A guide to reading your astrological chart more deeply by investigating the degrees, or Star Sparks, of the planets and star cycles * Explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings * Provides detailed write-ups for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac * Details how to use the degrees for personal chart interpretation and as an oracle for guidance and inspiration In this extraordinary synthesis of 50 years in star work, astrologer Ellias Lonsdale explains how each of the 12 signs of the zodiac has 30 degrees, and each degree, like every star, is the center of a whole system of meanings. Inspired by the Chandra Symbols--evocative images for each degree channeled by John Sandbach nearly 40 years ago--as well as his studies with master astrologers Dane Rudhyar and Marc Edmund Jones, Lonsdale explores the deeper story, or Star Spark, of each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac, providing detailed write-ups for each degree. The author explains how to use the degree of your Sun sign and other planets from your birth chart for personal chart interpretation. Offering a way to tune in to your future star cycles as well as analyze a past event, he discusses how you can learn about personal cycles from studying the degree of a transiting or progressed planet at a specific time, such as Mercury Retrograde, or by following the degree meanings for successive New Moons or Solar Returns, revealing collective as well as personal timings. He also details how to use the 360 Star Sparks as an astrological oracle to consult when you need guidance or support for your awakening process as well as how they can be used as a source for daily contemplation by following the Sun through each degree day by day throughout the year. Providing an astrological tool to help you see deeply inside your life, your shadow, what you are questioning, and where you are being guided, this key to the symbolic power of the 360 degrees of the zodiac shows that by embracing our star cycles, we can discover our unique life path and light up the stars within.

In-depth meanings of the zodiac symbols are revealed, making for a richer understanding of human nature
-- Emphasizes restoring memory, rekindling imaginative experiences, and fostering appreciation for personal challenges, strengths, capacities, and struggles

Examining the degrees of the zodiac signs and planets has traditionally involved a dry, technical approach to astrological soul-searching. In this unique book, Ellias Lonsdale encourages personal growth by illuminating the meanings of the signs' degrees. Working in a tradition begun by Marc Edmund Jones's Sabian Symbols and Dane Rudhyar's An Astrological Mandala, Lonsdale fleshes out the symbols and imagery of the degrees with his introduction of the Chandra symbols. These vividly suggestive images, described by shamanic language, raise the level of analysis possible with degrees to a rich, metaphorical tapestry.

Inside Degrees reinvigorates the zodiac with emotional intensity and primal understanding. Because each degree is one-thirtieth a sign -- one episode of an epic tale -- the depth and detail of charting one's character grows tremendously. Lonsdale's book is far more that typical astrology; it is "inner" astrology. Applied with the techniques detailed in Lonsdale's earlier book, Inside Planets, this new work will increase comprehension of one's personal nature.

A unique guide to spiritual rebirth and the afterlife, 'The Christ Letters' continues the powerfully written account begun in 'The Book of Theanna', guiding readers deeper into the realms of consciousness beyond death. Delving further into the channelled wisdom shared by his wife and twin soul Theanna (formerly Sara Lonsdale) following her death, Ellias now transcribes a series of letters transmitted during Christmas and Easter time over the course of several years.

"Inside Star Vision" is a landmark astrology book for the twenty-first century and centuries to come. It views human destiny and the life and death travels of individual souls as part of the larger journey undertaken by the universe itself in various modes of being and intelligence. Lonsdale not only leads us through signs, houses, and planets, but also interprets them in the context of broader archetypes and vision quests. He delineates the years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and in a daring and profound act of spiritual writing, he sets the cosmic terms for the imminent transformation of humanity through an opening of the door between the two most separated realms of all, life and death.

Before she died, Theanna (then Sara Lonsdale) developed a means to continue communication with her husband Ellias. "The Book of Theanna "contains Ellias' daily transcriptions of Theanna's words through death's doors. In the course of these writings she discusses the scenery of death; the denials and delusions of the recently dead; and the nature of sexuality, violence, and power as seen from the bracing perspective of the other side. Theanna experienced the many forms of death, including The Death Minds, The Hell Realms, and The Intensity of Love Across the Veil. In a lucid and sober voice reminiscent of Dante's "Divine Comedy, " she reports on each of these encounters, which include Rudolf Steiner, Jesus Christ, and "The Lord of Death," whom she engages in spiritual battle.
Not just another account of life after death, nor a channeled book in the usual sense, "The Book of Theanna "enacts a virtually unknown and ignored method of spiritual communication. Theanna's principal goal is to make her own process available collectively so that from this point on, people "will be able to come back from the dead and recognize where we are and that we are."

For centuries, spiritual seekers have turned to astrology to discover humans' deepest connections with the Earth and the cosmos. But too often, astrology devolves into meaningless clich's or impersonal newspaper horoscopes. In the early part of this century Marc Edmund Jones and Dane Rudhyar liberated astrology from the fatalistic approach of the medieval world. They took power from the high-and-mighty archaic planet gods, and offered it back to human beings. Here, at the end of the century, Inside Planets goes further, invoking each planet as a mighty full-bodied organism with a character and a soul of its own, a living breathing force with passion and humor and purpose that changes as it moves through the houses and signs. Each planet grabs you by the imagination and drags you to the campfire of The Greatest Story Even Told. Far more than an astrology guide, this book resuscitates from the ancient mystery temples of Atlantis an elegant and inspiring pantheon of wonder, terror, and creative solution to the problems that plague the soul.