Read your own chart

What it is

Four pages, and by the end of them you will have read one placement in your own chart. Not your whole chart — one placement, properly. That is the move everything else in astrology is built on.

• Your chart. Where to get it, what your birth time is for, and what to do if you cannot find it.
• The parts of a chart. My own chart, annotated — the signs, the planets, the degrees, the houses and the angles. Then you find one placement on yours.
• The three pieces. All ten planets, all twelve signs and all twelve houses on a single sheet, in the words you need to build a sentence.
• Read it. A worked example from my own chart, then yours, in your own handwriting.

Who it is for

Someone who has looked up what their sign means and wanted more than that. You need no prior knowledge, no software and no vocabulary. You need your birth date, your birth time if you have it, and about half an hour.

What it leaves out

Aspects, deliberately. They are where a chart stops being a list of ten things and starts being a person, and they need more room than a first workbook has. They are the heart of The Fundamentals.