Astrology 101: How to Read a Birth Chart

Get started with the foundations of your astrology journey. You’ll learn how to generate your birth chart, what information you’ll need, how to identify your Rising Sign, and why the Rising Sign is so important when beginning to understand and read a birth chart.

Learn the meaning of the personal planets: the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. We’ll explore how each planet represents a different part of your personality, including your identity, emotions, communication style, relationships, desires, and motivation.

Continue exploring the planets with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. You’ll learn what each planet represents and how these placements reveal themes around growth, responsibility, change, transformation, spirituality, and the larger cycles of your life.

Learn the 12 zodiac signs and the unique energy, traits, elements, and modalities associated with each one. You’ll discover how the signs influence the way planetary energy is expressed in a birth chart.

Explore the 12 houses of the birth chart and the different areas of life they represent, from identity and relationships to career, money, home, spirituality, and more.

Learn how planets communicate with one another through aspects. We’ll break down the major aspects and explore how they can create ease, tension, strengths, challenges, and important themes within a birth chart.

Learn what it means to have a stellium or retrograde planets in a birth chart and how these placements can create areas of heightened focus, intensity, and unique expression.

Bring everything you’ve learned together and begin interpreting a birth chart as a whole. Using Miley Cyrus’s birth chart as an example, we’ll connect the planets, signs, houses, aspects, and other chart patterns to see how each piece works together to tell a larger story.

Put your chart reading skills into practice with an in-depth analysis of Beyoncé’s birth chart. We’ll explore her major placements, aspects, and chart patterns while connecting everything you’ve learned throughout the course.

Continue building your chart-reading skills with an in-depth analysis of Gordon Ramsay’s birth chart. We’ll explore his major placements, aspects, and chart patterns to see how the different pieces of his chart come together.