Birth chart reading
Enter your date, time and city of birth — within a minute you get the chart with its degrees and a reading on one area of your life. Free, no sign-up.
·What is actually computed
- Ten bodiesSun, Moon and eight planets: longitude, sign, degree within the sign, daily motion and retrograde state. Positions are derived from orbital elements published by NASA JPL.
- Ascendant and housesThe degree rising over the horizon at your minute, and twelve equal houses from it. Without an exact time they are not computed — and you will be told so plainly.
- Aspects with orbsConjunctions, sextiles, squares, trines, oppositions and quincunxes, with orbs to a hundredth of a degree. Every number behind every conclusion is visible.
- The sky todayWhere the bodies stand right now and which of them touch your chart. That is where "now" comes from — not from a calendar.
- Three arcanaA spread on your question, weighted by your chart. The same seed for the whole day — the spread does not reshuffle when you reload the page.
·Questions
What do I need to calculate a natal chart?
Date, time and city of birth. The city supplies coordinates and time zone — and with it whatever daylight-saving rule was actually in force that year. Nothing else: no email, no account.
What if I don't know my time of birth?
Then the ascendant, midheaven and houses are not computed at all. Not approximated — not computed. The rest of the chart barely depends on the hour: the Sun moves one degree a day, the slow planets hundredths. A chart without an ascendant is honest; a chart with an invented one is not.
Where do the planetary positions come from?
From orbital elements published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They are the same numbers ephemerides are computed from, and every degree on this page can be checked against an independent source. That is precisely why they are shown.
What does it cost?
No money at all. But you get three readings: each one is a real computation and a real bill for it, which is why they are counted. How many are left is written right under the button.
What happens when the three run out?
Nothing yet — there is no way to pay so far. If you made those readings without an email, enter one on the alchemy table: from then on they are counted against the account, so a new device does not start the count over. When buying more becomes possible, it will appear right here.
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