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Astrology guides
Western astrology, explained — with a live sky
Plain-language guides to the building blocks of tropical astrology, computed from a real ephemeris rather than reprinted tables: your rising sign and its ruler, every planet in every sign, Mercury retrograde dates, the transits of the moment, and more.
The 12 rising signsyour Ascendant, its ruler, and the houses it sets
Planets in signs216 placements — the Sun through Pluto, Chiron, the nodes, Lilith and the asteroids
Sun and Moon combinationsall 144 pairings of what you are becoming and what you need
The twelve houseswhat each house governs, its ruler, and the planet that rejoices there
Planets in houses216 placements — where each planet does its work
Aspects between planetsthe eleven angles, and what all 153 pairs of bodies do in aspect- Today's horoscope, computedeach rising sign read against the real sky, not a template
Where the planets are todaythe current sign of every planet, with ingress dates
Mercury retrograde datesevery station and shadow zone, computed year by year
Saturn return dates by birth yearwhen yours falls, and what the passage asks- Glossary & referenceevery term, the houses, the aspects on one page
Every page here is computed from the same Swiss Ephemeris that powers the Natal Wheel app — a precise tropical natal chart with transits, progressions, returns, synastry and the traditional techniques, free.