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abu ma'shar Ninth-century Persian astrologer whose synthesis shaped everything that followed in the west. seed adam elenbaas Founder of Nightlight Astrology, and my own teacher. Traditional technique, modern heart. seed air Hot and wet. Mind, relation, and the space between things. seed alan white Astrologer and teacher. Notes to come. I want to get this one right rather than fast. seed alexandria Where Greek philosophy, Egyptian temple practice and Mesopotamian omen-lore collided. seed the angles Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, IC. The four pivots the chart turns on. seed angular, succedent, cadent The three grades of house strength, and why a planet on an angle shouts. seed animism The older assumption underneath astrology: that the world is alive and can be addressed, not just measured. seed annual profections One sign per year of life. The simplest of the Hellenistic timing techniques, and the best first one. seed antiochus of athens The source of the aspect doctrine and the conditions of bonification and maltreatment. seed applying and separating Whether an aspect is still forming or already past. Timing lives here. seed ascendant The exact degree coming over the eastern horizon at birth. Rising is the sign it falls in; this is the point itself. seed ascensional times Some signs take longer to rise than others. Ancient timing techniques are built on the difference. seed aspects The five ways two planets can see each other across a chart. seed the asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta and thousands more. Modern, optional, and popular. growing astro.com Astrodienst. Free accurate charts, and the reference most people can actually reach. seed astrocartography The chart mapped onto the globe. Where your planets are angular, geographically. seed astrology as divination Reading the sky as a sign rather than a cause. The older of the two explanations. seed an astrology of causes The competing model: the planets physically act on the world. Ptolemy's position. seed austin coppock Traditional astrologer and writer, known for work on the decans. seed aversion Two signs that cannot see each other. The absence of aspect is itself information. seed balbillus Thrasyllus' son, court astrologer to three emperors, and a source for early timing techniques. seed benefics and malefics Jupiter and Venus help. Mars and Saturn cut. Neither is a verdict. seed benjamin dykes Translator of an enormous body of medieval Latin and Arabic astrology. seed berossus The Babylonian priest who set up a school on Kos and carried Babylonian astrology west. seed the big three The three placements almost everyone knows. What each one is actually doing, and why these three and not others. seed rectification Working backwards from events to find an unknown birth time. Slow, and worth it. seed bonification The conditions under which a benefic genuinely helps a planet. Part 2 material. seed the bounds Unequal subdivisions of each sign, each with a planetary ruler. Egyptian bounds are the standard set. seed cardinal The start of a season. The sign of initiation, the one that opens. seed cazimi A planet in the heart of the Sun. The narrow band where invisibility becomes privilege. seed the celestial equator Earth's equator projected onto the sky. The other great circle, and where declination is measured from. seed the celestial sphere The sky as a globe around the earth. The model every chart is drawn from. seed the chaldean order Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. Slowest to fastest, and the reason for the days of the week. seed chani nicholas Astrologer and writer whose horoscopes reach an enormous audience. Not my lineage, but probably how a lot of people arrive here. seed the chart ruler The planet that rules your rising sign. If one planet gets the first word, it is this one. seed chinese astrology A separate system entirely, with twelve animals, five elements, and a sixty-year cycle. seed chiron Discovered in 1977 and adopted fast. The wound, the teacher, or a small icy body, depending who you ask. seed chris brennan Astrologer whose 2017 book is the standard modern reference for Hellenistic practice. seed combustion Close enough to the Sun to be burned by it. The harmful end of invisibility. seed the composite chart One chart built from the midpoints of two. The relationship as its own entity. seed the conjunction Two planets in the same place. The loudest aspect, and the first one to learn. seed cosmobiology Reinhold Ebertin's stripped-down method: midpoints and hard aspects, no houses. seed critodemus Early and shadowy figure associated with some of the oldest timing material. seed dane rudhyar The root of humanistic astrology, and the figure who turned the chart into a psychological map. seed dashas Vedic planetary periods. A time-lord system running in parallel to the Hellenistic ones. seed the decans Thirty-six ten-degree divisions, Egyptian in origin and older than the zodiac itself. seed declination and parallels Distance north or south of the celestial equator. A whole second aspect grid. seed demetra george Astrologer and translator; one of the central figures in the modern Hellenistic revival. seed derived houses Counting a new first house from any place, to read one topic from another's point of view. seed