So if your first house is Gemini, the second will be Cancer, the third will be Leo, and so on. Your rising sign determines the first house (for example, I’m a Gemini rising, so my first house is ruled by Gemini), and it sets up the order of signs in your birth chart.

Everyone has all 12 signs in their chart because each house is ruled by one sign (but you may not have planets in each sign/house). The houses are the segments of the birth chart wheel. Pluto (14-30 years): Death and rebirth, transformation.Neptune (14 years): Idealism, intuition, spirituality, confusion or delusions.Saturn (28.5 years): Hard work, restrictions, boundaries.How they show up in your individual life depends on the houses they’re placed in (again, that’s why the rising is so important!).

So everyone born around the same time as you will have these planets in the same signs. These are farther from the Earth and move more slowly, staying in one sign for about 1-30 years.

Venus : What you find aesthetically pleasing, what you appreciate or look for in someone you’re datingĪlong with the personal planets, there are also generational, or outer, planets.

Moon: The inner you, how you process and handle emotions, your mother.

The planets below are called personal planets because they move quickly, meaning the sign they’re in is different from person to person. But there are many other placements that make up different sides of your personality, too. These are called the big three for a reason-they’re the core of your identity. You might know your sun, moon, and rising signs.

Mutable (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces): Flexible, adaptable, good at multitasking.

Fixed (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius): Stable, thorough, persistent.

Cardinal (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn): Leaders, initiate things.

Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): Emotional, nurturing, perceptive.

Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius): Intellectual, social, talkative.

Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn): Down to Earth, patient.

Fire signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius): Passionate, energetic, enthusiastic.

When trying to understand your birth chart, though, it’s important to know a little about the qualities of the rest of the signs because everyone has all 12 in their chart (more on that below).

You’re probably familiar with your zodiac sign. With this house system, each house is ruled by one sign, making understanding transits (movements of planets) much easier.įor the purposes of this story, we’ll be looking at the below birth chart as an example: I recommend selecting Whole Sign houses as the house system in extended settings. Enter your birthdate, place, and time (Tip: If you don’t know your exact time of birth, ask your mom or look on your birth certificate). The first step to finding your chart is going to a birth chart calculator website like this one.

Astrology degree chart