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Placements · 7 min readWhich Placements Are Hard, and What to Do With ThemEvery chart has at least one planet working against the grain. The old texts say exactly which ones, and they also say why a hard placement so often becomes the most skilled part of a life.Read the article →This month's sky
What the planets are doing this month, with every date in Pacific time, and what it means for each sign.
Famous charts
The birth charts of well-known people, read by the old method, with a way to check whether part of their sky is in yours.
Life stages
The transits everyone meets at the same ages: the Saturn returns, the midlife transits, and what the old texts said about each age of life.
Life stages · free calculatorUranus Opposition: When Your Midlife Transit Comes, and What It MeansUranus opposes its birth place at 38 to 44, and your birth year sets the age. Find your dates, plus your Neptune, Pluto and Saturn midlife transits.Find your dates →Life stages · free calculatorYour Second Saturn Return: When It Comes, What It Means, and Who Is Having It NowSaturn comes back to its birth place at 58 to 59. Find your dates, see who is in it now with Saturn in Aries, and what Ptolemy said about the age it opens.Find your Saturn return →Life stages · free toolSaturn Return CalculatorAll three Saturn returns, plus every Saturn square and opposition in your life, with exact dates and ages.Find your Saturn returns →
Life purpose
Your nodes, your Lot of Spirit, and what the old texts read for vocation.
Life purpose · 8 min readNorth Node and South Node: Your Soul's AssignmentWhat the nodes are, what modern astrology reads in them, where the soul-purpose idea came from, and the Lot of Spirit the old astrologers read instead.Read the article →Free toolNorth Node CalculatorFind your North Node and South Node sign from your birth date, and their houses from your rising sign.Find your nodes →
Placements
Which planets struggle, which thrive, and why.
Placements · free calculatorLuckiest Placements in Astrology: The 3 Exalted Planets, RankedJupiter in Cancer, Venus in Pisces and the Moon in Taurus: the placements the old texts honor most, why, and which of your planets are at their height.Find your lucky placements →Placements · free finderFixed Stars in Astrology: Algol, Regulus, Spica and the Royal StarsThe bright stars the old astrologers read beside the planets: what Algol, Regulus, Spica and the four royal stars mean, and which ones sit on your planets.Find your fixed stars →Placements · free finderLunar Mansions: The 28 Mansions of the Moon, and Which One Is YoursThe Moon's own zodiac of 28 stations, from the Picatrix and Agrippa: the name, image and uses of each, and which mansion your Moon was in.Find your mansion →Placements · free finderBlack Moon Lilith: Your Lilith Sign, Your Lilith Return, and What She MeansThe Moon's far point, the part of you that won't be tamed. Find your Lilith sign and house, every Lilith return in your life, and what the old astrologers read there instead.Find your Lilith →Placements · 9 min readScorpio Stellium: What It Means, How Rare It Is, and Why Mars Decides ItThree or more planets in Scorpio: how often it happens, which birth years have one, what Vettius Valens wrote about the sign, and why Mars runs the whole cluster.Read the article →Placements · 6 min readMars in Cancer: Why It’s Called a Fall, and When It Isn’t OneMars is exalted in Capricorn and falls in Cancer, the sign opposite. Here is what that means in lived terms, and the three things in your own chart that decide how much of it you will feel.Read the article →
Hellenistic
The techniques of the old texts, one at a time.
Hellenistic · free calculatorPart of Fortune and Lot of Spirit: Find Yours, and What They MeanThe oldest calculated points in astrology: your body and circumstances, and what you set out to do. Find both lots for your birth, and read Fortune in all 12 signs from Valens, Ptolemy and Lilly.Find your Part of Fortune →After you order · 10 min readHow to Read Your Birth Chart ReadingA ritual before you start, a week-long reading plan, the emotions to expect, and what to send me afterward.Read the guide →Hellenistic · free finderSidereal vs Tropical: Why Your Vedic Sign Is DifferentThe two zodiacs are about 24 degrees apart, so most Vedic charts put the Sun one sign back. Why, which zodiac the old texts used, and your Sun in both.Find your sign in both →Hellenistic · free calculatorSolar Return Chart: Find Your Exact Moment, and How to Read the YearThe chart of your birthday, to the minute. Find the exact time of your solar return for any year, why it can fall the day before, and how the old astrologers read the year from it.Find your solar return →Your chart · free checkerDon't Know Your Birth Time? How to Find It, and What You Can Still ReadWhat a chart without a time still shows, how to find your time in the US, noon charts, rectification and the Rodden ratings. Check your own birth day.Read the article →Before you order · 18 min readDo You Need an Astrology Reading?What people have asked the stars, from the births of kings to now: what a chart cost in Rome, what Jung saw in it, and when you don't need a reading at all.Read the article →Before you order · 20 min readHow to Choose an AstrologerWhat to look for, the red flags to walk away from, the questions to ask before you pay, and why I read the chart, not the person.Read the article →Hellenistic · 10 min readZodiac Signs in Greek MythologyThe myth behind every zodiac sign, the guardian god the Roman poet Manilius gave each one, and Plato on the god your soul followed before birth.Read the article →Hellenistic · 16 min readYour Profection Year, ExplainedOne of the simplest timing techniques in the tradition and one of the most useful. Every year of your life is handed to one house of your chart, and the planet that rules it runs the year.Read the article →Hellenistic · 5 min readWhat Is Hellenistic Astrology?The astrology of the Greek and Roman world: written down two thousand years ago, lost to the West for centuries, and recovered from the original texts in the 1990s. Here is what it is, how it differs from the astrology you know, and what it cannot do.Read the article →
Compatibility
Reading two charts together.
Compatibility · 6 min readVenus and Mars Contacts in SynastryThe best-known attraction signature in astrology, and the reason the old method asks two more questions before calling it a good match.Read the article →Compatibility · 2 min readTrump and California: Four Pages From the ReadingA 50-page compatibility reading of a man and a state. The first pages, as they are in the PDF.Read the article →