How to Self-Study Your Chart: Reading Jupiter Layer by Layer | Astrology Ride of the Day

I Am Astrology Readings Podcast with Paul Heath · Jul 22, 2026 · 18m

A walkthrough of how to actually self-study your own birth chart using Isabelle Hickey's "Astrology, A Cosmic Science." Each sign breaks into three 10-degree decans, and any planet falling in a specific decan takes on that decan's added flavor — one more layer in the onion of delineation. Using Jupiter as the example: start with Jupiter's core keywords — expansion, aspiration, faith, prosperity — then add the flavor of whatever sign it's in, then apply that combination to the house it occupies, and finally extend it to the two houses Jupiter rules as its natural ruler, since a planet stays…