YOUR NATAL CHART
The Sky You Were Born Under
Your birth month gives you one stone. The exact minute you were born gives you a handful of colors - and the sky they came from.
BeginTell us when and where you were born
What this chart is like
Where each one fell
A placement is simply where something sat in the sky the minute you were born - which sign your Sun was crossing, where your Moon was, which sign was rising on the horizon.
Your birth colors
Now the part you can wear. Each color below comes from the ruling planet of that placement - and each one opens the pieces we have in it.
Balancing your chart
There are four elements - fire, earth, air and water - and each of the twelve signs belongs to one of them.
So we take your ten planets and your Rising sign, see which sign each one landed in, and count. That gives you your ratio of the four.
Then, by tradition, two colors: the color of the element you have least of, to add - and if one element runs far ahead of the rest, the color that tempers it.
See every placement
The full reading
This page is the short version. The full reading writes out every placement, house by house, with the colours and the pieces that carry them.
- Every placement written out, house by house
- Your four elements and what the balance asks for
- The colours, with the pieces that carry them
- Yours to keep, in one document
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Method: elements count the 10 planets plus your Rising sign. When two placements share a color family, the second one shifts to its secondary color; if there is nowhere left to shift, they merge into one.
Questions people ask
- What is a moon sign, and how do I find mine?
- Your moon sign is the zodiac sign the Moon was crossing at the minute you were born. Because the Moon moves about one sign every two and a half days, a date alone is not always enough - this moon sign calculator uses your date, hour and birthplace to place it exactly.
- What is a rising sign?
- Your rising sign, or ascendant, is the sign that was climbing over the eastern horizon when you were born. It changes roughly every two hours, so it is the one placement that genuinely needs your birth time and city.
- Do I need my exact birth time?
- No. Without an hour we can still read your Sun, Moon and Venus. Only the rising sign and the houses need the exact minute, and the page tells you plainly which parts it could not work out.
- What are the big three in astrology?
- The big three are your Sun, Moon and rising sign - identity, inner life and the face you lead with. This sun moon rising calculator returns all three at once, plus Venus.
- Where do the colors come from?
- Each placement is read through the planet that rules its sign, and each ruling planet carries a traditional color. That is where your zodiac colors come from: not from your birth month, but from where the planets actually sat.
- Is this birth chart calculator free?
- Yes. No account, no sign-up, no payment. Enter your birth date, hour and city and the chart is worked out in your browser.
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The sky only ever looked like this once. It was the minute you arrived.