Guides
Guides to your chart.
Six topic hubs, each gathering the terms, the free tools and the reads for one corner of astrology: your rising sign, the big three, transits, the Moon and eclipses, compatibility, and the zodiac itself. Start wherever you are curious.
Rising sign
Your rising sign, or ascendant, is the zodiac sign that was climbing the eastern horizon at the minute you were born. It sets the frame of your whole chart: where your houses begin, and the first impression you make before you say a word. This guide gathers the terms, the tools and the reading that explain it.
The big three
Your big three are your Sun sign, your Moon sign and your rising sign: the three placements astrologers reach for first. Together they give a fuller sketch than the Sun alone, who you are, how you feel and how you come across. This guide gathers the terms, the tools and the reading behind them, and the larger shapes a chart can make.
Transits
A transit is the living sky touching your fixed birth chart: where a planet is right now, and the angle it makes to a point you were born with. Transits are how astrology moves day to day, marking seasons of review, pressure and opportunity. This guide gathers the terms, the tools and the reading that explain how the moving sky is read, without fear.
Moon phases and eclipses
The Moon is the fastest body in the sky, and its rhythm is the easiest to feel: it waxes and wanes over about twenty-nine and a half days, and twice a year, near the lunar nodes, that rhythm sharpens into eclipses. This guide gathers the phases, the new and full moons, the nodes and the eclipses, with the terms, tools and reading that explain them.
Compatibility and synastry
Astrological compatibility is not about matching two sun signs. It is read from two whole charts: synastry, the aspects between one person's planets and the other's, and the composite, a single chart for the relationship itself. This guide gathers the terms, the tool and the reading that explain how two charts are compared, as a mirror rather than a verdict.
The zodiac
Strip away the mythology and the zodiac is a piece of geometry: a band of sky centered on the Sun's yearly path, divided into twelve equal signs of thirty degrees each. This guide gathers what the zodiac is, how the signs are sorted into elements and modes, how the planets move through them, and the real astronomy the whole system is built on.