Concise and direct, Astrology for Beginners: Learn to Read Your Birth Chart provides everything needed to uncover the secrets of your birth chart and reveal amazing insights about your true nature. You’ll gain an incredibly expanded understanding of yourself―and others―with this book’s extensive information and examples. Professional astrologer David Pond introduces you to the most important topics of astrology, including the zodiac signs, planets, houses, aspects, and more. He then builds on the basics to teach you how to interpret your astrological chart and those of the people in your life. From planetary patterns and Sun signs to retrogrades and cusps, this book brings the stars down to earth so you can study astrology with ease.

Author’s Note:

As you begin your study of astrology, you are opening a door to a greatly expanded understanding of yourself and others. Astrology is the language of the stars and the stories they tell. Your study of astrology will teach you the alphabet of this celestial language so you can read the language and discover the stories your birth chart can tell you about yourself and your connection to a much larger reality than you were previously aware of. As you begin your studies, all of the symbols may seem totally abstract and void of meaning. But as you delve deeper, you will realize that what you’re studying already exists within you. It will start to sound familiar as your awareness shifts from “out there” to “in here” and you begin to realize that astrology is giving you a map for understanding what is already going on within you.

As you learn about your own personal astrology, you will immediately become aware that you are connected to the universe in ways you never could have imagined. You will begin to see the deeper meaning of your life and feel more aligned with a greater sense of purpose. As you become more aware of the specific details of your astrology chart, you will begin to understand why you are the way you are—your strengths and where you should expect success in life as well as your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and how to overcome them. Your astrological chart can reveal your emotional needs, your natural intellectual tendencies, what you value in a relationship, how you can best assert yourself, what types of interests would be rewarding and enriching to pursue, how you deal with authority issues, and where you need to develop self-discipline to be successful. It can also show you how to develop your spiritual resources of intuition, vision, and transformation to align with your soul’s purpose.

Yes, your birth chart can reveal startling truths about your character and even the root causes of persistent challenges that keep recurring in your life, as well as what you can do to resolve those conflicts within yourself. For all that astrology can illuminate about your true nature, the one important issue it cannot reveal is what choices you will make with your free will. We are not puppets being pulled around by planetary strings; we all have free will to make choices. Astrology shows what you have been given to work with but not what you have done with it. Both the high-road and the low-road options are available to you every day, and what choices you make are entirely up to you.