Astrology
Definition & theoretical foundation
Astrology builds a natal chart from the date, time and place of birth. Its main axis is the triad of Sun (identity), Moon (emotional life) and Ascendant (outward stance). Around this triad orbit the eight planets of the solar system (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto), distributed across twelve houses and linked to each other by geometric aspects. The classical synthesis comes from Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (2nd century). The modern psychological branch was founded by Dane Rudhyar in The Astrology of Personality (1936) and developed by Liz Greene from the 1970s onwards, in a Jungian, archetypal key. Positions are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris, derived from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ephemerides.
What you'll learn about yourself
The app delivers a full natal chart, computed with the Swiss Ephemeris from your exact birth date, time and place. Each layer arrives with dedicated text, so you can move from the broad map to the technical detail at your own pace:
- Founding triad: Sun, Moon and Ascendant in sign and house, with a reading of how they shape identity, emotional life and outward stance.
- The eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, each in sign and house, with text that ties planetary function to the life area where it plays out.
- Houses: the twelve life domains (identity, resources, communication, home, expression, work, partnership, transformation, expansion, purpose, community, inner life) populated by your dominant energies.
- Planetary aspects: conjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines and oppositions between bodies in your chart, with a reading of what each combination produces: tension, flow, integration.
- Elements and modalities: distribution across fire, earth, air and water, and across cardinal, fixed and mutable, showing which currents dominate and how they colour your temperament.
- Sensitive points: North Node and Chiron, read as soul purpose and master wound around which your biography is organised.
- Archetypal synthesis: an integrated narrative that weaves all the layers together.
Limitations & caveats
Astrology has no empirical support as a predictive system. Shawn Carlson's double-blind test (Nature, 1985) and the review by Geoffrey Dean and Ivan Kelly (2003) report null effects on identifying profiles or forecasting events. Modern psychological astrology, in the lineage of Rudhyar, Greene and Arroyo, accepts this caveat and shifts the axis toward a different aim: to offer a symbolic framework for self-knowledge and relational language. Agapone uses it in that register, as reflective reading.