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Body Astrology: A Cosmic Guide to Health, Healing, and Harnessing the Power of the Planets
Let the planets be your guide to reestablish trust in your own body and inner wisdom.
Your astrological makeup is like a window into how your unique body works. Because astrology, life, and the body are constantly changing, Body Astrology goes beyond the basics, teaching you how to interpret your birth chart and craft a whole-body daily and seasonal practice to match.
Recognizing cosmic patterns can help reconnect you with your authentic preferences so you can create a unique daily routine that is tailored to your needs. Nutritionist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and astrologer Claire Gallagher guides you in the healing powers of each planet and how to use food, movement, and lifestyle to realign and empower. Her integrative and intuitive full-body approach puts the wellness industry on mute so you can have confidence in your own self-directed health choices. You will learn how
Your astrological makeup is like a window into how your unique body works. Because astrology, life, and the body are constantly changing, Body Astrology goes beyond the basics, teaching you how to interpret your birth chart and craft a whole-body daily and seasonal practice to match.
Recognizing cosmic patterns can help reconnect you with your authentic preferences so you can create a unique daily routine that is tailored to your needs. Nutritionist, certified strength and conditioning specialist, and astrologer Claire Gallagher guides you in the healing powers of each planet and how to use food, movement, and lifestyle to realign and empower. Her integrative and intuitive full-body approach puts the wellness industry on mute so you can have confidence in your own self-directed health choices. You will learn how
320 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2022
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August 28, 2023
„Body Astrology“ von Claire Gallagher ist ein übersichtlich gestalteter Leitfaden zum Thema medizinische Astrologie für Anfänger wie für Fortgeschrittene.
Das Buch ist informativ und in 3 Teile geordnet.
Teil 1 beschäftigt sich mit den Basics der Body-Astrologie und Astro-saisonaler Lebensweise (Sonnen-, Planeten und Mondzyklus).
Teil 2 behandelt ausführlich die verschiedenen Sternzeichen in Bezug auf die möglichen Heilungsgesten durch Ernährung und Bewegung, zeigt eventuelle Beschwerden auf und welche Rolle die anderen Planeten im Sternzeichen spielen.
Im 3. Teil stehen die Planeten im Fokus, ihre Wirkung, wie sich ein Ungleichgewicht bemerkbar macht und wie man dieses ausbalanciert. Die Ausführungen und verschiedenen Abschnitte sind übersichtlich zusammengestellt, verständlich geschrieben und sehr schön von Caitlin Keegan illustriert.🤍🌌
Vieles was zu meinem Sternzeichen geschrieben wird, trifft auf mich zu und ich werde einige Hinweise einmal ausprobieren.♒️
Ich bin keine Expertin in Astrologie, und beschäftige mich damit erst seit kurzer Zeit, weswegen ich den Inhalt nicht fachlich beurteilen kann. Für mich scheint dieses Buch eine Chance zu bieten, sich ganzheitlich mit seinem Körper auseinanderzusetzen. Es zeigt einen möglichen Weg auf, durch die Hilfe der Astrologie zu individueller Ernährung, Essumgebung und Bewegung zu finden. Gallaghers Herangehensweise empfinde ich als urteilsfrei, einfühlsam und wertschätzend.
Trotzdem - wenn Euch die Themen Ernährung und Bewegung triggern, dann möchte ich hier betonen, dass es in diesem Buch vordergründig um Ernährungs- und Bewegungsgewohnheiten geht.
Vielen Lieben Dank an den Droemer Knauer Verlag für das schöne Rezensionsexemplar. ☺️
Das Buch ist informativ und in 3 Teile geordnet.
Teil 1 beschäftigt sich mit den Basics der Body-Astrologie und Astro-saisonaler Lebensweise (Sonnen-, Planeten und Mondzyklus).
Teil 2 behandelt ausführlich die verschiedenen Sternzeichen in Bezug auf die möglichen Heilungsgesten durch Ernährung und Bewegung, zeigt eventuelle Beschwerden auf und welche Rolle die anderen Planeten im Sternzeichen spielen.
Im 3. Teil stehen die Planeten im Fokus, ihre Wirkung, wie sich ein Ungleichgewicht bemerkbar macht und wie man dieses ausbalanciert. Die Ausführungen und verschiedenen Abschnitte sind übersichtlich zusammengestellt, verständlich geschrieben und sehr schön von Caitlin Keegan illustriert.🤍🌌
Vieles was zu meinem Sternzeichen geschrieben wird, trifft auf mich zu und ich werde einige Hinweise einmal ausprobieren.♒️
Ich bin keine Expertin in Astrologie, und beschäftige mich damit erst seit kurzer Zeit, weswegen ich den Inhalt nicht fachlich beurteilen kann. Für mich scheint dieses Buch eine Chance zu bieten, sich ganzheitlich mit seinem Körper auseinanderzusetzen. Es zeigt einen möglichen Weg auf, durch die Hilfe der Astrologie zu individueller Ernährung, Essumgebung und Bewegung zu finden. Gallaghers Herangehensweise empfinde ich als urteilsfrei, einfühlsam und wertschätzend.
