The astrology library
Astrology articles
Practical articles to help you read your own chart, from your first look at the houses to the cycles shaping your life right now.
New to astrology?
Start here
Four articles that give you the foundations. Read them in order and the rest of the library will make much more sense.
Astrology for Beginners: How to Read a Birth Chart
Your first walk through a chart: planets, signs, houses and how they fit together.
Read the article 02Your Sun, Moon and Rising Sign
The three placements that say the most about you, and how they work together.
Read the article 03The 12 Houses in Astrology
The twelve areas of life your chart describes, from self to career to karma.
Read the article 04The Four Elements in Astrology
Fire, earth, air and water: the simplest way to see the balance of a chart.
Read the articleThe essentials
Your Big Three and chart angles
Your Sun, Moon and rising sign, plus the two points that shape how you meet the world and where you are heading.
Where life happens
The 12 houses
Each house describes an area of your life. Find the houses your planets fall in, then start with those.
The zodiac
The 12 signs
Read the sign of your Sun, Moon and rising sign, then the signs your other planets are in.
The planets
In your chart and in transit
“In your chart” explains what a planet means in your birth chart. “In transit” explains what happens as it moves through your chart now.
Going deeper
Placements in depth
How a chart fits together
Building blocks and patterns
Life cycles
Timing and life cycles
Your birth chart shows the patterns. Progressions and transits show when they come alive.
Progressed Moon in the Houses
Your emotional life moves through a new house roughly every two and a half years.
Read the article ♄︎The planets in transit
From quick Mercury to slow Pluto: what each planet brings as it moves through your chart.
See the transit articles 2026The astrology of this year
The big cycles shaping 2026, and a look ahead to 2027.
Explore current astrology
Your soul’s path
Karma and the nodes
What you bring with you, what feels familiar, and what you are here to grow beyond.
Work, money and direction
Career astrology
Your Midheaven, your 10th, 6th and 2nd houses: the parts of your chart that describe your work, your working conditions and how you earn.
When you are ready to look at your own chart, these readings bring it all together.
Read along with your own chart
Don’t know your placements yet?
Use my free birth chart tool to find your rising sign, houses and planets. You’ll need your date, time and place of birth.
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