Your natal chart
Where each planet stood in the sky on the day you were born, what it means in that sign, how the planets speak to one another, and which element your chart leans on.
About houses and the rising sign
They are not here, and that is deliberate. Houses and the ascendant need the exact minute of birth and the coordinates of the city — an hour's error moves the rising sign a whole sign along. An approximate rising sign is worse than none, so we would rather say so than guess.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a natal chart?
- A snapshot of the sky at the moment you were born. Each planet stands in a sign, and the angles between them make the pattern astrologers read.
- Do I need the exact time of birth?
- Not for this chart. The Sun and the slower planets barely move in a day. The Moon does — about half a degree an hour — so a time makes it exact. The rising sign and the houses are what truly require the minute and the place.
- How accurate are the positions?
- They come from real orbital mechanics — Kepler's equation with standard orbital elements — not from a lookup table or a guess. The Sun is accurate to about a hundredth of a degree, the Moon to under a degree.
- Why only seven planets?
- These are the seven visible to the naked eye, the set astrology has used for two thousand years. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were discovered later and are not part of this calculation.