cover image This Is Your Destiny: Using Astrology to Manifest Your Best Life

This Is Your Destiny: Using Astrology to Manifest Your Best Life

Aliza Kelly. St. Martins Essentials, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-2507-6314-3

Astrologer Kelly (Starring You) explains how astrology can inform manifestation techniques (the idea that imagining one’s future can create the changes one seeks) in this easy-to-follow guide on how to align one’s future with the cosmos. Kelly breaks down her advice into sections addressing aspects of one’s life—such as identity, money, community, love, career, and spirituality. Each chapter begins with a mix of Kelly’s personal anecdotes and stories from her clients, and ends with manifestations pertaining to the topic at hand: one from the internal (“astral”) world and another from the external (physical) world. For Kelly, the astral plane is “the non-material dimension that exists adjacent to our physical world. The physical world, by contrast, is defined by sensory reality.” Stressing that “there are no coincidences” in life and that everything is a “daily reminder that we’re all aligned on a spiritual level,” Kelly explains how understanding one’s birth chart and future star alignments can connect readers to both physical and astral planes. While those new to the topic might want more exploration grounded in the history and mechanics of astrological systems, those already convinced of celestial powers should take a look. (Sept.)