Trotzdem - wenn Euch die Themen Ernährung und Bewegung triggern, dann möchte ich hier betonen, dass es in diesem Buch vordergründig um Ernährungs- und Bewegungsgewohnheiten geht.
Vielen Lieben Dank an den Droemer Knauer Verlag für das schöne Rezensionsexemplar. ☺️
January 19, 2022
I find medical astrology fascinating and intimidating. The body grounds my practice of intuitive embodied natal astrology, but dense medical astrology language makes me scratch my head.
Contrast with Claire Gallagher’s Body Astrology, an accessible modern guide that opens up the discipline for beginners and astrologers alike. Gallagher’s approach centralizes simple techniques, empowering the reader and their body intuition while also emphasizing healing from harmful cultural diet/exercise stories.
This style feels rooted in HAES, body positivity, and disability justice. The holistic lens prioritizes emotions, narratives, self-talk, and other sign aspects that might influence eating or movement beyond traditional medical associations. Specific suggestions for eating, movement, and health challenges by sign and planet aren’t deterministic or culturally specific. Gallagher warns readers against considering ideas hard rules, and unlike astrology “cookbooks” encourages nuanced personal interpretation supported by a scaffold approach rooting the reader in simple, broadly applicable fundamentals.
Beginners can jump right into eating and moving seasonally and with moon phases before reading about specific zodiac signs. These cyclical practices emphasize a spiralic, non-linear sense of growth that is incredibly healing. Gallagher presents the sky as a mirror that affirms and uncovers embodied experience rather than dictating, contributing to an exciting trend of decentralizing astrological knowledge.
I’d advise readers to use notes and sketch a general personal health picture from what they read. There’s a lot here, tough to integrate out of context, and some information will be more relevant to reference when specific issues arise. Given how personal and interpretive this practice is, I wanted more case studies or hypotheticals to assist in synthesizing techniques. But I’d still recommend the book highly for newbies as well as astrologers who are curious about how familiar techniques relate to health.
[ARC provided through NetGalley.]
Contrast with Claire Gallagher’s Body Astrology, an accessible modern guide that opens up the discipline for beginners and astrologers alike. Gallagher’s approach centralizes simple techniques, empowering the reader and their body intuition while also emphasizing healing from harmful cultural diet/exercise stories.
This style feels rooted in HAES, body positivity, and disability justice. The holistic lens prioritizes emotions, narratives, self-talk, and other sign aspects that might influence eating or movement beyond traditional medical associations. Specific suggestions for eating, movement, and health challenges by sign and planet aren’t deterministic or culturally specific. Gallagher warns readers against considering ideas hard rules, and unlike astrology “cookbooks” encourages nuanced personal interpretation supported by a scaffold approach rooting the reader in simple, broadly applicable fundamentals.
Beginners can jump right into eating and moving seasonally and with moon phases before reading about specific zodiac signs. These cyclical practices emphasize a spiralic, non-linear sense of growth that is incredibly healing. Gallagher presents the sky as a mirror that affirms and uncovers embodied experience rather than dictating, contributing to an exciting trend of decentralizing astrological knowledge.
I’d advise readers to use notes and sketch a general personal health picture from what they read. There’s a lot here, tough to integrate out of context, and some information will be more relevant to reference when specific issues arise. Given how personal and interpretive this practice is, I wanted more case studies or hypotheticals to assist in synthesizing techniques. But I’d still recommend the book highly for newbies as well as astrologers who are curious about how familiar techniques relate to health.
[ARC provided through NetGalley.]
April 18, 2022
Honestly a fascinating book but over my head.
May 28, 2024
Bardziej slay niż się spodziewałam widzowie
March 30, 2023
I love how astrology is a language to unlock and describe everything within and without. It goes so deep, there's so much to learn.
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March 7, 2023i skimmed some parts of this and while i'd call myself an astrology-adjacent lady i'm not an astrology lady so i will refrain from a rating. western medicine is great at some things and absolute garbage at others and i think that this also applies to the helpful to benign alternative modalities. personally i think astrology is best used as a form of self reflection and using it to do that for your physical health is kind of cool. i'm not about to go get a chart with transits done to map this out myself but some of the stuff in this book hits (looking at the self reflection like 😠), the author isn't fatphobic which is not often the case in the alt wellness world, nothing i read was scientifically garbage, and honestly a lot of what she talks about boils down to being more in tune with your body, finding things that work for you that aren't the latest wellness fad, and breaking out of the mindset of treating yourself like a lil machine.
March 5, 2022
Super informative. This definitely isn’t a just look up your sign and read that. This is a read cover to cover and find out about it all. Really interesting read.
September 13, 2021
A great exploration into body astrology.
