Astrology Basics

This manual explains how to operate StarNavigator. For the meanings and background of astrology itself — signs, houses, aspects and so on — see the reference pages on the ARI official site.

These reference pages are in Japanese

The pages linked below are published in Japanese only.

Basics

• What Western astrology is
• The 12 signs
• Classifying the signs (qualities, elements, and more)
• Planets, asteroids, and sensitive points
• Direct and retrograde motion
• The 12 houses
• Aspects

In more depth

• The Ascendant in detail
• Chiron
• Lilith
• Synastry
• Transits
• Culmination
• Half sums

Reading and columns (owned media)

Columns and articles on astrology are also published on ARI's owned media.

• ARI The Basics of Astrology

Links from each chapter

Where a technical term appears in the other chapters, we add a link to the relevant page above.