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air Hot and wet. Mind, relation, and the space between things. seed · concept aquarius Fixed air. The pattern seen from outside it. seed · sign aries Cardinal fire. The opening move. seed · sign ascendant The exact degree coming over the eastern horizon at birth. Rising is the sign it falls in; this is the point itself. seed · concept aspects The five ways two planets can see each other across a chart. seed · concept astro.com Astrodienst. Free accurate charts, and the reference most people can actually reach. seed · concept benefics and malefics Jupiter and Venus help. Mars and Saturn cut. Neither is a verdict. seed · concept cancer Cardinal water. Feeling that begins something. seed · sign capricorn Cardinal earth. Structure, patience, and the long climb. seed · sign cardinal The start of a season. The sign of initiation, the one that opens. seed · concept dane rudhyar The root of humanistic astrology, and the figure who turned the chart into a psychological map. seed · concept domicile A planet in the sign it rules. The home team on its home field, and the cleanest form of dignity. seed · concept earth The place the chart is drawn FROM, not a planet in it. Everything you read is the view from here. seed · concept eclipses Lunations at the nodes. The tradition treats them as a different order of event. seed · concept fate and fortune The question underneath the whole practice: if the chart shows something, is it fixed? seed · concept fire Hot and dry. Spirit, drive, and the thing that moves before it is asked. seed · concept fixed The middle of a season. The sign of duration, the one that holds. seed · concept gemini Mutable air. Two things at once, and comfortable there. seed · sign hellenistic astrology The Greek-language tradition, roughly 100 BCE to 600 CE. The source this site reads from. seed · concept 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 · concept indicators, not causes The chart describes. It does not dictate. This is the ethic the whole site runs on. seed · concept jupiter Expansion and abundance. The greater benefic; what grows when it touches. seed · planet leo Fixed fire. The sign that does not dim itself for comfort. seed · sign libra Cardinal air. Balance, relation, and the weighing of it. seed · sign liz greene Jungian analyst and astrologer; the most influential voice in psychological astrology. seed · concept lunations New moons and full moons. The month's basic rhythm. seed · concept mars The cutting planet. What you do when something is in your way. seed · planet mercury Mind, language, and exchange. How you think and how you say it. seed · planet mercury retrograde The one piece of astrology everybody has heard of. What it actually is, and what it is not. seed · concept modern psychological astrology The twentieth-century branch that reads the chart as a map of the psyche. Where most people start. seed · concept moon The fastest body in the chart. Feeling, memory, the body, and what needs care. seed · planet mutable The end of a season. The sign of transition, the one that turns into the next thing. seed · concept natal astrology The branch that reads a birth chart. What this site and the course are about. seed · concept pisces Mutable water. Feeling that dissolves the edges. seed · sign retrograde A planet appearing to move backward. What it actually is, and what it is not. seed · concept richard tarnas Cultural historian whose Cosmos and Psyche argues the case for archetypal cosmology. seed · concept rulership Every sign has a planet in charge of it. Following that planet is the oldest move in the book. seed · concept sagittarius Mutable fire. The search for the wider meaning. seed · sign saturn Limit, time, and the hard boundary. What must be finished. seed · planet scorpio Fixed water. The sign that does not look away. seed · sign sect Day chart or night chart. One line splits every birth chart in the world into two piles. ripe · concept stephen arroyo Writer whose books on the elements and on chart interpretation shaped a generation of readers. seed · concept sun The center of the chart. Identity, vitality, and what you are becoming. seed · planet taurus Fixed earth. What is held, tended, and not hurried. seed · sign the angles Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, IC. The four pivots the chart turns on. seed · concept the big three The three placements almost everyone knows. What each one is actually doing, and why these three and not others. seed · concept the birthday reading The chart for your solar return. A year read from the moment the Sun comes home. seed · concept the chart ruler The planet that rules your rising sign. If one planet gets the first word, it is this one. seed · concept the conjunction Two planets in the same place. The loudest aspect, and the first one to learn. seed · concept the eighth house Death, inheritance, other people's resources, and what is shared. seed · house the electional reading Picking a good moment for something that matters. Weddings, launches, signings. seed · concept the eleventh house Friends, allies, groups, and good fortune from others. seed · house the ethics of astrology What you owe someone whose chart you are reading. The debate is old, unsettled, and worth having out loud. seed · concept the fifth house Children, pleasure, creativity, and what you make for its own sake. seed · house the first house Body, appearance, vitality, and the self that arrives in a room. seed · house the fourth house Home, ancestry, parents, and the root of things. seed · house the houses Twelve topics. The chart's answer to WHERE a thing happens in a life. seed · concept the midheaven The highest point. Career, reputation, and the part of life that is publicly visible. seed · concept the natal chart The sky from where you stood, at the moment you arrived. A map, not a verdict. seed · concept the natal reading Your birth chart, read whole. The foundation everything else builds on. seed · concept the ninth house Travel, philosophy, religion, and the search for meaning. seed · house the opposition Two planets across the chart from each other. Facing off, and aware of it. seed · concept the relationship reading Two charts side by side. What happens between them, and why it feels like that. seed · concept the rising sign The sign coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The front door. ripe · concept the second house Resources, income, and what you can actually move. seed · house the sect light The Sun by day, the Moon by night. The single most important body in the chart. seed · concept the seven traditional planets Everything visible to the naked eye. The complete cast of Hellenistic astrology. seed · concept the seventh house The other person: partnership, marriage, open enemies. seed · house the sextile Sixty degrees. Cooperation that has to be taken up rather than given. seed · concept the sixth house Work, illness, service, and the daily grind. seed · house the square Ninety degrees. Friction between signs that share nothing. seed · concept the tenth house Career, reputation, and what you are known for. seed · house the third house Siblings, short journeys, and everyday communication. seed · house the transit reading What the sky is doing to your chart right now, and what is coming. seed · concept the trine A hundred and twenty degrees. Same element and easy agreement, sometimes too easy. seed · concept the twelfth house Hidden things, confinement, loss, and what works against you unseen. seed · house the two motions The sky moves two ways at once, in opposite directions. Almost every confusion about charts starts here. seed · concept transits Where the planets are right now, and what they touch in the chart you were born with. seed · concept types of reading What you can actually book, and which one fits the question you are bringing. seed · concept venus Attraction, harmony, and value. What you want and how you draw it near. seed · planet virgo Mutable earth. Refinement, service, and the useful detail. seed · sign water Cold and wet. Feeling, memory, and what moves under the surface. seed · concept whole sign houses One sign, one house. The oldest house system, and the one this site uses. seed · concept