty-nesters seeking to rediscover and reinvent themselves, women who have over-extended their giving and want to bring greater balance to their lives and caregivers who need assistance tending to their own needs.

Recently, Amanda created a series of presentations for the staff of nonprofits, nurses and others in the helping professions to provide practical tools that will bring relief for those who dedicate their lives to helping others.

Amanda's web site is www.thePowerofReceiving.com.

You can find out about Amanda's Power of Receiving Retreats at http://www.amandaowenandthepowerofreceiving.com/

You can find her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thepowerofreceiving and follow her at www.Twitter.com/ReceiveTweets

She has two blogs. The first is http://thepowerofreceiving.com/blog/

She also has a blog, SandPaintingMyLife.blogspot.com where she posts her photographs accompanied by quotes to inspire people to slow down and receive the present moment.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should find their Lucky Stars, December 22, 2003

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Kayce St James (Laguna Niguel, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lucky Stars: Use Astrology to Get the Scoop on Life, Love, and Friendship (Paperback)

The best part about Lucky Stars is the way it is written. You can get right into the information and apply it instantanously. You can find out about yourself and your buddies without going through numerous words in chapters to find what you need to know. It is written for the young teens however, every beginner will be able to pick this up and enjoy learning from the first page. Many students of Astrology get turned off because the books are ever so complicated. This book gets you into not only the explanation of the Sun sign but also, what is important in friendships, career and home life. All the basic stuff of life. Easy reading, easy to understand and easy to apply.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Astrology 101, December 22, 2003

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"dezzygurl" (The Moon!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lucky Stars: Use Astrology to Get the Scoop on Life, Love, and Friendship (Paperback)

Lucky Stars is such a good book for beginning astrologers as well as seasoned astrologers. You simply can't go wrong with the in-depth explanations and definitions, that you can use instantaneously. It is aimed at teenagers, but as I stated before what makes this platform possible for any reader is the 'easy-speak' she uses, so you aren't intimidated! You aren't scared of astrology with Amanda guiding the ship! Also this is a great gift, I myself have been interested in astrology forever, but I would definitley suggest giving it to a child aged 9 and up. I was left only with one question after reading: when does the sequel come out???

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lucky Stars in Heaven, January 2, 2004

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Ron & Anna Winship (Newport Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lucky Stars: Use Astrology to Get the Scoop on Life, Love, and Friendship (Paperback)

Amanda Owen strikes at the heart of what Astrology is all about;
helping people find themselves. This friendly introduction gets
down beneath the surface enough for both beginners and long time
astrologers. You can feel the good energy in each page and she
makes you feel connected - not like she is talking about someone
else! We look forward to Amanda's next publication and want to'
thank her for a good well done.

Ron & Anna Winship