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.

Become a better modern mystic with the help of this invaluable handbook. Through easy-to-follow chapters, you'll find all you need to know in order to read your own astrological chart, from the movement and meaning of the stars and planets to understanding astrological elements, houses, aspects and transits.

Star Power reveals how your birth chart can all help you learn more about yourself, your life and your future. You'll find out which star sign you're compatible with, how the universe impacts your approach to love, wealth, creativity and careers, and ultimately learn to take cosmic control of your universe.

This book consists of transcriptions of two seminars on astrology previously published by CPA Press (1996/2002), receiving excellent reviews. The work retains the lively pace of the spoken word, and includes material both familiar and entirely new. Part One: Saturn - Time, Heritage and Substance An in-depth consideration of the meaning, mythology and astrological process of the planet Saturn, with an emphasis on its connection with Neptune, by sign or aspect. The new student will find a thorough examination of Saturn's themes, while those already familiar with the basics will find new inspiration. Part Two: The Centaurs - Chiron, Pholus and Nessus This ground-breaking material consists of entirely original work which will intrigue both beginners to astrology and seasoned professionals.It deals with the recently discovered Kuiper Belt objects, their meaning and significance in the individual horoscope, and the collective. Reinhart has become an acknowledged authority on this subject, and her work on Chiron and the Centaurs has been translated into six languages. This book is the most comprehensive exploration of Pholus and Nessus yet written.

The Saturn Return Survival Guide is the perfect companion for those seeking astrology guidance as they enter this turbulent time.

Every 27 to 29 years, Saturn returns to the sign it was in when you were born – a cycle called the Saturn return. During this phase, you will typically break down in order to rebuild, and question everything from your career to the past to relationships and even finances. It’s a time of deep reflection, turmoil and self-doubt. But after Saturn passes into a new sign, you will also experience great clarity and calm as you enter into a new chapter of your life.

Understanding this cosmic rite of passage can help you to advance into your next stage of adulthood and the Saturn Return Survival Guide is the definitive guide to navigating this turbulent time. We break down the basics for each star sign and offer meditations and manifestations to help you through (using crystals, candles, and bath magic).

Fun and easy to read, the Saturn Return Survival Guide is full of astrological truths for the believers as well as novices searching for meaning.

Written by Lisa Stardust of the Instagram handle @liststardustastro. Complete with modern vintage full-colour illustrations by London based artist, Emmy Lupin (@emmylupin).

A famous spiritual astrologer shares how to uncover the secrets hidden in your birth chart that hold the key to your future.

Astrologer Jan Spiller shows you the key to discovering your hidden talents, your deepest desires, and the ways you can avoid negative influences that may distract you from achieving your true life purpose, as revealed in your chart by the position of the North Node of the Moon.

Spiller shows you how to locate the all-important North Node of the Moon in your astrological chart and provides a detailed interpretation of its influence and exclusive exercises to help you learn about:

• The special talent that is waiting for you, a unique gift that could easily be turned into professional success
• The self-defeating tendencies in your personality that can hold you back and sabotage relationships
• The love partner who can be your soul mate—and the partner whose hold over you can lead to heartbreak
• The trap or temptation from a past life that can lead to disaster if you are not forewarned
• The healing affirmations designed to help you release your positive energy and strengthen the qualities that can bring you true happiness

With insight and depth impossible to gain from the commonly known sun-sign profiles, the enlightening self-portrait offered by the Nodes of the Moon can explain the life lessons you came here to learn and how to achieve the fulfillment and peace you desire.

