Portraits of Personality: How the Cycles of Nature Shape Your Character & Appearance (Physical Traits of Zodiac Signs)

William Schreib's "Portraits of Personality" features collages of over 1000 facial photos--to illustrate the Sun signs, Moon signs and Rising signs of 235 celebrities! This collection of photos, illustrations and insightful observations provides a comprehensive overview--one that serves every astrologer (as well as any newbie enthusiast) who desires to discover the wonders of astrology.
This book demonstrates how astrology's modalities and elements shape each sign's character, physiognomy and body language--and how the placement of certain planets often indicates each celebrity inherited creative talents.
The book's cross-index also enables readers to examine how the different decants and the placement of planets alter the expected nature of the signs. Several of these portraits also demonstrate the effects of progressions and how a person's appearance changes over time.
This book (in a fun and creative way) provides visual proof that astrology works--as it shows its readers how to recognize their own bio-physical connection to the cycles of the seasons and the planets.

REVIEW from Russ von Ohlhausen, Publications Editor, ORGANIZATION FOR PROFESSIONAL ASTROLOGERS
“For anyone who is looking into exploring astrology in a ‘new’ way, William Schreib has created a great primer (and a comprehensive overview) for comparing the physical attributes of the Sun signs. With his keen eye, Schreib serves every astrologer (as well as any astrological enthusiast) who wishes to start their own journey into astro-facial reading.
Schreib’s new book, along with his first two works in this area (Dance of the Zodiac and Personalities of the Zodiac) are my favorite works for introducing astrologers (and skeptical curiosity seekers) to this fascinating field. This is not some book of regurgitated second-hand knowledge, rather it features Schreib’s personal observations—those relayed in his captured characterizations and archetypal photographs.
For decades, William has held the torch for astrological physiognomy in a creative and fun way—in order to bridge the gap and illustrate this bio-physical connection to the planets. This work will likely resurface as a missing part of the astrological and scientific dialogue in the years to come.”

Review from Chris Lorenz, DELL HOROSCOPE MAGAZINE
,,,, William Schreib has been writing about how these celestial influences shape character and appearance since 1996 in his Celebrity Snapshots column for Dell Horoscope.
.... Portraits of Personality is a collection of Schreib’s astrological insights, made from his columns and organized in a way that compares and contrasts the various influences. The attributes of 235 celebrities help us understand how the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant manifest their influences in people we already know and appreciate. In this way, you may generalize about certain traits that are associated with a particular Sun-Sign and also recognize the variations that occur with a contrasting Moon or Ascendant.
....The material is arranged in twelve chapters, one for each Sun-Sign. To underscore the attributes associated with a sign, the author presents celebrities that have the same Moon Sign or Rising Sign (Ascendant) as their Sun-Sign. These doubled influences assure us that the qualities associated with that sign come through clearly. Arrays of photos of a particular celebrity in various moods help discern the underlying astrological influences.

Review from Wade Hyde. METROPOLITAN ATLANTA ASTROLOGICAL SOCIETY
“Portraits of Personality” is a valuable resource guide for teaching and giving lectures on astrology, as it illustrates how the modalities and elements shape the personality through the three most important points in the horoscope: the Ascendant , Sun and the Moon. The use of well known celebrities allows the student of astrology to instantly recognize how all these aspects work together to create the personality.