The Complete Idiot's Guide to Astrology

This guide is a good reference text to take a beginner to the next step. I'm using this book to take my chart's information I got free, online, and extracting the correlating data. With a simple list of my planets and houses and their motion, I've been using this book to create a much more wonderfully in-depth and descriptive chart than I've ever had before. Is it a perfect introduction, especially for the purposes of drawing and reading one's own chart the "old fashioned" way? No. However, through reading the explanations of different individuals' charts, you will pick up the general understanding of what is where - what these symbols mean. It's a really fun book that doesn't provide too much or too little. It doesn't claim to teach everything, but they give you a lot. Free online profiles helped me get started -helped give me that first "Wow! That's really me!". The authors recognize the ease of this, and I'm glad they note it in their text. It's a good start.

This book is an excellent introduction into astrology for newcomers. Parts of it may become confusing without a birth chart in hand, but sites like astrolabe.com can help anyone get their birth chart. If you don't know anything about astrology except your sign, but you want to know more, I suggest you go out and get this book.

This book takes one step-by-step through the process of determining one's astrological chart. It also teaches one how to interpret the chart. The book is written in a very friendly, personable, and easy-to-follow manner. Excellent choice.

This book takes a complicated subject and breaks it down into bite-sized pieces. While not a detailed technical manual, it exposes the reader to the components of astrology, and encourages further study. In addition, the author presents several techniques I have not found in other books on astrology such as determining the astrological signature of a chart, and determining reaping or sowing lifetimes.

This is a great book for anyone interested in astrology, especialy for a beginner. It is so much fun to read and it is very user friendly.