Foundations
The free lesson track for reading your own birth chart, step by step.
What is a birth chart, and how do you read one?
What a birth chart records, the four layers on the wheel, the order you read them in, and the mistakes that send most beginner readings off the rails.
Go to lesson → Lesson 2Chart anatomy: angles, cusps and house systems
How a chart wheel is built, what the four angles mean, how cusps and house groups work, and what really changes when you switch to another house system.
Go to lesson → Lesson 3The planets in astrology, and what each one carries
The seven classical planets and the three modern ones, what each body means in a chart, how fast it crosses a sign, and which signs it rules in modern practice.
Go to lesson → Lesson 4The twelve zodiac signs and where they come from
Why the tropical zodiac starts at the equinox, how signs differ from constellations, what each of the twelve does, and why you have more than one sign.
Go to lesson → Lesson 5Houses in astrology: where a placement actually shows up
Houses show which part of life a planet works in. Learn all twelve areas, why the angular houses stand out, and what an empty house is actually doing.
Go to lesson → Lesson 6Aspects in astrology: what the five majors actually do
Conjunction, sextile, square, trine and opposition without the good and bad scoring, plus orbs, applying aspects and the two minor angles worth knowing.
Go to lesson → Lesson 7Elements and modalities: two different questions about a sign
Elements and modalities answer two separate questions about a sign. The four by three grid, how to count balance in a chart, and what a missing element means.
Go to lesson → Lesson 8Your first chart reading: six steps through one messy chart
A complete beginner reading walked through on one messy example chart, using six fixed steps from the ascendant and its ruler to a five sentence synthesis.
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