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Learn the parts of a chart
A chart is read in four parts: the planets, the signs they stand in, the houses they fall in, and the aspects between them. One page each, with the exact figures behind it and how the sample analysis reads it.
How a chart fits together
- A planet is what. Venus: love and value.
- Its sign is how. In Taurus: slowing down and holding on.
- Its house is where in life. In the 8th: what is shared and transformed.
- An aspect is how two planets talk. A sextile to the Moon: almost exact at 0.4°.
Drawn from Emma’s chart, the sample analysis. Several aspects together can draw a shape: a chart pattern.
The twelve signs
How: a way of acting, in one of four elements.
The Sun, Moon and eight planets
What: the parts of a person a chart describes.
The twelve houses
Where in life: twelve areas, from the Ascendant round.
- The first house: Self, body and manner
- The second house: What you own and value
- The third house: Mind, speech and the near world
- The fourth house: Home, roots and the private base
- The fifth house: Play, romance and making
- The sixth house: Work, routine and service
- The seventh house: Partners and open agreements
- The eighth house: What is shared and transformed
- The ninth house: Belief, learning and far horizons
- The tenth house: Vocation and public role
- The eleventh house: Friends, groups and hopes
- The twelfth house: Retreat and the unseen
The six aspects
How two planets talk: the angle between them.
Five chart patterns
Shapes that several aspects draw together.
A planet in a sign
Placements: what each one means for you, and when it was so.
Two planets in aspect
How each pair works together, and how common each aspect is.
The Sun with Moon · Mercury · Venus · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto
The Moon with Mercury · Venus · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto
Mercury with Venus · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto
Venus with Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto
The sky itself
The signs and the starsWhy each sign now lies about a sign west of the stars it is named for.Read it →The sky this year: Mercury retrograde · every retrograde · new and full moons · eclipses
See them in your own chart
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and any chart patterns. Or find just one: your rising sign, your Moon sign, or all three.