Astrology
About this category
Astrology is the category of the sky's meaning: thirteen practices that read the celestial positions for character and timing and counsel, from the natal chart's personal map through the horary question's exact judgment to the Vedic and Chinese and Mayan systems that carry their own complete cosmologies. It is the library's most internally diverse category, its systems genuinely different sciences rather than variations, and its entries keep the distinctions: the Hellenistic revival's time-lord techniques are not the modern psychological reading, and the Maya's living daykeeping is not the Dreamspell built beside it.
The category's honest record includes its evidence status, the entries carrying the Carlson test and its heirs alongside the practice's persistence, and the practitioners' own range, from the traditionalists reconstructing the old techniques to the psychological astrologers who read the chart as a symbolic mirror. What unites them is the premise they all share: that the sky's cycles correspond meaningfully to the lives below, and the craft of seeing the correspondence is learnable.
The category's counsel: begin with your own chart and a good reading, not with the sun-sign columns; learn the system's own vocabulary before judging its claims; and expect the astrologer's counsel, timing and self-understanding, rather than prediction as the practice's honest product.
13 practices
Astrocartography
The birth chart drawn onto a world map: planetary lines showing where each planet was angular at birth, read to choose where to live, work, and travel.
Chinese Astrology
The four pillars of birth time read through stems, branches, and the five phases: China's fate-calculation system, far deeper than the folk animal year.
Electional Astrology
Choosing the most auspicious moment to begin: weddings, launches, and signings elected by the sky, in the branch that asks the chart for the best hour.
Evolutionary Astrology
The chart as the soul's itinerary: Pluto and the lunar nodes read as evolutionary intent, the school of astrology that reads lives across incarnations.
Hellenistic Astrology
The reconstructed astrology of the ancient Mediterranean: whole-sign houses, sect, the lots, and time-lord techniques, rebuilt from primary sources since the 1990s.
Horary Astrology
Answering a specific question from the chart of the moment it is asked: the astrology's most rule-bound branch, revived with the traditional movement.
Human Design
A self-knowledge system built from astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah's tree, and the chakras: the bodygraph's types, strategy, and the seven-year deconditioning experiment.
Mayan Astrology
The 260-day count as a reading practice: the twenty day signs and their numbers, the living calendar of Maya daykeepers, and the New Age system built beside it.
Medical Astrology
Astrology applied to medicine: the body's zodiacal map, the humoral framework it rode on, the decumbiture chart, and Culpeper's herbal legacy.
Predictive Astrology
The timing branch: transits, progressions, and returns layered over the birth chart to say when, the astrology of the year ahead.
Synastry & Relationship Astrology
Two charts read together: the interaspects of synastry, the midpoint composite chart, and the relationship reading that answers whether two people fit.
Vedic Astrology
The astrology of India: the sidereal zodiac, the Moon's nakshatras, planetary periods, and prescribed remedies, a living tradition woven into Indian life.
Western Astrology
Reading the birth chart: planets in signs and houses, aspects between them, the whole sky at the moment of birth as a portrait of a life.
Traditions represented
The living lineages found across this category’s practices.