astrological determinism Four positions on how much is fixed, and why practitioners have never agreed. seed detriment and fall A planet in the sign opposite its home or its exaltation. Working uphill. seed essential dignity How well a planet is placed in the sign it is in. The oldest scoring system in astrology, and the one most often misread. growing dispositor Follow the ruler, then follow ITS ruler. The chain that ends somewhere. seed domicile A planet in the sign it rules. The home team on its home field, and the cleanest form of dignity. seed dorian gieseler greenbaum Scholar and translator; her work on the Lots and on daimon is foundational. seed dorotheus of sidon First-century poet-astrologer whose Carmen is the backbone of the practical tradition. seed earth The place the chart is drawn FROM, not a planet in it. Everything you read is the view from here. growing eclipses Lunations at the nodes. The tradition treats them as a different order of event. seed the ecliptic The Sun's apparent path. The line the whole zodiac is measured along. seed egyptian astrology The decans, the temple zodiacs, and the other half of the Hellenistic inheritance. seed electional astrology Choosing a moment to begin something, by picking a favourable chart for it. seed the electional reading Picking a good moment for something that matters. Weddings, launches, signings. seed enclosure A planet hemmed in on both sides. Who is doing the hemming decides whether it helps. seed the ephemeris The table of where the planets are. Everything else is built on top of it. seed essential and accidental dignity Two different questions: is the planet well placed by sign, and is it well placed by everything else. seed the ethics of astrology What you owe someone whose chart you are reading. The debate is old, unsettled, and worth having out loud. seed evolutionary astrology Reads the chart as the record of a soul's trajectory. Nodes and Pluto do the heavy lifting. seed exaltation A planet honoured as a guest. Strong but not at home, and the difference matters. seed fate and fortune The question underneath the whole practice: if the chart shows something, is it fixed? seed financial astrology Markets, cycles, and the branch that gets taken seriously by people who take nothing seriously. seed fire Hot and dry. Spirit, drive, and the thing that moves before it is asked. seed firmicus maternus The fourth-century Latin compiler who preserved a great deal that would otherwise be lost. seed fixed The middle of a season. The sign of duration, the one that holds. seed fixed stars The named stars behind the zodiac. Older than the signs, and still used. growing good and bad places The tradition ranked the twelve houses. Some are advantageous, some are not. seed harmonics Dividing the circle by any number and reading what appears. A modern research method. seed hellenistic astrology The Greek-language tradition, roughly 100 BCE to 600 CE. The source this site reads from. seed hephaestio of thebes Fifth-century compiler who quotes Dorotheus and Ptolemy at length, and often our only access to them. seed hermes trismegistus The legendary author Hellenistic astrology credits with its founding texts. seed horary astrology Answering a question from the chart of the moment it was asked. seed the horary revival The late-twentieth-century return of question-charts, largely from William Lilly's text. seed the houses Twelve topics. The chart's answer to WHERE a thing happens in a life. seed houses versus signs Signs are where a planet is. Houses are what part of life it acts on. The single most common beginner mix-up. seed hypatia Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher, and the reason to ask who else was practising. seed indicators, not causes The chart describes. It does not dictate. This is the ethic the whole site runs on. seed james holden Prolific translator whose editions made many primary texts available in English. seed jeff green The other founding voice of evolutionary astrology, with a Pluto-centred method. seed john frawley Traditional astrologer and teacher, associated with the modern horary revival. seed kelly surtees Traditional astrologer and teacher, and a frequent voice on the podcast circuit. seed kepler college The degree program that taught a generation to take the history of astrology seriously. seed lilith Black Moon Lilith. A calculated point, several competing definitions, and a lot of feeling. seed liz greene Jungian analyst and astrologer; the most influential voice in psychological astrology. seed lord of the year The planet ruling the profected sign. For twelve months, it runs the show. seed the lot of fortune The most-used lot, covering body, health and livelihood. It's also the anchor of several timing techniques. seed the lot of spirit Fortune's counterpart. Mind, action, career, and what a person does deliberately. seed the lunar nodes Where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's. Eclipses happen here. seed lunations New moons and full moons. The month's basic rhythm. seed maltreatment The conditions under which a malefic genuinely damages a planet. Part 2 material. seed marcus manilius First-century Latin poet whose Astronomica is the earliest surviving complete treatment. seed masculine and feminine A binary Hellenistic astrology applies to planets and signs alike. What it meant then, and how