Build a unique, multi-faceted personality profile based on your birth date to help fuel your personal growth through every stage of life. Am I on the right path? That is the question internationally recognized tarot expert Kerry Ward faces daily from thousands of private clients and readers of her popular Cosmopolitan tarot column. In Power, Purpose, Practice, she shows you how to answer it for yourself using a simple system based on an insightful blend of astrology, numerology, and tarot and perfected by 25 years of tarot reading.   Your birth date holds the key to the system. From there, astrology guides you to your ruling planet and your ruling element, while tarot reveals your personality archetype. These three items—planet, element, archetype—represent your power. To discover your purpose, we turn to numerology, which provides a guided map for your life journey via your Life Path number. Finally, Kerry provides a series of meditations and rituals for you to practice in your daily life, to help you amplify your power and direct it toward your purpose.   Are you ruled by the fiery ambition of Mars or the beautiful energy of Venus? Are you an emotional, shape-shifting water sprite or a grounded, healing earth mama? Is your tarot archetype the wise, solitary Hermit or the magical visionary of the Star? Or the gentle hero of Strength? Is your purpose to build new worlds from the ground up, to create and communicate stories, or to seek deeper meaning in service to others? Written in a casual, intimate voice and bursting with bold, inclusive artwork, this spiritual guide helps you understand each of these cosmic connections and more as you explore every facet of your personality and discover your true self.   Are you on the right path? Power, Purpose, Practice will help you find out, so you can find your way.

Astrology for Yourself is designed to introduce you to the language, art, and science of astrology through a series of self-directed, program-learning exercises that will literally enable you to write your own chart interpretation. Aside from providing you a wealth of knowledge about your birth chart, Astrology for Yourself promises to promote personal growth and change your life.

The study of BaZi (Chinese Astrology) is a sophisticated and multi-faceted exploration into how the simplest information - a person's birth date and time - can reveal a wealth of knowledge about that particular person's character, temperament, behavioural attributes, and luck outcome and fortune. "The BaZi Structures and Structural Useful Gods Reference Book" series is designed to supplement the studies and practice of BaZi students and practitioners in helping them understand how BaZi structures are devised, and how to analyse and interpret these structures. The information in this series is based on classical methods and techniques that are derived from traditional Chinese BaZi texts and material. It presents the transliterated version of these traditional texts for the modern, English-speaking practitioner and student without losing the essence of the original. This book in the "BaZi Structures" series focuses on Earth Structures, divided into the 2 types of Earth Day Masters, Wu and Ji Earth. The chapters are divided into how both Wu and Ji Earth Structures function respectively in all 12 months in a year. This book on Earth Structures serves as a functional and helpful reference guide and includes: The attributes of Wu and Ji Earth respectively in each of the 12 months; The Regulating Useful God Reference Guide for each of the 12 months; Detailed classical commentary on the factors affecting the overall strength of the Day Master in the different months; Additional attributes that may affect the Day Master depending on different Structures and Useful Gods; and, a summary for each month for Wu and Ji Day Masters respectively. This "BaZi Structures and Structural Useful Gods Reference - Earth Structures" book will yield many hours of pleasurable study and reference for masters, teachers, practitioners, and students of higher level BaZi.

Who understands what you *really* need better than you? Well, the stars. With their help, you can become your glowiest self, inside and out.

Astrology SOS is the ultimate guide to surviving the elements: from navigating the Planetary Retrogrades to harnessing the power of the Summer Solstice, to every day uncertainties in work, love and the day-to-day, this book gives you the tools you need to better understand what is going on with the planets at any given moment, so that you can work your way through life’s challenges with fewer headaches.

It covers:

• Saturn Return
• Planetary Retrogrades
• Pluto in Transit
• Eclipses
• Equinoxes and Solstices
• Moon Transits
• Day-To-Day Survival

Beautifully illustrated throughout, each month includes sections on stargazing, gardening tips, seasonal vegan recipes, home organization or crafting ideas, digital wellbeing practices, rituals, book club reads, folklore or ancient wisdom as told by modern people from different walks of life, and free space for your own writing, notes or recipes. Harvest your own home-grown micro greens, windowsill radishes or rooftop carrots. Celebrate seasonal citrus with Pina Colada Bars or relieve the heat of midsummer with Lithuanian beetroot gazpacho. Sew your own foraging pouch for May-time foraging or make a bee bath for thirsty July bees. Create a phone photo journal of your favourite patch of local green. Make your own Wake-Up Shower Fizzers or May Day Dew Face Wash. Watch the 120-meteor-per-hour Geminid Shower to see out the year in Way Back style. This interactive and treasured item will gently encourage creativity, fulfillment and ultimately a way back to yourself.

