First Light

A birth chart is a photograph of the sky at the minute you were born — planets as the actors, signs as their costumes, houses as the stage, aspects as the conversations between them. Learn these four things and every reading Amanda gives you will make sense.

The Planets — the actors

Each planet is a voice in you. The inner planets speak about daily personality; the outer ones about a whole generation's deeper currents.

Tap any planet for its full instruction — the force it carries in a chart, and the real world it is: distance, day, year, size.

The Twelve Signs — the costumes, and who rules them

A sign colours how a planet speaks. Every sign is "ruled" by a planet whose nature it shares — when a planet stands in a sign it rules, its voice is at its clearest. On the natural wheel each sign sits in its own house: Aries in the 1st, Taurus in the 2nd, around to Pisces in the 12th.

Tap any sign on the wheel to open its chapter — the sign itself, the house it natively rules, and what it signifies there.

The Twelve Houses — the stage, and their natural rulers

Houses are the areas of life where the story plays out. Each house has a natural ruler — the sign and planet whose themes it inherits (the 1st belongs to Aries and Mars, the 2nd to Taurus and Venus, and so on around the wheel).

Aspects — the conversations

When two planets stand at particular angles, they talk. Some conversations flow, others spark. Choose an aspect to see its geometry on the wheel.

×