Forecasting
A free astrology course for reading your own birth chart, lesson by lesson, no signup needed.
Reading transits: the moving sky against a fixed chart
How transits actually work, why planetary speed sets the scale, how tight to keep the orbs, and why a slow transit touches the same natal degree three times.
Go to lesson → Lesson 2Retrograde periods: shadows, cycles and what the technique claims
Mercury shadow weeks, the rarer Venus and Mars retrogrades, why outer planets are retrograde a third of the year, and how natal retrograde differs from a transit period.
Go to lesson → Lesson 3Lunations: reading the New Moon and Full Moon cycle
The 29.5 day synodic cycle, the eight phases and their working character, and how to read which natal house a New Moon or Full Moon lands in.
Go to lesson → Lesson 4Eclipses: lunations near the nodes, and how to read them
Why eclipses need the lunar nodes, how close a lunation has to fall, the six month season rhythm, and reading an eclipse across a natal house axis without fear language.
Go to lesson → Lesson 5Secondary progressions: one day of sky for one year of life
How the day-for-a-year substitution works, what the progressed Moon and progressed Sun actually measure, and how the progressed lunation cycle is dated.
Go to lesson → Lesson 6The solar return: reading the chart for your year
How to read a solar return chart, what its Ascendant and loaded houses show, why astrologers disagree about the location, and how it sits over the natal chart.
Go to lesson → Lesson 7Solar arc: advancing the whole chart by one number
Solar arc directions worked through with real arithmetic, why the arc runs close to your age, how tight the orbs are, and how it differs from secondary progressions.
Go to lesson → Lesson 8Rectification: solving for a birth time instead of guessing one
What an uncertain birth time costs a chart, how event-based rectification narrows the range, why appearance is a weak clue, and when to leave a time unsolved.
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