Star Child: Joyful Parenting Through Astrology - Paperback

by Briana Saussy (Author)

Help your child make the most of their unique gifts, challenges, and potentials with a guide to parenting by the stars.

What stories do the stars tell about our children? Every person alive is born under a particular snapshot of the celestial relationships occurring at the time of their birth. This picture--known as a natal chart--offers a powerful tool for insight into your children's strengths, struggles, hopes, and dreams.

In Star Child, Briana Saussy presents the first comprehensive guide for using Astrology to better understand your children--and becoming more joyful and effective parents as a result.

A renowned astrologer and teacher, and a mother of two herself, Saussy brings substantial expertise, humor, and wisdom to this engaging guide. Highlights include:

- An excellent overview of astrology basics--easily understand houses, planets, and other important elements
- Simple-to-follow instructions for reading a natal chart, so you can go beyond sun signs into deeper understanding of your child's unique traits
- Explore the characteristics of each sign--plus gain specific insights on friendship and play, academics, health, creativity, discipline, how best to connect, and more
- What to actually do with all this information--Picky eater? Stubborn? Take a look at your child's second house for clues ...
- Masterfully told fairy tales, legends, and myths from cultures around the world, providing archetypal maps for the signs of the zodiac
- Engaging rituals and activities for connecting with your children, as well as inner-child rituals for adults
- Connect with the cosmos to create more knowledgeable, joyful, and nurturing relationships with your children

Far from putting kids into boxes based on their signs, Star Child instead invites us to recognize where the zodiac's archetypes live within each of us, honor these differences, and joyfully raise our children by the stars.

Author Biography

Briana Saussy
Briana Saussy is a writer, teacher, spiritual counselor, and ritualist dedicated to the restoration and remembering of the Sacred Arts. She combines a practical and creative approach to spirituality that includes the riches of the perennial world religions, the contributions of modern psychology to the search for meaning, and the often overlooked bodies of wisdom contained in folk magic, divination, and storytelling practices. Briana studied Eastern and Western classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science at St. John's College (Annapolis and Santa Fe), and is a student of ancient Greek and Sanskrit.

Briana comes from a diverse lineage of South Texans whose ethnic heritage includes Scotch-Irish, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Mexican, and Jewish roots, and who have informed her own direct experience with survivals of fragmented folk magic and storytelling traditions. She lives in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, with her husband and two sons, as well as various furred, finned, and feathered friends. For more, visit brianasaussy.com.