Astrology 101 - Read People Like a Pro!

1. Intro - Who is Astrology For? Why Learn Astrology?: Hi, guys. Eleanor, from hitting gift astrology here. And I'm so excited to welcome you to this skill share course how to interpret charts like a pro astrology 101 This course is designed to cover astrological interpretation, which is the key to unlocking all of the really interesting aspects of your personality. Each of us has what's called an astrological birth chart, which is a map of where all the stars were in the sky at the moment of your birth. And if you know how toe uncover and interpret your birth chart, you're able to unlock a whole lot of information about your personality, who you are, why you are the way you are. And you can do this for your friends, your family members, um, someone you might have a crush on, or something like that. Astrology has absolutely transformed my life. It is completely changed the way that I interact with people and helped me understand everyone in my life a whole lot better. And I'm really excited to share that with you today, So to participate in this course, you don't need any sort of background in astrology whatsoever, but it is really helpful if you already have a copy of your birth chart on hands, I really like using astro dot com to pull my birth chart. And to do that, you're just going to need your birth dates, your birth time and your birth location. You don't even need to make it a counter anything if you don't want. Teoh and I also have a quick video tutorial on how to pull your charter nascar dot com in case that's helpful so you can check that out of my YouTube page. Thanks so much, and I'll see you for the next lesson. 2. Understanding the Signs: The key to understanding the astrological signs beyond just the stereotypes, is understanding the elements in the modalities that classify the signs. All of the signs can be divided up into four elements in three modalities that give more detail on how each of the signs is expressed. Elements can be subdivided actually into two polarities that really have very little to do with our understanding of sex and gender as humans, the masculine signs are active, they're extroverted, they're concerned with life in the external world. And the feminine signs are their receptive, introverted counterparts. Feminine signs are much more concerned with internal life and making things happen for oneself individually. The masculine signs are fire science, which are all about creativity and passion. Fire science have a vision that they want to share with the world and they want to paint that vision in Technicolor down to the very last detail so that they can share their vision with the world and have people see what they see. Their signs are all about mental, logical understandings of the world. They like to see themselves as very emotionally detached and sort of viewing things from above 360 degree view. These are very intellectual signs that want to make sense of things and understand how they work. Feminine signs are earth science, which are all about stability, practicality, and material real-world concerns. Earth signs are all about. It's our finances, our money, and our work in our day-to-day life. What exists in a very tangible and real-world sense. And water signs or the emotions, the passion, the spirituality and sensuality that ties it all together. Water signs provide us with the empathy and the compassion that allow us to step into other people's shoes and foster a sense of connection that makes it all seem worth it. The fire signs are areas Leo Sagittarius, the earth signs are tourists, Virgo and Capricorn. Your signs Gemini, Libra, Aquarius, and water signs, cancers, Scorpio and Pisces. The modalities are just another way to divide up the zodiac signs. Cardinal signs are all about action initiation, making things happen rather than waiting around for someone else to get things off the ground. And the fixed lines are all about being steadfast, loyal determines seeing things through the, the ends, acting as a ride or die. The mutable signs superpower is their adaptability and flexibility. They're definitely not the most confrontational signs, so they're much more likely to change their own needs or wants to make a situation work. The cardinal signs are areas cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. Fixed signs are tourists. Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. Mutable signs, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Once you know the element and the modality of each sign, you can start to interpret what it means. For example, when you're looking at areas, you know that you are looking at Cardinal fire. So that is all about initiation, about getting things done, about action, about initiation, about energy, working towards your goals. With Pisces, let's say we're looking at mutable water. That's all about connection, about intuition and emotions, and adaptability, flexibility. So we might imagine that this is somebody who's very empathetic and might not always have the greatest sense of where they end and another person begins. You can also look up stereotypes for each of the science and base your interpretation on that. There's tons of information on that on YouTube and other parts of the nut. But I really think that looking at the elements in the modalities of each of the signs is the best way to do your interpretation. That way it comes from the heart and it comes from what you know and understand about each of the signs. And I think that's the best way to go. 3. Planets & Basics of Interpretation: You're probably already familiar with your sun sign, but what you may not know about astrology is that astrologers actually believed that