to read it now. seed masha'allah Eighth-century Persian Jewish astrologer, central to the transmission into Arabic. seed mayan astrology The Tzolk'in calendar and its day-signs. Mesoamerican, and not derived from the old world at all. seed medieval astrology The Persian, Arabic and Latin centuries between the Hellenistic tradition and the modern one. seed zodiacal melothesia The body mapped onto the zodiac, Aries at the head and Pisces at the feet. seed mercury retrograde The one piece of astrology everybody has heard of. What it actually is, and what it is not. seed mesopotamian astrology Where it starts. Omens, the earliest birth charts, and a sky read as a message. seed the midheaven The highest point. Career, reputation, and the part of life that is publicly visible. seed midpoints The halfway point between two planets, treated as a sensitive spot. seed modern psychological astrology The twentieth-century branch that reads the chart as a map of the psyche. Where most people start. seed morning star and evening star Whether a planet rises before the Sun or sets after it, and why Hellenistic astrology cared. seed mundane astrology The astrology of nations, weather and collective events rather than individuals. seed mutable The end of a season. The sign of transition, the one that turns into the next thing. seed the nakshatras Twenty-seven lunar mansions. The layer of Vedic astrology with no western equivalent. seed natal astrology The branch that reads a birth chart. What this site and the course are about. seed you are here: the natal chart The sky drawn from the spot you were born on. You’re in the middle, facing south, and east is on the left. growing the natal reading Your birth chart, read whole. The foundation everything else builds on. seed nechepso and petosiris The pseudonymous king and priest behind the oldest layer of the technical material. seed nightlight astrology The school I trained through. Hellenistic foundation, taught for people who want to read their own chart. seed obliquity of the ecliptic The tilt between the ecliptic and the equator. It causes the seasons, and the signs' unequal rising times. seed olympiodorus Sixth-century Alexandrian philosopher whose lectures on Paulus survive as a commentary. seed the opposition Two planets across the chart from each other. Facing off, and aware of it. seed overcoming The planet in the superior position wins the exchange. Position, not just distance. seed paulus of alexandria Fourth-century author of a compact introduction that became a standard teaching text. seed planetary hours Each hour of the day ruled by a planet, in the Chaldean order. Ancient, practical, and easy to use. seed the joys of the planets Each planet has a house it's glad to be in, and the joys explain where the house meanings came from. seed planetary speed and stations Fast, slow, stationary. A planet's speed is part of its condition. seed porphyry of tyre Neoplatonist philosopher whose Introduction preserves a great deal of Antiochus. seed precession of the equinoxes The slow wobble that pulled the tropical and sidereal zodiacs apart. seed primary motion The whole sky turning east to west once a day. This is what moves the ascendant, and why birth time matters. seed secondary progressions A day for a year. The chart moved forward symbolically rather than actually. seed project hindsight The 1990s translation project that put Hellenistic astrology back in practitioners' hands. seed claudius ptolemy The most famous name in ancient astrology, and the least representative of it. seed quadrant house systems Placidus, Koch, and the rest. What they do differently, and why this site does not use them. seed types of reading What you can actually book, and which one fits the question you are bringing. seed reception When a planet sits in a place another planet rules, the ruler is disposed to help it. seed relocation charts Recasting a birth chart for somewhere you have moved to. Same moment, different horizon. seed retrograde A planet appearing to move backward. What it actually is, and what it is not. seed rhetorius of egypt The last of the Hellenistic authors, and a crucial summariser of everything before him. seed richard tarnas Cultural historian whose Cosmos and Psyche argues the case for archetypal cosmology. seed the rising sign The sign coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The front door. ripe robert hand One of the three founders of Project Hindsight, and the editor behind much of the translated corpus. seed robert schmidt The translator whose work made the Hellenistic corpus readable in English. seed robert zoller The third of the Project Hindsight founders; focused on the Latin and medieval material. seed rodden ratings How reliable is that birth time? AA to DD, and why it matters more than people think. seed ruler of the ascendant The chart ruler, given its Hellenistic name and its full job description. seed rulership Every sign has a planet in charge of it. Following that planet is the oldest move in the book. seed secondary motion The planets' own slower drift west to east through the signs. This is what a transit is made of. seed sect Day chart or night chart. One line splits every birth chart in the world into two piles. ripe the sect light The Sun by day, the Moon by night. The single most important body in the chart. seed serapio of alexandria