Natal charts

There are likely hundreds if not thousands of websites on the web that offer a free natal astrology chart to be generated for you to look at by simply typing in your time, date and place of birth. In that sense, the practice of astrology is easily accessible with wide open doors to the layman and beginner. On the other hand, there’s also a variety of astrology software on the market for those wanting a more comprehensive astrology experience. Regardless of how you create your natal chart, those three aforementioned inputs of yours is what, astrologically speaking, is going to determine the context that you can begin to analyse and contemplate. What is the purpose of that context? Put most simply, the reason astrology is a practice is that it’s a pursuit of getting a sense of who you are. Astrologers — and maybe you, shortly, if you’re new to astrology — tend to take a more macroscopic approach than the microscopic one of only considering the aspects in their respective silos. They will do this by looking at the various parts that interact with another (i.e. aspects) and even analysing the patterns that the different celestial bodies form on the chart. An important thing to note, in relation to your input of your time of birth, is that the traditional methodology for astrology (and numerology) is to convert the time to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Once you have a copy of your natal astrological chart to look at, I imagine you’ll want to start learning how to understand it. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at what each element of your natal chart means. Each element has been listed in ‘importance’ (of understanding) order. Though I understand if you’d want to debate that! If you’re looking to read deeper into the house systems in astrology and what the houses mean in an astrology chart, click here.