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Birth Charts

When exploring astrology, your own birth (or natal) chart is a perfect entryway. This chart maps the placement and relationship of the planets and zodiac constellations at your birth. You’ll need to know your birthdate, birth time, and place of birth. Many commercial sites and apps offer reliable birth charts. We recommend Cafe Astrology because it does not require registration or additional personal information. This site is associated with Amazon and Powell Books.

Presearch Resources

Search reference entries across academic disciplines for astrology

Highlights

• Encyclopædia Britannica Online
• Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
• American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History
• Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions

Casual Explorations

The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need by Joanna Martine Woolfolk 

Astrology: Superstition, Blind Faith or a Door to the Essential? by Osho

Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs by Lisa Goodman

Linda Goodman’s Love Signs by Lisa Goodman

Astrology in Time and Place: Cross-Cultural Questions in the History of Astrology by Nicholas Campion and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum

A Brief History of Ancient Astrology by Roger Beck

By Discipline

Astrology has been studied through the lens of many academic disciplines.

Art History and Astrology

• Article: Painting against Time: Spectatorship and Visual Entanglement in the Anagni Crypt
• Article: Aby Warburg’s (1866-1929) Dots and Lines. Mapping the Diffusion of Astrological Motifs in Art History
• Article: Nature and Nature’s God: Landscape and Cosmos of Albrecht Altdorfer

Astronomy and Astrology

• Article: Astrology With New Eyes: The Telescope in Astrological Prognostication
• Article: Tycho Brahe and the Separation of Astronomy from Astrology: The Making of a New Scientific Discourse
• Article: Early-years Educators’ Attitudes to Science and Pseudo-science: The case of astronomy and astrology

Chinese Studies and Astrology

• Book: Astrology and cosmology in early China : conforming earth to heaven
• Book: Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching Out to the Stars
• Book: Coping with the future : theories and practices of divination in East Asia

Literature and Astrology

• Article: Causes in Nature: Popular Astrology in King Lear
• Article: Astrology and Iconoclasm in Milton’s Paradise Regained

Psychology and Astrology

• Article: Good day for Leos: Horoscope’s influence on perception, cognitive performances, and creativity
• Article: Even the stars think that I am superior: Personality, intelligence and belief in astrology
• Article: Science Versus the Stars: A Double-Blind Test of the Validity of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and Computer-Generated Astrological Natal Charts

Religious Studies and Astrology

• Article: Diverse Supernatural Portfolios: Certitude, Exclusivity, and the Curvilinear Relationship Between Religiosity and Paranormal Beliefs
• Article: “Go Out from Your Sign”: Rashi to Genesis 15:5 as a Reference to Astrological Primary Direction -Its Background in Rabbinic Literature and Parallels in Abraham bar Hiyya
• Article: Astrology and Marginality

Munday Library Special Collection

Signs of the Zodiac