1Joni Patry is an internationally renowned astrologer and the Founder and Director of the Galactic Center and is the highest level certified Vedic astrologer. Joni is a contemporary Vedic astrologer who also looks to the outer planets for predictive guidance. In this instructional book she explains how to use all the astrological information for the most accurate predictions. This is a comprehensive, foundational book on Vedic astrology. The encyclopedic compilation is comprised of four parts, eight chapters, and Joni's remarkably fluid, easy-going style makes the read go quite quickly. Her extensive use of sensational public personages, like Oprah Winfrey, quickly draw the reader in to begin applying the foundation predictive principles she teaches in the book.