Astrology
Astrology: Planets, Signs and Houses
A birth chart is the sky at the moment you were born: each planet in a sign and a house. Here is what every placement means.
Planets and points
- Sunyour core self, will and vitality
- Moonyour feelings, needs and instincts
- Rising signthe face you show, your body and the way you begin things
- Mercuryyour mind, speech and learning
- Venuslove, beauty, pleasure and what you value
- Marsdrive, courage, desire and anger
- Jupitergrowth, faith, luck and wisdom
- Saturnduty, limits, time and mastery
- Uranusfreedom, sudden change and originality
- Neptunedreams, faith, imagination and illusion
- Plutopower, depth, endings and rebirth
- North Nodethe direction of growth in this life
- Chironthe old wound that becomes your gift for healing others
- Black Moon Liliththe wild, refused and untamed side of you
- Junocommitment, marriage and loyalty
- Midheavenyour career, calling, reputation and public life
- Descendantthe partner you attract and the people you meet one to one
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Questions and answers
What is a birth chart?
A map of the sky at the moment of birth: where the Sun, Moon and planets stood in the zodiac and which house of the sky each fell in. The date gives the signs; the time and place give the rising sign and the houses.
What are the big three in astrology?
The Sun sign (who you are), the Moon sign (what you need) and the rising sign (how you meet the world).