this doesn’t feel like it counts as “reading a book” considering how much of it involves flipping to a section that is relevant to your specific birth chart and then disregarding pages of information.

great introduction for beginners though!

A good introduction to astrology. Note that this book only really explores sun, moon, ascendant, and ascendant ruler, so there’s a lot of your chart that won’t be covered in this text. Chani has a gift for making complex topics very straightforward, and she makes astrology very accessible.

Great beginners book for anyone interested in learning the basic concepts of the astrological signs, their planets, and the modalities, elements, and houses associated. The framework of this book is based on traditional astrology and whole sign houses. It is essentially also a workbook, teaching the reader how to consult their own birth chart and learn about their ‘big three’: sun sign, moon sign and ascendant, and the aspects they make with the other traditional planets.

This book was helpful in gaining a very basic level understanding of my sun, moon, and rising signs but what I found most disappointing about what little I could take away from the main part of the book, is that I felt there was a lot left unmentioned, or I will found somewhat confusing. For example, within my natal chart, I have aspects in Chiron, Midheaven, and the North and South Nodes (which all appear on the chart I pulled through Chani's site), but these are not discussed in the book at all, leaving me to do research outside of this guide before reading on.

This book, for me, would have been better as an online resource because you don't read the book in it's entirety from start to finish. She writes the book in a "choose your adventure" style so you're only reading the sections that apply. So I may have only read about 25% of the book.

My hope is that this will only be volume 1 as I loved Nicholas's writing so very much--it was so easy to engage with--but the choose your own adventure structure (necessary though it may be) leaves the reader craving more!

I'd happily one day have a bind up of any future volumes in a coffee table book and wonder why the publisher didn't go for that?