"The section I found most interesting was Comparison of Horoscopes. I found this chapter astonishingly accurate... The observations are very acute... remarkable practical insights into everyday behavior and experience." -- The New Astrologer(England) The houses of the horoscope are fundamental to the entire structure of astrology, and they should command the highest attention. You will find this book different from others on the subject because, throughout this presentation, I stress the function of House emphasis even over the importance of aspects between planets." -- Richard Vaughan This is the first book on chart interpretation to focus so completely on the houses and related factors in the birth chart, With lively writing, Richard Vaughan makes the houses and their ruling planets come alive in this -- innovative approach, which includes: the planets in the houses the signs on the house cusps the placement of each house's ruling planet a major section on the Ascendant and its ruler a multitude of fresh insights not found in any other book The author shows how to synthesize many chart factors by using the often neglected tradition of rulerships, and also includes a chapter on aspects, a section on chart comparison for evaluating relationships, and insightful comments on the sign positions of each planet. This book introduces new students of astrology to valuable ways of understanding astrological fundamentals, while more experienced readers will be surprised to find so many new ways of working with a chart. Practical everyday concerns are balanced with an openness to the spiritual side of life. But perhaps the most striking quality of this book is its originality, something too often missing in books on astrology. This book is so filled with new and sharply accurate perceptions that one soon realizes that they could only be based on years of observation, not just abstractions blindly borrowed from others, Even an experienced astrologer cannot read any page without encountering some new insight that is both useful and imaginative. Richard Vaughan was born in Oakland, California and was educated at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a public accountant for many years and traveled throughout the Orient for a major corporation, while also studying astrology and eventually practicing it professionally. His years of experience guiding clients astrologically is evident in the originality and practical insights found throughout this book. He has also written a major work on numerology, Numbers as Symbols for Self-Discovery.