Guide
How it works
Becoming Choice reads a birth chart and its transits as symbols for reflection. This guide describes what each report explores and explains the words a chart uses, so you can decide what is worth your time before you enter anything.
The reports
Eighteen readings, each written from the whole of a chart on one theme. Each is an invitation: notice what fits, question what doesn't, and consider what you want to do next.
- Purpose and directionWhere your attention keeps returning, and what it may be asking of you.
- Work and vocationWhat you build, how you work, and what either asks of you.
- RelationshipsHow you connect, what you value in others, and who you may be drawn to.
- The year aheadThe coming twelve months as occasions to notice, not events to expect.
- Recurring lessonsThe themes that may return in new forms, and how you have met them before.
- Tender placesWhere care is asked for, and what it looks like to offer it.
- CommunicationHow you listen, how you speak, and what is lost or found between.
- Where you meet resistanceThe friction in your chart, and what it may be inviting rather than blocking.
- What you might practiceSmall, repeatable responses within your reach.
- What to noticeThemes worth your attention, with room for none of them to fit.
- Marriage and commitmentWhat commitment asks of you, how your chart holds it, and the slow passages across a life as occasions, never dates.
- Children and familyWhat you want to make or raise, the care it takes, and the slow passages across a life as occasions.
- Spiritual life and meaningWhere you find meaning and go to be still, and the slow passages across a life as occasions to notice.
- Working with othersHow you collaborate, make agreements and find your allies.
- Feelings and needsWhat you may feel, what you need, and how you tend to yourself.
- Daily rhythmThe rhythm of your days, and what may make it sustainable.
- Allies and trustHow you read trust, and where friction may be open or hidden.
- Body and careHow you may nourish and rest yourself, and a rhythm you might try.
The words a chart uses
Plain explanations of the terms you meet in a chart and in the sky, each as the tradition reads it, never as a fact about you.
- Natal chartA natal chart is a map of where the Sun, the Moon and the planets stood, seen from your birthplace, at the moment you were born.
- Birth timeBirth time fixes which way the horizon faced at your birth, so it sets the Ascendant, the Midheaven and the houses; without it, those parts of a chart are unknown.
- HousesThe houses are twelve divisions of a chart, set by the time and place of birth, each traditionally associated with an area of life.
- AspectsAn aspect is an angle between two points in a chart, such as a square of ninety degrees, which the tradition reads as a relationship between their themes.
- TransitsA transit is a planet in today's sky making an aspect to a point in your natal chart, which the tradition reads as an occasion for reflection on both themes.
- RetrogradeA planet is retrograde when, seen from the Earth, it appears to move backward through the zodiac for a while; the tradition reads it as a time to revisit that planet's theme.
- Saturn returnA Saturn return is Saturn coming back to the place it held at your birth, about every 29.5 years, which the tradition reads as an occasion to review structure and responsibility.
- North NodeThe North Node is the point where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's path going north; the tradition associates it with a direction of growth, and the South Node opposite with familiar ground.
- Collective aspectsA collective aspect is an aspect the planets make to each other in the sky, the same for everyone, which the tradition reads as a shared theme of the time.
- The anglesThe four angles are where the horizon and the meridian cross the zodiac at your birth: the Ascendant rising in the east, the Descendant setting in the west, the Midheaven above and the IC below.
- The SunThe Sun is traditionally associated with identity and vitality: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- The MoonThe Moon is traditionally associated with feeling and need: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- MercuryMercury is traditionally associated with thinking and speaking: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- VenusVenus is traditionally associated with values and relating: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- MarsMars is traditionally associated with drive and action: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- JupiterJupiter is traditionally associated with growth and meaning: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- SaturnSaturn is traditionally associated with structure and responsibility: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- UranusUranus is traditionally associated with change and freedom: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- NeptuneNeptune is traditionally associated with imagination and ideals: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- PlutoPluto is traditionally associated with depth and transformation: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.
- ChironChiron is traditionally associated with tender places: in a chart, an invitation to notice how that theme shows up in your experience.