Clear guides to learn to read your birth chart: the alphabet of the sky, step by step, with no generic horoscopes.
What a birth chart is, how it differs from the horoscope, and what data is needed to calculate it with precision.
What a sign is, how it arises from an element and a modality, and the particular tone of each of the twelve.
What the houses are, how they differ from the signs, what they are for, and why they can vary depending on the calculation system.
What each planet represents as a psychic function, grouped by speed and reach, and how they are read in the chart.
What aspects are, the five major ones, why there are no good or bad aspects, and how the orb sets their strength.
The layered order for reading a birth chart without getting lost: from the overall weight to the synthesis, with your chart in front of you.
How traditional astrology measures the strength of each planet by sign: domicile, exaltation, fall and detriment.
The planet with the most authority over the whole chart: what the Almuten Figuris is, how it is calculated, and how it differs from the ruler of the Ascendant.
How each year of life activates a house and a planet of the chart: the mechanism of annual profection and the lord of the year.
The Persian system of planetary periods that divides life into great stages: what the Firdaria is and why each stage has a different flavour.
The Hellenistic technique that identifies the peak periods of a life from the Lots of Fortune and of Spirit.
What Pythagorean numerology is, how the Life Path, Soul, Expression and Maturity numbers are calculated from your name and birth date, and how to read them.
What the Tetractys of Pythagoras is —the ten points in four rows—, what its four levels mean, the musical proportions it holds, and how it is read with your numbers.
What Code 22 is: the numerology of the 22 arcana laid over the geometry of your birth date —how the matrix is built and what its points read.
What a well-made tarot spread is, how the Astral Spread differs from the Reading, and how it is read with real randomness and the full 78 cards.
What the 72 geniuses or angels of the Shem haMeforash are, how your essence angel is found from the degree of your Sun, and what this kabbalistic reading adds.
What the kabbalistic Tree of Life is, what the ten sefirot and the four worlds are, and how the planets of your chart are distributed over the Tree.
What the I Ching is, how the 64 hexagrams and changing lines are formed, and the difference between your personal hexagram and an oracle consultation.
What the Chinese horoscope really is: the Four Pillars (BaZi), the Day Master, the five elements, and why you are far more than your year animal.
What the convergence of testimonies is in astrology, how to measure where a birth chart insists, and what the Convergence Index reveals house by house.
What astrocartography is, how planetary lines are traced over the map of the Earth, and how they help when choosing where to live or travel.
What antiscia are in astrology: the solstice mirror points that connect planets by symmetry and reveal hidden links in the chart.
What declinations are in astrology, what an Out of Bounds planet is, and what parallels add as aspects of height.
What the Hermetic Lots or Arabic Parts are, how the Part of Fortune is calculated, and what the lots add to the reading of a chart.
What asteroids add in astrology: Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, plus Chiron and Lilith, and how they nuance the reading of a birth chart.