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Western zodiac
Signs, rulers, modalities and the corrections to what everyone thinks they know.
11 articles.
Cusp signs aren't real | here's why
There is no such thing as a cusp sign.
4 min read
Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet
Three ways of operating, derived from the shape of the seasons, and the fastest structural read of any chart.
4 min read
Polarities: why each sign has an opposite
Six axes rather than twelve isolated signs, and opposites that need each other more than they fight.
4 min read
Reading your chart in order: a step-by-step method
The information isn't the problem. The order is.
4 min read
The modern vs traditional rulers debate
Three signs, two answers each, and a genuine unresolved argument instead of an error.
4 min read
Every sign's ruling planet and what it governs
Twelve signs, seven classical rulers, and the one planet that stands for you.
4 min read
Sect: day charts vs night charts
One fact about your birth (was the Sun up) that reorganises half a traditional reading.
5 min read
Sun sign stereotypes vs what modern Western readers say
Most of what you know about your sign was written for a newspaper column in the 1930s.
4 min read
Why there are 12 signs and not 13
The zodiac has twelve signs because it divides the ecliptic into twelve equal 30-degree segments, a mathematical division, not a map of the constellations.
4 min read
Your Sun, Moon and rising signs: the Big Three explained
Three points, three different questions. Most of what people mean by “reading a chart” happens here.
9 min read
Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
The Sun sign is where the Sun sat on your birth date and counts, for most modern astrologers, as core character and direction.
5 min read
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