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How to Be an Astrologer: Everything You Need to Interpret Anyone's Birth Chart for a Complete, Accurate, and Revealing Astrological Reading
Why go to an astrologer when you can be an astrologer? Now you can take your astrology knowledge to the next level with this clear, concise, and comprehensive guide to the stars. From horoscopes to compatibility breakdowns, astrology is everywhere. But how do you figure out what it all means? And how can it help you better understand yourself and the world around you? The answer may be written in the stars! How to Be an Astrologer explains everything you need to know about the stars, from understanding the astrological year to advice on starting a unique, personalized astrology practice. Simply start with the basics and work your way up through the different aspects of what it takes to run a successful practice. Including a breakdown of your birth chart to how the movement of the planets make an impact throughout the year, this book tackles all the questions you’ve been wondering. Sample questions -Is it ever possible—or acceptable—to predict death based on an astrological reading? -Can astrology help in daily life by improving my relationships? -How can I apply what I’ve learned and start thinking like an astrologer? Astrology expert Constance Stellas offers relatable advice to anyone interested in learning more about astrology, getting to know themselves through the zodiac, and providing accurate readings for others. Start your journey to becoming an astrologer today!
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276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 14, 2020
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March 10, 2020
I requested this book because of the wonderful cover and the title. The book was pretty good. Each and every small item in astrology is explained really well. The constellations, tables and charts are drawn pretty well. The only flaw that I felt in this book was that it was like a textbook that only people who are really engrossed in astrology could understand. And also I would have liked it even more if the constellations, charts and tables were given alongside the explanation. Overall, it was a very nice book that every astrologer or budding astrologer should have.
I thank Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this opportunity.
I thank Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this opportunity.
June 17, 2020
How to Be an Astrologer is filled to the brim with information. It's actually slightly overwhelming, although I'd say that would be due to how comprehensive the information is. Visuals would have been a great help, as this is text heavy. Despite these small qualms, I LOVE THIS BOOK. If you're serious about astrology, even if you're a beginner, this is an awesome book to pick up and supplement your bookshelf with. Read it, study, and study some more. The energies of the universe are complex and beautiful.
I'll break this down by chapter for organizational purposes and ease of reading.
CHAPTER 1 - COSMIC INGREDIENTS
- How to identify your sun, moon, and ascendant (or "rising") sign.
- The Planets and "lights" and what they signify, their ties to Greek mythology, benefic and malefic attributes, as well as masculine and feminine attributes.
- The twelve Zodiacal Signs and their accompanying elements, the ruling planets, seasonal representation, the triplicities, and the quadruplicities.
- The twelve Houses, following the Aries wheel of the year, and grouping houses by elements.
- The personal planets, and what they all specifically represent in your chart, as well as planetary powers. The author gives tips on how to organize this information in your chart.
CHAPTER 2 - HOW YOUR PLANETS WORK TOGETHER
- There is math involved, and the importance of correctly measuring in degrees is pressed upon. Honestly, without a visual this went over my head. However, the author goes into depth, like space-deep, explaining how this all works.
- The Major Aspects: the Conjunction, Trine, Square, Opposition, Sextile, and Quincunx or Inconjunct.
- The Uncommon Aspects: the Quintile, Semisquare, Semisextile.
- Aspect Formations: the T-square, Grand Trine, Grand Cross, Mystic Rectangle, and Yod.
CHAPTER 3 - YOUR PERSONAL PLANETS AND THEIR DAILY MOTIONS
- Tracking planetary motions, like the sun and moon, or any other personal planets in your chart.
- The Moon Phases: New Moon, Full Moon, Waning Moon, Dark of the Moon, Void-of-Course Moon (v/c), as well as the moon's motion through the houses.
- Transits and Retrogrades, and how to track them through planets such as Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
CHAPTER 4 - THE BIG PICTURE
- Life's big questions which are divined through the transpersonal planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This is a huge, detailed section.
- Pluto's Generational Mark and how it affects each Zodiac, as well as the dynamics of familial relationships between parents and children.
CHAPTER 5 - PREDICTIONS
- How to analyze and intuit predictions from a chart. Death is often a popular topic. It's also recommended to draw up different types of progressions and compare them with each other and the Natal chart.
- Progressing the Chart with secondary progressions and solar arc progressions.
- Solar Arc Direction, which is another method of progression.
- The Progressed Moon tells you how emotionally prepared you are to take action when an event happens. Again, there is math.
