How to Read a Birth Chart


The Ingredients of Your Birth Chart

There is an awful lot of information on offer on this website, and it could quickly become overwhelming. This page provides a quick reference to the roles that the planets, houses and other elements play in your horoscope. These ingredients all blend and meld together to form the unique whole that is you. Sometimes clashing, sometimes complementing each other beautifully, this intricate synthesis results in the complex, different and unique person that you are.

In a nutshell, your Sun, Moon and Ascendant provide a quick snapshot of your personality in one shot. But if you want to delve further and discover more, then it pays to explore what other information the other planets and houses have to offer about your personality and life.

The Planets in their Signs give information about your psychological make-up. The planets arranged in the twelve houses indicate the more down-to-earth, mundane aspects of your life. The division of these houses, as well as the Ascendant, Descendant, Midheaven and Imum Coeli, are calculated according to your birth time. Remember that if your birth time is inexact by even minutes, then the information provided could also be unreliable.

For example, let's say you are interested in finding up what makes up your profile regarding work and career. You would get a basic idea from your Sun sign, but more detailed and specific information comes from your Midheaven and any planets placed in your Sixth House and your Tenth House.

Money matters can show up with Venus and Jupiter, as well as your Second House and your Eighth House.

If you are interested in your love life, you can get a basic idea from your Sun sign, and more detailed and specific information from your Descendant, Venus, and any planets placed in your Fifth House and your Seventh House. Mars, the Fifth house and the Eighth House also give clues to the physical aspect of your love life.

Health matters can show up in your Sun sign, your Ascendant, Chiron and your Sixth House.

Go to more in-depth information about the ingredients that make up your Birth Chart:

Planets
Nodes of the Moon
Arabic Parts
Ascendant and Descendant
Midheaven and Imum Coeli
Houses
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