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Course · 6 lessons

Western Chart Foundations

Read planets, signs, houses, and aspects on a wheel.

Outcome

Navigate a natal wheel and combine a planet, sign, house, and major aspect without reducing the chart to isolated keywords.

Level
Beginner
Total estimated time
1 hr 6 min

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A natal wheel can look like a page of unfamiliar marks. This course turns it back into a small set of checkable questions: what point, in which sign, in which house, making what angle?

The six lessons use one invented teaching chart. It belongs to no real person and contains no birth date, time, or location. Astroyana's Western planetary positions are geocentric and tropical; timed charts use Placidus houses. The Learn scaffold rotates Aries to the left for practice; Astroyana's live dual-sky wheel instead keeps a fixed zodiac rim and plots the La ascendant marker at its calculated longitude. Read the printed labels rather than assuming that every chart rotates or runs in the same direction.

Course outcome

By the end, you can navigate a natal wheel and combine a planet, sign, house, and major aspect without reducing the chart to isolated keywords. You will keep the chart's calculated facts separate from inherited tradition, your own interpretation, and what remains uncertain.

Six lessons · about 66 minutes

  1. Read the Western wheel · 9 min
  2. Signs, elements, and modalities · 10 min
  3. Planets as chart functions · 11 min
  4. Houses and the four angles · 11 min
  5. Aspects and orbs · 12 min
  6. Synthesise the big three · 13 min

This is a beginner course in English, authored and provided by Astroyana. It teaches Western astrology as a documented symbolic tradition, not as proven science or a source of fixed outcomes.

Syllabus

  1. 1Read the Western wheelStart with geometry, not personality: use the zodiac rim, planet marks, ascendant, and placement table to read one Western chart position.9 min read
  2. 2Signs, elements, and modalitiesClassify every zodiac sign by element and modality, then use the pair as a restrained description of style rather than a personality verdict.10 min read
  3. 3Planets as chart functionsTreat each planet as a chart function—the what of a placement—then let sign, house, aspects, and context qualify the first keyword.11 min read
  4. 4Houses and the four anglesSeparate the twelve life-area houses from the zodiac signs, locate the ASC–DSC and MC–IC axes, and add one house to a placement.11 min read
  5. 5Aspects and orbsCalculate the five major aspect angles and their orbs, then describe connection, ease, or friction without calling an aspect good or bad.12 min read
  6. 6Synthesise the big threeCombine Sun, Moon, ascendant, houses, and one close major aspect into a transparent reading that preserves tension and uncertainty.13 min read

Astroyana's lessons explain astrology, numerology and related traditions as symbolic systems with long recorded histories. They are intended for learning and reflection and are not medical, legal, financial or psychological advice.