Learn the Basics of Astrology with Henry Seltzer

Explore how fire, earth, air, and water classify the zodiac signs Aries to Pisces, linking fire to intuition, earth to sensation, air to thinking, and water to feeling.

Learn in astrology how the sun represents the self, will, and vitality, its Leo rulership and potential afflictions, and how its hero archetype guides individuation and chart dynamics.

Explore how the moon governs emotional levels, personal self, security, and instinctual patterns, highlighting cancer, taurus, and capricorn roles, revealing nurturing traits and the partner he will attract.

Mercury governs mind and intellect, with Gemini and Virgo rulerships and Sagittarius and Pisces detriments, and retrograde cycles impacting communication and reflection.

Explore Venus, the second closest planet to the sun and the brightest object after the Moon, symbolizing attraction, love, beauty, money, and artistic expression under Taurus and Libra rulership.

Explore Mars, its rulership over Aries and Scorpio, its detriments Libra and Taurus, and how its outer action, desires, and anger shape personality and action.

Uranus represents freedom from the known and revolutionary vision, ruled by Aquarius with Leo as its detriment, the seventh ice giant signaling change in astrology.

Explore Neptune, the eighth planet, symbolized by Poseidon's trident, as the ruler of Pisces and the source of dreams and psychic receptivity. It represents universal love, imagination, and spiritual inspiration.

Explore Pluto’s astrological role as the ruler of Scorpio, symbolizing transformation, renewal, and deep drives for power and control, with destructive and transformative potentials.

Chiron embodies the wounded healer archetype, linking inner wounding to healing, shamanic insight, and access to ancient wisdom, guiding educators and spiritual healers.

Learn to read a chart by locating planets in the zodiac, interpreting signs, degrees and arc minutes, and exploring aspects, houses, and key points like the ascendant and midheaven.

Explore the anatomy of a birth chart through Jennifer Lawrence's chart, noting Aquarius rising, Leo sun in the seventh house, Gemini moon, and Mars in Taurus in the third house.

Explore how the ascendant, or rising sign, shapes your mask and persona and influences physical appearance. See how the first house begins your self and destiny in astrology.

Explore how the third house represents thinking and communication, including your early environment and siblings' influence on your mind. Planets in this house indicate how you communicate and operate mentally.

Explore how the fourth house marks your home base and emotional foundation, shaping family life. See how parental dynamics and past roots reveal how you experienced your parents.

Discover how the fifth house channels creativity, self-expression, romance, affection, and offspring. Learn how planets in the fifth house and the cusp sign shape personal energy, personality, and artistic expression.

Explore the sixth house's link to health and service, revealing discipleship, mastery, and overcoming obstacles to the fruits of one's achievements; planets here signal health challenges or a service profession.

Explore the seventh house and the descendant cusp, the sign on the descendant, and how these shape marriage, partnerships, and the traits you attract.

Explore the eighth house's themes of death and rebirth, transformation through relationships and sexuality, and inner doubts, revealing two lessons to grow and change beyond the individual.

The ninth house highlights intuition, religion, philosophy, higher learning, and travel, with possible legal matters; planets here symbolize philosophical pursuits, and like Sagittarius, expand horizons mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Explore how the midheaven, or MC, marks your individuality and ego identity, shaping your public life, career, and aspirations through the tenth house and its relation to the ascendent.

Explore how the eleventh house shapes goals, friendships, and group memberships, guiding future visions and social life; planetary influences reveal how these networks operate in your life.

Explore the twelfth house as the realm of the unconscious beyond the physical plane, linked to karma, confinement, dreams, and functions hidden from the conscious mind through psychic understanding.

Explore how planetary aspects form connections across zodiac degrees. Identify major aspects—conjunction, opposition, square, trine, sextile—and minor ones like quintile and semi sextile, with orbit considerations.

Explore how a bowl pattern concentrates all planets within 180 degrees, emphasizing the southern hemisphere and the chart's eastern left side in the Abraham Lincoln example.

Explore the funnel pattern in astrology, where Uranus serves as the spout of the funnel, symbolizing freedom from the known and shaking up established ideas like Einstein.

Explore a fan pattern in astrology by analyzing a bucket-handle at 120 degrees in Bill Gates' chart, with Uranus the lead planet and the moon highlighting career and life.

Explore the cluster pattern in astrology, where all planets lie within a 120 degree arc on the western hemisphere, with Venus as a partner and Mars leading an athletic focus.

Explore the locomotive pattern, also called the open angèle pattern, with Saturn as the leading planet and Jupiter involved in faith and politics, as seen in the Dalai Lama's chart.

The grand trine in fire, Mars, Pluto, and an Aries ascendant shows a very self-directed personality, reflected in Joan Baez's strong presence and lifelong anti-war activism.

Explore the t-square pattern in a chart, with the moon as the focal point in Barack Obama's chart, highlighting home and family as a core orientation.

Analyze grand cross in astrology by examining a four-angle t-square, with the Moon in Cancer opposing Saturn and Venus in Capricorn opposing Neptune, using Mia Farrow as case study.

Begin reading a chart by asking client questions, establishing a starting point, and using entry rules to assess strengths, weaknesses, chart ruler, kyron complex, sun, moon, rising, nodes, and houses.

Examine Angelina Jolie's astrology chart, highlighting the moon as cancer's ruler, cancer rising, sun in the 11th house with social activism, and a fortuitous career via Jupiter conjunct midheaven.