What Is Harmonic Astrology? A Friendly Nerdy Explanation
The Old Farmer’s Almanac recently included me in their roundup of types of astrology, and it made me want to answer the question properly: what actually is harmonic astrology? Read the Almanac feature here.
“The chart lives like literal music; it is alive, resonating, with advanced symmetries, subatomic particles, strings, and waveforms. You can feel it all, and the math is simple. It’s a refreshing and stunningly accurate form of astrology.”
Here’s the explanation I give my students.
Harmonic Astrology is an interpretable network of vibrations and resonances
That’s my one-sentence definition. Everything in the universe vibrates and your natal chart is a snapshot of those vibrations at the moment you arrived. I think of the chart as a radio tuned into the frequencies, wavelengths, symmetries and subatomic structures of the entire universe.
Same chart, different lens
Harmonic astrology uses the same zodiac and natal chart you already know. Your natal chart is the 1st harmonic. If you’ve had a reading from an astrologer, nothing about the fundamental calculations of your chart changes, we just look at it more closely. Harmonics puts the chart under a microscope, such that we can see molecular elements that the naked eye can’t spot.
Your chart is a circuit board
I like to say harmonic astrologers are the electricians, electrical engineers or musicians of astrology. We view the natal chart as a circuit board, and we detect and decode what’s running through it: hidden symmetries, connections, notes, shapes and patterns that are easy to miss and even impossible to see with a standard read.
Infinite zodiacs in one chart
This is the part that makes me overflow with nerd glee. A single chart contains infinite zodiacs. The chart is literal infinity. The 9th harmonic, for example, is nine zodiacs. And the way to find a harmonic is simple: the denominator of an aspect tells you which harmonic it belongs to.
Minor aspects matter
In harmonic astrology, minor aspects are just as important as major ones. They’re often where the most specific information lives.
What’s different with Harmonics
Houses are irrelevant
There are no rulerships
All 10 planets + more in play, you can literally use any planet, point or celestial object you want
The math is simple
Honestly. If you can handle fractions, you can learn this. The math is the easy part, and learning to interpret what you find is the fun part. You do NOT need to even have interest in learning math to be a good Harmonic Astrologer, to be clear though.
Try this tonight
Start noticing the “vibes” in your life: the people, places and moments that feel like they’re on a certain frequency. That’s the first step in learning to read resonance and it’s one of the workbook prompts in my course. If you can pick up on vibes, then you can read harmonics.
Want to learn it?
Harmonic Astrology 101 ($155) is where we start.
The Lunar Nodes: Unstoppable Living ($99) is a deep dive into the nodes, based on my own research.
Course students can also book 1:1 tutoring ($150/hour). Tutoring is for enrolled students only, not the general public.