Category: Guides

The most common complaint about astrology has three specific explanations, and all of them are visible in a full chart.

Twenty-nine and a half days, eight named points, and a long tradition of organising work around them. Here is what the cycle actually does.

Sign boundaries move by up to a day between years, so cusp birthdays are genuinely uncertain from a fixed table. What is not true is being two signs at once.

Traditional astrology treats the ruler of your rising sign as the most important body in the chart. Here is how to find yours and what it describes.

Every planet appears to reverse sometimes. Here is the astronomy behind it, how often each one does it, and what the tradition reads into the periods.

A chart wheel looks like a mess of symbols until you know what order to read it in. Here is a method that works from the outside in.

Ask which stone belongs to you and you will get several incompatible answers. Here is why, and what each of the three systems actually claims.

Fourteen sequences carry established readings. Here is what each one means, where the practice came from, and why the numbers you notice are mostly ones a clock can display.

Unlike a birth chart, your personal year changes every January. Here is how the nine-year numerology cycle works and what each year is traditionally for.