Learn Astrology
Plain guides to Western astrology, written to be used with your own chart open. Start with the basics, then read how a birth chart is put together, then look up each planet, house and aspect as you meet it in your chart.
Start here
Two guides cover the whole system before the detail.
Planets
What each of the ten planets means, how long it spends in a sign, and its sign and house placements.
Houses
The twelve areas of life a chart is divided into, and what planets do in each.
Aspects
The angles between planets, and what each says about how two parts of a chart get on.
Signs
Full profiles of the twelve zodiac signs, with dates, element, modality and ruling planet.
Timing and relationships
How the moving sky meets your chart, why planets go retrograde, and how two charts are compared.
Find your own placements
Every calculator casts your chart from the real sky and explains the result.
Find yours
Cast your chart first, then read the guides with it open. Free birth chart
Read today's sky against your own chart
Everything on this page applies to your chart in a particular way. A Precision Horoscope casts your chart, finds today's transits to it and writes the reading for you. The first one is free. Get my free personal reading