Astrology, plain spoken
Learn the language of the cosmos.
A plain-English reference for the same building blocks the StarBind app uses to read your chart: signs, planets, houses, aspects, and the bigger ideas they combine into.
Start here
The chart itself, then the four kinds of thing in it.
Explore your chart
Points beyond the planets, the moving sky, and the choices behind a chart.
- Special Points Angles, nodes & asteroids
- Asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno & Vesta
- Transits How moving planets affect you
- Retrograde When planets move backward
- Moon Phases The 8 phases of the lunar cycle
- Eclipses Cosmic reset buttons
- Solar Return Your annual birthday chart
- Lunar nodes Rahu, Ketu, and the four interpretive frames
- Lilith The three Liliths in modern astrology
- House systems Placidus, Koch, whole sign, Porphyry
- Zodiac systems Tropical vs sidereal
- Ayanamsa choices Lahiri, Krishnamurti, Fagan-Bradley
- Malefic classification Classical Mars/Saturn vs modern Saturn/Pluto
- Customizing your chart All 19 knobs explained
- Modern Western Psychological Tropical, Placidus, Jungian lens
- Vedic Classical Sidereal, whole-sign, dasha tradition
- Hellenistic Classical Ancient Greek synthesis · Beta
- Vedic Astrology Nakshatras, dashas & yogas
Read the connections
Planets in signs, and two charts side by side.
Try the tools
Compute your own chart before you read about it.
All guides
- Your Natal Chart
- Transits
- Retrograde
- Moon Phases
- Eclipses
- Solar Return
- Synastry
- Composite Charts
- Birth Date Numerology
- Space Weather
- Vedic Astrology
- Modern Western Psychological
- Vedic Classical
- Hellenistic Classical
- Zodiac systems
- House systems
- Lunar nodes
- Lilith
- Ayanamsa choices
- Malefic classification
- Synastry orb scale
- Customizing your chart