How to read a chart — start here
The Birth Chart
What actually is a birth chart?
The Big Three
Why does everyone ask for your Sun, Moon, and Rising?
The Ascendant
What is your rising sign, really?
Midheaven & IC
Where does the chart show your public life — and your private one?
The Twelve Houses
What are the houses for?
The Lunar Nodes
What are the North and South Nodes?
Retrogrades
What does it mean when a planet is retrograde?
Aspects
What do the lines across the chart wheel mean?
Elements & Modalities
What do fire, earth, air, water — and cardinal, fixed, mutable — organize?
Sect — Day & Night Charts
Were you born by day or by night?
Transits
What is the difference between your chart and today's sky?
Synastry
How do two charts get compared?