The Library

Listed as they appear in your reading's Chart page.

Sun

The center of the chart and of the person — vitality, purpose, the life you are here to author. Its sign is how you shine; its house is where.

Moon

Your emotional nature and instinctual self — what you need, how you are nourished, the way you feel before you think.

Mercury

Mind and voice — how you perceive, reason, name things, and carry word from one world to another.

Venus

What you love and how you love it — beauty, pleasure, taste, the pull toward harmony and toward each other.

Mars

Drive and heat — how you pursue, defend, cut away, and begin. The blade in the chart; everything depends on how it is held.

Jupiter

Growth and faith — where life expands for you, where luck compounds, and where more is genuinely more.

Saturn

Structure and time — the discipline, limits, and slow-built mastery that make a life load-bearing. What Saturn touches, it matures.

Uranus

The lightning — sudden turns, liberation, the refusal to stay in a form that has been outgrown.

Neptune

The mist — imagination, longing, dissolution, and the spiritual tide that blurs whatever edges it touches.

Pluto

The deep current — power, death-and-rebirth, compulsion, and the transformations that cannot be done halfway.

North Node

The direction of growth — unfamiliar territory the life keeps bending toward. Not comfortable, but nourishing.

South Node

The inheritance — gifts and patterns you arrive already fluent in, which comfort you and can quietly hold you back.

Chiron

The wound that teaches — a tender place that never fully closes, and precisely thereby becomes a site of medicine for others.

Lilith

The Black Moon — the untamed, exiled part of you; where you refuse to negotiate, and pay or profit for it.

Part of Fortune

A calculated point (a “lot”) weaving Sun, Moon, and Ascendant — where body and circumstance tend to prosper.

Ascendant

The rising sign — the sign coming over the eastern horizon at your birth. The face you meet the world with, and the helm of the whole chart. It sets the houses.

Midheaven

The chart's high noon — public role, vocation, reputation; what you are seen to be building from farthest away.

1st house

The self — body, presence, appearance, beginnings. The house of the Ascendant.

2nd house

Livelihood — money, possessions, resources, and the self-worth entangled with them.

3rd house

The near world — siblings, neighbors, short journeys, daily speech, the learning you do constantly.

4th house

Root and ground — home, family, lineage, the private foundation under everything else.

5th house

Delight — creation, children, romance, play, the things made for the joy of making them.

6th house

The daily work — routine, service, craft, health, and the maintenance a life actually runs on.

7th house

The other — partnership, marriage, open rivals; whatever meets you exactly at eye level.

8th house

Shared depths — other people's resources, debts, intimacy, grief, and every exchange that requires trust.

9th house

The far world — belief, philosophy, long journeys, higher study; meaning sought at a distance.

10th house

The summit — career, authority, public standing; what your effort amounts to in the world's eyes.

11th house

The chosen many — friends, allies, audiences, communities, and hopes that need other people.

12th house

The hidden room — solitude, endings, the unconscious, spiritual surrender; work done behind the scenes or within.

Aries

Cardinal fire — the first move. Direct, igniting, unafraid of beginnings.

Taurus

Fixed earth — the steady hold. Sensual, patient, loyal to what lasts.

Gemini

Mutable air — the messenger. Curious, quick, fluent in more than one world.

Cancer

Cardinal water — the shelter. Protective, tidal, oriented to home and memory.

Leo

Fixed fire — the sovereign heart. Radiant, generous, made to be witnessed.

Virgo

Mutable earth — the refiner. Discerning, precise, devoted to the thing made right.

Libra

Cardinal air — the balance. Relational, aesthetic, tuned to fairness and form.

Scorpio

Fixed water — the depth. Intense, private, transformative; nothing halfway.

Sagittarius

Mutable fire — the arrow. Far-seeking, candid, hungry for meaning and horizon.

Capricorn

Cardinal earth — the mountain. Ambitious, enduring, architect of the long game.

Aquarius

Fixed air — the observer. Original, principled, loyal to the future and the many.

Pisces

Mutable water — the ocean. Compassionate, porous, at home in the unseen.

Human Design

A modern synthesis system that casts the chart twice — at birth and roughly 88 days before — and reads the pair as an energetic blueprint: how your energy is built to move, decide, and meet the world.

Type

The five broad energy architectures: Generator, Manifesting Generator, Projector, Manifestor, and Reflector. Type sets your strategy — the way opportunities are meant to reach you.

Generator

The builder — a sustainable motor that lights up in response. Life works when you follow what genuinely pulls you.

Manifesting Generator

The builder who leaps — responsive like a Generator, fast and multi-track, allowed to skip steps others need.

Projector

The guide — designed to see systems and people clearly rather than to run on constant output. Wisdom arrives in rest; the work lands when it is invited.

Manifestor

The initiator — the rare type built to start things uninvited. Peace comes from informing the people in the blast radius.

