The Orbit
What a birth chart shows you about the people you love, & about yourself. Slow reading for every phase of it.
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N° 01Beginnings5 minYour baby’s birth chartA map of the sky at the moment they arrived — & the first document of who they already are.
N° 02Beginnings5 minHow to read your child’s chartGlyphs, degrees, lines crossing the middle. Here’s the order I’ve used for fourteen years.
N° 03Beginnings5 minSun, moon & risingThe engine, the inner world & the doorway — & the honest answer about which to read first.
N° 04Beginnings3 minDo you need a birth time?You can read a chart without one. The time is what sets the rising sign & the houses.
N° 05The Moon6 minYour child’s moon signThe sun gets the bumper stickers. The moon runs the nursery.
N° 06Temperament5 minTemperament & the chartPsychology & astrology agree on one enormous thing: babies arrive already someone.
N° 07Temperament4 minSeeing the child you haveThe gap between the baby in the books & the baby in your arms.
N° 08For Parents5 minThe other chart in the nurseryThere are two charts in the nursery. This one’s about your side of the room.
N° 09Synastry4 minWhere you click & where you rubYou’re already bonded for life. The question is what the bond is made of.
N° 10Synastry5 minWhy they’re so differentSame parents, different weather at arrival.