Our Astrology · Western and WaveForm
Your chart tells you who you are. WaveForm shows you what to do about it.
Every chart on AwakenedSky comes with two readings. The Western reading describes you, your loves and your seasons. The WaveForm reading takes the same chart and shows which part of your inner life needs attention, what it costs you and what to do about it. You can only get the WaveForm reading with us.
The difference
Western describes you. WaveForm gives you the next step.
Western astrology has spent two thousand years learning to describe a person, and it does that very well. It can tell you that Saturn squares your Venus, that love has felt rationed and that you hold back. We love it, and every chart here carries all of it. What a description rarely gives you is what to do next.
WaveForm astrology reads that same chart for the next step. Each planet names a job you do inside yourself: holding a steady aim, keeping it clear, feeling that it is worth it, acting on it, keeping what arrives, growing into more. Your chart shows which of those jobs come easily to you, which ones cost you and what to do when one slips.
Two readings, one chart
What Western says, and what WaveForm says
Both readings look at the same chart. Western tells you what a placement means. WaveForm tells you the work it asks of you.
| In your chart | What Western says | What WaveForm says |
|---|---|---|
| LoveSaturn in a hard angle to Venus | Love has felt rationed, and you hold back. | Venus gives what you want its worth and Saturn keeps it once it arrives. These two jobs rub against each other in your chart, so receiving love costs you. Your work is to stay relaxed when it is offered. |
| CommitmentYour seventh house, the part of the chart for partners | This is the kind of partner you attract. | This is where commitment reaches you and what it costs you to receive it. Your work is to stay open at the moment it arrives. |
| MoneyYour second house, the part of the chart for what you own | This is how you earn and what you value. | This is where a gain is held, and the planet there does the holding. When money keeps leaving, your work is to keep the gain and begin nothing new for a set stretch. |
| GrowthJupiter, the planet of expansion | This is where you find luck and opportunity. | Jupiter widens what you can carry. When your results stay good and stay small, this is the job to strengthen, and a bigger life becomes the next step of work you already do well. |
| Mercury retrogradeMercury appears to move backward for about three weeks | Communication fails, and contracts should wait. | This is a window for the job that keeps your aim clear. Your work is to write the aim down once and stop revising it. |
| A hard transitA planet in the sky now, touching a point in your birth chart | A difficult time is coming. | One job is being tested, and the chart shows which one. A transit forces nothing, and how you use the time stays your choice. |
Why it matters
What a WaveForm reading is, and what it changes
A WaveForm reading is the second reading that comes with every chart you cast here. It uses the same planets, signs, houses and aspects as your Western reading and asks a different question of each one. Western astrology asks what a placement says about you. WaveForm asks what work that placement does in your life, what that work costs you and what restores it when it stops.
This matters because a description only takes you so far. Knowing that a placement is hard tells you where life has been difficult and leaves you there. Work can be strengthened, and so a reading of the work gives you something to do with what your chart shows. A hard placement becomes a cost you can plan around, and a hard stretch of time becomes a specific piece of work.
In a chart reading, it changes three things:
- You know where your effort belongs. The reading finds the job in your chart that costs you the most, and that is where your attention does the most good.
- You know what comes first. The jobs run in order, so you begin with the first one that has slipped, and the jobs after it can then finish.
- You know what a transit is for. Each transit is read as a stretch that makes one job easier to strengthen or tests it, and how you use it stays your choice.
How it works
Seven jobs, in order
The jobs run in sequence, and when something in your life keeps going wrong, it is usually one job in the line. You find it, you strengthen it, and the rest can finish.
| Planet | Its job in you | When it is working | When it has slipped |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Your steady center | A settled sense that the aim is real | Scanning for reasons it will fail |
| Mercury | Keeps your aim clear and exact | A clear aim, held with relaxed attention | Compulsive checking, or a plan rewritten by every new fact |
| Venus | Gives your aim its worth | “This is worth it,” felt right now | Nothing feels like it matters, so nothing takes shape |
| Mars | Puts effort behind it | Action that comes easily, as a response | Action out of anxiety, scattered effort, burnout |
| Saturn | Holds what arrives, so a gain stays | Your body stays relaxed when the good thing comes | Tightening up, guilt, the urge to give it away |
| Jupiter | Widens what you can carry | A bigger life feels like the natural next step | Results that stay good and stay small |
| Uranus, Neptune, Pluto | Keep the whole thing open | Room for the path nobody planned | Insisting on the original plan, or the old pattern coming back after each gain |
The Moon has no job in the line, because it is the surface all of this is felt on: your moods, your habits, your body, what you do when you are tired. The name WaveForm comes from a picture. The Sun holds about 99.86 percent of the mass of the solar system, and we picture a person the same way, a standing wave around a solar center, with the chart as the shape of that wave.
