Astrology Insights & Knowledge
The Lot of Fortune, step by step: day and night formulas, a worked calculation with real degrees, the Lot of Spirit, Eros and Necessity, and how to read the result.
A midpoint is the halfway point between two planets. When a third planet lands there, the pair starts acting as one. Notation, orbs, and the four pairs worth learning first.
Astrolas calculates every chart with Swiss Ephemeris, the same engine professional astrologers and academic astronomers use. Here is why that matters and what it means for accuracy.
Same planets, different houses: two sites, two house systems. How Whole Sign and Placidus divide the sky, where they agree and disagree, which techniques need which, and how to choose using your own chart.
Aspects connect two planets; patterns connect three or more into a shape with a focal point. Stellium, T-square, grand trine, grand cross, kite, yod, the Jones chart shapes, and how to read a pattern once you find it.
The Hellenistic technique that lays out a whole life as chapters ruled by signs, with peak periods marked in advance. The Lots of Spirit and Fortune, four levels, the loosing of the bond, and how to read your timeline.
Astrocartography draws your chart's planetary lines across a world map. Learn what AC, DC, MC, and IC lines mean, how relocation charts work, and where the method falls short.
Each sign splits into three 10-degree decans. Their Egyptian star-clock origins, Chaldean faces vs triplicity decans, and how to use them in a chart.
Horary casts a chart for the moment a question is asked. Learn Lilly's rules for significators, perfection, and the checks before judgment, with a worked job question.
Sect splits charts into day and night by the Sun's position. Learn which benefic helps most, which malefic hurts most, and how Saturn and Mars change.
Domicile, exaltation with exact degrees, detriment and fall, plus triplicity, term and face: how to judge whether a planet in your chart is well equipped to act.
How to use fixed stars in a birth chart: precession, tight 1-degree orbs, contacts to angles and lights, Ptolemy's planetary natures, and the stars worth learning first.