the positions of all of the planets, including the sun, but also including everything out to Neptune, uranus and Pluto have an impact on your personality as well. Each of the planets dictates a certain life themes and experiences that we all have. So for example, the sun is all about your general vitality, your ego and your sense of self. And Jupiter is your sense of optimism and positivity where you are the luckiest. All of those pieces come into play to give you a much more complete picture of your personality and who you are as an individual. Before we jump into it, I think it's important to point out that of all of the celestial bodies that are up on the screen here, only Mercury, Venus, and Mars are actually planets until there's a better astronomical term for us to use. Astrologers are just going to use planets to refer to any relevant celestial body or astrological point that we're using in our interpretation. I hope that works for you if you have any better suggestions, shoot them out there. So with that disclaimer out of the way with the sun, we're looking at the active egoic part of yourself. The sun is the part of you that has goals and a conscious expression. This is the part of you that is quote unquote, masculine. And out in the outside world, the moon is the feminine counterparts to the sun. And though it is not the part of you that is productive and active and external facing. It is just as important as the sun. I think that the sun holds a lot of weight in our society and most people tend to only know their sons sign because we value productivity and goals and being externally driven in our society. But That's not the only important part of our expression. The Moon tells us all about our emotions, our reactions, our habits, and really the less conscious ways of our being. It can show us a lot about ingrained behavior patterns in green beliefs and understanding of ourselves that kind of ride below the surface. Mercury, of course, is the planet closest to the sun and the quickest moving from our perspective. And all of that quick moving, darting around sort of energy tells us a lot about communication or mental energy learning and understanding. Mercury tells us about how we communicate with others, what we'd like communicating about, and even about travel and trips that we take. Venus tells us about our loved nature, romance, sex, and in a broader sense about what we value. Venous can tell us about our friendships and how we value our friendships. They can tell us about how we act in social situations and our perspective on money and finances as well. If the sun is the moon's masculine counterpart, we can also say that Mars is the masculine side of Venus that tells us about the other half of our romantic and sexual expression. If Venus is what we want, mars is going to be how we go about getting it. This also tells us about our work style, about our productivity. Mars is about how we take action and express ourselves towards the goals that the sun has us interested in and want, wants us to go after. The last point that we're going to discuss is the rising or the Ascendant sign or the first house cusp. This is the ambassador that you share with the rest of the world's, some astrologers even call it the social mask. And it's how other people see you. In a lot of cases, if you ask someone to guess your zodiac sign, they might actually guess you're rising sign, which is interesting because it's the part of your expression that you share most easily and readily with people that you don't know very well. Once you know what planet you're looking at and the assignment is, you're really ready to start interpreting. Think of it this way. If the planet is the noun of your sentence, which determines the subject that you're looking at. The sign is going to be the adjective that determines how that's known as expressed. For example, if I have Venus and Gemini, I'm going to combine what I know about the planet Venus and the sign Gemini together to get my interpretation. I know that Venus tells me all about my loved nature, my romantic relationships, partnerships, what I value, and I know that Venus is mutable air. So it's probably flexible, chaotic, and all over the place because it's mutable, because it's an air sign, it's gonna be more detached and intellectual. Therefore, I'm probably going to guess that a Venus in Gemini individual is somebody who likes to have fun, talk a lot and be intellectually stimulated with their partner. That mutability might not necessarily make them the most reliable, but I definitely imagine that this is somebody who likes to have a lot of fun with the other person they're in a relationship with. They like to be excited and mentally stimulated with them at all times. Once I do my first or as I do my first few interpretations, I'm definitely going to look online and read what other people have written about those placements just to kind of do a double-check on what my gut is telling me. But essentially that's all there is to interpretation. I think you're ready to get started yourself for your first-class assignment, I'm going to ask you to look at two of the planets in your chart. So that could be either the sun or the moon, which aren't really planets. But in astrology we'll just call them that Mercury, Mars, or Venus. So look at the placement of two of those planets in your chart. And write up a short paragraph describing an interpretation of that planet and the sine. 4. Understanding the Houses: If the planets are the nouns of the charts which show you all the different areas of life and life experiences that we all go through. The signs are the adjectives which give all of those planets their particular flavor in expression. The