Astrology · Planets · Signs · Houses · Timing

Astrology — Complete Reference

Every branch of astrological tradition — from the Western tropical chart to Vedic Jyotish, Chinese astrology, relationship synastry, financial and mundane cycles, sports timing, fixed stars, progressions and the map of where your planets are most powerful on earth.

Astrology is the oldest continuously practised symbolic language in human history — documented across every major civilisation independently. This reference now covers over twenty distinct branches, from foundational natal chart interpretation through predictive techniques, minor bodies, and the specialised applications that extend astrology into every dimension of life.

The Three Great Traditions
Western · Tropical · Natal
Western Astrology
The complete Western tropical astrology reference — all planets with rulerships and dignities, all 12 houses, major aspects, the three decans of every sign and the foundational principles of natal chart interpretation.
12 Planets12 HousesAspectsDignitiesDecans
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Jyotish · Vedic · Indian
Sidereal Astrology & Jyotish
The complete Jyotish reference — Sidereal vs Tropical, Ayanamsa systems, all 27 Nakshatras, the 9 Grahas, Vimshottari Dasha periods and key Yogas for interpretation.
27 Nakshatras9 GrahasDashaYogasAyanamsa
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Chinese · Lunar · Animals · Five Elements
Chinese Astrology
All 12 animals, 5 elements, compatibility triangles and clashes, Inner & Secret Animals, the 12 hours and an introduction to BaZi (Four Pillars of Destiny).
12 Animals5 ElementsCompatibilityBaZi Intro
Chart Reading Deep Dive
Stellium · Yod · T-Square · House Systems
Chart Reading Deep Dive
Eight reference guides covering the terms that show up constantly but are rarely explained well — major and rare aspect configurations, whole-chart shapes, planetary conditions like combust and cazimi, essential dignities, house systems compared, and chart points like the Vertex and Part of Fortune.
StelliumYodGrand TrineHouse Systems
Karmic Axis · Rahu & Ketu · Nodal Cycle
North Node & South Node
The lunar nodes as a karmic growth axis — North Node and South Node through all 12 signs and 12 houses, the 18.6-year nodal cycle and Nodal Return, True vs Mean Node, and how Rahu/Ketu is read differently in the Vedic tradition.
Nodal AxisNodal ReturnRahu & KetuSigns & Houses
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Whole Sign · Placidus · Koch · Equal & More
House Systems Compared
Every major house system explained and compared side by side — Whole Sign, Placidus, Koch, Equal, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Campanus and Topocentric. Where each comes from, how they divide the chart, and which to use and when.
Whole SignPlacidusKochComparison Table
Timing & Movement
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Transits · Current Sky · Natal Activation
Transits
How the moving planets interact with your natal chart — the fundamental timing tool of astrology. Outer planet transits (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) mark the major turning points of a life. Inner planet transits create the texture of each month and season.
ConjunctionOppositionSquareTrineSaturn Transits
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Secondary Progressions · Solar Arc · Directions
Progressions
The inner unfolding of the natal chart over time — secondary progressions (a day for a year), solar arc directions and primary directions. Where transits show outer events, progressions reveal the internal development of character and consciousness.
Secondary ProgressionsSolar ArcProgressed MoonDirections
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Hellenistic · Timing · Lord of the Year · Calculator
Annual Profections
One house per year — the Hellenistic timing technique that activates a specific life domain and its ruling planet (Lord of the Year) each year of life. Includes interactive calculator: enter your birthdate and instantly find your profected house, Lord of the Year and days until the next profection.
Annual ProfectionsLord of the Year12-Year CycleCalculator
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Comparative · Hellenistic · Persian · Vedic · Chinese
Time Lords Across Cultures
Four civilisations with no contact between them independently built the same technology — dividing a life into a sequence of planetary ruling periods. Profections, Zodiacal Releasing, Firdaria, Vimshottari Dasha and BaZi Luck Pillars, compared side by side.
FirdariaVimshottari DashaZodiacal ReleasingBaZi
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Void of Course · Eight Phases · Lunation Cycle
Void of Course Moon & Moon Phases
Two essential lunar timing tools — the Void of Course window when the Moon has finished its business in a sign, and the eight-phase Lunation Cycle (New through Balsamic) developed by Dane Rudhyar for reading both the month and the natal Moon phase.
