The seven nights
Learn astrology in seven nights
A free course to learn to read a chart for real: one night, one lesson, one trial. Each night you pass lights a star of the Big Dipper. Seven stars later, you can cross a birth chart with its transits and its Vedic charts. And at the end of the line, the Pole Star: your tailored reading as a PDF, on us.
The seven nights
Choose your path
Both paths light the same seven stars. You can follow the other one afterward.
How the course works
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One night a day
The next night opens at midnight, Paris time, once the previous one is passed. Seven nights, seven days at least: you learn better after sleeping on it.
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A lesson, then a trial
Short cards, calculated figures, an exercise at every step. Then ten questions drawn on real skies: never the same trial twice.
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Eight out of ten, no less
The star lights up at eight right answers out of ten. Three trials a day: if the third one fails, the lesson waits for you until tomorrow.
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The great sky
On the seventh night, fifteen questions cross everything: houses, rulers, aspects, transits, divisional charts. Twelve right answers, and the Big Dipper is complete.
Free
At the end of the seven nights, the Pole Star
The two pointers of the Big Dipper show the Pole Star. Whoever lights the seven stars receives their own: a tailored reading as a PDF, 20 to 25 pages written from their exact chart, worth €6.99. For you, or as a gift for someone close.
One free PDF per account, for the first path completed.
The syllabus of the seven nights
Two paths, seven nights each. Every night adds one reading skill; the last one crosses them all.
The Big Dipper
The Western path
The alphabet of the sky Alkaid
The twelve signs, their four elements and three modes, then the ten bodies of the chart, from the Sun to Pluto: the letters every chart is written with.
The stage Mizar
The Ascendant, the four angles and the twelve houses: the stage the bodies of the chart play on. You learn to count the houses on the wheel and to say where each body acts.
The rulers Alioth
Every sign has a ruler: the table of rulerships, the dignities (domicile, detriment, exaltation, fall), then the ruler of the Ascendant and of each house, followed from house to house.
The aspects Megrez
The five major aspects, their angles and what they say, the orb, the method for counting an aspect between two positions, and what sets an applying aspect apart from a separating one.
The synthesis Phecda
Ranking what matters in a chart, counting its dominants, spotting a stellium, then joining body, sign, house, ruler and aspects into one portrait that holds its contradictions.
Time in motion Merak
Transits, from the fastest to the slowest, retrogrades, the great appointments of a lifetime and the solar return: how today’s sky comes to wake up your birth chart.
The crossing Dubhe
Two zodiacs 24° apart, the Vedic D1, the divisional charts and time: the night you learn to cross every reading of a chart, without ever choosing between them.
The seven sages
The Vedic path
The sky of the stars Marichi
Jyotish reads the sky in the zodiac of the stars: the 24° gap with the zodiac of the seasons, the twelve rashis, the nine grahas, Rahu and Ketu, the natural benefics and malefics.
The lagna and the bhavas Vasishtha
The lagna, the sign that was rising in the east, then the twelve bhavas counted from it in whole signs: their names, their four families, and the same count from the Moon.
Rulers and aspects Angiras
The seven rulers of the twelve signs, exaltation and debilitation, the ruler of each house, then the aspects (drishti): all you need to read a graha in full, through its sign, its houses and its aspects.
The nakshatras Atri
The twenty-seven mansions of the Moon: their boundaries, their four padas, their nine rulers repeated three times, their deities, and the birth nakshatra, the one that opens the time of the dashas.
The dashas Pulastya
The Vimshottari dashas: nine major periods over 120 years, their order and lengths, the one that opens a life, the sub-periods, and how to read each of them as levers.
The divisional charts Pulaha
The divisional charts of Jyotish: how to compute the D9, the chart for each question, the D20 and the D60, the to-the-minute birth time they require, and their golden rule: always with the D1.
The crossing Kratu
Jaimini’s karakas, transits read from the Moon, then the art of crossing everything: the D1, the chart of the area, the dasha, the transits, the solar return and the Western chart.
One sky, two readings
The seven stars of the Big Dipper, in Ursa Major, carry in the West names that come from Arabic: Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, Dubhe. India sees in them the Saptarishi, the seven sages: Marichi, Vasishtha, Angiras, Atri, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu.
The same stars, two traditions: that is the whole idea of the course. You learn one language of the sky, then you cross it with the other. And the last two stars, the pointers, show the same direction in both traditions: the Pole Star, Dhruva, the fixed point.
And on your own chart?
Every lesson can be checked on your chart: calculate it, open its wheel, and find there what the night has just taught you.
Calculate my chartFrequently asked questions
Do I need to know astrology already to start?
No. The first night starts from scratch: the twelve signs, their elements, the planets. Each night builds on the previous one, and every notion is explained before the trial asks for it.
How long does the course take?
Seven days at least: one night opens per day. Allow fifteen to twenty-five minutes per night, between the lesson and the trial. You can take longer: your stars stay lit.
Why only one night a day?
Because 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 each night’s trial comes back to the nights before.
Western or Vedic: which path is for me?
The Western path if you know your sign and want to understand your chart as the site displays it. The Vedic path if the zodiac of the stars, the nakshatras and the dashas call you. Both meet on the seventh night, and you can follow the other one afterward.
What happens if I fail a trial?
Nothing serious: reread the lesson and try again. You have three trials a day for each night, and each trial is drawn on new skies. Corrections are shown after every question.
Do I need to create an account?
The first night is played without an account. After that, a free account keeps your stars from one device to the next and opens the following nights: it is what knows which night you completed, and when.
How do I get the free PDF?
Light the seven stars of one path with your account, then tap “Get my free PDF” under the Big Dipper. Your tailored reading is then composed from your space, for you or for someone close. One free PDF per account; when the month’s PDFs are all gone, the page tells you the date when yours opens.