houses are going to be the adverbs which show you where and what capacity those themes are going to show up in your charts. Starting with the first quadrant down in the bottom left, we get a picture of you as an individual. In the first taus, we see your basic personality, the ambassador that you share with the rest of the world, as we discussed in our definition of the rising sign, the first house can also tell you about your looks and your physical appearance, which is very interesting. In the second house, we start to look at your possessions and finances, money, and what you have. The third house is all about communication. It can tell you about who you communicate with, how you communicate, and also about your childhood, your siblings in any sort of short trips that you take. The fourth house is your roots, your emotions, your ancestry. It is a very subconscious part of yourself and can have a lot to do with your family and your home, both literally and figuratively. This is the most private and intimate part of yourself because it's at the bottom of your chart. This is not a part of yourself that you really show to people very readily, like your moon sign. The fifth house is what you birth in this lifetime. Again, either literally meaning your children or figuratively meaning your hobbies, your creative expression, your passions. Fifth house tells us about what we enjoy and what we like to do in this lifetime. The six house looks at habits, day-to-day routine, your work style, your health. And in the third quadrants we starts to get into how you relate to others, which is the theme for really the whole top of your chart. In the seventh thousand, we look at purely your relationships with others in a one-on-one sense. Of course, this has a lot to do with romantic relationships. This also has to do with friendships, business partners, and even enemies. If you have open enemies, if you have secret enemies or people who are perhaps trying to sabotage you from behind the scenes. This is gonna show up more in the 12th house. In eighth house, we look at everything that is hidden in relating to others. This has to do with secret dealings and affairs, sex, the occult, and other people's money. Which is interesting if you think about it, because in the second house opposite the Athos on the zodiacal, we'll, we're looking at your own money. So in the opposite house we're looking at other people's money and what sort of control, if any, you have over that. In the ninth house, we start looking at mind expansion. This is your beliefs, your philosophy, travel that you take that expands your mind and any sort of higher education that you undergo. The tenth house, which is the top and most public part of your charge. We're looking at your career, your legacy, your public image. The 11th house. We're looking at society, societal groups, humanity as a whole, and identity categories. Somebody with an 11 thousand emphasis is going to be very interested in their identity either by embracing it wholeheartedly or maybe rejecting it and having a very tumultuous relationship with that identity depending on what planets are, what signs they have in the 11th house. The 12th houses, very interesting because here we start to look at the space that is between worlds. In the 12th house. We're getting ready to start back over in the first house and start over with a whole new set of expressions. And this is where we start to get into spaces that we don't really see very clearly. The 12th house tells us about our blind spots and where something might be super, super appearance to somebody else, but we just can't see it no matter what we do. The 12 house has to do with secrets that we aren't fully aware of. Hidden enemies, as we've mentioned. And spaces separate from society. This can be jails, prisons, solitary confinement, and anything sort of escapist and spiritual in a way. When looking at the houses in your chart, it's best to start with looking at the signs that are on each of the house cusps. For example, looking at the second house cusp, I can learn a lot about second house themes and my charts. The first toss costs, but the rising or Ascendant sign, so on and so forth. And of course, looking at where the planets fall in all of the houses is going to give you a great deal of information as well. If you add together the planets, the sign that it's in, and the house that it's in, you can really take your interpretation up to the next level. So going back to my Venus in Gemini example, let's say that this ***** in Gemini is in the fourth house. Because the fourth house is all about your roots, your ancestry, your home, and your family. This is somebody who's going to really like a lot of sort of Venus and Gemini type stimulation in their relationships. But they're probably going to want to have a lot of those experiences at home. Maybe it's most stimulating for them to decorate their home with their partner or learn about new things. Sitting on the couch watching a Netflix special. This is quite the contrast for somebody who might have Venus and Gemini in the 11th house, for example, which is all about your social groups. Humanity as a whole society, a Venus and Gemini. In the 11th house person is probably going to want to be out in the world with their partner. They're probably going to want to introduce them to all of their friends and build a new social circle. Circle together, makes sure that all their friends really like their partner and they all get to have fun together. The house really allows you to take the interpretation of a planet and the sign to the next level and get really specific about how that's going to show up for you or for anyone else. It's important to