Natal Chart
Your full natal chart — every planet, your rising sign, your midheaven and all twelve houses, worked out from the moment and place you were born.
Your birth details stay in your browser. The chart is calculated on your device and nothing is sent to us or stored anywhere.
How this chart is calculated
Planetary positions come from standard orbital theory — the same approach the Zodiac's Destiny app uses. Planetary positions are precise enough for ordinary chart reading. House placements depend on accurate birth time and location and on the house system being used.
Houses use the Placidus system, the most common in Western astrology. Placidus is undefined above the polar circles, so charts from those latitudes fall back to equal houses and say so.
For work that needs arc-second precision — rectification, or timing to the minute — a professional ephemeris is the right tool. This chart is built for reading and reflection.
What This Chart Contains
A natal chart is a map of the sky at the exact moment and place you were born: every planet by sign and by house, the rising sign, the midheaven, and the twelve house cusps that structure the whole reading.
It is calculated rather than looked up. The planetary positions come from standard astronomical algorithms, the houses use the Placidus system, and the time zone is resolved from your birthplace for the date you were born - daylight saving and historical rule changes included, which a fixed offset could never get right.
The whole calculation runs in your browser. Your birth date, time and place are never sent to us, logged or stored.
Why It Asks For A Time And A Place
Because without them the chart is about somebody else. The ascendant advances a degree every four minutes and a full sign every two hours, and it sets the house cusps - so an error there moves every planet in the chart into a different house.
Two people born in the same city on the same day, twelve hours apart, share a sun sign and almost nothing else. Their rising signs are six signs apart and every placement sits in a different area of life.
If you do not know your birth time, the honest position is that you do not know your rising sign. The sun sign, Chinese zodiac and numerology tools on this site do not need it, and they are not consolation prizes - they are the placements a date can genuinely settle.
Reading It In Order
Start with the overall shape: are the planets spread evenly around the wheel or bunched into one section? Count the elements and modalities. That takes ten seconds and colours everything after it.
Then the big three - sun, moon and ascendant - and specifically whether they agree. Three placements in compatible elements describe somebody who reads as they are; three in conflicting elements describe somebody regularly misjudged and usually tired from the gap.
Then the four angles and the chart ruler, which is the planet ruling your ascendant sign. Its house says a great deal about where the life concentrates. Then the personal planets by house. Aspects last - they are informative and they are the fastest route to overwhelm.
What A Correct Chart Does Not Establish
That the interpretation attached to it is true. A correctly calculated chart is a correctly calculated chart, and the astronomy being right says nothing about whether the symbolism means anything.
The positions here are checkable and we check them. The readings are tradition. Both things are worth having and they are not the same kind of thing, which is why this site keeps saying so rather than blurring them together.