When I first started learning astrology, I couldn't help myself but constantly google. The thrill of seeing the search results populate for, 'Moon in Taurus in the 9th house' or more obscurely 'draconic charts' or 'profection years' - even if this tiny bit of information didn't mean much in the context of my whole birth chart, it felt as though there was so much out there to learn about and I had no idea where to start.
I've come along way since then but I'm still regularly asked for recommendations on the best astrology book. To which I always reply, 'well, that depends what kind of a learner you are?'
Visual Learners
For those who like to see lots of colour and imagery, Carole Taylor's 'Astrology: Using the wisdom of the starts in your everyday life' is a great place to start.
Bookworms
For the bookworms amongst us that like to read and slowly assimilate information and begin to think like an astrologer without the need for memorization then I'd say that Sue Merlyn Farebrother's 'Astrology Decoded' is a winner.
I have very fond memories of this book and reading it on the S-bahn in Berlin.
It uses keywords and helps you think like an astrologer by helping you to learn how to merge keywords together to start reflecting on how a particular placement in a birth chart could manifest. It made me appreciate astrology as an art form as well as a Science and helped me to trust my own interpretations of things.
Cookbookers
In astrology, we refer to certain types of books as 'Cookbooks' which is why I've created my own noun of 'cookbooker'. You might be a 'cookbooker' if you'd like to generate your own chart and then read about each of the placements specific to your chart.
Astrological 'cookbooks' will speak individually about each of the placements in astrology in turn and give you at least a paragraph or two about how that particular ingredient of a birth chart might manifest. If you find yourself searching a lot of 'Sun in the first house'
or 'Scorpio in Venus' for example, then this kind of book might be suited for you.
If so, then I'd recommend, 'The Contemporary Astrologer's handbook' by Sue Tompkins. I still regularly consult it now.
Cookbook PLUS Encyclopaedia
Now if you want an almost one stop shop for being able to search up anything astrology related for if somehow the internet exploded and you didn't have that available, or for if you plan on learning astrology in a quiet secluded cabin with no wifi then 'Parkers' Astrology' could be for you.
It has a huge cookbook included but also brief sections to explain a lot of other things such as astrocartography, harmonics and even has an ephemeris going up to 2036!
Websiters - (those who want to learn from a website)
I've recently taken to sending links to people with their readings if they'd like to read a bit more about a particular part of their chart and I've found that Labyrinthos is pretty good!
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