Real Life Astrology The Cross Of Matter

The Ascendant. The Descendant. The Midheaven. The Nadir. The angles of your birth chart represent the points where the energies of the planets make contact with reality in the most tangible sense - and that's because of their associations with the most important things in your life - your family, your partner and your career and - most of all - yourself. All of those things are the most important factors in determining your sense of who you are. The lines that connect those points form a cross known as the 'Cross of Matter' and it symbolises the current incarnation of your spirit on this earth. In astrology, the Cross of Matter is important because it provides the foundation for accurate natal chart interpretation. If you want to know how to deal with the realities of your existence and keep things held together, the Cross of Matter will tell you everything you need to know. In this book, Sara Shipman explains what the Cross of Matter represents in everyday terms, and she shows you how to interpret your cardinal points - the Ascendant (AC), Descendant (DC), Midheaven (MC) and Nadir (IC) in ways that are relevant to everyday, lived experience. This book includes: A full analysis of the Ascendant-Descendant axis by sign. A full analysis of the Midheaven-Nadir axis by sign. A full analysis of planetary aspects to each cardinal point. Take your understanding of astrology to the next level with this, the second book in the Real Life Astrology series of books.

Real Life Astrology: the Planets in Signs, is a comprehensive guide to the planets in your birth chart. In this book, Sara Shipman provides you with complete delineations of each planet in each zodiac sign, making this an essential resource for the reader who wants to take their knowledge of astrology up to the next level. With her characteristically down to earth approach, Sara’s delineations are both insightful and relatable. If you want to learn more about the planetary placements in your birth chart - and learn more about yourself - this book will provide you with everything you need to know about interpreting your natal chart planets in their signs. This is the third book in the Real Life Astrology series.

For the first time ever, here is an astrology book that focuses on astrological crosses (the cardinal, fixed, and mutable aspects of the signs of the zodiac) and their impact on people's lives, behavior, actions, and motivations. Crosses are so important to truly understanding a chart that you will wonder how you ever completed an astrological analysis without this essential component. Astrological Crosses in Relationships explores the strengths and challenges of each cross, using many real-life stories taken from the author's consulting practice. Crosses revealed in the birth chart provide the best clue to personal energy style: ·Cardinal energy dreams and initiates ·Fixed energy desires and creates ·Mutable energy communicates and analyzes With this innovative guide, you can learn to identify crosses in everyday life experiences, mend star-crossed relationships, and balance a lack or overemphasis of crosses in your birth chart. This is a Print-on-Demand title. Please allow an additional 2-3 days for delivery

Join Sara Shipman on a grand tour of the planets, signs and houses of your natal chart. The combination of planet, sign and house is the foundation of every astrological chart analysis and, in this book, Sara Shipman sets out her approach to this subject with lucid, insightful and down to earth analysis of the meanings associated with each planet, sign and house in your natal chart. From the beginning of this book, Sara reminds you that astrology needs to be rooted in real life. In the first chapter of this book she sets out her detailed approach to this fascinating subject. We then explore the planets to discover what they represent, and this is followed by a thorough analysis of the zodiac signs. Sara reminds us that each sign and its energy influences particular parts of our life, so getting to know how those energies manifest is important because it helps us to understand where our inner motivations come from. Finally, we stop by the chart houses, as this is where the action takes place. We learn how the activities of each house manifest in our lives in the ways that they do. Real Life Astrology: Planets, Signs & Houses is a must read for beginners and experienced astrologers alike. Sara Shipman is an astrologer, author and blogger who owns and edits the astrology website starcrazypie.com. Her books include Solar Returns: An Introduction. This book is the first in the Real Life Astrology series.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance. Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology's cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart--a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath--reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities. Fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to. Marrying the historic traditions of astrology with a modern approach, You Were Born for This explains the key components of your birth chart in an easy to use, choose your own adventure style. With journal prompts, reflection questions, and affirmations personal to your astrological makeup, this book guides you along the path your chart has laid out for you. Chani makes the wisdom of your birth chart accessible with three foundational keys: The First Key: Your Sun (Your Life's Purpose) The Second Key: Your Moon (Your Physical and Emotional Needs) The Third Key: Your Ascendant and Its Ruler (Your Motivation for Life and the Steersperson of Your Ship) Astrology is not therapy, but it is therapeutic. In a world in which we are taught to look outside of ourselves for validation, You Were Born for This brings us inward to commit to ourselves and our life's purpose. --Los Angeles Magazine

This book brings to life a previously understated, yet crucial component of chart interpretation: the astrological crosses (the cardinal, fixed, and mutable aspects of the signs of the zodiac), or the modes or quadruplicities, as they have been more commonly known. The crosses are so important to chart interpretation that you will wonder how you were able to complete an astrological analysis without them. Astrological Crosses explores the strengths, qualities and unique challenges of each cross, using real-life examples from the author's consulting practice. Planetary configurations and transits will take on a whole new meaning as you incorporate the crosses in your interpretations. Whether a beginner or a veteran in the world of astrology, your perception of the signs will undoubtedly be enriched. Previously published as "Astrological Crosses in Relationships" this edition contains essentially the same content, with a new layout.

