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Astrology Glossary

Astrology Glossary
Astrology Glossary

Every astrology term explained in one plain sentence, alongside chart and transit readings.

1. Fundamentals

  • Natal ChartThe map of the sky at the moment and place of your birth: the baseline
  • AscendantThe sign rising on the eastern horizon at your birth: how others first
  • MidheavenThe topmost point of the chart, pointing to career, public role and re
  • Sun SignThe sign where the Sun sits at your birth: your core self and vitality
  • Moon SignThe sign where the Moon sits: your emotions, sense of safety and inner
  • Rising SignThe sign of your Ascendant: the mask you show the world and your first
  • HouseThe chart's twelve life areas, each house ruling a domain of life. Hou
  • ZodiacThe twelve-sign band the Sun travels through in a year, and astrology'

2. Aspects

  • AspectThe angular relationship between two planets, deciding whether their e
  • ConjunctionTwo planets very close together, their energies fused: one of the stro
  • OppositionTwo planets facing each other across the sky: tension and balance, ask
  • TrineTwo planets about 120° apart, flowing easily: often a talent or effort
  • SquareTwo planets about 90° apart, creating friction and pressure: also the
  • SextileTwo planets about 60° apart: opportunity and cooperation, if you activ

3. Cycles & Timing

  • TransitWhere the planets are right now, interacting with your natal chart in
  • RetrogradeWhen a planet appears to move backward from Earth's view: in astrology
  • FirdariaA medieval timing system that divides life into sequential planetary p
  • Solar ReturnThe chart drawn for the moment the Sun returns to its birth position e
  • Secondary ProgressionsA timing technique that advances one day after birth as one year of li
  • EphemerisTables recording the exact position of the planets for every day: the
  • Sidereal ZodiacThe zodiac measured against fixed stars, unlike the tropical zodiac me

4. Patterns & Relationships

  • StelliumThree or more planets crowded in one sign or house, making that area s
  • Grand TrineThree planets each in trine, forming a closed triangle: a classic patt
  • T-SquareTwo planets in opposition, both squared by a third: a tense but high-d
  • YodA pattern where two planets sextile each other and both are quincunx (
  • Grand CrossFour planets in opposite pairs, all squaring each other in a closed sq
  • KiteA grand trine plus one planet opposing one of its points, shaped like
  • North NodeOne of the Moon's orbital nodes crossing the ecliptic: in astrology, t
  • SynastryOverlaying two people's charts to see the attraction and friction in a
  • ChironA body in the asteroid belt, read in astrology as the deepest wound an

5. Comparisons

6. FAQ

7. Houses

8. Planets in Signs

Moon

Mercury

Venus

Mars

Jupiter