David Pond - Astrology for Beginners: Learn to Read Your Birth Chart

About the Author

David Pond (Olympia, WA) is an astrologer, author, speaker, and international workshop leader. David has a Master of Science degree in experimental metaphysics and has published eight previous books on metaphysical topics, including Llewellyns Little Book of Meditation , Astrology and Relationships , Chakras for Beginners , and Chakras Beyond Beginners . David has been practicing astrology for over forty years and consults with clients, helping them work with their astrology to find meaningful and fulfilling lives and to strate-gize through times of transition.

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Names: Pond, David, author.

Title: Astrology for beginners : learn to read your birth chart / by David

Pond.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Worldwide,

2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Learn

how to read your birth chart according to the signs, planets, aspects,

houses, and other astrological basicsProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019035857 (print) | LCCN 2019035858 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738758206 (paperback) | ISBN 9780738758350 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Astrology. | Birth charts.

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To all those seeking greater understanding in their lives through the study of astrology

may the stars be with you!

contents

List of

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Three:

Four:

Five:

Six:

Seven:
Retrograde Planets and
Intercepted Signs

Eight:

Appendix One:

Appendix Two:

tables and figures

Tables

. Signs, Planets, Symbols, and Orbits

. Signs, Elements, Qualities, and Polarities

. Signs and Their Planetary Rulers

. Orbs

Figures

. The Cycle of the Four Elements: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water

. The Three Qualities: Cardinal, Fixed, and Mutable

. House Cusps

. Hemispheres

. Quadrants

. Angular Houses

. Succedent Houses

. Cadent Houses

. Major Aspects

. Grand Square

. T-Square

. Grand Trine

. Kite

. Mystic Rectangle

. Stellium

. Bundle

. Bowl

. Seesaw

. Tripod

. Splash

. Splay

. Funnel/Bucket

. Locomotive

. House Cusps and Interceptions

acknowledgments

I would first like to acknowledge my sister, Lucy Pond, who introduced me to the wonders of astrology when I was a young man. She was my first astrology teacher and I will be forever grateful to her for opening the gate to what has turned out to be my life path. I would also like to thank the many clients over the years who have shared their innermost world with me, allowing me to learn from them how astrology has manifested in their lives.

Editing a book on a topic as complex and filled with as much jargon as astrology proves to be no small task. In this regard, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Andria Friesen, owner of Friesen Art Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, for her willingness to wade through the first draft of the manuscript with the eyes of a beginner to help me see it from the perspective of someone new to astrology.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge my wife, life partner, and chief editor, Laurie. Along with being there with me as we have built our astrology practice together step by step, her contributions to bringing this book to completion are immeasurable. From her willingness to discuss and offer feedback on the beginning stages of the writing to helping edit each stage of the manuscript with her exquisite eye for detail, her invisible, loving attention has helped shape, form, and refine this book.

introduction

introduction

As you begin your study of astrology, you are opening a door to a greatly expanded understanding of yourself and others. Astrology is the language of the stars and the stories they tell. Your study of astrology will teach you the alphabet of this celestial language so you can read the language and discover the stories your birth chart can tell you about yourself and your connection to a much larger reality than you were previously aware of. As you begin your studies, all of the symbols may seem totally abstract and void of meaning. But as you delve deeper, you will realize that what youre studying already exists within you. It will start to sound familiar as your awareness shifts from out there to in here and you begin to realize that astrology is giving you a map for understanding what is already going on within you.

As you learn about your own personal astrology, you will immediately become aware that you are connected to the universe in ways you never could have imagined. You will begin to see the deeper meaning of your life and feel more aligned with a greater sense of purpose. As you become more aware of the specific details of your astrology chart, you will begin to understand why you are the way you areyour strengths and where you should expect success in life as well as your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and how to overcome them. Your astrological chart can reveal your emotional needs, your natural intellectual tendencies, what you value in a relationship, how you can best assert yourself, what types of interests would be rewarding and enriching to pursue, how you deal with authority issues, and where you need to develop self-discipline to be successful. It can also show you how to develop your spiritual resources of intuition, vision, and transformation to align with your souls purpose.