- The Saturn Wheel, similar to the Progressed Moon, only this indicates the structure of life.
- Planets Changing Directions, Solar Returns, Lunar Returns, Eclipses. How to determine what they mean, and techniques to organize the information in your chart.
CHAPTER 6 - ASSESSING COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN CHARTS
- The synastry between individuals, which is probably the most popular interest that most people have involving astrology.
- The Elements in Chart Comparisons, Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Aspects Between Charts, the Conjunction, the Ascendant and Descendant.
- Drawing up charts for different types of relationships, and compositing them: friendship, parents and children, coworkers and bosses, marriage.
CHAPTER 7 - THE HIDDEN CHART
- Understanding Karma and your Purpose in Life.
- The Moon's Nodes and Planetary Retrogrades through the Zodiacs.
- Aspects of Karmic Indicators, and Karmic Assistance.
- Past Lives and Lives to Come.
- Soul Mates, and astrological twins.
CHAPTER 8 - REFINING YOUR ASTROLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
- Critical Degrees, Fixed Stars, Arabic Parts, Decanates, House Systems, Cusps of a Sign, and additional branches of astrology.
- The Asteroids: Ceres, Pallas Athena, Vesta, Juno, and Chiron.
- Medical Astrology, the synastry in medical astrology, and information regarding the houses that represent health.
- Mundane Astrology which focuses on national events.
- Feng Shui Astrology basically personalizes Feng Shui with each Zodiac.
CHAPTER 9 - ANALYSIS OF A CHART
- Elements, Planets in Critical Degrees, Aspects, Energy Dynamics, Nodes, and other points of interest.
- How to determine if you are reading your chart accurately.
CHAPTER 10 - HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ASTROLOGER
- Planning with astrology in mind, by looking up your chart regularly and interweaving it in your daily decision making, especially the more important a decision is. Useful for social engagements, travel, education, business dealings, major life decisions, and health.
- Methods for drawing up your chart to pinpoint auspicious times.
Other information included in the back:
- Step-by-Step Analysis of a Natal Chart that walks you through drawing up a chart.
- Blank chart that you can either write directly on, or scan and print copies of.
- 8 Example charts that are used for demonstration purposes.
- Resources that include spiritual therapists, a Bibliography, and index.
Thank you to Adams Media for providing me with a free eARC of this title via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I'll break this down by chapter for organizational purposes and ease of reading.
CHAPTER 1 - COSMIC INGREDIENTS
- How to identify your sun, moon, and ascendant (or "rising") sign.
- The Planets and "lights" and what they signify, their ties to Greek mythology, benefic and malefic attributes, as well as masculine and feminine attributes.
- The twelve Zodiacal Signs and their accompanying elements, the ruling planets, seasonal representation, the triplicities, and the quadruplicities.
- The twelve Houses, following the Aries wheel of the year, and grouping houses by elements.
- The personal planets, and what they all specifically represent in your chart, as well as planetary powers. The author gives tips on how to organize this information in your chart.
CHAPTER 2 - HOW YOUR PLANETS WORK TOGETHER
- There is math involved, and the importance of correctly measuring in degrees is pressed upon. Honestly, without a visual this went over my head. However, the author goes into depth, like space-deep, explaining how this all works.
- The Major Aspects: the Conjunction, Trine, Square, Opposition, Sextile, and Quincunx or Inconjunct.
- The Uncommon Aspects: the Quintile, Semisquare, Semisextile.
- Aspect Formations: the T-square, Grand Trine, Grand Cross, Mystic Rectangle, and Yod.
CHAPTER 3 - YOUR PERSONAL PLANETS AND THEIR DAILY MOTIONS
- Tracking planetary motions, like the sun and moon, or any other personal planets in your chart.
- The Moon Phases: New Moon, Full Moon, Waning Moon, Dark of the Moon, Void-of-Course Moon (v/c), as well as the moon's motion through the houses.
- Transits and Retrogrades, and how to track them through planets such as Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
CHAPTER 4 - THE BIG PICTURE
- Life's big questions which are divined through the transpersonal planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. This is a huge, detailed section.
- Pluto's Generational Mark and how it affects each Zodiac, as well as the dynamics of familial relationships between parents and children.
CHAPTER 5 - PREDICTIONS
- How to analyze and intuit predictions from a chart. Death is often a popular topic. It's also recommended to draw up different types of progressions and compare them with each other and the Natal chart.
- Progressing the Chart with secondary progressions and solar arc progressions.