This is a really good beginner guide into body astrology. It's informative without being too much/overwhelming for someone just getting into the subject. Even if you have a basic understanding of astrology this is really easy to follow and interpret. Personally related to a lot of topics regarding Libra sun health and eating habits. I also read some excerpts to friends about their signs, and they confirmed a lot of the same information. Although not everything will be accurate to everyone, it's still an interesting and informative read.
I really liked the personal anecdotes Gallegher added about herself and her family, it made the book a little more personal than other astrology books I've read that comes across as more textbook-esc.
Slight trigger warning for ED talk and themes. If you're struggling this might not be for you because there are discussions of dieting, eating, and exercise habits. Nothing about weight. So I think if that's something you're worried about, read with caution. I didn't find any triggers for myself.
All in all, this is a better than average astrology guide. Even if this doesn't interest you, it still adds great points about different and healthy eating habits, as well as eating environments that we may not think of on a day to day.
Thank you to Netgally for providing me with this arc, these are my own thoughts and opinions.
This is a really good beginner guide into body astrology. It's informative without being too much/overwhelming for someone just getting into the subject. Even if you have a basic understanding of astrology this is really easy to follow and interpret. Personally related to a lot of topics regarding Libra sun health and eating habits. I also read some excerpts to friends about their signs, and they confirmed a lot of the same information. Although not everything will be accurate to everyone, it's still an interesting and informative read.
I really liked the personal anecdotes Gallegher added about herself and her family, it made the book a little more personal than other astrology books I've read that comes across as more textbook-esc.
Slight trigger warning for ED talk and themes. If you're struggling this might not be for you because there are discussions of dieting, eating, and exercise habits. Nothing about weight. So I think if that's something you're worried about, read with caution. I didn't find any triggers for myself.
All in all, this is a better than average astrology guide. Even if this doesn't interest you, it still adds great points about different and healthy eating habits, as well as eating environments that we may not think of on a day to day.
Thank you to Netgally for providing me with this arc, these are my own thoughts and opinions.
October 10, 2024
A book that I’ve picked up, adopted practices from and put down on and off through most of 2024. I anticipate this pattern continuing.
This book is chock full of information. Depending on your familiarity with your own chart and astrology, can be overwhelming.
Starting with the intro, decide what you’re looking to get out of the reading. And go from there.
My biggest takeaways were aligning my physical movement, mental health and nutritional practices with the lunar phases. This alone was worth the price of this book as this practice has transformed planning my workouts and how I’m feeling in the moment.
So much more to take from this book but highly recommend if you’re looking for similar answers.
This book is chock full of information. Depending on your familiarity with your own chart and astrology, can be overwhelming.
Starting with the intro, decide what you’re looking to get out of the reading. And go from there.
My biggest takeaways were aligning my physical movement, mental health and nutritional practices with the lunar phases. This alone was worth the price of this book as this practice has transformed planning my workouts and how I’m feeling in the moment.
So much more to take from this book but highly recommend if you’re looking for similar answers.
March 17, 2022
"Body Astrology", by Claire Gallagher Is a fascinating way to look at astrology as it relates to ones health. I have found the same theory in herbs with a persons different constitutions hot,dry,wet. I have gained so much from this book I had to buy a copy for future reference. The author has a wonderful teaching approach that anyone can learn from. I found the ideas in this book enhanced my self care by allowing me another aspect of monitoring my health and identifying and treating my body, my way. Excellent book! #BodyAstrology #NetGalley
January 30, 2022
So interesting!!
First, this book is just a gorgeous one to look at - pretty colors and great illustrations throughout.
The author has packed this book with information from her years of experience. I see this book having a permanent space on my shelves and being read multiple times as I practice "harnessing the power of the planets!"
First, this book is just a gorgeous one to look at - pretty colors and great illustrations throughout.
The author has packed this book with information from her years of experience. I see this book having a permanent space on my shelves and being read multiple times as I practice "harnessing the power of the planets!"
October 22, 2022
I have a fairly high degree of astrology knowledge, but this book was a little above my head. 5 stars nevertheless, it's not the book's fault! The author provides tips for starting slow and easing into it if the information seems like too much. This book is meant to be an encyclopedia, visited over and over again, which is how I'll use it. It's also a physically beautiful book to have out.
June 12, 2022
I'm surprised to see this book is not more popular! I really appreciated the kind, empathetic, judgement-free approach to caring for the body. I've noticed myself gravitating toward healthier food choices and more compassionate self-talk naturally and effortlessly.
January 3, 2024
Very interesting crossover between astrology and nutrition/fitness. I take all this with a grain of salt but as I've had lots of chronic digestive issues and pain, it is an interesting angle toward healing I may consider.
January 6, 2026
Nice
Made me understand why my sign has the certain types of health attributes and how to navigate through all irrespective of sign
Made me understand why my sign has the certain types of health attributes and how to navigate through all irrespective of sign
December 3, 2022
I think this book was very interesting. I don't know much about astrology, outside the basics. Taking the time to learn about how the star charts affect you body. Then learning how different foods at different times of years can help you body. I'll definitely introduce some of these things into my daily life.
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