Video series
The ABC of the Sky
The very basics for beginners: what a horoscope is, signs, planets, aspects and houses. After twelve episodes you can read your own chart.
Episode 1 · November 4, 2026
What a horoscope really is
Coming soon
- Episode 2: The ecliptic: the road the planets travel
- Episode 3: A sign is not a constellation
- Episode 4: Fire, earth, air, water
- Episode 5: The planets: the cast of the horoscope
- Episode 6: Why planets go backwards
- Episode 7: The Moon and its phases
- Episode 8: Aspects: how the planets talk to each other
- Episode 9: The ascendant: the sign that was rising
- Episode 10: The houses: twelve areas of life
- Episode 11: I don’t know my birth time. Now what?
- Episode 12: A first reading of your own horoscope
Sources
The series draws on these books and data.
- Stephen Arroyo: Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975)
- Chris Brennan: Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)
- Nicholas Campion: A History of Western Astrology, Vol. I (2008)
- Julius Firmicus Maternus: Mathesis
- Demetra George: Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice, Vol. I (2019)
- Robert Hand: Horoscope Symbols (1981)
- James Herschel Holden: A History of Horoscopic Astrology (1996)
- IAU SOFA: Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
- Indian Calendar Reform Committee: Report of the Calendar Reform Committee (1955)
- Johannes Kepler: Harmonices Mundi (1619)
- William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647)
- Jean Meeus: Astronomical Algorithms (1998)
- NASA: Planetary Fact Sheet
- Claudius Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos
- Dane Rudhyar: The Lunation Cycle (1967)
- Erin Sullivan: Retrograde Planets (1992)