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Please note: I have written over 100 free tutorials in both Western and Vedic astrology to help you learn astrology. Click here to see them. I spent several hours going through my entire Vedic library for the best books in my collection. Here they are. I hope that my research serves you well. Important Update: I have just expanded this Vedic Astrology booklist and created a page on Amazon that both describes each book and allows you to easily order any of them. You can view this new listing by clicking here to see what books shaped my understanding of astrology, and even get copies for yourself. Important Note: How would you like to be able to download formatted copies of both modern and Classical Vedic texts for free? I just discovered a great website where you can search for Vedic astrology books, and download them to your computer and print them out, for free. You can search, for example for terms like Nakshatra, Jyotish, Vedic Astrology, or the name of any Vedic Classical book. You do have to register (at no charge). After finding books, click on the Download tab and select the PDF format, so the texts will be properly formatted for reading easily. You can log on to this website by clicking here. Light on Life (Not only the best Vedic astrology book in English, but a huge number of insights and gems for Western astrologers too.) Path of Light vol. 1 & 2 (Truly excellent new books by a brilliant and generous astrologer who shares his great depth of understanding of Jyotish. Highly Recommended!) New Techniques of Prediction 1 & 2 (For advanced Vedic astrologers only, the brilliant predictive methods and understandings of a great Jyotish master) Learn Astrology The Easy Way (For beginning to intermediate students of Vedic astrology, this provides a very good education in Vedic astrology.) A Thousand Suns an excellent new Vedic book that covers a huge range of Vedic topics in a very accessible and easy-to-read conversational style. Highly Recommended! Astro Sutras Events and Nativities and Art of Predictions (excellent books by the late excellent astrologer Bhasin) How to Read a Bhava (a very small book that condenses divisional chart analysis quite well) Varshphal or Annual Horoscope (an excellent book on Vedic Solar Returns) Predictive Astrology - An Insight (a comprehensive & excellent analysis of planets in houses) Practical Vedic Astrology (a fine compendium of 25 years of the authors notes, well organized) How to Read Your Horoscope (newly reprinted – excellent modern interpretations of lordships , planets in signs and houses, etc.) Vault of the Heavens (a lovely and comprehensive textbook on Vedic astrology, complete with modern interpretations of the lordships for each Lagna, and more.) & Core Yogas (a unique, descriptive, and comprehensive analysis of yogas) Navamsa in Astrology (extensive examination of the navamsa and classical approaches to it.) A Course in Indian Astrology (101 lessons in astrology by knowledgeable Jyotishis) Dr. K.S. Charak has many books, including a two volume Elements of Vedic Astrology, Varshaphal (which Hart endorses), and my favorite of his Yogas in Astrology Astrology and Jyotirvidya (a very intelligent and well-thought out book on many facets of Jyotish, including Nakshatras, Dasas, Prognosis, and much more.) Mansions of the Moon (a wonderful book on Nakshatra myths, meanings, etc.) Predictive Astrology of the Hindus (extensive and excellent) The Astrology of the Seers (a very good book, but it mixes a little Western astrology in) The Lunar Nodes (some very good insights in this one) also her Essentials of Vedic Astrology and her Indian Astrology coffee table book have merit. Ganesha Hora Shastram (An incredibly deep exploration of each house, its occupants, and lord.) Nakshatras (The first Western book on Nakshatras, the product of a great deal of research.) You can download a free collection of Classical Vedic Texts including Brihat Parahara Hora Shastra, Bhavartha Ratnakara, Bhrgu Sutras, and many more by clicking here. (Just scroll down the page a bit to the section: Astrology in Hinduism to find all of the classical Vedic texts.) Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (the "bible" of Vedic astrology) Phaladeepika (the second most important "bible" in Vedic astrology) Uttara Kalamrita (an excellent book showing themes of each house in depth) Saravali (two volume classic focuses on planets in houses, decanates, etc.) Bhrigu Sutram (a look at each planet in each house, with reference to 4 Vedic classics) Brihat Jataka (one volume with extensive and interesting notes by the translator) and Sri Sarwathachintamani (two volume set with extensive, useful commentary of this major Vedic classic) Jataka Parijata (3 Vol) (/w Original Slokas in Sanskrit and English Trans. My Vedic teacher, Hart often quotes this important work that is used as the textbook in Vedic studies in India ) Kalaprakasika (I haven't seen this one, but it's recommended by Hart) Click to Return to 
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