Author of a surviving set of definitions of the configurations. seed the seven traditional planets Everything visible to the naked eye. The complete cast of Hellenistic astrology. seed the sextile Sixty degrees. Cooperation that has to be taken up rather than given. seed sidereal time Time measured against the stars rather than the sun. What a chart is actually calculated from. seed the sidereal zodiac Measured against the fixed stars rather than the seasons. The other answer to where Aries starts. seed sign-based aspects Aspects counted whole sign to whole sign, before degrees enter the picture. seed solar arc directions Every point advanced by the Sun's yearly motion. Blunt, and often uncannily exact. seed solar fire The chart software I use. Every date and position on this site comes out of it. seed solar returns The chart for the moment the Sun returns to its natal degree. One year at a time. seed the birthday reading The chart for your solar return. A year read from the moment the Sun comes home. seed the square Ninety degrees. Friction between signs that share nothing. seed stephen arroyo Writer whose books on the elements and on chart interpretation shaped a generation of readers. seed steven forrest Astrologer and teacher in the evolutionary tradition, known for a warm and non-deterministic style. seed synastry Comparing two charts. Whose planets land where in whose houses. seed the relationship reading Two charts side by side. What happens between them, and why it feels like that. seed synodic cycles Two planets meeting, separating and meeting again. The rhythm underneath the news. seed the astrology podcast Chris Brennan's long-running show, and the best free archive of serious astrological discussion. seed the lots Calculated points, the Lot of Fortune chief among them. Ancient, and largely dropped by moderns. seed the two motions The sky moves two ways at once, in opposite directions. Almost every confusion about charts starts here. seed the thema mundi The chart of the world's birth. A teaching diagram that explains why the rulerships are what they are. seed thrasyllus First-century astrologer to the emperor Tiberius, and a crucial early systematiser. seed time-lord techniques The family of methods that ask not what a chart says, but WHEN it says it. seed the traditional revival How Hellenistic astrology came back: a 1992 conference, three translators, and thirty years of work. seed traditional vs modern astrology Two different practices sharing a vocabulary. What actually separates them. seed the trans-saturnians Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Real, useful, and not part of the traditional system. Here's how this site handles that. growing transits Where the planets are right now, and what they touch in the chart you were born with. seed the transit reading What the sky is doing to your chart right now, and what is coming. seed transmission of astrology How Hellenistic astrology moved from Greek to Persian to Arabic to Latin, and what changed at each step. seed the trine A hundred and twenty degrees. Same element and easy agreement, sometimes too easy. seed triplicity Each element has three rulers, and which one is in charge depends on sect. seed triplicity rulers of the sect light A three-part division of the life, read from the rulers of the sect light's element. seed tropical vs sidereal zodiacs Two ways to define where Aries starts. The oldest live argument in astrology. seed twelfth-parts Each sign divided into twelve. A magnifying glass on a single degree. seed under the beams A planet too close to the Sun to be seen. Present, working, invisible. seed uranian astrology The Hamburg School. Midpoints, hypothetical planets, and a very different toolkit. seed vedic astrology Jyotisha. The Indian tradition, with a sidereal zodiac, an unbroken lineage, and a different set of tools. seed vettius valens Second-century astrologer whose Anthology is the most practical text to survive. seed void of course moon The Moon making no more aspects before it changes sign. Traditionally, a bad time to begin. seed walter mercado The astrologer who reached more people than anyone in the Spanish-speaking world, in a cape, with total sincerity. seed water Cold and wet. Feeling, memory, and what moves under the surface. seed whole sign houses One sign, one house. The oldest house system, and the one this site uses. seed william lilly Seventeenth-century English astrologer whose Christian Astrology is the horary source text. seed zodiacal releasing A time-lord technique run from the Lots. 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jupiter Expansion and abundance. The greater benefic; what grows when it touches. growing mars The cutting planet. What you do when something is in your way. growing mercury Mind, language, and exchange. How you think and how you say it. growing moon The fastest body in the chart. Feeling, memory, the body, and what needs care. growing neptune Dissolution and dream. The trans-Saturnian that erases the edges. growing pluto Depth and irreversibility. The trans-Saturnian of what does not return the same. growing saturn Limit, time, and the hard boundary. What must be finished. growing sun The center of the chart. Identity, vitality, and what you are becoming. growing uranus Rupture and revolution. The trans-Saturnian that breaks the inherited pattern. growing venus Attraction, harmony, and value. What you want and how you draw it near. growing

