How to Make and Interpret Your Astrological Birth Chart

Last Updated on May 7, 2024 by Avia

Have you ever tried finding out the exact planetary alignment at your birth moment? Something like the order of zodiac houses at that minute, no? It means you might miss out on a few important insights about yourself. No need to panic, as we can work that out today with an astrology birth chart. So, let’s jump straight into how you can make and interpret your astrological birth chart.

Getting Started: How to Make an Astrological Birth Chart
Making Sense Out of The Astrology Birth Chart
Summary of Houses
Look for The Ascendant
Track Down The Planets
- Identify Your Personal Planets
- Exploring Your Outer Planets
Summary of Zodiac Signs
Take Away Pointers About Interpreting Your Astrology Birth Chart

How to Interpret Your Astrological Birth Chart

Getting Started: How to Make an Astrological Birth Chart

Previously, astrologers would draw birth charts by hand using a protractor. Thankfully, we have astrology software now to do it for us in a matter of seconds. Astro is one of the most reliable and faster online platforms you can count on for this purpose.

All you need is the date, location of your birth, and time to start creating an astrology birth chart. Ensure you put in accurate data because a birth chart would radically shift every four minutes. Hence if you have erroneously used a different date or year, you’ll get a birth chart that is not even close to the actual one. Therefore, the best approach is to verify the data from your birth certificate before you type it into the software.

You’ll instantly get a birth chart as you enter these details in the software. Yes, if you see it for the first time, you may have difficulty interpreting it. Fear not; we will help you understand it.

Making Sense Out of The Astrology Birth Chart

How to Make and Interpret Your Astrological Birth Chart

Before we begin with interpreting an astrological birth chart, let’s get comfortable with 12 houses. For ease of understanding, we have presented them in the table below.

An astrology birth chart has 12 houses, each focusing on a specific area of life. They all have a distinct planetary ruler and natural sign.

Summary of Houses

Houses	Talks about
1^st House	How you dress, walk, talk, and treat others. Plus, it informs you about the first thing people notice about you.
2^nd House	How much money can you earn, and what is your self-worth? This one aligns with the layperson concept of astrology.
3^rd House	Your communication with siblings, friends, and others.
4^th House	Your values and how you are caring for your family.
5^th House	Your interests and creativity. It tells how you like your casual dating and more.
6^th House	Your self-care, health, and routine.
7^th House	The ideal person you want a relationship with for the long term.
8^th House	how you will evolve.
9^th House	Your favorite adventures, ideology, and philosophy.
10^th House	How you like others to know you
11^th House	Your associations. Like your friends, social groups, and others.
12^th House	Your dearest visions and dreams

Now that you have enough knowledge of the houses, let’s understand the other steps of creating an astrology birth chart.

Look for The Ascendant

Ascendant is a point rising above the eastern horizon at your birth moment. Finding the ascendant important for knowing how the houses are positioned in your birth chart. Let’s say your birth chart is a clock; the ascendant is at 9 o’clock.

Track Down The Planets

Astrologers believe that the energies of planets impact your daily life events. You can see that planets are scattered throughout your birth chart. Plus, you may have one, many, or no planets in your House. This is how you can locate them in the chart:

A circle with a dot in the center is the sun
You can easily identify the moon in its crescent shape
The female symbol is Venus, while the male symbol is Mars
The female symbol with two lines at the top is a Mercury
Something appearing as the number 4 is Jupiter
Saturn is represented by a symbol that a scythe or sickle
You can easily identify Neptune because it looks like a trident
Uranus can be identified by a male symbol with a spot in the center
Pluto can be identified by a “P” with a tail

Identify Your Personal Planets

The sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are the personal planets, where:

The sun tells you about the purpose and basic identity
The moon represents life events experienced
Mercury reflects your ability to perceive objects and individuals
Venus tells about whom you feel comfortable with
Mars represents your will and actions

Exploring Your Outer Planets

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Neptune are the outer planets, where:

Jupiter tells about your personal growth
Saturn reflects your personal responsibilities
Uranus tells about your ability to grow and learn
Neptune reflects your ideas and imagination
Pluto tells about your inner growth and your capacity to change

For an accurate interpretation of an astrology birth chart, you must understand where the planets are appearing in the same. Because planets represent your drives, things you enjoy, and more.

You also need a good understanding of zodiac signs before you begin interpreting an astrology birth chart. So jump to the next paragraph for a brief introduction of all.

Summary of Zodiac Signs

You might be familiar with these names, or at least you can tell your zodiac sign. But you may be unfamiliar with what each of these is known for. Speaking of which, quickly hover your eyes on each of them below to improve your understanding.

Zodiac Sign	Known for
Aries	Courage, competitiveness, and a sense of love and adventure.
Taurus	Intelligence, hardworking, and dedication.
Gemini	Intellectuality and playfulness.
Cancer	Being highly intuitive, emotional, and sensitive.
Leo	Bigheartedness, leadership qualities, and generosity.
Virgo	Loyalty and being perfectionists
Libra	Being charming and well balanced
Scorpio	Bravery and resentfulness
Sagittarius	Being passionate and curious
Capricorn	Being ambitious, strong, and materialistic
Aquarius	Being idealistic, highly creative, and intelligent
Pisces	Peace-loving and friendliness

Take Away Pointers About Interpreting Your Astrology Birth Chart

Making and learning to interpret your astrological birth chart is not a big deal these days since you have a lot of online software to do that. But the interpretation of the one might be an issue if you are doing it for the first time. This article was about equipping you with enough knowledge to create an astrology birth chart and then understand the same.

Yes, it’s a topic to argue about, but we have tried our best to cover it from different aspects. Ultimately, how you interpret your astrological chart is up to you. While there is plenty of debate and varying opinions about the best way to decipher your chart – what is most important is getting the details down, understanding those details, and piecing them together in a tapestry that both describes who you are and compels you to lead a more enriched life.