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How to Read a Birth Chart

The four layers of a chart, planets, signs, houses, and aspects, and how they combine.

The Zodiac Signs: Elements and Modalities

Why there are twelve signs, and the two grids (element and modality) that organize them.

The Planets: Personal, Social, and Outer

Why some planets describe you personally and others describe your whole generation.

The Twelve Houses

The wheel of life areas a planet's energy gets channeled into.

Aspects: How Planets Talk to Each Other

What an aspect actually is, the major aspects, and what 'orb' means.

Chart Patterns: Grand Trines, T-Squares, and More

The major shapes a chart can form — Grand Trine, T-Square, Grand Cross, Yod, and Stellium — plus what a stellium means in each of the twelve signs.