Technique, in plain language.
These are not blog posts; they are guides to technique. Each one takes a single method — the natal chart, synastry, horary, electional timing — and explains it end to end in plain language. Terms get defined the first time they appear, and every claim is either checkable or labeled as belonging to the classical tradition.
One more difference: the rules on these pages are the same rules the app's calculation engine runs on. The way a guide describes house systems is the way your chart is actually computed. What you read here is the explanation of the result you see in the app — not the marketing for it.
Twelve techniques, twelve guides.
Rising Sign
The one part of a chart that depends on the minute and the place, which is exactly why it is the part most often computed wrong. The horizon moves a degree every four minutes; a two-hour error changes the answer entirely.
Read the guide →Venus Sign
Venus never sits more than 47 degrees from the Sun, so your Venus sign is one of five rather than twelve. Also why it sometimes stays in one sign for four months.
Read the guide →Moon Sign
The Moon changes sign every two and a half days, so two people born on the same date share a Sun sign and often not a Moon sign. When the birth time matters, and why this keeps getting confused with the phase.
Read the guide →Saturn Return
Saturn comes back to its natal degree every 29.4 years. Why that is a one-to-two-year window rather than a single day, and why tradition reads it as structure rather than punishment.
Read the guide →Transits
Your chart is fixed; transits are today's sky crossing it. What an orb is, how long each transit lasts, and when the Saturn return arrives, with the actual orb table the engine uses.
Read the guide →Mercury Retrograde
Mercury does not go backwards; we only see it that way. How the station is computed, what a retrograde planet means natally, and the things retrograde does not do.
Read the guide →Sign Compatibility
Compatibility tables read one placement: the Sun. What carries a relationship is the Moon, Venus, Mars and Ascendant — and a real reading compares two charts rather than two signs.
Read the guide →Void-of-Course Moon
The stretch where the Moon makes no further aspect before changing sign. Why the length is a question about an hour rather than a day, how the times are computed by crossing rather than tolerance, and why the app declines a horary reading during one.
Read the guide →Moon Phases
A phase is really an angle: the distance between the Sun and the Moon. The eight phases, illumination, the 29.5-day cycle, and how the phase differs from the Moon's sign.
Read the guide →The Natal Chart
How the four layers of a chart — planets, signs, houses, aspects — combine into one reading. Also covers what the birth time actually controls, and how a timezone error can move an Ascendant by a whole sign.
Read the guide →Synastry
What appears when two natal charts are laid over each other: whose planet lands in whose house, which aspects create pull and which create friction. The guide also shows why compatibility refuses to collapse into a single score.
Read the guide →Horary Astrology
In the classical tradition you cast a chart for the moment a question is asked, and read the answer from that chart. Step by step: how to phrase the question, which house rules what, and when a chart counts as unreadable.
Read the guide →The Composite Chart
A composite chart is a third chart derived from the midpoints of two natal charts — the chart of the relationship itself. Synastry asks what runs between you; the composite asks what the two of you are as a unit. This guide keeps the two apart.
Read the guide →Electional Astrology
Electional astrology is the technique of choosing a favorable moment to begin something. Whether the Moon is void, what the rising sign is doing, which planet stands strong — you learn what makes a date good or bad for a given start.
Read the guide →The Solar Return
Once a year the Sun returns to its exact natal degree, and the chart of that moment describes the year ahead. How a solar return is cast, what a loaded house signals, and how to read the whole thing against your natal chart.
Read the guide →Astrocartography
Your natal chart drawn onto the world map: every planet casts lines on the map where it dominates. The guide covers how to read what a city brings out in you from those lines, and how the technique is used for moves and travel.
Read the guide →Astro-Finance
The money houses — 2nd, 8th and 10th — mark the axis of earning, debt and career in a chart. You learn which placements describe spending, saving and appetite for risk. Not investment advice; an introduction to how a chart talks about money.
Read the guide →Astro-Style
Venus describes what you find beautiful; the Ascendant, how you come across. This guide covers how color, texture and style leanings are read from those two placements — and why they are leanings, never rules.
Read the guide →Health Astrology
The classical tradition pairs each sign with a region of the body and each planet with a function. We cover the role of the 6th house and the Moon in that reading, and state the tradition's limit plainly: none of it is medical advice.
Read the guide →Moon Rituals
New Moon for intentions, Full Moon for closure: the eight phases of the lunar cycle and what each traditionally means. The ritual calendar in the app runs on the same phase math — its dates and prompts come from here.
Read the guide →Baby Astrology
A newborn's birth time is on the hospital record to the minute — making a baby's chart the most precise chart a person will ever own. The twelve baby signs, the Moon's role in sleep and soothing, and how cusp births get their real answer.
Read the guide →What comes next
This index will grow. Next in line is a transit diary — a series that follows periods like a Saturn square or a Jupiter return step by step, while they happen — and a set of guides covering each planet's retrograde on its own.
None of it is published yet, and we do not list unwritten pages here. Each one will appear on this page the day it is ready.