Cultivate your wild side and harmonize your personal connection to the moon and its ever-changing phases with this helpful guide, Moon Phases. From herbalist expert Cecilia Lattari comes a practical tool that teaches the essentials of the different moon phases each month of the year and the wide symbolism beyond them. Explore the rocks and medicinal plants best utilized during different phases, along with popular icons that embody each different phase. Connecting to nature with a few simple practices related to the moon can help readers get better in touch with themselves. This book is the perfect instrument to help to create a magical daily routine in which to be free and completely fulfilled!

The Sunday Times bestseller 'Your book is absolutely amazing, Kirsty. You're one of the best 10 guests of all time.' - Chris Evans, The Chris Evans Show on Virgin Radio Are there certain days when you feel overly emotional for no apparent reason? Do you have days when you feel exhausted, close to burn out and like you want to hide away from the world? Lunar Living could be just the answer that you are looking for. Working with the constantly changing phases of the moon helps you to understand yourself like never before, to realign everything in your own life, to understand when you need to rest and self-care and when you need to shine and make things happen. Living back in tune with this natural flow and taking care of you and your needs, even if that's just twice a month will make the biggest difference to how you feel, act and react the rest of the month. Lunar Living will help you to: - Feel empowered to make big life decisions - Understand yourself better - Tune into your natural cycles - Improve your sleep, mental health and relationships - Live a happier, more intentional life A beautiful hardback, complete with a blue foil finish, this is the perfect toolkit for understanding the moon and the effects it has on us. Lunar Living helps us to work with the moons phases to understand the ever-changing landscape of our emotions and the inner world of our purpose, goals and dreams and tune into this deeper wisdom to make profound shifts in our lives. If you've ever felt stuck, meaningless, overly emotional for no apparent reason or want to come back into alignment with a natural cycle to help you to move forwards in life and achieve your dreams and goals this is the book for you. 'One to watch. It's the perfect toolkit for understanding the moon.' - Cosmopolitan 'Could the moon change your life? How it holds the key to your health, happiness and even your wealth. Meet the expert who can prove it.' - You Magazine 'In her new book ... Gallagher expands on the idea of using moon days for self-care, by exploring how by combining moon cycles with astrology, you can use the year's moon days to focus on specific issues in your life.' - The Independent 'Absolutely fascinating. This is going to be worth giving to your kids.' - Chris Evans 'This book has changed my life. I can't explain how much it's changed my perspective on work and views on my current lifestyle.' - Steph Elswood

From Space debris to asteroid strikes to anti-satellite weapons, humanity's rapid expansion into Space raises major environmental, safety, and security challenges. In this book, Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, an international lawyer and an astrophysicist, identify and interrogate these challenges and propose actionable solutions. They explore essential questions from, 'How do we ensure all of humanity benefits from the development of Space, and not just the world's richest people?' to 'Is it possible to avoid war in Space?' Byers and Boley explain the essential aspects of Space science, international law, and global governance in a fully transdisciplinary and highly accessible way. Addressing the latest and emerging developments in Space, they equip readers with the knowledge and tools to engage in current and critically important legal, policy, and scientific debates concerning the future development of Space. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Kabbalah teaches that people have the power to fashion their own fate, but activating and using this power requires genuine understanding of self, desire, and purpose. Helping seekers find that wisdom is the purpose of this book. Kabbalah offers the oldest application of astronomy and astrology known to humankind, and" Kabbalistic Astrology demonstrates that probing the planets and studying the stars, which is based in science, can help people satisfy their deepest needs and the needs of others. More than merely a collection of horoscopes, this book explains how Kabbalah -- unlike conventional astrology, which insists that everything is determined by the heavens -- teaches that each person is born at the precise instant best suited to his or her special needs. In clear, compelling language, Rav Berg brings to modern readers Kabbalah's message of multiple futures -- with specific practices and strategies for finding the best of them.

