Astro Coach Academy

This is a quick introduction to the Astro Chart. We will go more in depth into this in another post down the road.

Basically, there are 3 concepts you want to understand:
– Planets
– Signs
– Houses

This is what an astro chart looks like:

This is a Chart

Everything is there. By the way, this is a chart that was drawn for the beginning of an astro course I gave in 2007. Some people like to draw charts, not for the birth of a person, but to find the best time for events (say the day & time to sign a contract, buy a house etc…) In this particular case, I just drew this chart as a support for the particular course without looking for meaning and significance, but just to show our students what a chart can look like.

Let’s start with the planets. Can you see the funny looking larger signs in different colours? Those are the planets. when you study astrology, you will have to familiarise yourself with what we call “glyphs” (the funny-looking colourful symbols around the outer circle). They represent each planet. It is easier and faster to write the glyphs rather than the full name of the planet, plus the glyphs themselves have a symbolic significance. For example, the dark blue round shape with a dot inside is the Sun.

The smaller symbols that are next to the glyphs are the signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini etc… Here the Sun is in Virgo (Virgo’s symbol is the turquoise colour symbol that looks like a stylised M with an ear on the right hand side).

And finally, the straight lines that come out of the circle and the numbers 1,2,3,4 etc… are the Houses.

So we say that each planet is in a certain sign and in a certain house. In the example above, the Sun is in Virgo in the 11th House.

What does this all mean? To make things simple, imagine a theatre play. The actors (planets) represent certain characters (example: a King) who may be wearing clothes (signs) that fit their status or not (the King may be dressed as a King or disguised as a beggar), and they appear in a certain setting (houses): the garden, inside the castle, on the battle field etc… The planets, signs and houses are the 3 fundamental pillars of the play of our lives.

We will learn how to give meaning to the chart during the course, so if you have not done so yet, join the Astro Coach academy members list here. You do not commit to sign up, you just tell us that you want to know more, and you will get a chance to benefit from the bonuses that our members will get when the course goes online.