point out that just because you may not have any planets in a given house does not mean that that house is not important for you. For example, if you don't have any planets in your seventh house, that does not mean that you are doomed and relationships that you're never going to be in a relationship, anything like that. In a lot of cases, it might even be better to have an empty house because then that houses expression is just purely determined by the sign that's on the cuts. If you have, let's say Saturn or Mars, some of the more challenging planets in that house again, let's say the 7 thousand, that might mean that you have really challenging relationships. So it might be better to just have the sign there and an empty house. For this next assignment, you're going to go back to the planets that you had done an interpretation for in the last course and look at the houses that they're in, how does that change? Or maybe further refine the interpretation that you put forth in our last lesson. I'm curious to know what you think. 5. Incorporating Outer Planets: Up till now, we've really only been looking at all the planets up through Mars. That's because Jupiter, Saturn and definitely the outer planets, which are Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, or so slow-moving that you're going to have those planets in the same sign as anyone who was about your same age. This makes them really interesting to look at for generational astrology in a study of time periods in history and the like. But bringing personal and charts reputation is not something that I attend to look at very closely. Because the houses that these planets will fall into can vary from person to person. I will look to see if any of those planets are in one of the angular houses. So that's Houses one for 710. Especially if one of the planets is like right on the cusp of one of those houses. It's going to be very much an active part of your expression because the angular houses are so active in there. A lot of what the other people in your life we'll actually see of you if Jupiter, Saturn, or an outer planet is in aspects to an inner planet, which I'll talk about in our next video that's gonna be really important to look at two. For example, let's say that you have Mars conjunct Pluto in Sagittarius. You are not by any means just a regular old Mars and sedentary is person. You have all of the depth and the transformation and the regeneration and the passion of Pluto infused with your Mars energy and the way that you'd get things done and make things happen, That's very significant. Jupiter is our planet of luck and positivity. This is the most positive planet in our charter. And wherever you have it is going to show you wherever you are the luckiest, where you are going to have the most good fortune and where you are going to experience really good things. However, it is important to point out that because Jupiter is this big planet that expands whatever it touches. If it is placed in a harsh aspects or if it is an aspect to a more negative planet, Saturn or Mars, it might be too much of a good thing and lead to negative things in your chart. Saturn is all about discipline and lessons and hard work. Saturn is our practice, makes perfect planet. And it can drive us crazy and early life because we can't take shortcuts wherever we've got Saturday and R chart. However, because it has such a drive towards perfectionism, we are going to be able to master our Saturn lessons by the end of our lifetimes. And these are going to turn in some to some of our biggest gifts and ultimately your rewards in our lives. If Neptune is our rose-colored glasses, Uranus is our electric bolts of energy. Uranus brings excitement and unpredictability and eccentricity to whatever it touches. It's where we might experience really sudden changes and a lot of different perspectives and experiences throughout our lifetimes. And where things are unstable and unpredictable. This exciting, buzzing sort of energy can be presented as anxiety sometimes especially in people who have a lot of Uranus energy in their charts. And sometimes it can be this energy of almost getting thrown into a situation that seems like too much, but we've got to rise to the occasion and ultimately it ends up being great. Neptune is our planet of rose-colored glasses. It's where we see things very metaphorically and symbolically. And things may not be exactly as they seem. This can be really beautiful. A lot of musicians and artists have a strong Neptune energy and it tells us a lot about spirituality and psychic NAS. But it can also have to do with deceit or illusion and things not being what they seem in that sort of way. So like with every planet, there's sort of a positive and a negative side to Neptune. Pluto, which again is technically a dwarf planet. But the best term we've got we're using planning for now is all about depth regeneration and transformation. Pluto is our Phoenix from the ashes planet. It is where we kind of metaphorically die over and over throughout our lives so that we can keep recreating ourselves. It is where we are perfecting and refining. Similarly to Saturn, but much more in a, raise it all to the ground and start over from scratch type of way where we're just regenerating constantly. We're going to hold off on putting out an assignment for this lesson. But I will ask you to look at the outer planet placements for you and for one other person with their consent. Of course. What's most interesting to you about those house placements. And in the next video, we're going to start looking at aspects, which is another great way to incorporate analysis of outer planets in your chart readings. 