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The planetary sky is an ever-changing kaleidoscope of patterns, each pattern endlessly segueing into the next. And there is not only a single pattern in the sky above at one time; there can be many StarTypes present at once.

However, there usually is one StarType pattern that can be said to be the “key” pattern for any birth chart, and certainly we can place any nativity into one of the four relationship families, “The Lover,” “The Loved One, “Independent,” and “Multi-Relational.”

In the pages that follow are the sixty main StarTypes, listed one by one, with a fair amount of interpretation. I encourage those of you who work with StarTypes to build your own StarType vocabulary and come up with your own way of seeing and interpreting these great celestial patterns. I share my own thoughts here just be to get you started and don’t claim that my interpretations are in any way definitive. They are just as far as I have gotten at this point.

And these StarType patterns are not in any logical order. Some of the more common ones are listed first, but that is an artifact of my personal use of them. They are numbered here only so that you can find them easily, as StarTypes are mentioned by number elsewhere in this text.

The same is true for the names I have given them and the tarot-like graphic cards, some of which are pure whimsy on my part. This also can be said for the text-based symbolic images for the cards. This are poetic images that came into my mind when I meditated on each StarType pattern. I was not in a state of rapture, but just relaxed and using free association. They may or may not be of any value whatsoever.

Each of the graphic cards includes an AstroImage designed by myself, followed by several blocks of text that I hope will be helpful in introducing you to the various StarTypes. There are usually some introductory remarks, followed by comments and suggestions about relationship compatibility and what-not. There are even a few keywords thrown in to help things along.

Again, all of this is what has come out of my personal research with StarTypes for the last thirty years or so. In my experience, I found that astrologers as a rule only know a few of these patterns, and my names for these patterns meant nothing to them. It was not until I decided to create the AstroImage cards that communicating about StarTypes became easier.

The tarot-like Astro*Image cards are easy to grasp and remember, so they have been a great help in getting these concepts into the hands of more astrologers and just people in general. I could only hope that you will learn as much about yourself through these StarTypes as I have. They literally have changed my life.