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. Add a time and a city and the chart also finds your rising sign, your midheaven and the twelve houses.
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 the planets — the Sun and the slower ones barely move in a day, and the Moon shifts about half a degree an hour, so a time simply sharpens it. The rising sign, the midheaven and the houses are the parts that do need the minute and the city; add both above and the chart gains its second half.
- 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.