Planets: what is happening
- ✦ Sun — identity, direction, what you are here to build
- ✦ Moon — needs, instincts, emotional weather
- ✦ Mercury — thinking, speaking, negotiating
- ✦ Venus — value, taste, relationships, what you attract
- ✦ Mars — drive, conflict, how you take action
- ✦ Jupiter — growth, luck, expansion and overreach
- ✦ Saturn — structure, limits, the discipline that compounds
- ✦ Uranus, Neptune, Pluto — disruption, vision and deep transformation
Signs: the style
A sign describes how a planet behaves. Mars in a fire sign moves first and asks later; Mars in an earth sign builds slowly and finishes. Same engine, different gearing.
Houses: the area of life
The twelve houses map planets onto real domains — money, work, home, partnership, reputation. Houses depend entirely on your birth time and location, which is why an accurate time changes the reading more than any other input.
Elements and balance
Count the fire, earth, air and water in a chart and the shape appears. A chart heavy in earth and light in air executes well but under-communicates. A chart heavy in air generates ideas faster than it ships them. Balance tells you what to hire for, delegate, or discipline.
Transits: chart plus calendar
The natal chart is fixed. Transits are where the planets are now. A reading is the conversation between the two — which is what makes astrology useful for timing rather than just description. Cosmic Guide runs that comparison for today, this month and this year.