6. Understanding Aspects: Do you sometimes feel like there are pieces of you that aren't all on the same page or once you make a decision or you just absolutely sat on it and nothing can change your mind. Looking at aspects might be really helpful in figuring out why you are one way or the other aspects are the angles that your planets make to each other in your charts. Once you get a handle on interpreting the individual planets is really helpful to look at the energy that comes between or around planets that are in your chart in order to make sense of some of the internal conflicts or harmonies that you may be experiencing. These are the major aspects that we're going to be discussing today. There are also minor aspects which are represented by these dotted lines or the green dashed lines. But for the purpose of this lesson, we're just going to focus on the solid red and the solid blue lines in the middle of your chart. You can also find aspects by looking at this little graph down here. So if you find one plant here and you go down to the other planet on the other side. For example, here I can see that this is Moon, Saturn. And I happen to know that this symbol is a conjunction. I know from these little symbols here that the conjunction is only one degree apart. So the moon and Saturn are one degree from each other and they are actually separating. A conjunction is where two planets sit at the same or very close to the same degree. It doesn't necessarily positive or negative, but it does imply that the energies of those two planets are very linked in some way. In opposition is, as the name implies, a 180 degrees between two planets on opposite sides of the zodiac. And the way that it opposition shows up is with some sort of tension or something that seems to be incontrovertible between two energies. Sometimes in opposition shows up as two truths that seem very, very opposing. But our way of dealing with the opposition is to create a worldview that allows for both of those truths to be known simultaneously, though they may seem very opposing and conflicting. A square aspect or 90 degrees between two planets is similar to an opposition. A lot of times it's going to be even more challenging and confrontational, especially in our early life. But as we learn to deal with the energy of a square and allow for freer flow of energy between the planets involves a square can actually be whenever greed is assets in our later life, tries in textiles are where we get into more positive energies between planets. This is where we have gifts and talents and assets that we can rely on in hard times. Trying is between two planets in signs of the same elements. So two planets and water signs or two planets and air science in a sec style is between two planets in compatible elements. So fire, an air or earth and water. So using this chart as an example, there's a lot of red as you can see, but narrowing and specifically on the square between Venus and Saturn and also Venus and the Moon, because we've got a moon, Saturn conjunction down here. We can learn a lot about this natives romantic nature. So knowing that Venus is about love and romance, and Saturn is about boundaries and restriction in hard lessons. This is probably going to be someone who has a lot of harsh, harsh Russians that they need to learn in love, especially because it's square is a really harsh conflictual sort of energy. This is going to be somebody who might have some romantic misfortune, especially at the beginning of their lifetime and needs to learn a lot of their life lesson through relationships. So that's just one example for this lesson's assignment. We're going to have you look back at the planets from your first assignment. What aspects do you see to those planets from either inner or outer planets? At this point, you're ready to start reading for as many people as possible and as many people as you can find who are interested in having you read for them. You now know about the signs, the planets, the houses, and the aspects between the planets. So you're really getting into the meat of interpretation. 7. Incorporating the Asteroids: Unlike outer planets, asteroids can be most important if they're in a major house which I define as the first, fourth, seventh, tenth. Or if they're in a major aspects to a personal planet. There are countless asteroids to look at and they're minor, of course, as Asteroids, They're not full on planets, so they're not the most important part of your interpretation, but they can be a fun element to add in every once in awhile. From Astro.com, you can find the asteroids if you go to extended chart selection under free horoscopes, you can scroll down to where it says additional objects. There's a pop-up that has some of the asteroids that you can just add in individually. Or if you want to get really fancy with it, you can enter in the asteroid numbers into this little manual entry box. There's a full list of all the asteroids here with all their numbers and tons of information online. There's an asteroid for literally anything you can think of. If you want to get really crazy with it. For the purposes of this video, I'm going to talk about some of the major asteroids that astrologers tend to really like, starting with Kiran, which is astrologers favored asteroid. Kiran. And the medulla Kiran tells us all about the wounded healer. And in our chart, it is where we have our deepest insecurity. Kiran chooses where we're able to really help others and really heal others. But we may be very blocked from healing ourselves. And we always have something that we feel is not quite right about ourselves and about the way we do things. Series is all about nurturing motherhood and taking care of others and ourselves. If