How to Judge a Nativity

Alan Leo · 1903

About the book

The reading of the horoscope, position by position: twelve houses, twelve signs, every planet in every sign and every house, every aspect between every pair. Leo's third volume is the one his students kept on the desk rather than the shelf — the reference an astrologer opens after the chart is drawn and the question is what it says.

Inside the course

20 parts

The twelve houses of the horoscope, and what each one governs
The twelve signs of the zodiac: triplicities, qualities, polarities
The luminaries and the planets, and the five senses they rule
The aspects: conjunction, parallel, and why the square is malefic
The meaning of each pair of planets in each aspect
The three centres — Sun, Moon and Ascendant — and how they differ
The Sun and the Moon through the twelve signs
The Ascendant: each sign rising, and the appearance it gives
Planets rising, and personal appearance as they modify it
The second and third houses: money, and the concrete mind
The fourth and fifth: home and the end of life; children and speculation
The sixth and seventh: service and sickness; marriage and partnership
The eighth and ninth: legacies and death; travel and the higher mind
The tenth and eleventh: profession and honour; friends and hopes
The twelfth house, and the enemies one makes of oneself
Health and the hyleg: the point on which life depends
The mental qualities, and the planets that shape them
Judging the horoscope as a whole: weighing testimonies against each other
Worked judgments from real nativities
The limits of judgment, and the astrologer's responsibility to the native

Questions

Is How to Judge a Nativity free to read in Astra Trainer?

Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.

What is the short course?

20 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz.

Where do I get the app?

Astra Trainer is free on the App Store and Google Play. How to Judge a Nativity is waiting in the app’s library.