- Solar Arc Direction, which is another method of progression.
- The Progressed Moon tells you how emotionally prepared you are to take action when an event happens. Again, there is math.
- The Saturn Wheel, similar to the Progressed Moon, only this indicates the structure of life.
- Planets Changing Directions, Solar Returns, Lunar Returns, Eclipses. How to determine what they mean, and techniques to organize the information in your chart.
CHAPTER 6 - ASSESSING COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN CHARTS
- The synastry between individuals, which is probably the most popular interest that most people have involving astrology.
- The Elements in Chart Comparisons, Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Aspects Between Charts, the Conjunction, the Ascendant and Descendant.
- Drawing up charts for different types of relationships, and compositing them: friendship, parents and children, coworkers and bosses, marriage.
CHAPTER 7 - THE HIDDEN CHART
- Understanding Karma and your Purpose in Life.
- The Moon's Nodes and Planetary Retrogrades through the Zodiacs.
- Aspects of Karmic Indicators, and Karmic Assistance.
- Past Lives and Lives to Come.
- Soul Mates, and astrological twins.
CHAPTER 8 - REFINING YOUR ASTROLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
- Critical Degrees, Fixed Stars, Arabic Parts, Decanates, House Systems, Cusps of a Sign, and additional branches of astrology.
- The Asteroids: Ceres, Pallas Athena, Vesta, Juno, and Chiron.
- Medical Astrology, the synastry in medical astrology, and information regarding the houses that represent health.
- Mundane Astrology which focuses on national events.
- Feng Shui Astrology basically personalizes Feng Shui with each Zodiac.
CHAPTER 9 - ANALYSIS OF A CHART
- Elements, Planets in Critical Degrees, Aspects, Energy Dynamics, Nodes, and other points of interest.
- How to determine if you are reading your chart accurately.
CHAPTER 10 - HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ASTROLOGER
- Planning with astrology in mind, by looking up your chart regularly and interweaving it in your daily decision making, especially the more important a decision is. Useful for social engagements, travel, education, business dealings, major life decisions, and health.
- Methods for drawing up your chart to pinpoint auspicious times.
Other information included in the back:
- Step-by-Step Analysis of a Natal Chart that walks you through drawing up a chart.
- Blank chart that you can either write directly on, or scan and print copies of.
- 8 Example charts that are used for demonstration purposes.
- Resources that include spiritual therapists, a Bibliography, and index.
Thank you to Adams Media for providing me with a free eARC of this title via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
March 7, 2022
4.5 stars
Overall an excellent book if you want to become an astrologer! Some of the concepts were confusing/complicated for an amateur like me to understand, but
Some cool things I learned from this book:
'Higher octave' planets:
Mercury » Uranus
Venus » Neptune
Mars » Pluto (93).
Mercury = intellect / Uranus = intuition
chthonic = pertaining to beings dwelling under Earth (103)
Synastry = chart comparisons (140)
How to calculate major element
Sun + Moon = 2 pts each
Ascendant = 1 pt
Midheaven = 1pt
(also Venus/Mars = 1 pt each) (214).
Overall an excellent book if you want to become an astrologer! Some of the concepts were confusing/complicated for an amateur like me to understand, but
Some cool things I learned from this book:
'Higher octave' planets:
Mercury » Uranus
Venus » Neptune
Mars » Pluto (93).
Mercury = intellect / Uranus = intuition
chthonic = pertaining to beings dwelling under Earth (103)
Synastry = chart comparisons (140)
How to calculate major element
Sun + Moon = 2 pts each
Ascendant = 1 pt
Midheaven = 1pt
(also Venus/Mars = 1 pt each) (214).
February 21, 2021
Do not buy this book if you are a beginner in any way. Do buy this book if you are interested in comparing natal charts, have those printed out in front of you, or have the $700 software that is recommended in the beginning of the book. The book is written in a no nonsense textbook type way yet I still felt like I needed a dictionary. Not great for a hobbyist but probably great for an Astrologer/student.
April 3, 2020
Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with this review copy!
Okay so, there was a time where I was just extremely interested in astrology, and whether I believed in it or not, I wanted to know how people came to creating horoscopes. I saw this copy passing by on my Netgalley, and I thought: oh well, what do I have to lose?
So I started it, and I thought it was interesting, but a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. I didn't understand everything, but that's probably because I'm not the smartest, but maybe this is a book that you can only understand if you already have a basic knowledge about astrology, so it might not be suitable for complete beginners, like yours truly.
