Hello, and welcome to Introduction to astrology. If you're interested in learning more about astrology and your own birth chart and having the tools and the information to really read any type of chart, you have come to the right place. Now in this course, again, this is a very introduction, introductory course to astrology, there is so much more that you can learn. Again, this is this is just going to give you a basic understanding of how the planets and the houses affect you and you know, bring a lot of information about what kind of person you are and the things that might occur in your life. So, we're going to talk about what exactly is astrology as well as the four most important things to know when trying to decipher a birth chart and we're going to give a better understanding of the planets and the houses and how they affect us.

Now, what is astrology? So astrology is the placement of the planets at any given time and can reveal information that is specific to an individual that was born on that exact time. So the movement and the position of the planets have a very profound effect in our lives, whether we know it or not. And through this study, sorry, through this study, information can come up about your past, your present your future, as well as characteristics and traits that you hold as an individual. Now, to put it in a more direct way, your birthdate, the time of birth and the location in which you were born. Have a direct correlation to who you are as an individual, the challenges that you will face and the life lessons that you need to Learn So a really simple way of saying this is astrology is basically the universe's way of giving you a blueprint to who you are and your life.

So, in the next section we are going to cover the four most important pieces of astrology.