Free course
Starchart as a Writing Lab
Write astrology reports that actually feel like your voice — using Starchart's editor, slash commands, and interpretation library.
What you'll learn
Starchart is not a chart software with a text box bolted on. It's built the other way around: a distraction-free writing canvas that pulls in astrological data exactly when you need it. This course walks you through every layer of that workflow, from adding your first client to publishing a polished report with maps, charts, and your own interpretation library.
Curriculum
Module 1 — What Starchart Is (and What It's Not)
Module 2 — Your Client Records: People and Charts
- Adding a client — birth data, location, private notesreading · 10 min
- Chart calculation — what Swiss Ephemeris computes and storesreading · 10 min
- Recalculating — when birth data changesreading · 8 min
Module 3 — The Editor
- The distraction-free canvas — how the editor is structuredvideo · 10 min
- Report types — Natal, Relocation, Solar Returnreading · 10 min
- Private context — reportContext and person notesreading · 8 min
- Autosave and the DRAFT/PUBLISHED cyclereading · 8 min
Module 4 — Slash Commands: Astrology on Demand
- The slash command system — how to open it and what it doesreading · 8 min
- /place — building a relocation place sectionvideo · 12 min
- Chart and map blocks — /chart, /worldreading · 10 min
- Data tables — /planetPositions, /sr planet positionsreading · 8 min
- Timing blocks — /aspects, /lunation, /transitsToreading · 12 min
- Solar return commands — /sr chart, /sr biwheelreading · 10 min
- /parans — geographic intelligence at a latitudereading · 10 min
Module 5 — The Library: Your Interpretation Archive
- What the Library is and how macro insertion worksreading · 8 min
- Inserting from the Library via slash commandvideo · 10 min
- Creating a Library entry from scratchreading · 12 min
- Saving from the editor — bubble menu → Save to Libraryreading · 10 min
- Two-column layout — pairing images with interpretation textreading · 10 min
- Tags and trigger keys — how to make entries findablereading · 10 min
Module 6 — Publishing and Delivering Reports
- Publishing a report — what happens at publish timevideo · 10 min
- Share URLs, password protection, and revocationreading · 8 min
- Ghost integration — publishing to your blogreading · 8 min
Your instructor
Zen Lara
Zen Lara built Starchart to solve their own problem as a practicing astrologer — writing detailed, personalized reports while constantly context-switching between chart software, interpretation notes, and a word processor. Starchart is the tool they wished existed.
Free, funded by supporters
There is no paywall on this course. If it helps you, you can choose to support it — that keeps it free for everyone else.