Combining astrology, numerology, and pure psychic intuition, "The Secret Language of Birthdays" is a wholly unique compilation that reveals one's strengths, weaknesses, and major issues while providing practical advice and spiritual guidance.
Many have suspected that your birthday affects your personality and how you relate to others. Nineteen years and over one million copies later, "The Secret Language of Birthdays "continues to fascinate readers by describing the characteristics associated with being born on a particular day. The 366 personality profiles are based on astrology, numerology, the tarot, and Gary Goldschneider's observations of more than 14,000 people. Your strengths, weaknesses, and major concerns will be illuminated while you are given practical advice and spiritual guidance. After you study your profile, it will be hard to resist examining those of family, friends, colleagues, and even celebrities.

For the first time, a Tantric scholar and expert in the Hindu traditions of Ayurveda and astrology presents a system of numerology that combines numerical calculations, astrological data, and an analysis of body type. He illustrates the Vedic Square and the visual patterns that can be derived from it, casting a revealing light on the more esoteric interpretations of numbers and their relationship to one another.

Recommendations are given regarding strong and weak periods of day or year, favorable colors and precious stones to be worn, and meditations and mantras to be practiced for health and prosperity.

He also explains how to determine the psychic number, name number, and destiny number; how these numbers relate to each of the nine planets, and how they apply to every aspect of life--including personality, temperament, intelligence, talents, sexuality, spirituality, finances, travel, and health.

As students of Clare Martin, and readers of her two previous books, will recognise, Book 3, covering transits, returns, progressions and directions, is once again both immediately accessible and profound...A clear understanding of the process provides the reader with an opportunity to consciously align their lives with the movements of the heavens - to "willingly do that which I must do." In this way, the book offers not only a crystal clear exposition of astrological mechanics, but a genuine "map" for students to follow. It also excels as an invaluable reference source for experienced astrologers to cherish." Teresa Early, Dip.Psych.Astrol.

In "The Weiser Concise Guide to Practical Astrology", Priscilla Costello introduces the reader to the basic principles of modern astrology and unveils the secrets of this elegantly developed language of symbols. Costello shares with the reader both the philosophical and esoteric world view of astrology, while exploring the meanings of signs, planets, houses, and aspects on many levels, as well as its connection to psychology, religion and spirituality, and related esoteric studies. "The Weiser Concise Guide to Practical Astrology" serves as both a primer for the new student of astrology and a handy reference for the more seasoned practitioner. As complete as it is concise, this course of study delves deeply into the history and true spirit of astrology, making it accessible to all.

A unique spiritual and astrological guide to deepening your relationships and romantic connections - or finding the love of your life We are each made of stardust, and understanding how the cosmos affects us provides critical insight into our lives, our well-being, and matters of the heart. Tune into these pages to find * how each sign matches up with the others; * the potential and challenges of each pairing; * interactive journaling prompts; * perspective into your past unions; * a deeper understanding of your partnerships in romance, family, and friendship; * what it looks like when a particular match flows well - or not so well. Follow Carolyne Faulkner's Dynamic Astrology (TM) approach for a simple, tried-and-tested framework to the signs and planets that explains how harmonious each match is likely to be, as well as how to build a solid foundation for a forever love.

Readers of 'Astrological Counselling' will be delighted that Christina Rose has written a new book. In Tapestry of Planetary Phases she expands the phases introduced in Dane Rudhyar's Lunation cycle into interpretations for each pair of planets in their individual phases. A fascinating and in-depth work that will transform your chart interpretation, and a very worthy addition to any bookshelf.

1930. Carter was one of the outstanding British astrologers of the century. This is a treatise in some detail on the 36 possible combinations of the Sun, the Moon and the seven known planets. Each combination is treated under three heads: harmonious aspects, the conjunction, and inharmonious aspects. A number of examples is given of each combination.

Bringing the ancient matchmaking tool of astrology into the 21st century, The Astrology of Love & Sex explores the romantic and sensual sides of the zodiac. In 12 detailed chapters, astrologer Annabel Gat divulges how each sign likes to flirt, date, and fool around. Going beyond traditional heteronormative gender roles, the book candidly explores love and lust in today's sexually fluid world. From love philosophies to sexual inclinations, readers will enjoy dissecting and analyzing each passage. With unique compatibility profiles matching every sign and a quiz to identify your star match—wrapped in an all-foil case wtih gilded page edges—this is a fun and comprehensive guide to finding true cosmic love.