Reflector

The mirror — entirely open, sampling the health of the community around them; decisions ripen over a full lunar cycle.

Strategy

Your type's way of meeting life — to respond, to wait for the invitation, to inform before acting, or to wait a lunar cycle. Following it is the whole practice.

Authority

Your reliable decision-maker — emotional (clarity over time), sacral (the gut's yes), splenic (the quiet in-the-moment knowing), ego, self-projected, mental, or lunar. Where the honest answer actually lives.

Profile

Two numbers, like 4/6 — the lines of your conscious and unconscious Sun. Together they describe the costume your purpose wears in the world.

Line 1 · Investigator

Needs the foundation — studies before standing.

Line 2 · Hermit

Naturally gifted, naturally private — called out by others.

Line 3 · Martyr

Learns by collision — trial, error, and the wisdom of what didn't work.

Line 4 · Opportunist

Moves through networks — fortune arrives through people already known.

Line 5 · Heretic

Projected upon — carries practical solutions and other people's expectations.

Line 6 · Role Model

Lives three lives — trial, retreat, and then the example.

Definition

How your defined centers connect — single, split, triple-split, or quadruple-split. It describes whether your energy is one continuous circuit or several, and what (or who) bridges them.

Zodiacal Releasing

An ancient Hellenistic timing technique that unfolds the life from a single point (usually the Lot of Spirit) into chapters and sub-chapters, each ruled by a sign and its planet. It reads like a table of contents for a life.

Spirit Chapter

A Level 1 Zodiacal Releasing period from the Lot of Spirit — an era of the life's vocation, often years or decades long, colored by its ruling sign and planet.

Lot of Spirit

A calculated point weaving Sun, Moon, and Ascendant — the chart's signature for what you do on purpose: career, action, the willed life.

Profection Year

An annual technique: each birthday advances the chart one house. The year takes on that house's themes, and the sign's ruler becomes Lord of the Year.

Lord of the Year

The planet ruling your current profection year. Wherever it sits in your chart is where the year concentrates; whatever it touches by transit matters double.

Progressed Moon

In secondary progressions the Moon crawls about one sign every two and a half years — a slow tide tracking the evolution of your inner, emotional life.

Transit

Where a planet is now, measured against where things stood at your birth. Transits are the weather; the natal chart is the climate.

Retrograde (Rx)

A planet appearing to move backward from Earth's vantage — its themes turn inward, review-shaped, revisionary. In a natal chart, a planet you grow into from the inside.

Conjunction

Two planets standing together in the same degree — their meanings fuse, for better and worse.

Opposition

Two planets face to face across the wheel — a tension that wants balancing, often lived out through other people.

Square

A hard right angle between planets — friction that demands action. The aspect that builds, because it will not let you rest.

Trine

An easy flowing angle — talents and reliefs that arrive without being earned, and are easy to take for granted.

Sextile

A gentler harmony — opportunity that opens if you reach for it.

The Eastern half of your timing — the Chinese Four Pillars, read from the same birth-hour.

BaZi (Four Pillars)

The Chinese “Eight Characters” — your birth mapped to four pillars (year, month, day, hour), each a Heavenly Stem paired with an Earthly Branch. An entirely separate tradition reading the same birth-moment, from the East.

Day Master

The Heavenly Stem of your day pillar — the “self” of the chart. Every other pillar is read in relation to it; it is your BaZi center the way the Sun is your Western one.

The Five Elements (Wu Xing)

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water — five phases that generate and control one another. Every stem and branch carries one; their balance across your pillars is the chart's temperament.

Heavenly Stem

One of ten celestial signs — a Five-Element phase in its yang or yin form — forming the upper character of each pillar.

Earthly Branch

One of twelve earthly signs (the familiar zodiac animals), the lower character of each pillar, each holding “hidden stems” within it.

Ten Gods

The ten roles every other element plays toward your Day Master — resource, output, wealth, authority, and companion, each in a giving or a taking form. They name how the world acts on you, and you on it.

Luck Pillar (Da Yun)

A ten-year chapter of the BaZi life, its direction set by your birth polarity and sex. The Eastern counterpart to a Zodiacal Releasing era — and where the two traditions mark the same turning, your reading names it.

Annual Pillar (Liu Nian)

The stem-and-branch of the current year read against your chart — the Eastern “weather” of a given twelve months.

Nayin

An older sound-and-element layer assigned to each stem-branch pair — a poetic descriptor (“metal in the sea,” “fire in the sky”) that colors each pillar.

Yin / Yang polarity

Every stem and branch is either yang (active, outward) or yin (receptive, inward). Your day-pillar polarity, together with your sex, sets which way your ten-year Luck Pillars run.

Your animal (生肖)

The Earthly Branch of your birth year, in its familiar animal form. By the Four-Pillars convention the year turns at the solar term Lìchūn (early February), so a birth near the lunar new year can differ from the popular animal.