we have children, series is going to tell us a lot about how we are as parents. And it also tells us a lot about how we treat ourselves and our bodies. If we have issues with body image, this might be due to an affliction to the asteroid Ceres, or if we have really great health and body image on the other side of things, that might be a really positive series placements. Palace is named for the Roman goddess palace Athena, which represents the y's feminine palace. Athena is concerned with justice, sense of right and wrong, crafts and handiwork and sort of trickster mental wisdom. Juno in Roman mythology, was the wife of Jupiter, and in astrology, the asteroid unit tells us all about marriage. Venus also tells us about marriage, as you might imagine, but Juneau, I think, gives us a much more modern view. Interrelationships. Venus represents a very archetype bowl, submissive, feminine side. And I think Juno is where we think a lot more about equity, about boundaries and fairness in relationship. Where we work with issues like gender roles and think about jealousy, control, how we act in a relationship and the terms of our relationship that we want to put out their investor gives us themes of self-sufficiency. Again, in Roman mythology, Vesta was the sister of Jupiter and Juno who never married and similar to palace Athena, best at the asteroid, gives us a view into the feminine kind of decoupled from sex and sexuality. In this case, this is because the Vestas focus, dedication and her sense of self-respect and self-worth. Vesta is how we see ourselves as self-sufficient beings and how we respect ourselves. Vesta is all about breaking things down and putting them together, ritual and process, and how we're able to purify and create in our own lives. For this lesson's assignment, look up the asteroids that we mentioned in this video by sign and house placements in your chart. Pick one and write up a couple of sentences, interpreting it. 8. Unlocking the Degrees: So at this point it goes without saying that each of the planets in your chart falls into a particular astrological sign. But where in particular within that sign, each of the signs of the zodiac takes up 30 degrees of the night sky. And figuring out where within those 30 degrees each of your planets falls can give you even a little bit more information and insight into how it's expressed in your chart. It's actually very easy to find the degrees of each of your planets on astro.com. The degrees are going to be this larger number, That's right by each of your planets. The smaller number, our minutes of arc, which is just a smaller unit of degrees. And you can round up or down with the unit of 60 as appropriate. Of course, this also shows up in our little cheat sheet graph at the bottom of the chart where we have the planet, the sign and the degree that each planet is at. Planets at lower degrees of each of the signs from about 0 to ten degrees tend to be less developed and less expressed in our charts. We tend to not be as sure of how we want to share those planets with the outside world. And they tend to be a little bit stunted or perhaps even underdeveloped or less consciously expressed in our charts. In contrast, planets at higher degrees. So let's say 20 to 30 degrees of our chart are going to be much more fully expressed in much more active and conscious part of the way that we act in the way that we experience ourselves in the outside world. Specifically the 29th degree of any sign called the antipyretic degree is going to be a representation of the most intense energy in the purest form of each of those signs. So definitely something to keep in mind. If you have a planet at 29 degrees of any of the signs, It's gonna be a powerful one. And you can also look up the Sapiens symbol for any degree in your chart. The CBN symbols were produced by a clear Koreans in the early 1900's and essentially provide an image or a significant portion for each degree of each sign. So that's 360 images total. It can be interesting to look up the symbol for your sun sign or any other irrelevant point in your chart to get a different take on what it might mean. For example, my son is 16 degree cancer has the CBN symbol of a man studying amygdala before him with the help of a very ancient book. I think that's very interesting. It's a symbol that feels personally resonant with me. Gives me another look into what my cancer Sunstein might mean. You can look up the Sapiens symbols online or checkout the book inside degrees by ileus Lonsdale, which gives you a write-up on each of the Sapiens symbols for this lesson's assignment, find one planets and write up a couple of sentences on the degree that that planet is at. How do you think the degrees that this planet sits at modifies or determines its expression in any sort of way. 9. Transits (The Key to Deciphering your Horoscope): By now, you are a master of chart interpretation. To give you a little bit of teaser for what's next if you continue your study of astrology, I wanted to introduce you to transits, which is another way to figure out what's going on in your life right now. And the key to unlocking timing and prediction using astrology, kind of like the horoscopes that you read in the newspaper. Astrological transits allow you to overlay the planets that are in your birth chart with where the planets are at right now currently in the night sky. This can give you a lot of insight into what's going on in the world at large and how you are experiencing all of those things personally. So if you have your chart on astro.com, there's actually this handy button at the top right of the charts, which will allow you to add trends. It's instantly. So around the outside of my chart