What you get
What the second reading gives you
You keep everything you love about your Western chart, and on every chart you cast you get these as well.
What each placement costs you
Your chart shows what comes cheap for you and what you pay for. A hard placement stops being a bad mark and becomes a cost you can plan around.
An order to work in
The jobs run in sequence, so you are never told to fix everything. You find the first job that has slipped and you work on that one.
A feeling you can check
Each job has a feeling that tells you it is working. When good news comes and your body stays relaxed, Saturn is doing its job, and you can tell without asking anyone.
Transits with something to do
A transit becomes a window that makes one job easier to strengthen, or tests it in real conditions. Transits never force anything, and the choice stays with you.
Who carries what in your family
Two charts laid together show who supplies what the other is short of. You can see why one of you keeps the calendar and the other keeps everyone's spirits up.
Your feelings on a map
Neuroscientists Yumeng Ma and Philip A. Kragel of Emory University found that the brain maps emotions on a six-sided grid, the same pattern it uses to find its way around a room. WaveForm reads each job as a feeling you can learn to find.
Your people
Love, with something to do about it
A Western synastry tells you where two charts meet. You find out why you could talk all night, and why the money conversation goes wrong every time. WaveForm reads the two of you as two lives coupled together and shows who supplies what, and where each of you runs into the other.
The same goes for your mother, your brother, your best friend and your kids. Many family members supply a job the other is weak in, and that is part of why some people steady you and others teach you. Once you can see it, a repeated argument in a family makes sense, and you know what to work on next.
Nothing is lost
Familiar terms, with a next step
WaveForm keeps the full language of astrology. Each part of your chart keeps what you already know and gains something you can use.
Signs
Western. The style and flavor of a planet.
WaveForm. How you do a job and what it costs you. The job stays the same in every sign, and the way you do it changes.
Strong and weak placements
Western. A planet is strong or weak in a sign.
WaveForm. What the job costs you. In a strong placement it runs easily. In a weak one it is fully there and takes deliberate work to hold steady.
Houses
Western. The areas of life.
WaveForm. Where in your life a job shows up first, and where you will see it fail first.
Aspects
Western. Angles between planets, easy or hard.
WaveForm. How two jobs work together. A square is friction and your greatest work. A trine is an easy gift that can go unused.
Retrograde
Western. A planet appears to move backwards.
WaveForm. The job turned inward for review. The planet does its full work, and nothing has broken.
Transits
Western. Current planets touching your birth chart.
WaveForm. A window that makes one job easier for a while, or tests it. Transits never force anything, and the choice stays with you.
Two charts together
Western. Comparing your chart with someone else's.
WaveForm. Whether the other person supplies a job you are short of or disturbs it, and what the two of you are building between you.
See all of this on your own chart
Every chart you cast here carries both readings, free and with no account.
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You cannot get this reading anywhere else.
Plenty of apps and sites will give you a Western chart, and many do it well. WaveForm astrology originated with the School of Our Divine Infinite Being and its Head Master, Eddie Paredes, and the WaveForm reading comes from our engine. You will find that engine in two places: here on AwakenedSky, for you and your people, and on AstrologyPro.com, for the professionals.
Built for professionals
Written for astrologers, and yours on every chart
WaveForm was written for working astrologers, the people who sit across from a client and hear, “So what do I do with this?” It runs to more than a thousand pages in the manual, with worked cases, practices and worksheets.
You do not need any of that to use it. Here the same reading comes to you in plain words, on your own chart, and the talks and meetup lessons teach it from the beginning.
Are you an astrologer
The full argument for professionals is at WaveFormAstrology.com, with sample readings and the manual as a PDF for $49. The School's Academy certifies diviners from the Spring Equinox 2027.
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