Choose the Natal Reading for an in-depth look at your innate potentials -- both positive and negative. Learn to understand better the tools you were given to use, misuse, not use or abuse. This is a very revealing analysis (not unlike a professional psychological evaluation -- just much faster and far less expensive) of the 'real' you, and covers the major aspects of your total-lifetime indicators, including but not limited to: [1] your personality/'outer self' [2] money (finances) and priorities [3] mental potential, education, communication skills [4] family and security [5] offspring of the mind (originality/skills) and body (children), talents, creative potential [6] work, job, health potential [7] marriage and partnership prospects [8] motivations, sexuality and desire motivation [9] higher education, intuition, and travel [10] career choices, recognition and honors [11] social life and friends, plans [12] limitations, weaknesses, and hidden talents.
Free will is an actuality, but there are limits; for example, banana trees never produce coconuts. Knowing your type of "tree" can help you grow better 'bananas,' and not be unduly frustrated that you can never seem to grow 'coconuts.'
12-Month Trends/Update (Forecast-Cycles) is a study, based on your unique birth chart (horoscope), which provides what might be called a "roadmap" of your updated evolulution (growth) to date and the potentials ahead for the coming twelve months. It offers a timetable which outlines the probabilities, potentials and possible "bumps" in the road ahead. This is not fortune-telling any more than telling you a shorter or better route to your desired destination, or informing you there is a stop sign at the next intersection would be predicting your actions or your future.
Ordering Both (Natal and Trends) at the same time is the ideal choice both from a self-understanding (informational) and cost standpoint. Especially wise if you have never had anything but a "disjointed" computer-read "personalized horoscope"; nor your natal/birth chart (horoscope) delineated (read) by a real consultant astrologer. (Or even if you have had it done by an astrologer you may find a "second opinion" helpful -- as well as additionally enlightening.) [Computer-read horoscopes/reports can provide only some of the numerous pieces and cannot possibly sythesize -- put all the many pieces together -- to give valuable information you can understand, and more importantly, actually use to your positive advantage now and in the future.]