Guides
Short explainers for the astrology concepts behind the analyses in AstroVia.
- What a natal chart is and how to read yoursA plain-language guide to the natal chart: what it maps, which placements to read first, and how houses and aspects fit together.
- Solar return: your birthday chart for the yearWhat a solar return is, when it begins, and how astrologers read the birthday chart for the year ahead.
- Synastry vs composite: two ways to read a coupleHow astrologers read two charts for a relationship: synastry compares them, the composite combines them, and each answers a different question.
- Transits: what moving planets do to your chartWhat transits are, how astrologers time them against a birth chart, and how a dated transit reading differs from a natal or yearly one.
- No birth time? What changes in your chartWhich parts of a birth chart survive an unknown birth time, which are left out, and how the Moon is read as a range instead of a single degree.
- What a chart says about work and vocationA plain-language guide to reading a birth chart for work: the Midheaven, the tenth, sixth and second houses, Saturn, the nodes, and how timing fits in.