Void of CourseMoon PhasesLunation CycleRudhyar
Mercury · Venus · Mars · Shadow Periods
Retrograde Planets
What retrograde motion actually is, shadow periods before and after a station, Mercury Retrograde, Venus Retrograde and its eight-year pentagram pattern, Mars Retrograde, the outer planets, and how natal retrograde placements differ from retrograde transits.
Mercury RetrogradeShadow PeriodsVenus PentagramNatal Retrograde
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Solar · Lunar · Saros Cycle
Solar & Lunar Eclipses
Why eclipses only happen near the lunar nodes, Solar Eclipse and Lunar Eclipse meaning, the 18-year Saros Cycle that groups eclipses into repeating families, the eclipse axis moving through the signs, and how eclipses affect the natal chart.
Eclipse SeasonSaros CycleEclipse AxisNatal Eclipses
Predictive & Technical Astrology
Question Charts · Querent & Quesited · William Lilly
Horary Astrology
A chart cast for the exact moment a question is asked, not for a birth. Radicality, querent and quesited significators, applying aspects, reception, translation of light, prohibition, and William Lilly's foundational 1647 tradition.
RadicalitySignificatorsTranslation of LightWilliam Lilly
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Timed Beginnings · Weddings · Launches · Journeys
Electional Astrology
Choosing the best astrological moment to begin something — a wedding, business, journey or procedure. Angular benefics, cadent malefics, applying aspects, Void of Course Moon avoidance, and the medieval tradition of timed beginnings.
Angular BeneficsVoid of CourseWeddingsBusiness Launches
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Solar Return · Lunar Return · Relocation
Solar & Lunar Returns
The annual birthday chart cast when the Sun returns to its exact natal degree, and the monthly Lunar Return cast every 27.3 days. How to read them, relocated returns, and how they differ from progressions.
Solar ReturnLunar ReturnRelocationAnnual Forecast
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Hamburg School · Midpoints · 90° Dial
Uranian Astrology & Cosmobiology
The most technical branch of Western astrology, built around midpoints and geometric symmetry. Alfred Witte's Hamburg School, the eight hypothetical planets, the 90° dial, and Reinhold Ebertin's Cosmobiology.
MidpointsHypothetical Planets90° DialCosmobiology
Minor Bodies & Alternative Charts
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Ceres · Pallas · Juno · Vesta · Chiron
Asteroids & Centaurs
Beyond the ten major bodies — the four great asteroids named for goddesses, Chiron the wounded healer bridging Saturn and Uranus, and the centaurs Pholus and Nessus. Mythology, meaning, and how to use minor bodies in a chart.
Big Four AsteroidsChironWounded HealerCentaurs
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Nodal Zodiac · Soul Chart · Dragon's Head
Draconic Astrology
A second, complete zodiac layered over the natal chart, rotated so the North Node sits at 0° Aries — read as a map of the soul beneath the personality. How it's calculated, how to read it, and Draconic synastry.
Draconic ChartSoul ChartDraconic SynastryDragon's Head
Applied Astrology
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Synastry · Composite · Vedic Compatibility
Relationship Astrology
How charts interact — synastry aspects, composite charts, planet pairs, house activations, karmic indicators and Vedic compatibility (Ashtakoot Milan). The astrology of attraction, compatibility and the long arc of relationship.
SynastryCompositePlanet PairsAshtakoot
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Financial · Money Planets · Economic Cycles
Financial Astrology
Planets of money, the great economic cycles (Jupiter–Saturn conjunctions, Pluto era transitions), key transits and how your personal natal chart reveals your financial timing, style and potential.
Jupiter–SaturnPluto Cycles2nd HouseMundane
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Sports · Performance · Athletic Timing · Mars
Sports Astrology
Mars, the Sun and Saturn as the core athletic trinity. Athletic archetypes by sign, the houses of physical performance, planetary cycles for peak training and competition, and reading your own chart for athletic timing and injury windows.
