Understanding Your Birth Chart

  • Your birth chart is an astronomical snapshot of the sky the exact day, time, and place you were born.

    In astrology, a birth chart reading specifies your personality traits, behavioral tendencies, deep desires, and the direction your life could take.

  • Understanding your birth chart allows you to connect with your highest self. It brings to light your personal truths and reveals what we need to put our energy towards.

    Understanding your birth chart can shift your perspective and realign you with your purpose.

The birth chart is a more detailed version of you at your core, one that expresses everything from how you communicate to how you love.

To access your birth chart you will need a few things:

  • Birthdate

  • Birth location

  • Birth time

These are crucial to getting the exact information.

In your birth chart interpretation, I will go into detail on what each planet means and how you can apply it to yourself.

Other Elements:

  • Ascendant

  • Mid Heaven

  • Lilith

  • North Node

  • South Node

Aspects:

  • Conjunction

  • Sextile

  • Square

  • Trine

  • Opposition

The outer planets:

  • Jupiter

  • Saturn

  • Uranus

  • Neptune

  • Pluto

The inner planets:

  • Sun

  • Moon

  • Mercury

  • Venus

  • Mars

Inner Planets:

Sun

The Sun is your ego, basic identity, and who you are at your core. The Sun represents vitality, a sense of individuality, and outward-shining creative energy. The Sun shows us who you are learning to be, becoming, and truly are. The Sun is your purpose, your path, and where you put your energy. The Sun tells us how you will leave your mark on the world.

Moon

The Moon represents your emotions, unconscious predisposition, and self-image. It shows you how you express yourself when you are at your most comfortable. It's your instincts, your reactions, your sense of security. The Moon is linked to the mother and child, it represents your inner mother and your inner child. The Moon shows us how you protect yourself. Some find that their Moon sign best represents their personality.

Mercury

Mercury is the planet of communication. It represents your logical spirit. It determines how you communicate, talk, and think. It will show us how you work in groups, problem-solve, and process information. Mercury rules how you approach others, exchange ideas, and get your point across.

Venus

Venus rules what you love, value, and share. It rules your sentiments, tastes, worldly pleasures, and artistic values. Venus indicates how you express affection and the qualities you are attracted to. Venus represents what you spend your money on and what you treat yourself.

Mars

Mars is the ruler of your instincts, actions, sex, and aggression. This is the planet of action and willpower. It determines how you assert yourself and the energy that surrounds you. This is particularly true in your sex life, your ambitiousness, and when you are angry. It rules over your body attraction and sexual expression.

Outer Planets:

Jupiter

Jupiter is the first of the social planets. Jupiter is the ruler of broader purpose, freedom, luck, and progress. It represents idealism, optimism, and expansion. It is associated with your mental and spiritual growth; your wisdom and understanding. Jupiter displays your generosity and tolerance, and how you will expand and grow with deeper understanding.

Saturn

Saturn is the planet of responsibility, limitations, restrictions, boundaries, fears, and self-discipline. Saturn brings structure and meaning to our world. Saturn reminds you of the realities you face. Saturn rules over your sense of self-control and commitment. Associated with a father authority, Saturn instates discipline, rules, and regulations. Saturn’s presence will show up as lessons in your life.

Uranus

Uranus rules over innovation, rebellion, and progress — as well as enlightenment. Through Uranus, you celebrate your individuality and uniqueness. Uranus is that part of you that refuses to blend in. Uranus stays in each sign for seven years, meaning it rules more over a generation than a single person.

Neptune

Neptune rules your unconscious, dreams, and imagination. Associated with intuition and spiritual enlightenment, Neptune harbors your physic energy and daydreams. A dissolver of boundaries, Neptune manifests through our imagination. Neptune stays in each sign for fourteen years, meaning it rules more over a generation than a single person.

Pluto

Pluto rules power, intensity, obsession, and control. The planet is associated with renewal and rebirth, spiritual rebirth, beginnings, and endings. Pluto shows you where you see power struggles and issues of control. Pluto influences you to find deeper meaning in everything. It influences where you seek transformation and change. Pluto stays in each sign for 30 years, meaning it rules more over a generation than a single person.

Other Aspects:

Ascendant

Your Ascendant/Rising sign is how you present yourself to others. The ascendant is a symbol of how you act in life. It is the image of your personality as seen by others, and the attitude that you have towards life. When people first meet you they will see you as your Ascendant sign. It describes how you take on life and how you identify your experiences. The Ascendant shows us how you project your goals and create meaning in your life.

Midheaven

Your Midheaven sign is all about your career and life path. It shows you where you want to make it in life, what mark you want to leave. This sign represents your achievements in the eyes of society. It’s one of the most public and important signs in your chart and it shows you the goals you want to achieve and where you want to be in your career. It shows you your aspirations, creative outlook, and life goal.

Lilith

The Lilith, often called the Black Moon Lilith, is the point along the moon's orbit when it's farthest from Earth. Your Lilith represents your darker, deeper natures — natures that may be repressed or buried under the surface. It is connected to your inner shadow but also the areas where you put your foot down, set boundaries, and express anger. It controls your inner authority, sensuality, and sexuality. When uncontrolled, Lilith also reveal your obsessive or destructive tendencies.

North Node

The North Node points to the qualities that you need to work on and develop to achieve inner balance and fulfillment. It is your learning curve, and what you need to understand in order to activate your life’s mission and purpose.

South Node

The South Node reveals the gifts that you bring into this lifetime, your sweet spot, your comfort zone. You will be innately good in these areas of life. The South Node is your overdeveloped character traits. Though innately talented here, you must be cautious to overdo this area of life or hold onto these traits in order to feel secure. This will prevent growth and may cause stagniation.

A birth chart reading can shed light on these areas of your life and empower the choices you make and the actions you take.

As a reader, I enable my clients to tap into their personal power and use their clarity to shape the path of their future through a birth chart reading.

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