I liked the charts and drawings, and how the book uses references to other academic, and not academic pieces of texts, so that I could potentially look for more information, which I probably won't. I realized this is probably not my field of interest. I did like reading about it, but I would have liked it to be a bit more idk basic? understandable for beginners? But maybe that is honestly just me.
Points to the cover, which is super nice and colorful. It would still be a book I would pick up, just because the colors look cute! Anyways, recommended if you are interested in the topic and you feel like you wanted to know a bit more about it.
Okay so, there was a time where I was just extremely interested in astrology, and whether I believed in it or not, I wanted to know how people came to creating horoscopes. I saw this copy passing by on my Netgalley, and I thought: oh well, what do I have to lose?
So I started it, and I thought it was interesting, but a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. I didn't understand everything, but that's probably because I'm not the smartest, but maybe this is a book that you can only understand if you already have a basic knowledge about astrology, so it might not be suitable for complete beginners, like yours truly.
I liked the charts and drawings, and how the book uses references to other academic, and not academic pieces of texts, so that I could potentially look for more information, which I probably won't. I realized this is probably not my field of interest. I did like reading about it, but I would have liked it to be a bit more idk basic? understandable for beginners? But maybe that is honestly just me.
Points to the cover, which is super nice and colorful. It would still be a book I would pick up, just because the colors look cute! Anyways, recommended if you are interested in the topic and you feel like you wanted to know a bit more about it.
September 24, 2022
So, I bought this book for a gig as I am not into astrology. I truly believe that Constance Stellas doesn't actually want you to become an astrologist. Yes, the book is inundated with information, but it refers to charts without actually telling you how to read them, with planet symbols, that don't get discussed for another 30 pages. It is meant to make you think you're taking in lots of information without giving you anything.
If one goes back and reads all the 4 and 5 star reviews, they will see that I'm not alone in this. Everyone seems to compliment the plethora of information, and then states that they didn't understand it and might have to reread it again. It's like explaining what each part of a car's engine does and then expecting you to be able to fix a car.
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.
If one goes back and reads all the 4 and 5 star reviews, they will see that I'm not alone in this. Everyone seems to compliment the plethora of information, and then states that they didn't understand it and might have to reread it again. It's like explaining what each part of a car's engine does and then expecting you to be able to fix a car.
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.
May 7, 2020
This is a very thorough book on a challenging subject. I was pleasantly surprised how much sophisticated information Ms Stellas was able to cram into a single book ("Part of Fortune"?) and how well she manages to explain it. Not only does she set out the basic components of the chart but she deals in-depth with interpretation. A brief aside, Ms Stellas believes in reincarnation and some of her interpretations are aimed at reading karma from former lives, this does not detract from the general content and if you do not share this world view those parts can be easily assimilated into other forms. It is aimed at beginners but it will also give old hands a run for their money.
Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to access a proof copy of this book.
Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to access a proof copy of this book.
July 6, 2020
Constance Stellas takes the complicated concept of the study of astrology and makes it digestable for those new to the craft. How to Be an Astrologer covers the basics you see in a lot of intro to astrology books: signs, transits and houses, but also looks at how to make predictions through charts, compatibility and a number of more obscure uses for astrology. Although this book was approachable I still found in a challenge to read and there was so much information. This would definitely be a book to refer back to and study overtime. Astrology is a craft that often takes years to master and having that mindset when reading this book would help to not get discouraged if you don't understand everything right away.
Overall a great tool for learning about astrology!
Overall a great tool for learning about astrology!
June 27, 2025
This was a frustrating and unreasonably difficult read. I learned a lot about a lot, but the applicability of what I learned was lost in the complexity and vagueness of the content. I wouldn’t consider this a good book for anyone that isn’t already competent with astrology as I don’t feel I can accurately interpret charts, even my own, with what is in this book. If you are a visual learner, don’t buy it. The charts provided at the end of the book, that you have to flip to every time they are mentioned, are confusing and unhelpful for identifying aspects.
April 6, 2022
Really fascinating. I have always been captivated by the cosmos and absolutely love learning anything and everything about the power they hold. Love the information in this book, love the simplistic layout and teeny picture icons as well. It is a lot to take in but I don't mind having to reread it!
*Free e-copy received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
*Free e-copy received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
March 28, 2020
To me an introduction to different topics in astrology. To me, it is not in-depth because of the topics discussed by the author.
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