Astrology glossary

Your core identity and what energises you. The sign your Sun is in is your familiar "star sign", but it is only one piece of the chart.

Your inner, emotional self: what you need to feel safe and how you react instinctively. Needs an accurate birth time to place precisely.

The sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at your birth. It shapes how you meet the world and first come across. Needs your birth time and place.

Aries, Leo, Sagittarius. Energy, drive and enthusiasm. Acts first.

Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn. Practical, grounded and focused on the real and useful.

Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Mental and social: ideas, connection and communication.

Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces. Feeling, intuition and emotional depth.

Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn. The starters. They begin each season and like to initiate.

Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius. The stabilisers. They sustain and hold their ground.

Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces. The adapters. They close each season and adjust to change.

How you think and communicate: speech, logic and learning.

What you value, how you love, and your sense of beauty and pleasure.

Drive, action and desire: how you pursue what you want and handle conflict.

Growth, luck and meaning: where you expand and seek the bigger picture.

Discipline, limits and time: where you work hard and build lasting structure.

Change, invention and independence: where you break from the norm.

Dreams, imagination and the unseen: where boundaries dissolve.

Power and transformation: where you go deep and are reborn.

The point opposite the Ascendant. It describes partnership and what you seek in others.

The highest point of the chart. It relates to career, reputation and public life.

The lowest point, opposite the Midheaven. It relates to home, roots and private life.

The North and South Nodes: points tied to growth and the familiar, often read as a sense of direction.

Twelve sections of the chart, set by your birth time and place. Signs and planets show how you are; houses show where it plays out in life.

The house system Astrologyic uses: each house is exactly one sign, starting from your Rising sign. Simple and beginner-friendly.

Self, identity and appearance.

Partnership, marriage and close one-to-one relationships.

Career, status and your public role.

The angle between two planets, measured in degrees. Aspects show how two parts of your chart work together or clash.

Roughly 0° apart. The two planets blend and act as one force.

Roughly 60° apart. An easy, supportive link that offers opportunity.

Roughly 90° apart. Friction that creates tension and drive to act.

Roughly 120° apart. A smooth, harmonious flow between the two planets.

Roughly 180° apart. A push-and-pull that asks for balance.

How far from exact an aspect can be and still count. Tighter orbs are stronger.

A map of the sky at the exact moment and place you were born. The foundation of everything in astrology.

The zodiac used in Western astrology, measured from the spring equinox. It is what gives you your familiar Sun sign.

When a planet appears to move backward from Earth. It does not really reverse; it marks a more inward, reflective expression of that planet.

The planet that governs a sign (for example Mars rules Aries). Its placement colours how that sign behaves.

Where a planet is in the sky right now compared with your natal chart. The basis of "what is happening for you now".

Comparing two charts to see how two people interact: the astrology of compatibility.