For serious astrologers, this book is full of predictive techniques that really work, including cycles, transits, returns, progressions, eclipses, and the clearest explanation of the Saros cycles ever! Describes luminary and planetary arcs, and how to use transits to set up time maps. Brady also interprets progressed planets, waxing and waning orbs, planets changing signs, retrograde motion of transits and lunar phases and how they operate in predictive work. Appendices. Bibliography.

A guide to discovering and developing the spiritual and mystical talents hidden in your astrological chart • Explores the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses of the natal astrological chart—those connected with the water signs, the deepest and darkest areas of the individual psyche, profound spiritual insights, and hidden knowledge • Explains how to interpret the signs and planets in the water houses of your birth chart, including how to develop the innate talents and spiritual powers you discover • Reveals the occult and psychic significance of water and shows how this significance is expressed in each of the three water signs: Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, the rulers of the water houses Your astrological birth chart, or natal chart, shows the positions of the planets, sun, and moon at the time of your birth. Shaped like a circle or wheel, it is divided into 12 sections, or “houses,” each connected with a different area of life or self. The positions of the planets within the houses offer deep and often complex insight into your unique gifts and your life’s path. In Astrology for Mystics, Tayannah Lee McQuillar explores the 4th, 8th, and 12th houses--those connected with the element of water and all things occult, mystical, and spiritual. The fourth house, ruled by water sign Cancer, is traditionally the house of family, home, ancestors, and suffering. The eighth house, ruled by water sign Scorpio, is the house of sex, death, secret powers, and transformation. The twelfth house, ruled by Pisces, is the house of karma, loss, unspoken expectations, fantasy, and confinement. As McQuillar explains, these are the houses that reveal the deepest and darkest areas of the individual psyche, which many people are reluctant to explore, yet this triad is the key to profound spiritual insights as well as the discovery of hidden knowledge and abilities. The author guides you through interpreting the signs and planets that inhabit the water houses in your natal chart and shows how they reveal specific innate talents. She describes how to develop the hidden powers revealed by your chart and offers practical advice for incorporating this knowledge into your daily life for spiritual growth and self-improvement. Sharing interpretation examples from her practice, she also explores how to embrace the challenge of the occult water houses so you can claim the many treasures that can only be found on the ocean floor of the psyche.

Chock-full of useful interpretations of signs, planets in signs, aspects, and synastry, it ensures that readers will come away with a sufficient understanding of astrological charts to begin creating their own.

Introduction to: ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY - VOL. 8 THE SOUL’S PURPOSE, CASES 17 -33 By Dr. Douglas M. Baker This very important work is based on an analysis of the horoscope, placing emphasis on the Rising Sign as it expresses the Soul’s Purpose and its nuances. Thus, the universal approach is yet maintained but brought to bear on the specific or existential features of the individual’s horoscope. Via 17 detailed analyses in this volume, the earnest student or professional astrologer is given in-depth information regarding Karma, previous lives, chakras, myth, objects for meditation, the Ray of the Soul and of course, the Soul’s purpose for the personality. (Vol. 7 treats cases 1 – 16.) The introductory section explains: Symbols and Methods used Planetary Rulers Chart Interpretation Permutations in Basic Symbols Compound Complexes The Rising Sign House Cusps Sun — Earth Opposition Astrological Parsing Literal Parsing Aspects Use of Angular Aspects Planet — Sign — House Influences Intercepted Signs Retrograde Planets Karmic Indications in the Horoscope Whilst esoteric astrology is primarily concerned with the hegemony of the soul as it progressively asserts itself in the life of the individual, it is also capable of providing the personality with direction and useful advice. When we are dealing with Man on the Path, a far, far more accurate an interpretation of his situation, its potentials and limitations for expression is given here by using the esoteric rulers of the Signs of the Zodiac as demonstrated in esoteric astrology. The development of the computer has made the horoscope available to the millions, and it is but a matter of time before the same computers begin to sieve out the “real from the unreal.” In the end, however, the real is only discovered within, and the fullest exposition of esoteric astrology gives the keys to such discoveries within and their correlation to wide and more universal principles. To ignore the individual horoscope is to leave astrology, esoteric or exoteric, with feet of clay. What this writing represents is a wiser and more psychosynthetic interpretation of the horoscope. Thus, providing the interpreter views the horoscope from a point of higher synthesis, the most accurate interpretation of a personality matter may be gauged from particular astrological aspects. Bailey herself, or the Tibetan Master through her, gave the key to the psychosynthetic approach by allocating esoteric rulerships to the Signs for Man on the Path and a further set of rulers, called “hierarchical”, which apply to those disciples who are initiate and engaged in the work of the Hierarchy of this planet, as It implements the Divine Plan for the Earth.