A comprehensive look at the inner workings of the twelve zodiac signs - their respective idiosyncrasies and relationships to one another - by noted astrologer Katharine Merlin. Katharine Merlin has been writing the monthly horoscope column for Town&Country for over twenty years, one of the magazine's most popular columns. This book differs from others on this topic in that it is full of real-life people, experiences, and events. Merlin draws upon decades of personal experience to bring each sign to life, sprinkling her discriptions with anecdotes from people she has come to know over the years. Foreword by luminary magazine editor and author herself, Pamela Fiori, supports this book as a serious read for the sophisticated lover of astrology. Astrology is a very popular topic with a general audience. The About.com Astrology website receives over 34 million visitors per month! For more than twenty years, astrologer Katharine Merlin has penned monthly horoscopes for Town&Country magazine, producing one of the magazine's most widely-read and beloved columns and now the most visited site on the Hearst corporate website for each of its 16 magazines. In The Private Lives of the Sun Signs, Merlin presents in-depth analyses of each of the twelve zodiac signs - from Aries to Pisces - illustrating their unique characteristics with astonishing accuracy. Drawing upon wisdom gleaned over the course of her forty-year career in astrology, Merlin provides invaluable insight into the idiosyncrasies of each sign - the way they process emotions, communicate, find motivation, relate to others, and more. Through Merlin's illuminating descriptions, we come to understand our inner selves more deeply - the way we think, work, love, what makes us tick - and learn to harness the potential of our own unique gifts. And, by familiarising ourselves with the signs of friends and partners, we develop tolerance and appreciation for their distinctive qualities, finding ways that different signs can complement each other and allowing our relationships to blossom. Full of illuminating anecdotes, The Private Lives of the Sun Signs offers a fascinating and comprehensive look into the inner workings of the zodiac signs, proving that this ancient science continues to offer invaluable guidance to a contemporary audience.

Relationships & Life Cycles: Astrological Patterns of Personal Experienceis a great book on synastry. It is easy to understand with a comprehensive writing style that is more like a seminar than a text book. This book covers lots of topics and dynamics with ease as well as having a psychological and human slant on most of the analysis and case studies to match.

This esoteric classic contains meditations on each of the twelve signs of the zodiac. John Jocelyn uses traditional astrological symbolism to envision a Christ-centered zodiac-one in which each of the signs relate to an aspect of the New Testament. This is not a book about astrology, but about the deeper meaning of the twelve Zodiac signs. The author relates the Zodiac signs to the development of inner Christ consciousness and encourages readers to meet their individual destinies more consciously and courageously and even with gratitude.

During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation movement-the Protestant towns of the Holy Roman Empire. While most modern approaches to the religious and social reforms of that age give scant attention to cosmological preoccupations, this study argues that astrological concepts and imagery played a key role in preparing the ground for the evangelical movement sparked by Martin Luther in the 1520s, as well as in shaping the distinctive characteristics of German evangelical culture over the following century. Spreading above all through cheap printed almanacs and prognostications, popular astrology functioned in paradoxical ways. It contributed to an enlarged and abstracted sense of the divine that led away from clericalism, sacramentalism, and the cult of the saints; at the same time, it sought to ground people more squarely in practical matters of daily life. The art gained unprecedented sanction from Luther's closest associate, Philipp Melanchthon, whose teachings influenced generations of preachers, physicians, schoolmasters, and literate layfolk. But the apocalyptic astrology that came to prevail among evangelicals involved a perpetuation, even a strengthening, of ties between faith and cosmology, which played out in beliefs about nature and natural signs that would later appear as rank superstitions. Not until the early seventeenth century did Luther's heirs experience a "crisis of piety" that forced preachers and stargazers to part ways. Astrology and Reformation illuminates an early modern outlook that was both practical and prophetic; a world that was neither traditionally enchanted nor rationally disenchanted, but quite different from the medieval world of perception it had displaced.

This Is Your Destiny fuses the wisdom of the stars, real-life stories and Aliza's knowledge to prove that reality is a reflection of consciousness, and by shifting your awareness you can transform your universe to create the life you've ALWAYS wanted. Unlike most astrology books, this isn't about flipping to your sun sign page to find your generic, gimmicky take on what each sign 'does' - it's much more complicated than that. Everyone has a completely different birth chart, and a unique way of moving through the world. You can't apply a one-size fits all formula to spirituality, so Aliza's book uses the most important principles of astrology to arm you with the knowledge you need to make better informed decisions. In This Is Your Destiny Aliza acknowledges that astrology isn't a quick fix. It's not about solving a problem and moving on. Everything - literally everything - is connected: Improving your romantic relationships is about renegotiating your self-worth. Achieving professional success is about cultivating an abundance-based mentality. Coping with life's most difficult circumstances is about building a rich spiritual inner-world. Chapters include Money Is Emotional, Hustle with Intention and Astrology and Manifestation.

AstroAffirmations offers 366 astrological mantras - one for every day of the year - designed to empower, to uplift, to inspire and to move. Each affirmation will reflect the 'astrological weather' of each of the 12 signs of the zodiac, the particular characteristics of the energy they represent, which of the 12 houses they rule and the planetary impact of of each sign's ruling planet. These snippets of advice will help you to build confidence, challenge negative or unhelpful thoughts, overcome self-sabotage, strengthen self-worth and cultivate more awareness of the positive things already happening in your life. Even as the world changes (for better or worse), you can use these affirmations to adapt, motivate and cheer yourself on to rise to whatever the occasion requires. The perfect bedside table companion, AstroAffirmations will include both a daily and birthday affirmation for each of the 366 days of the year, setting you up for the day ahead, allowing you to be your best self and to live your best life.