Guides

Learn to read a chart

Five guides, one per idea, each worked through on a real chart with live numbers. No page per sign, no filler.

• The ascendantThe rising sign, explainedWhat the rising sign (ascendant) is, why it needs your birth time to the minute, and how it sets up the rest of your chart, with a worked example.
• The twelve housesAstrology houses: what each one means and how they're drawnWhat the twelve houses are, what each covers, and why Placidus, Whole sign, Equal and Porphyry give different cusps, shown on one real chart.
• AspectsAspects in astrology: conjunctions, squares, trines and moreWhat aspects are, how orbs work, and how to read the five major ones, with the aspects in today's sky worked out live.
• The lunar nodesThe North Node and South Node, explainedWhat the lunar nodes are astronomically, what astrologers read into them, the true node versus the mean node, and where the node is right now.
• RetrogradesRetrograde planets: what's really happening and what it meansWhy planets appear to move backwards, how often each one does it, what a retrograde planet in your birth chart means, and every retrograde in the next year.