The seven nights: learning astrology, one lesson and one trial a day

The seven nights course: one lesson, one trial, one star

The course fits in seven nights, and every night has the same shape: a lesson, then a trial. The lesson explains; the trial checks that you can repeat the move on a sky you have never seen. All of it is free.

Each night you pass lights a star of the Big Dipper, in Ursa Major: Alkaid, at the tip of the handle, for night 1, through to Merak and Dubhe, the two pointers, for nights 6 and 7. Their line leads to the Pole Star (the Big Dipper and its seven stars). Under the Big Dipper, a card presents the night you picked, “Open”, “Closed” or “Completed”: tap a star to see its night.

How a night goes: the lesson in cards, then the trial

The lesson is read card by card, one idea per screen: “Card 3 of 7”, then “Next”. Several cards carry a figure drawn by calculation; the wheels show one and the same example sky, a fictional birth, reread each night from one more angle. “To remember” gives the sentence to keep, and “Your turn” an exercise corrected right away, “Correct.” or “Not quite.”, with its explanation. These exercises do not count: they get you ready.

Then comes the trial. Its questions are drawn when you start it, on real skies: births picked at random, calculated by the same engine as your own chart. Never the same trial twice. The questions come one at a time, ten per night; after each answer, the correction appears along with its explanation, and a line tells you your margin: “1 more mistake allowed.”

The star lights up at eight right answers out of ten. You have three trials a day for each night, and a trial you start counts, even if you leave it halfway. On the seventh night, it is “The great sky”: fifteen questions that cross the whole course, with twelve right answers to gather. The draw and the rules are detailed in the trials of the seven nights.

1. Open the course page and, under “Choose your path”, tap “Follow the Western path”: the Big Dipper appears, along with the card of night 1.
2. Tap “Read the lesson”, move on with “Next” and answer the “Your turn” exercises as you go.
3. After the last card, tap “Take the trial”, then answer the questions, through to “See the result”.
4. Tap “Back to the Big Dipper”: the night’s star is lit, and the card of the next night says when it opens.

One night a day: why midnight, Paris time?

A night does not open as soon as the previous one is passed: it opens at the midnight, Paris time, that follows that success. Night 1 passed on a Tuesday at 9 pm, Paris time: night 2 opens three hours later. Passed on Wednesday at 12:30 am: you wait for the next midnight. Seven nights therefore take seven days at least.

The day is the Paris day for everyone. To spare you any time-zone arithmetic, the night’s card shows a countdown, “Opens in 5 h 12 min”, never a local time. The day’s three trials follow the same clock.

Why this pace? Reading a chart is learned in layers: a night of sleep between two lessons does more for memory than three lessons in a row, and from night 2 onward, each trial comes back to the nights before. There is no rush, though: your stars stay lit.

A “Closed” night cannot be read ahead. In the meantime, “Reread the lesson” and “Retake the trial” stay open on completed nights, without limit.

The free account: night 1 without one, then your stars kept

Night 1 is played without an account. Nights 2 to 7 need a free account: it is what knows which night you completed, and when, and what keeps your stars from one device to the next. An email address is enough to create an account.

Passed night 1 before having an account? It is not lost. The device keeps it, and it can join an account for sixty days: the “Keep your star” box offers “Create my free account” or “I already have an account”. Once signed in, come back to the course page on the same device and the same browser: the night joins your account under its real date, “Your night 1 has joined your account.” So night 2 opens at the midnight that follows your success, not the one that follows the creation of the account.

From the course, the account holds your completed nights, their date and your best score; never your answers, nor any birth data. Delete the account, and that progress goes with it.

Your levels: stars, sparks, days in a row and the golden thread

Under the Big Dipper, three counters tell you where you stand, and a fourth sign rewards regularity.

• “Stars”: the nights completed, out of seven. That is your level.
• “Sparks”: ten per right answer of each night’s best score, fifty more for a flawless night, marked “Full brightness”. Seven flawless nights add up to 1,100.
• “Days in a row”: the number of consecutive days, up to your last completed night, on which you passed a night.
• The golden thread: the seven nights completed in seven consecutive days, one a day. The thread joining the stars then turns to gold.

Retaking a completed night can raise your sparks, never lower them: only the best score is kept. Its date does not move: the first success is what counts for the days in a row and the golden thread.

What you can do after seven nights

At the end of the course, you can open a chart and read it in order: what weighs most, what repeats, what contradicts itself, then what the sky of the moment comes to wake up in it. It is the method of how to read your birth chart, practiced on real skies. Here is what each night of the Western path, the one of the zodiac of the seasons, puts in your hands.

• Night 1, the alphabet of the sky: the twelve signs, their elements, the planets.
• Night 2, the stage: the Ascendant and the twelve houses, to be counted on the wheel.
• Night 3, the rulers: which planet rules which sign, and what that changes for a house.
• Night 4, the aspects: the angles through which two planets speak to each other.
• Night 5, the synthesis: ranking, then assembling planet, sign, house and aspects into a single reading.
• Night 6, time in motion: transits, the great cycles and the solar return.
• Night 7, the crossing: the tropical zodiac and the sidereal zodiac, then the D1, D9, D10, D20 and D60 charts.

Applying each lesson to your own chart

A lesson sticks better on your own chart. At the end of each lesson, under “To go further”, a link takes you there: “Apply the lesson to my chart” opens your chart’s page when it is already kept; otherwise, “Calculate my chart” leads you to the birth chart form, which is free too.

Repeat the night’s move there. After night 2, find your Ascendant, on the left of the wheel, and count your houses. After night 3, look for the ruler of your Ascendant. After night 4, follow the lines of your tightest aspects. After night 6, open My transits. For what each element of the wheel shows, see the chart wheel.

Two paths, the same seven stars: the Vedic path

The course can be followed along two paths, seven nights each. The Western path reads the zodiac of the seasons. The Vedic path teaches Jyotish, in the zodiac of the stars: the sidereal sky and its nine grahas, the lagna and the bhavas, the rulers and the aspects, the nakshatras, the dashas, the divisional charts, then the crossing with the Western chart.

Both paths light the same seven stars: on the Vedic path, they bear the names of the seven sages, from Marichi to Kratu, and the Pole Star that of Dhruva. The rules are the same, and each path has its own stars, its sparks and its days in a row. “Change path”, above the Big Dipper, brings back the choice between the two paths, without erasing anything. To make up your mind, read Western or Vedic: choosing your path.

At the end of the line, the Pole Star: a free PDF

The two pointers of the Big Dipper show the Pole Star: whoever lights the seven stars of a path with their account receives their own, a tailored reading as a PDF, 20 to 25 pages written from their exact chart, worth €6.99. It is on us, for you or for someone close.

Once the seven stars are lit, tap “Get my free PDF” under the Big Dipper: the PDF is placed in your space, where you compose it whenever you like, for twelve months. There is one per account, for the first path completed. When the month’s PDFs are all gone, the page gives the date from which yours can be claimed. Everything is explained in the free PDF of the seven nights.