Your Star Sign Life Coach: Use Life Coaching Techniques to Maximize Your Star Sign's Potential and Create the Life You Want

This is a fantastic book for those seeking to do their own coaching or for those such as myself who coach others. As both a Intuitive reader and a Life Coach this book gives me the foundation for incorporating my two jobs into one. My Life Coaching practice has been exponentially made better through using this book and its tools appropriately! This book goes line by line through each sign and covers the positives and negatives or strengths and weaknesses if you prefer for each sign. There are wonderful exercises to go through per sign and even better, the author draws lines between the same strengths and weaknesses of other signs. For example during coaching a Pisces client with issues regarding boundaries this book directed me to a set of assignments or exercises which were listed under Taurus. This book allows for a fully functional foundation for incorporating the metaphysical into any Life Coaching experience be you the client or the coach. I would most certainly recommend (and do!) this book to both clients and coaches alike!

This book was excellent. I started by reading my own star sign to see if I felt the information was accurate or just nonsense. Surprisingly, the information presented about my star sign (and all the others) is insightful, meaningful, and purposeful. As the other reviewer stated, many astrology books focus on the negative (or even the positive) aspects of a sign, but do not really show you how to do anything with the information. But, MacKinnon does; this really is like having a coach on-hand. Through exercises designed to increase your awareness of your own goals, values, etc., she not only addresses the positives and negatives of each sign, but offers practical solutions for helping yourself get through trouble points. She devotes a generous 12-15 pages per sign (sometimes more) and the information is really valuable, whether you are interested in astrology or not. Most of the exercises (and there are about 5 per sign, so 60ish total) can be done by anyone, not just those born under the star sign the exercise falls under. This is definitely a book I'm going to keep on my shelf and I'd 100% recommend it.

Astrology books are great at pointing out the negative characteristics of the different star (sun) signs, but don't offer much advice for dealing with them. As an example, most astrology books tell us that Cancer is "needy." We're given that information and then moved on to another characteristic. Lorna MacKinnon is able to help us out. She offers practical advice on how to deal with and overcome our star sign's negative traits. To continue the example, she includes an exercise in the Cancer chapter on "Getting Your Needs Met." It's not just a "how to." It's a real way of getting you to size up your needs and expectations (applicable to more than just Cancerians). There are many exercises of this sort for each of the signs. She also offers "Coach's Tips" and "Tools for Making a Difference" throughout. It is chockfull of incrediblly insightful guidance. The book is excellent. I read it cover to cover and would recommend it highly to anyone. Even people who have never studied astrology will find it very informative and thought provoking. It should be required reading for all beginning students of astrology. The more advanced student will do well to add Ms. MacKinnon's advice and experience to their toolbox. This is top shelf material.