The guided course · 12 lessons · ≈ 42 min reading
Learn astrology, one lesson at a time.
Twelve lessons, in an order that matters: you start at the zodiac, you travel through planets, houses and aspects, and you finish able to read a whole chart. Each lesson fits in a short read and builds on the one before.
Where to start
With lesson 1, simply. The course is built to be read in order: the notions stack up, and what looks abstract at the start becomes concrete along the way. If you already know the basics, go straight to the lesson you are missing; each page stands on its own.
- The zodiac and the signs By the end of this lesson you will be able to read the zodiac wheel: a circle of 360 degrees cut into twelve equal slices of 30 degrees, set against the apparent path of the Sun across the year.
- The four elements By the end of this lesson you will be able to sort the twelve signs into four families and feel what each one colors.
- The three modalities By the end of this lesson you will be able to find the modality of any sign and rebuild the combination that makes it unique.
- Sun, Moon, rising sign By the end of this lesson you will be able to explain what the Sun, the Moon and the rising sign each carry, and why a chart needs the date, the time and the place of birth.
- The personal planets By the end of this lesson you will know what Mercury, Venus and Mars describe in a chart: how you think, how you love and how you act.
- The outer planets By the end of this lesson you will be able to place Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, and to tell what, in your chart, belongs to you or to your generation.
- The houses By the end of this lesson you will know what an astrological house is and why two people born on the same day do not live the same chart.
- The aspects By the end of this lesson you will be able to recognize the five major aspects and hear what they tell between two planets.
- Read your chart step by step By the end of this lesson you will know in what order to look at your chart so it tells you a story rather than a jumble of symbols.
- Transits explained By the end of this lesson you will know what a transit is and why some count more than others.
- The moon day to day By the end of this lesson you will be able to follow the Moon as an everyday marker rather than a great mystery.
- The vocabulary to keep going By the end of this lesson you will be able to decode the terms that turn up everywhere once you leave the basics.
Keep practicing
Reading is half the road. The Academy, in the app, takes this course in an interactive version: exercises on real charts, flashcards to anchor the vocabulary, and a course certificate when you reach the end. Discover the Academy.