The Key to Your Own Nativity
Alan Leo · 1910
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About the book
Leo's promise is in the title: with your birth chart in hand, this book reads it back to you — ruler, rising sign, every planet in every house, money, work, marriage, the lot. Written as the do-it-yourself half of a professional consultation, and it still works as one.
Try the short course
Part 1 · Why Leo thought astrology was reasonable. The first six slides, free.
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Leo knew who would pick this book up. Some readers are moved by the sheer size of the subject - the heavens, fate, the stars. Others want to know why any of it should be true before they give it an evening. He wrote his opening page for the second kind: people whose attitude of mind is, in his words, “philosophical rather than devotional.”
So he does something unusual for an astrologer in 1910. He sets the grandeur aside on purpose and argues from what he calls the dispassionate standpoint of pure reason.
That choice shapes everything after it. Before the book tells you a single thing about your rising sign, it wants you to see what kind of claim a birth chart is actually making.
Inside the course
20 parts- The rational basis of astrology, stated up frontFree above
- A king's nativity as the worked example
- The ascendant: the self you lead with
- The ruling planet, and how to find yours
Questions
Is The Key to Your Own Nativity free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
20 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. The Key to Your Own Nativity is waiting in the app’s library.
