How does each planetary sign, each house, and the relationships between planetary bodies influence your life? This essential guide lets you harness the energy of your unique astrological influences and gifts! Building on the basics of the 12 Sun Signs in the 12 Houses, the 12 Sun Signs with each of the 12 Moon signs, the 12 Ascendant Rulers in each of the 12 Houses, chart signatures, and showing you how to put it all together, The Astrology Guide: Understanding Your Signs, Your Gifts, and Yourself goes deeper by including recently discovered dwarf planets Eris and Sedna, along with the asteroid Chiron, for a richer understanding of the gifts (and challenges) offered by planetary energies. Rather than putting you in a box and viewing your planetary influences as "good" or "bad," The Astrology Guide shows you the many sides of planets, the luminaries, and important asteroids, allowing you to welcome them into our consciousness and embrace each energy to its fullest. For both beginner and advanced practitioners, this informative guide aids in self-discovery by helping you answer questions such as ... Are you getting a clearer picture of your unique gifts? What needs to be healed before you fully embrace your unique self? Are there obstacles interfering with expressing your unique gifts or are these obstacles the gift? Is there a story you are reflecting that is influenced by a prominent asteroid in your chart? How do you relate to asteroid connections in your birth chart? Is there an archetypal story that resonates with you? How do the minor aspects to your Personal Planets enrich your understanding of your talents and abilities? Does your Destiny Card add another dimension to your Sun Sign? What attributes relate to other attributes in your astrology chart? What is Human Design and how does it add a new dimension to the Astrology birth chart? What are Human Design Gene Keys? What are the flaws or the "shadows" following you around? Are those shadows bringing you down ..., taking away your joy? Do these shadows include traumas, blocks, and wounds? And, much, much more! The Astrology Guide will develop your resilience to life's cycles and outer influences and show you the unconscious parts of yourself that subtly influence your behavior. Numerous photographs and illustrations, a helpful bibliography, and an extensive index add to its usefulness. Learn about your innate, unique gifts and gain satisfaction, fulfillment, and confidence!

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.