Short Course in Medieval Astrology

These inexpensive books are readily available, and will give you a solid background allowing you to hold your own in astrological conversations:

1. A History of Horoscopic Astrology by James H. Holden (Tempe, AZ: American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1996)

2. The Houses: Temples of the Sky by Deborah Houlding (available free online here)

3. The Real Astrology by John Frawley (London: Apprentice Books, 2000)

4. The Beginning of Wisdom by Abraham Ibn Ezra, trans. Meira Epstein (ARHAT Publications, 1998)

5. Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy, trans. F.E. Robbins (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998)

6. The Judgments of Nativities by Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat, trans. James H. Holden (Tempe, AZ: American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1988)

7. The Morinus System of Horoscope Interpretation [Astrologia Gallica Book 21] by J.B. Morin, trans. Richard S. Baldwin (Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1974).