Every chart has a cast. This is the book that introduces you to all of them.

Purple Star astrology reads a life through fourteen major stars, and each one is a character: the Emperor, the Treasurer, the Strategist, the Moon, the Peacemaker, the Guardian, the Charmer, the Warrior, the Breaker, the Sun, the General, the Firebrand, the Chancellor, and the Orator. A Court of Hidden Stars gives each star a chapter of its own, opening with a real person from the author's life who is that star writ large, then showing the star at full brightness and faint, in its famous duets with the stars it shares a room with, and in each of the six configurations it can take in a chart.

The book is built to be used, not just read. Every chapter ends with a Six Faces plate so you can mark which configuration is yours, a card summarizing the star, and a QR code to cast the chart of anyone you are trying to understand. Three closing chapters bring on the supporting cast, the eight helpers and six rough guests that color every major star, and then put the whole court to work on a stranger's chart in ten minutes.

Inside:

Fourteen star chapters, each with a face, a full portrait, its duets and its six faces

Over 150 original plates: family plates, six-faces indexes, cast cards and chart grids

The supporting cast: the helpers, the rough guests and what each pair changes

The six questions a fluent reader asks of any room, and a ten-minute method for a whole chart

American English throughout, with the Chinese names given for every star

Book 2 of The Purple Court. Reads on its own; Your Life in Twelve Rooms is the map, this is the cast.