Astrology
Astrology: Your Celestial Blueprint
Explore the symbols of your birth, your inner patterns, and the choices that shape your path.
Astrology is one of the ways people have long reflected on timing, patterns, and the energy of a moment. I read it the way I read the cards, as a mirror and never as a sentence.
This is where I keep what the signs, the planets and the houses mean, from the older books and from astrology today. Take what speaks to you. Your choices are always yours.
Astrology is a symbolic and spiritual tradition. It is not a scientifically validated way to predict events or to describe a person.
- Free to readExplore AstrologyThe twelve signs, the planets, the twelve houses, and how a chart fits together.
- FreeDiscover My Birth ChartYour Sun, Moon and rising sign, the planets and the houses, from your birth date, time and place. Worked out on your own device, and never kept.
- Every morningDaily HoroscopeA short note for each sign, written fresh each day from the real sky.
The library
Each page has three parts: what the tradition says, how older astrology read it, and something to sit with.
The twelve signs
Your Sun sign comes from your birthday. Each sign has its element, its ruling planet and its tarot card.
- Aries21 March to 19 April
- Taurus20 April to 20 May
- Gemini21 May to 20 June
- Cancer21 June to 22 July
- Leo23 July to 22 August
- Virgo23 August to 22 September
- Libra23 September to 22 October
- Scorpio23 October to 21 November
- Sagittarius22 November to 21 December
- Capricorn22 December to 19 January
- Aquarius20 January to 18 February
- Pisces19 February to 20 March
The Sun, the Moon and the planets
The Sun, the Moon and eight planets. Each one is a different kind of energy in a chart.
- The Sunthe self and the life force
- The Moonfeelings, moods and home
- Mercurythinking and talk
- Venuslove, beauty and pleasure
- Marsdrive, courage and action
- Jupitergrowth, faith and good fortune
- Saturntime, discipline and lessons
- Uranuschange, freedom and the unexpected
- Neptunespirit, dreams and intuition
- Plutodeep change and rebirth
The twelve houses
The twelve areas of life a chart is divided into, from the self in the first house to what is hidden in the twelfth.
- First houseself and how you meet the world
- Second housemoney, belongings and what you value
- Third housetalk, learning, siblings and short trips
- Fourth househome, family and where you come from
- Fifth housejoy, romance, creativity and children
- Sixth housedaily work, routines and care of the body
- Seventh housepartners and one-to-one relationships
- Eighth housewhat is shared, inherited and let go
- Ninth housebeliefs, learning and long journeys
- Tenth housecalling, reputation and direction
- Eleventh housefriends, groups and hopes for later
- Twelfth houserest, solitude and what is hidden
How it fits together
How a chart is made, how the planets speak to each other, and what stays in your hands.
- Sun, Moon and risingThe three places to start, and why your birth time matters.
- How a chart is madeA map of the sky at one moment, and how the old astrologers drew it by hand.
- Aspects and putting a chart togetherHow the planets speak to each other, and how a reader weaves a chart into one picture.
- Retrograde planetsWhy planets seem to move backwards, and how astrologers read those times.
- The Moon's nodesTwo points in every chart that many astrologers read for the direction of growth.Optional
- Asking a question of the starsHorary astrology: a chart drawn for the moment a question is asked.Advanced
- Free will and destinyWhat the stars can show, and what stays in your hands.