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Astrology Resources
Below is a list of resources on understanding the different components in your chart, retrogrades and other resources I thought would be helpful for those interested! A lot of these blogs have been written and available for awhile but they get lost under new blogs so I wanted to make sure they were accessible!
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It's also worth noting that there are a lot of resources on Substack as well. Most of the content is shared via both platforms, but sometimes I only share over there :)
I hope you find all of these helpful!
Xoxo,
Lauren
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Understanding Your Birth Chart
This blog breaks down the chart into houses, planets, and aspects. It is a nice overview to the different pieces of your chart and what they can mean about you! This blog is a much shorter version of what you get in the Guide to Understanding You Chart, by the way! More on that -->
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Tracking Transits
This blog serves as a guide on how to identify a transit in your own chart. This means establishing if a current planet(s) in the sky is interacting with your chart in a way that is impactful to you personally. We can do this with full moons, new moons, eclipses, retrogrades, and more. Again, I'll selfishly add here, that is you want a more detailed understanding to tracking transits than this blog offers, the Guide to Understanding Your Chart does just that ;)
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Substack
My Substack is much newer than the blog I started here on my website but it has become home to my forecasts for the rising signs. These forecasts come out every month at the first of the month as well as each new or full moon. Check it out to get a more in depth look at how the astrology is impacting you based on your rising sign!
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Guide to Understanding Your Chart
Taking things a step further, this guide details everything found in the blog and much more. The guide comes to you in PDF format and breaks down the cahrt into bite size pieces. You will learn how to read a chart, the houses and their meanings, planets and their meanings, aspects and how to spot them, the signs, how to identify if you're going through a transit and what it means for you, chart rulers, and MUCH more.
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Chart Rulers
Your chart ruler is the planet that rules your rising sign and, just like the sun, moon, and rising sign, it gives you valuable information about who you are and what you are here to do. Looking to your chart ruler can give you a deeper understanding of yourself and the things that motivate you on a daily basis. It brings more nuance into the chart and often reflects the complexities of who we are.
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