Lunastra

Learn Astrology

Astrology 101

How the motion of the sky becomes a chart, and how a chart is read, in eight short chapters.

  1. 1What is astrology?Everything in the solar system is always moving. Astrology describes our lives in the context of that motion.
  2. 2The birth chartA birth (natal) chart is a map of the sky at the exact time and place you were born.
  3. 3Sun, Moon and rising signYour Big Three: who you are at your core, what you need inside, and how you meet the world.
  4. 4The ten planetsEach planet is a part of you: how you think, love, act, grow and change.
  5. 5The twelve housesSigns say how; houses say where in life it plays out.
  6. 6House systemsThere are several ways to divide the sky into houses. We use Placidus.
  7. 7AspectsAspects are meaningful angles between planets: how the parts of you work together or pull apart.
  8. 8Transits and orbsTransits are aspects between where the planets are now and where they were when you were born.