Countless others have to undergo sickness and sometimes surgery that might be avoided if they knew far enough in advance that a given disease might strike at a certain time in their lives, and could take proper steps to prevent it.

Can the ancient wisdom of astrology provide an early-warning system that will enable you to prepare for such attacks?

Omar V. Garrison, author of this important new book on a long-neglected phase of star science, believes that it can. In the forward he notes that one of medical astrology's chief aims is to prevent the occurrences of ill health by identifying inherent physical weaknesses in the birth chart and determining the periods of life when one will be subject to discordant planetary influences that could trigger these potential disorders.

Here for the first time in one compact volume, you will find the answers to such vital questions as:

• When is the safest time for me to have surgery, if it is absolutely necessary?
• Does my horoscope indicate a predisposition to such serious maladies as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, eye troubles, obesity, and so on?
• If I am a woman with certain stellar patterns in my chart, will I be running a risk of serious complications if I take the Pill?
• What are the foods, vitamins, and minerals needed by persons of my zodiacal sign to maintain good health and vigor for daily living?
• What kind of person does my personality profile reveal? Have I got sex appeal? What are my chances for emotional fulfillment, a happy marriage, cultural achievement?

Of particular interest are the yogic breathing exercises appropriate to each sign of the zodiac. Mr. Garrison, who has studied yoga in India, has developed these simple and safe techniques to enable you to direct the energizing solar energy called prana to the part of your body where it is most needed.

In easy-to-understand language, the author presents a full explanation of the basic theories underlying medical astrology, and tells the reader how he can put that knowledge to work for himself.

A special section is devoted to the pathogenic influences of each planet when it is adversely aspected in a given Sun sign at the time of the birth.

In the final chapter, the reader will find the star patterns and planetary configurations corresponding to each of the most common diseases that afflict mankind.

The experienced astrologer, as well as a novice in the art, will find this book an inexhaustible mine of help and information not available elsewhere in the literature of astrology.