Terms explained
What synastry, a birth chart, aspects, archetypes and the Jungian shadow are — and what tends to sit behind the dreams almost everyone has.
Terms and calculators
- Synastry: how to read two birth charts togetherSynastry compares two birth charts: where two people complement each other, where they clash and what they create together. Try it free with a free account.
- What is a birth chart, and how to read yoursA birth chart is a map of the sky at the moment you were born: planets, signs, houses and aspects. Calculate yours free, no sign-up, every part explained.
- Astrology aspects: the five major ones explainedAspects are the angles between planets in a birth chart. They describe how two forces inside a person get along — the five major ones and the risk each one carries.
- Composite chart: the relationship as one chartA composite is one chart built from two — the chart of the relationship itself. How it differs from synastry. Try it free with a free account.
- Jungian archetypes in astrology: what they areAn archetype is a recurring pattern from Jung's psychology. In astrology it names the whole — one image instead of a list of data.
- The Jungian shadow: what it is and how to work with itThe shadow is what we don't see in ourselves and project onto others. Where the idea comes from, why shadow work matters, and how to read it from a birth chart.
- Jungian dream interpretation: beyond the dream dictionaryDream interpretation in the Jungian sense: a dream is not a message from outside and cannot be looked up in a dream dictionary. Why to write dreams down.
- Saturn return: when yours happens and what it asksSaturn comes back to where it stood at your birth around age 29, and again near 58. Calculate your exact dates free, without an account — Saturn, Jupiter and Chiron.
- Psychological journaling: what it is and why it worksA psychological journal is not a record of events but of what is going on inside you. Why it works and how it differs from an ordinary diary.
- Free birth chart calculator, with every part explainedCalculate your birth chart free, no sign-up: planets, signs, houses and aspects, each explained in plain language. A map for thinking about yourself, not a forecast.
- Synastry calculator: compare two birth chartsCompare two birth charts: eight areas of a relationship instead of one match score, and the friction between you. Try it free with a free account.
- Ascendant calculator: find your rising signYour Ascendant (rising sign) depends on the exact time of birth: it moves a whole sign in about two hours. Calculate it free, no sign-up, with an explanation.
- Shadow work journal prompts, drawn from your birth chartShadow work is noticing what you push away in yourself. Journal prompts to start with, and how your birth chart can make them personal.
Dreams almost everyone has
- Waterwhat cannot be held back
- Flyingperspective and escape
- Teeth falling outwhat holds your face together
- Getting losta road that leads nowhere
- Being chasedwhat you run from
- Fallinglosing solid ground
- A houseyou, only with doors
- An exama judgement that never ended
- Being naked in publicseen without preparation
- Deathan ending, not a prediction
- Running latetime you cannot catch up with
- A car you cannot controlwho is actually driving
- You cannot cry outa voice that will not come
- A snakewhat moves without a sound
- An animalthe part of you that does not argue
- Firewhat changes and what burns
- A childsomething new and defenceless
- Someone from your pastnot about them, about you back then