Astrology for Beginners: An Easy Guide to Understanding and Interpreting Your Chart (Llewellyn's Modern Astrology Library Series)

the book gets four stars because it is exactly what i was looking for; how to draw up a natal astrology chart. the author provides three ways to do so. his descriptions of the traits of the signs, planets, houses, etc. are a little hokey for my taste, but there are better astrology books out there for interpretation. this book hit the mark in discussing how to make the chart.

I have been interested in astrology for some time but the depth of information needed to even begin is considerable. However in the case of this book, William Hewitt makes it as simple and straight forward as possible. His writing style and honest integrity combine to make something that is easy to absorb and extremely enjoyable to do so; referring the reader back to solid examples and reasons of working and answers. All of the topics in this book are perfectly structured and complement the pace of learning incredibly so.If this is your first time looking into astrology then this book is a must have. On the other hand, if like me you are trying to go further into something you have always wanted to, then this book is a great companion. Logical, practical and well founded are just some words to describe the information inside.

I learned a good deal of "basics" information from this book, which I suppose is what the author intended. However, there was also a good bit of information which I found lacking or not fully explained. For instance, although the author gives you a basic idea of how to determine the degree of aspect when two planets are in conjunction, he isn't particularly clear in advising how to determine aspects that spread across signs. For instance, you'd be left to thinking that you could count HOUSE PLACEMENTS rather than SIGNS to determine the degree of aspect, which is not true. Also, the "interpretations" in the last half of the book are very general and tend to become tiresome...so much so that I had to push myself to finish the book. Taken on the whole, it's still a worthy work for someone like me who's baseline knowledge was largely peripheral, but you may have to seek other sources to expound on what he does not explain.

If you're just starting with astrology, buy this book - you won't regret it.It gives good information for beginners - will help you to understand basic principles of astrology, explained in plain and not too much complicated way - it really helps when you're starting (I can tell based on my own experience).If you already have some astrology knowledge and wants to develop it further, you may find the book too simplified or not detailed enough.

This is the first book I bought on astrology. Its a good basic, yet very informative book. It explains everything you will need to know to progress onto further astrological books. I keep coming back to this book because I see it as the foundation of everythnig I've learnt so far. I highly recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in learning astrology.