Learn or reinforce your knowledge of basic astrology with the astrological interpretations of nine stories created for this purpose in The Missing Moon by Noel Tyl. The Missing Moon blends humor and imagination with real astrology and astrological practice. The hero-astrologer of The Missing Moon, Michael Mercury, goes through a kind of "trial by exaggeration and misadventure" in the short stories contained in this book. Using comedy and humor, Tyl takes his hero through the horoscope as you improve your understanding of astrology-its measurements and analyses, its philosophic and humanistic challenges. Each one of the stories is presented as a mystery to be solved by our astrological detective. They include: The Case of the Missing Moon       How could there be no moon in the chart? The case of the Partile Personality       A chart with parts but no planets? The Case of the Thespian Mars       Can astrology solve a crime? The Case of the Plundered Plutonium       What did astrology have to do with the project to develop an atomic bomb? The Case of the Cut-Rate Prediction       How did the newspaper make the prediction about him? These are just a few of the delightful stories you will read in The Missing Moon. Each one will make you laugh or groan at the humor, jokes, and puns. But more importantly, each story will give you more insight into the very essence of astrology: understanding yourself and the world around you. At times intriguing and at other times delightfully rich in joy, The Missing Moon will allow you, for the first time, to share in the spirited adventure that is astrology with one of it's masters. The Missing Moon is must reading for anyone interested in astrology.