in lime green here I have all of the planetary transits for today. I can also go back out to the extended chart selection page, which is just a free horoscopes extended short selection. And I'm going to go to where it says Chart Type here. Scroll down to natal chart and transits. And then if I go to this box here where it says start date, I can put in the date for the future, for the past and look at transits for that period of time, which is super, super interesting. But for now I'm just going to stick to today's transits. And Astra.com provides this whole table up where it says additional tables in the top-left, where I can look at both the aspects that I have in my needle chart here. Or I can go to this second page and look at the relationship between my birth planets or needle planets up here and the transit planets or where the transits are currently, which is super, It's super interesting. Once I know the planetary glyphs, the symbols for the aspects, reading a table like this is super, super simple. Or I can just stay on this page here and do a visual scan of the transits that I see. The moon is always going to be our fastest moving transit. The moon changes signs every 2.5 days reliably without fail, because every 30 days we get a full cycle of the moon through the zodiac sign. If you get really good at tracking wound transits, this can give you the most specific and precise bellwether of how you might be feeling from day to day at any point in time, the sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars change signs every, Let's see, three dash six weeks, except if they are retrograde, which all but the sun do at least a couple of times every few years. So right now I'm looking at my transits. I see that there's a whole lot of Pisces stuff that I have going on. We've got the moon in Pisces right now for the short two-day period, we have Venus and Pisces, mercury and Pisces, and also Neptune and Pisces, which is a longer-term transit. So lots of stuff going on there. But I see that Saturn and Pluto, or opposite my son and mercury in cancer right about now. Because Saturn and Pluto or slower moving, these are gonna be transits that I have for awhile, like a couple of years as opposed to a couple of weeks or a couple days. Saturn, pluto are some of the harsher planets that give us self lessons and provide tough love. So I know that the next couple of years are probably going to be all about discipline and it's tough love lessons and bringing myself up to my next level. I also see that I have the north node about to translate over my son. We haven't talked about the north node in this class, but if you're curious, I highly suggest that you look more into the North and the South nodes is they're very, very interesting astrological points. And seeing the north node coming towards my son, it will probably be exactly over the summer. I know that there's a lot of really interesting and sort of faded occurrences that I have to look forward to. We will see how all that plays out. But it is very helpful to have astrology as a predictive tool so that you can figure out what you may have to be working on before you're in the middle of experiencing it. For this last class assignment, we're going to have you look at one major transit. So that's going to be an outer planet transit. In somebody else's chart, write up a short paragraph describing what the individual might experience or be experiencing during the course of this transit. And then talk to that individual and get their take on whether any of those predictions have come true. It's only through talking to other people and getting their take on your analyses that you're able to take your interpretation up to the next level. So continue to practice with reading other people's charts. 10. Conclusion & What’s Next? : Thank you so much for participating in this course. I've had a lot of fun and I hope that you have to, at this point you're ready to stop your crush, impress your friends, make sense of all of your complicated family dynamics. Astrology gives you the tool to unlike all of it. When I gonna do astrology, I remember just being able to make sense of the world for the first time. I was able to understand why I was the way that I was and why my interactions with people went the way that they did. And I just decided I never wanted to stop learning about this stuff. And that's really why I love astrology, is that even with this course right now, we are barely scratching the surface of it. I tend to use a very modern Western centric, almost psychological posts to astrology. But the techniques that I use with this approach are completely different from traditional astrology techniques used in Hellenistic astrology, in the Vedic Astrology that they use in India. And this is really only one branch of astrology was looking at birth charts. There's also what's called election astrology, which can help you pick important dates for significant events. And horror astrology, which can answer important questions and help you uncover lost objects while your own interpretation of your chart is always going to be the most accurate and the most insightful. I think it can be very helpful to hear what a professional might have to say about what you have going on and to use their advice and their insight as a starting off point for the continuation of your studies. And of course, I would love for you to stay in touch with me. You can find me on Instagram at hidden gift astrology or book or reading from me at hitting gift astrology.com. And I love talking about this stuff. So please let me know if you have any questions or if there's any additional information you'd like to have. Thank you so much and have a good one.