How to Read a Birth Chart to Live Your Best Life
glamour.comis a snapshot of the sky from the very moment you were born. Your natal chart shows each planet’s position in a circular chart with various colorful lines that connect each planetary symbol, and it allows you to see which sign and house each planet was occupying at the exact, miraculous moment of your birth.
Planets, luminaries, asteroids, and celestial points are all recorded onto the birth chart for us to better understand a person and the way they navigate through the world.But in order to get an accurate birth chart, you first need to know the exact place, day, and time of your birth.
Once you have your birth information, you can input that and get your birth chart reading. If you do not have your to-the-minute time of birth, you can still populate a birth chart by choosing “unknown time.” However, know that it won't include your full astrological house system.
Why? Because your dictates your houses, and the rising sign changes every two hours. While your rising sign isn't a planetary body, it is the zodiac sign that was rising in the Eastern horizon at the time of your birth (hence the term “rising”).
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