Take Control with Astrology: A Teach Yourself Guide

Find guidance on your life and love through the stars

This practical and sensible introduction to the science behind astrology will help you use the ancient practice to enhance your understanding of your own personality, pathway through life, and future potential. The book introduces the history behind astrology, explaining precisely what it is--and isn't--before helping you construct, interpret, and learn from your own natal, or birth, chart.

Rather than offering "predictions" Take Control with Astrology guides you toward a full understanding of your relationship with the planets and the conjunctions, and the ways in which these can be used constructively to understand and manipulate the influences of the natural world on your own life. It offers valuable advice on relationship compatibility, along with guidance on career and other lifestyle choices and is accompanied by plenty of useful resources, diagrams and guides to finding out more.

You can also visit teachyourself.com for extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry--this book gives you one-, five-, and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.

Lisa Tenzin-Dolma is a journalist and author who specializes in holistic lifestyles, spiritual matters and ecological issues She is the author of six nonfiction books, a novel and a screenplay. She is an acknowledged expert on the psychological relationship between astrology and the individual, and a respected member of the Astrological Association.