Learn to Read Your Own Chart

Most astrology you meet online hands you a conclusion. Your Moon sign means this. Your rising sign means that. The conclusions might even be reasonable and you still have no way of telling, because nobody showed you how the reading was arrived at.

This course goes the other way. It works through the pieces in the order they make sense, and it uses your own chart as the material, so by the end you can look at that circle of symbols and follow what it says without needing anyone to translate.

It teaches you to read your own chart rather than to practise on other people. That is a smaller target than becoming an astrologer and it is the one worth aiming at first. Twenty-seven lessons, published one at a time, in plain language throughout.

Nothing here costs anything and there is nothing to sign up for. New lessons appear on this page as they are written.

One · Getting your bearings

What you are actually looking at, before any interpretation starts.

1. 1What astrology looks at and what it cannot do
2. 2Your chart on screen
3. 3The sentence a chart makes

Two · The planets, the what

Seven old bodies and four recent ones, each with its own job.

1. 4The two lights: Sun and Moon
2. 5Mercury, Venus and Mars
3. 6Jupiter and Saturn
4. 7Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
5. 8Chiron and the lunar nodes

Three · The signs, the how

Where most of what people think they know turns out to be wrong.

1. 9Signs are not personalities
2. 10The four elements
3. 11The three modalities
4. 12The twelve signs as a grid
5. 13You can now read your Sun and your Moon

Four · The houses, the where

The ground everything lands on, and why the hour of birth decides it.

1. 14The horizon and the four angles
2. 15Houses 1 to 6: life turned inward
3. 16Houses 7 to 12: life turned toward others
4. 17The problem of the birth time
5. 18You can now read your big three in full

Five · The aspects, the conversation

Planets do not sit in isolation. This is how they talk to each other.

1. 19What an aspect is and what an orb is
2. 20The five major aspects
3. 21Aspects to your big three

Six · Reading for real

Where reciting a chart turns into reading one.

1. 22The three layers together
2. 23The ruler of your chart
3. 24When the chart contradicts itself
4. 25What a chart does not say

Seven · Time

The chart set in motion, which is where most people arrive with a question.

1. 26Transits and the long cycles
2. 27The solar return, your year ahead