A SHORT COURSE

How to read a birth chart

Twelve lessons, in order. Each one adds a layer, and all of them read the same example chart, so by lesson 8 you'll have read a whole chart from start to finish. Every lesson ends with something to try on your own.

  1. Start here: what a birth chart actually isWhat a chart is, what you need to make one, and the example chart we'll use.
  2. The planets: who's in the roomThe ten planets, what each one stands for, and which ones are personal.
  3. The signs: build all twelve from two wordsElements and modes: two small ideas that give you all twelve signs.
  4. Planet in a sign: your first real sentenceThe core skill: turn one planet in one sign into one honest sentence.
  5. Houses: where in your life it plays outTwelve life areas, why the birth time matters, and what an empty house means.
  6. The frame: rising sign, chart ruler, MidheavenThe two points that frame a chart, and the planet that runs it.
  7. Aspects: when planets talk to each otherFive angles, one idea called orb, and how to read two planets at once.
  8. Where to start when a chart looks like a messAn order of attention, so you read the loud parts first and the fine print last.
  9. Reading Maya's whole chart in four stepsThe showpiece: Maya's chart read start to finish, the way a good reading goes.
  10. Transits: when today's sky touches your chartTime enters the picture: moving planets, retrograde passes, and Maya's Saturn return.
  11. Two charts: how compatibility is actually readCompatibility the real way: contacts between two charts, read without scores.
  12. The other tradition: Vedic astrologyThe sidereal zodiac, Maya's chart shifted back a sign, and the 27 nakshatras.