



Learning astrology is a long drawn out process and it requires starting with the basics.
Books I found useful at the start:
Margaret Hone 1953 Modern Textbook of Astrology, out of print but some available second hand.
Sakoian & Acker – The Astrologers Handbook. Planets in signs and houses and in aspect.
Robert Hand – Transits.
Bil Tierney: Dynamics of Aspect Analysis – excellent on major configurations, yods, unaspected planets.
Martin Schulman: Karmic Astrology – the Moon’s Nodes.
Melanie Rhinehart: Chiron
Tracy Marks: Your Secret Self: Illuminating the Mysteries of the Twelfth House
Marcia Moore: Astrology book (beginner)
Sakaion and Acker: The Minor Aspects in Astrology.
Delphine Jay: The Dark Moon Lilith.
Bernadette Brady. The Eagle and the Lark (Eclipse Saros Series and much else. Book of Fixed Stars.
Elsbeth Ebertin: Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation.
Vivian Robson: The Fixed Stars and Constellations (1923). It’s on archive.org.
Diana’s Fixed Stars, the website for the late Diana K Rosenberg.
Rodney Collins : The Theory of Celestial Influence.
Nick Campion: History of Astrology volumes.
Richard Tarnas: “Cosmos and Psyche”.
Erin Sullivan: Retrograde planets.
Noel Tyl: Solar Arcs is one of the books in this series. Good for advancing astrologers with a good foundation.
Sue Tompkins: Aspects in Astrology. Unmatched, in depth interpretations.
Celeste Teal: Predicting Events With Astrology’ – a good foundational text on prediction.
NEXT TIER:
Stephen Arroyo: Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (Fire, Earth, Air, Water etc)
Astrology, Karma and Transformation. He also has Chart Interpretation.
Liz Greene: Saturn especially but any of hers are excellent
Howard Sasportas ditto
RELATIONSHIPS:
Robert Hand – Planets in Composite
Sakoian & Acker – Synastry
HARMONICS: David Hamblin
MIDPOINTS: Rheinhold Ebertin: Stellar Influences
AStROCARTOGRAPHY:
Jim Lewis & Kenneth Irving: The Psychology of Astro*carto*graphy
Erin Sullivan: Where in the World? Astro*Carto*Graphy & Relocation:
POLITICAL/COUNTRY ASTROLOGY:
Michael Harding, Michael Baigent:Working with Astrology – the psychology of midpoints, harmonics and ACG mapping techniques.
Nick Campion: World Horoscopes (countries birth dates).
Andre Barbault: Planetary Cycles is a good book if you are evaluating the value of astrology in looking at recurrent cycles in history.
Traditional and Horary Astrology: William Lilly, Olivia Barclay, Charles Carter and Deborah Houlding
Barbara H. Watters: Horary Astrology and the Judgment of Events(Valhalla 1973). It’s a workhorse of a book for students of horary.
Wessex Astrologer on the net has most of Liz Greene’s and is a good starting point in the UK.
PS. Some of these are older books since I started astrology in the late 1970s. I am sure other astrologers will have their own favourites so do add comments.
There are also useful astrology websites with the basics:
Café Astrology, Dark Pixie, Bob Marks come to mind. Plus Astrology King for Fixed Stars.
Astrodienst (www.astro.com) set up by Swiss Alois Treindl who met and brought on board Liz Greene, Rob Hand and other renowned astrologers.
For magazines, recommend The Mountain Astrologer, The Astrological Journal.
For out of print books, you can check on Internet archive website, which is a virtual non profit library with millions of free texts. https://archive.org
www.addall.com/ is a good aggregator of used book sites.