Inner Alchemy Astrology: Practical Techniques for Controlling Your Destiny

by Mantak Chia, Christine Harkness-Giles

Strengthen the qualities in your Taoist astrological chart with Inner Alchemy techniques and Universal Healing Tao exercises

• Describes how to interpret your Taoist astrology birth chart and discover the unique combination of Five Elements underlying your personality, health, and destiny

• Reveals how to strengthen your birth chi with Inner Alchemy techniques and Universal Healing Tao exercises

• Explains how to calculate your wealth phase, organ health, and luck cycles

Each of us is born with a unique combination of heavenly and earthly energies dictated by the stars overhead and the season on Earth at the moment you take your first breath. Known in Taoist astrology as the Four Pillars of Destiny, this “birth chi” can be calculated using the year, month, day, and time of your birth.

Master Mantak Chia and astrologer Christine Harkness-Giles reveal how to interpret your birth chi and strengthen weaknesses within your astrological energies. They explain how each of us is ruled by one of the Five Elements--Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water--in a Yin or Yang state. For each Element and Yin or Yang combination, the authors describe personality traits, ideal career paths, and emotional and health issues. They reveal how to discover your levels of success, wealth, and power; how your astrological strengths will manifest; and how to understand your relationships with partners, friends, and family. They also explain how to use your chart to calculate your organ health and annual luck cycles.

The authors show how to use Inner Alchemy techniques, such as color therapy and feng shui, and Universal Healing Tao exercises, such as the Healing Sounds and Chi Kung, to harmonize and strengthen the inborn imbalances and weaknesses in your chart. This hands-on method of astrology allows you to take control of your health and destiny by connecting your personal energy with the energies of the cosmos.

Genres: Astrology

192 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2013

About the author

Mantak Chia is a Taoist Master. He is best known for teaching his Taoist practices under the names of Healing Tao, Tao Yoga, Universal Healing Tao System and Chi Kung. Throughout decades of teaching, he has run numerous workshops, written a series of books, and published a number of training videos. For this reason, some people call him an author, a teacher or a healer. He views himself primarily as a teacher, "who helps his students empower themselves through cultivation of their chi energy." (-wiki)

Reviews

[Alex Lee]

This is an incredibly small book for a very dense topic. This is an introductory text though. What I miss from it is some of the inner connective tissue for how to consider all of these aspects together. For instance, they give full color tables and charts (wonderful) but reference things like "Generative cycle" which I do not recall and have to hunt for in the book. They are fairly clear on the mechanics by giving various examples, although what I really want is a larger systemic view of the topic, which I think I will have to get in a thicker book on the same topic. Chinese Astrology is an incredibly complex subject matter with lots of different angles... they are obviously experts and seek not to confuse anyone approaching the subject anew, but often resort to giving a laundry list/table of aspects involved. This is okay, but I suspect there might be a deeper way to understand the relationships than just looking at a table... I wish for that discussion instead, and thus in some respects, their editor could have done a better job.

[Studentoflife]

Chinese astrology can be overwhelmingly complex. It can sometimes be depressing too if one's chart has a number of vulnerabilities. I appreciate the way Inner Alchemy pares things down to a manageable level that is possible to absorb. I also like the way it offers simple, practical ways to address congenital imbalances so that the reader is not left passive and helpless but feels empowered to make changes that will optimize the potential of their chart.

[I am infinitely financially wealthy]

Eye opening. And have to study it more.