MarsAthletic HousesPeak TimingInjury Windows
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Nations · History · World Events · Cycles
Mundane Astrology
The astrology of nations and civilisations — how planetary cycles shape collective human history. The Great Conjunction, Pluto sign ingresses, national charts, eclipse cycles and the outer planet signatures of wars, revolutions and civilisational transformation.
Great ConjunctionPluto IngressNational ChartsEclipses
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Body · Health · Sign Rulerships
Medical Astrology
The ancient link between the twelve signs, the planets and the parts of the body — decumbiture charts, sign-by-sign body rulership, and how traditional astrologers read a chart for constitutional health tendencies.
Body RulershipsDecumbitureSix Non-Naturals
Ancient & Classical Traditions
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Hellenistic · Alexandria · Greece · Rome
Hellenistic Astrology
The Greek-Egyptian synthesis from which all Western astrology descends — lots, sect, whole sign houses, five essential dignities and time-lord systems. Largely lost until Project Hindsight's 1990s recovery from original Greek texts.
LotsSectWhole Sign HousesTime Lords
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Egypt · Decans · Dendera · Origins
Egyptian Astrology
The 36 decans as the original stellar calendar, the Dendera zodiac, Thoth as divine astrologer, the Duat and stellar religion — and Egypt's role in transmitting astrology to the Hellenistic world.
36 DecansDendera ZodiacThothSirius
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Arabic · Islamic · Baghdad · Golden Age
Arabic & Islamic Astrology
Al-Kindi, Abu Ma'shar, Al-Biruni — the golden age transmission that preserved and expanded Hellenistic astrology. The 28 lunar mansions, great conjunctions theory and the systematic tradition that shaped medieval Europe.
28 Lunar MansionsAbu Ma'sharGreat ConjunctionsHorary
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Celtic · Druid · Tree Calendar · Ogham
Celtic Astrology
The druidic tree calendar — 13 lunar months, each governed by a sacred tree and its Ogham letter. The eight festivals of the Wheel of the Year and the Celtic cosmological framework of three worlds and five directions.
13 Tree SignsOghamWheel of the YearDruids
Mesoamerican Traditions
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Maya · Tzolk'in · Haab · Long Count
Maya Astrology
The 260-day Tzolk'in, the 20 day signs and 13 tones, your galactic signature, the Long Count and great cycles, and the Venus cycle tracked to within two hours over five centuries. Still practised in unbroken tradition by highland Maya day-keepers.
Tzolk'in20 Day SignsLong CountVenus Cycle
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Aztec · Nahuatl · Tonalpohualli · Five Suns
Aztec Astrology
The Tonalpohualli (260-day sacred count), 20 day signs with their patron deities, the Five Suns cosmology and the Calendar Stone. Sibling to the Maya system, distinct in its mythology, ritual and the doctrine of world ages.
Tonalpohualli20 Day SignsFive SunsCalendar Stone
Asian Traditions
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Tibet · Me-Wa · Parkha · Kalachakra
Tibetan Astrology
The synthesis of Chinese and Indian traditions through a Buddhist philosophical lens — the nine Me-Wa magic squares, eight Parkha trigrams, twelve animal signs with Tibetan elements, and the Kalachakra Tantra's planetary framework.
Me-WaParkha12 AnimalsKalachakra
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BaZi · Four Pillars · Chinese · Destiny
BaZi — Four Pillars of Destiny
The Chinese system of destiny analysis based on the four pillars of year, month, day and hour of birth — each a stem-branch combination encoding the five elements. One of the most precise and actionable systems in the astrological tradition.
Four PillarsTen Stems12 BranchesFive Elements
Location & The Stars
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Astrocartography · Relocation · Planetary Lines
Astrocartography
Where in the world your planets are most powerfully expressed — the lines of the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn mapped across the globe. Where to live, work, love and create based on your natal chart projected onto the earth.
Planetary LinesACGRelocationParans
Royal Stars · Conjunctions · Ancient Tradition
Fixed Stars
The ancient stars beyond the solar system — Regulus at 0° Virgo, Algol the demon star, Sirius the brightest star, Antares the heart of the Scorpion. When fixed stars conjunct natal planets to within 1°, their mythological and astronomical quality enters the chart.
RegulusAlgolAntaresAldebaranSpica