How to Determine Your Astrological Chart

Navigating your personality with the stars is challenging and rewarding.

Astrological charts can provide insights in your character, drives and personal challenges. Use your horoscope to identify patterns that, overcome or enhanced, can improve the quality of your inner and interpersonal life. Collect the necessary background information to determine your astrological signs, houses and planets for a wealth of information to guide you to making strong life decisions. Use an online computer program to chart your horoscope or employ the services of an astrologer.

Things You'll Need

• Birth certificate
• Astrology program

Instructions

1. Use your birth certificate to find what exact time of day you were born to determine your Ascendant or Rising sign. Find your Sun and Moon signs based on the day, year and place you were born.

2. Select the type of chart you want to review. Choose from the House system, planets and points to include, and the aspects and their orbs system.

3. Interpret your chart. Spend time reviewing the general characteristics associated with the signs and planets in your astrological chart. Read about the significance and meanings of houses and how they relate to your signs and planets. Use a book like Steven Forrest's "The Inner Sky: Astrology for Beginners" to guide you through the complexities of astrological interpretation.

Tips & Warnings

• If you don't know the time you were born, you can glean quite a bit of information about your personality without your Rising sign. The website Horoscoper suggests using 12 p.m. to hone the information down to no more than 12 hours off.

• Each type of chart provides different insights into the relationships among the signs, planets and houses in your horoscope.

References

• Astrolabe: Free Birth Chart & Astrology Report Data Input
• Horoscoper: Your Own Horoscope
• "The Inner Sky: Astrology for Beginners"; Steven Forrest; 1988