In this definitive book, Bernice Prill Grebner focuses on the decanates and their importance in taking chart interpretation to the next, and a much deeper, level. All 36 decanates are delineated in detail, including a complete explanation of every degree of every sign. Using both keywords and thorough explanations, she guides the reader through the physical, mental, and spiritual meanings of the decanates and also explains how to use the planetary rulers of the decanates in chart interpretation. Using these methods, you will gain fresh insights into each chart. One chapter is devoted to synastry and aspects and how the patterns of the decanates and dwads influence relationships, both initially and over time. Another chapter focuses on the houses and interpreting them through the use of the Ascendant's decanate. The author also disusses the influence of dwads and navamsas, and presents a system of individual degree meanings. Each of these is delineated for ease in interpretation and can be used with all planets in the chart.

Are your Nodes balanced yet? This is what must be done! It is much easier to continue at the South Node than to come to the North Node area. One pushes and struggles at the North Node area where the new growth must be worked for. Whenever anything goes wrong in one's life, the person wants to revert to the South Node position where he is safe and secure. The Nodes signify the relationship between the plane of the Moon's orbit and that of Earth's orbit. Earth's orbit centers around the Sun, as do the other planets, but the Moon's orbit goes around the Earth. It is the meeting of these two planes that produces the Nodes. This relationship between the two orbits becomes the relation of Earth to Sun. This means an adjustment of our Earth-centered ego and our own self-will with that of the solar self, or cosmic will.