Understanding Astrology: How to Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality

For the reader based in the UK, the information provided within Understanding Astrology gives enough information to draw up a birth chart including world time zones, British Summer Time and planetary positions from 1930 - 2006 (for the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn). If you live outside of the UK you will need to have a good understanding of time changes associated with daylight savings and other time adjustments. Jane Struthers has been a student of astrology for more than 25 years. She has written for The Sun newspaper in the UK and is regularly contributes to radio and TV programs. Her previous titles include The Book of Destinies and an ongoing series of yearly horoscope books.The author certainly looks as though she has enough experience to be writing a 'how-to' book. She is clever enough to avoid some of the more difficult and complex parts of chart interpretation as these could confuse the beginner.Ms Struthers goes through explaining a simplified process of drawing up the birth chart using the information provided at the back of the book as reference material. She also examines the balance of elements and qualities and offers basic meanings to these.Part One is dedicated to the exploration of the twelve sun-signs. This includes a section devoted to each of the following headings: relationships, money, health and career.Part Two looks at the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and how they can be interpreted in each of the twelve zodiac signs.Even though I feel that astrology is a subject that is too complex to teach yourself (for most people that is) all in all this is an excellent reference book for the person who wants to know more about astrology than their Sun Sign and that wants to have a go at drawing up their own birth chart.Understanding Astrology is for the beginner.