Reference
Astrology, one idea at a time
Every page here answers one question and stops. No horoscopes, no birth data, nothing that needs an account — what the tradition holds, and where it is quiet.
The planets
What each body is read for on its own, before anything touches it.
The aspects
The angles themselves — what a square asks for that a trine does not.
Contacts between two planets
One page per pairing, written for the contact rather than for either body.
- Mars square Saturn
- Mercury sextile Venus
- Moon conjunction Mars
- Moon opposition Mars
- Moon sextile Mercury
- Moon sextile North Node
- Moon sextile Sun
- Moon square Mars
- Moon square Saturn
- Moon square Venus
- Moon trine Mars
- Moon trine Venus
- Venus conjunction Mars
- Venus conjunction Saturn
- Venus opposition Neptune
- Venus opposition Pluto
- Venus opposition Saturn
- Venus opposition Uranus
- Venus sextile Chiron
- Venus sextile Jupiter
- Venus sextile North Node
- Venus sextile Sun
- Venus square Chiron
- Venus square Jupiter
- Venus square Mars
- Venus square Neptune
- Venus square Pluto
- Venus Square Saturn
- Venus square Uranus
- Venus trine Mars
- Venus trine Neptune
- Venus trine Saturn
Elsewhere
Everything else published here.
How to use this reference
A birth chart is read in layers, and this section is arranged the same way. Start with a body — the Moon, Saturn, Venus — to learn what it governs on its own. That meaning holds wherever the planet lands, and everything after it is a modification of that one idea.
Then read the aspect: the angle between two bodies. The angle decides the tone of the conversation. A trine is an easy agreement that can go unnoticed precisely because nothing objects to it; a square is friction between two things that both want to run the show, and it tends to be where the actual growth is. An opposition asks you to hold two true things at once.
A contact page puts the two together — Venus square Saturn, say — and reads what that specific pair does. This is the level most people are actually looking for, and it only makes sense once the two bodies underneath it do.
Nothing here needs your birth details, and nothing here asks for them. If you want the wider ideas — retrogrades, the houses, sun, moon and rising — in longer form, The Learn library carries them. Read a body, then the angle, then the pair: that order is the whole method.