Astronomically, the Ascendant is the point of the ecliptic that is ascending at the moment and in the place for which the horoscope is calculated. That point is expressed in signs and degrees of the zodiac. The Significance of the Ascendant in ...

Imagine a traveler crossing a country. Depending through which part of the country he or she is traveling at the moment, they might find themselves in very different conditions. Sometimes they might walk along a fertile valley with good roads. They can walk there very quickly if ...

What are Houses? Just as the zodiac provides a framework for talking about the positions of the planets against the heavens, the houses of an astrology chart are the framework for talking about positions of bodies relative to the observer here on Earth. ...

Sun or Surya is a royal planet and is considered the king in astrology. He represents the soul, will power, father, paternal relations, the king or the high officials. It's hot and angry, colour is red, metal is gold and gem is ruby. Sun represe ...

After the horoscope is calculated, we can apply the rules of astrology, plus our own knowledge and experience, to try and understand the person's potential, talents, strengths and weaknesses. We'll begin the study of the rules that will help us to extract a meaning from the horo ...

The word horoscope is going to be used in its traditional meaning. It was so often misused in the last couple of centuries that nowadays many astrologers are a sort of ashamed to use this word - or they simply want to make clear the difference between what they are doin ...

Before we learn anything about the zodiac, we need to understand the ecliptic. The definition of ecliptic is: the imaginary path of the Sun across the sky. However, this can be a bit misleading. We all know that in the morning, ...

When looking at the starry sky, our ancestors noticed that although the majority of stars retain the same configurations year after year, some celestial bodies do in fact move against the backdrop of the stars, changing their speed and sometimes even the direction of their movem ...

Since time immemorial, a starry night has been the subject of curiosity for mankind and has turned out to be something that recurrently triggered the imaginative human mind to find some logical patterns in the visible existence of stars. Be it the arrangement of stars in a speci ...