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Summary: Excellent and thorough
Review: Appropriate in that you'd have to be a dummy to believe in the validity of astrology. Time and time again the claims of astrology have been refuted. Yet, the popular press continues to pump out worthless tomes such as this one. When will the dumbing down of American society end?
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Summary: Maybe I would Have Liked it better if I was a "dummie"
Review: As a practising astrologer, I try to read as many books on astrology as well as how to books for the subject, so that I may learn new techniques with which to teach people who are not yet familiar. I found this book to be condesending to the reader, though perhaps the author meant this to be comical. I did not find the humour and felt as though he was attempting to talk down to the reader rather than simplify astrology. Overall this is an extremely generalized book and not very helpful for anyone who really wants to seriously study astrology. I did not even feel that this would make a good reference book.
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Summary: Astrology makes my stomach hurt
Review: Oww. The pain. My stomach.
I'm going to go read Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" now.
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Summary: Astrology makes my stomach hurt
Review: Oww. The pain. My stomach.
I'm going to go read Carl Sagan's "The Demon Haunted World" now.
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Summary: Fairly complete
Review: This book was much more complete than I ever expected. I use it as a reference on a regular basis. The information appears to be fairly accurate and fairly detailed. Lots of formulas to help the user calculate and draw their own charts.
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Summary: Excellent overall introduction to astrology
Review: This is a first class general introduction to all of real astrology. If you have heard or suspected that there is a great deal more to it than the newspaper columns, this book is a good place to begin finding out more. Rae Orion explains the basics and complexities of the birth chart (a proper horoscope is based on the exact time, date and place of birth) in a clear, straightforward manner.In "The Cosmic Cookbook" section, Orion takes the reader through the basics of birth chart interpretation. Sun signs, Moon signs, the positions of all the planets in the various signs and houses e.g. Mars in Aquarius, Uranus in the sixth house and so on. Real life examples are scattered throughout the book. Other sections cover basic compatibility, both Sun sign combinations and more complex relationship astrology. Towards the end there is "Ten Types Of Astrology" (including Vedic and Chinese) and some more esoteric features of the horoscope are briefly covered in "Ten Ways To Complicate A Chart" (such as midpoints and Arabic parts). An excellent starter. "Parkers Astrology" could be a colourful complement to this volume, and I recommend Stephen Arroyo's "Chart Interpretation Handbook" as a possible next step.
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Summary: Ok for beginners
Review: This was my first book on Astrology, and I must say it's definitely helpful in understanding some of the most confusing basic ideas behind the subject. The book goes into plenty of detail about what all the planets and houses mean and it teaches you how to read your own chart. I've already learned more from this book alone about my chart than I can even put together. However, I found the information about aspects a bit weak. The chart for figuring out the aspects of your chart didn't seem quite accurate (...), and the information about more aspects farther into the book was not easy to understand. I'd say if you want to learn more about aspects to find another book, but this is pretty good if you're just starting out!
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