aquarius Fixed air. The pattern seen from outside it. seed aries Cardinal fire. The opening move. seed cancer Cardinal water. Feeling that begins something. seed capricorn Cardinal earth. Structure, patience, and the long climb. seed gemini Mutable air. Two things at once, and comfortable there. seed leo Fixed fire. The sign that does not dim itself for comfort. seed libra Cardinal air. Balance, relation, and the weighing of it. seed pisces Mutable water. Feeling that dissolves the edges. seed sagittarius Mutable fire. The search for the wider meaning. seed scorpio Fixed water. The sign that does not look away. seed taurus Fixed earth. What is held, tended, and not hurried. seed virgo Mutable earth. Refinement, service, and the useful detail. seed

the eighth house Death, inheritance, other people's resources, and what is shared. seed the eleventh house Friends, allies, groups, and good fortune from others. seed the fifth house Children, pleasure, creativity, and what you make for its own sake. seed the first house Body, appearance, vitality, and the self that arrives in a room. seed the fourth house Home, ancestry, parents, and the root of things. seed the ninth house Travel, philosophy, religion, and the search for meaning. seed the second house Resources, income, and what you can actually move. seed the seventh house The other person: partnership, marriage, open enemies. seed the sixth house Work, illness, service, and the daily grind. seed the tenth house Career, reputation, and what you are known for. seed the third house Siblings, short journeys, and everyday communication. seed the twelfth house Hidden things, confinement, loss, and what works against you unseen. seed

Sailor Chibi Moon The crown princess of a thirtieth century that has not happened yet, sent back to a mother her own age. growing · the Moon Sailor Jupiter Lightning, strength, and the softest heart in the group. growing · Jupiter Sailor Mars Fire, foresight, and the friend who tells you the truth first. growing · Mars Sailor Mercury Water, intellect, and the mind that solves it before anyone else notices. growing · Mercury Sailor Moon The crybaby who kept choosing, over and over, to save everyone. growing · the Moon Sailor Neptune The deep sea, the mirror, and the one who sees it coming. growing · Neptune Sailor Pluto The guardian of the gate, and the loneliest post in the solar system. growing · Pluto Sailor Saturn Ruin and rebirth. The soldier nobody wants to wake. growing · Saturn Sailor Uranus Wind, the sword, and the willingness to do what the others will not. growing · Uranus Sailor Venus Love as a weapon, and the soldier who was doing this before anyone else. growing · Venus

Helios The pegasus who hides in a little girl’s dreams because his own world has been locked in stone. growing The Moon Cats Luna, Artemis and Diana, the advisors sent from the Moon and the kitten they have in the future. growing Tuxedo Mask The prince of the Earth, which is the one planet nobody has in their chart. growing

Sailor Ceres The pink one of the Amazoness Quartet, and in the future the eldest of Chibiusa’s four guardians. growing · Ceres Sailor Juno The green one, the boldest of the Quartet, named for the queen of the Roman gods. growing · Juno Sailor Pallas The blue one, the childlike one, and the asteroid senshi named for a goddess of wisdom. growing · Pallas Sailor Vesta The red one, the fiery one, named for the goddess of the sacred flame. growing · Vesta

Sailor Cosmos Sailor Cosmos is the ultimate future form of Sailor Moon, a silver-white guardian who travels back from the far future to the birthplace of all stars. growing Sailor Galaxia Sailor Galaxia is the strongest Sailor Guardian in the galaxy, the golden-armored guardian of all its stars, and the main antagonist of the Stars arc. growing Sailor Kakyuu The ruler of Kinmoku the Starlights crossed the galaxy to find, and the still centre they orbit. growing Sailor Star Fighter Lead of the Three Lights, a guardian of Kinmoku searching a whole planet’s worth of grief for a lost princess. growing Sailor Star Healer The small, sharp-tongued one of the Three Lights, the most reluctant guardian of the three. growing Sailor Star Maker The tall, cool intellect of the Three Lights and of Kinmoku’s guard. growing

Ami’s First Love The only story in Sailor Moon built around a guardian who isn't Usagi. Its punchline is a diagnosis. growing the Golden Crystal The crystal of the Earth, held in Elysion. Hidden inside Mamoru in the manga, kept by Helios in the anime. growing Hotaru and the Outer Senshi The three guardians who spent a season intending to kill a twelve-year-old, and who ended up raising her. growing the Miracle Romance: Usagi and Mamoru Serenity and Endymion, Usagi and Mamoru, and the love the story keeps putting back together across every life it has. growing Rei and Minako What the artbooks and the manga actually say about the two of them, and the promise everybody remembers that is not there. growing the Silver Crystal The healing, wish-granting heart of the Moon’s power, drawn from Usagi’s own body and answering only to a selfless heart. growing

Codename: Sailor V Sailor V ran in RunRun four months before Sailor Moon began. The team was spun off Minako, not the other way round. growing