Learn Astrology basics
How to read a birth chart
A birth chart is the sky at the minute and the place you were born. These short chapters explain what is in it, and how the parts are read together.
The chapters
Start with the whole chart, then take it apart
If the subject is new to you, begin at the top. Each chapter takes a few minutes.
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01
What is a birth chart?
The sky at the moment you were born, and why it works as a mirror, not a forecast.
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02
The parts of a birth chart
Signs, houses, aspects and some important points: the four things every chart is built from.
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03
The Sun, the Moon and the planets
What each one says about you, and why your Sun sign is only the start.
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The houses
Describing twelve parts of life, with the rising sign that decides where they start.
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Aspects
The important angles between the planets, and what each angle means in your life.
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Other important points
The Part of Fortune, the North Node, and the planets that were rising and highest when you were born.
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Your birth chart reading
Your whole chart, read in one book
The book goes through every planet, every house and every aspect in one birth chart, the way these pages explain them, but about you.
Marsa wrote every word. Your chart decides which of them you get.
See the books →See it in your own birth chart
Enter your birth details and we calculate your chart precisely, with every planet this guide describes in the sign and house where it stood. You get the chart wheel and a short reading as a PDF, by email.
It is free, and there is nothing to pay at any point.
Five details, and the birth chart is yours. If you do not know the exact time of birth, that is fine — the link below sets it to the standard value.