Natal Chart

Astrology uses planetary movement and placemeant to make estimates about a greater universal image. Using planetary signs help you understand where you fit in the universal picture. Each planet (luminary planets included such as the sun, the moon, and Pluto) represent something in our lives.

Your own personal zodiac combination are based upon where the planets were located at the time of your birth and their houses in what is known as the natal chart.

Sun Sign: Your Focal Point

The Sun in astrology symbolizes the core essence of who you are – your individuality and sense of self. It describes what is likely to motivate you, and why. The Sun Sign describes the prime focal point within the personality structure, and is of major importance. Understanding and developing these aspects of self will help develop and expand your sense of authenticity. Understanding the house in which your Sun is found will give even greater detail.

Moon Sign: The Inner You

Your Moon Sign describes your instinctive or emotional energies, your innate reactions, and the things you need to feel comfortable or secure. It can reveal your emotional, genetic and intuitive makeup. Whilst your Sun Sign describes qualities you are learning to develop and become, your Moon Sign describes those that you already are. It also explores your moods.

Mercury Sign: Communication

What style of communication do we use? How do we make decisions? How do we pick up, process, absorb, and exchange information? Mercury also assists in your intellect, and more importantly, how you learn or obtain information.

Venus Sign: True Love and Romance

Your Venus sign governs how you view relationships, what you want in a relationship, how you act in a relationship and to some extent the type of person you are attracted to. It is also your appreciation of beauty, art and harmony.

Mars Sign: Sex and Aggression

Mars is energy, action and desire; the animal instinct. Unlike the Sun, which is the embodiment of creative energy, Mars is raw energy. It’s divisive, scattering energy in an outward direction. It represents how a person goes after their goals, their drive and energy, their initiative, courage, and combativeness. It’s aggressive and aids our survival. Angry? That is Mars coming through.

Jupiter Sign: Optimism & Growth

Jupiter’s position by sign in the natal chart (that is, the sign that Jupiter occupies in the birth chart) reveals how we express our generosity and tolerance. It shows how we go about improving our lives, as well as how we build our trust in others and faith in the universe. It also expresses our knack with luck and fortune.

Saturn Sign: Ambitions & Authority

Saturn governs ambition, career, authority, hierarchy, and conforming social structures. It concerns a person’s sense of duty, discipline and responsibility, and their physical and emotional endurance during hardships. Saturn also rules our fears and where we pull back the reins on ourselves.

Uranus Sign: Reformation & Insight

Uranus symbolizes sudden flashes of insight, moments of revelation, and spurts of creativity. It is your intuition awakening you to a world beyond our social structure. This can also mean rebellion and your openness to change.

Neptune Sign: Mysticism

Neptune is linked to spirituality, extrasensory observations, magic and ritual; daydreaming, fantasy, fairy tales, theatre, ghost stories and sensitivity, but also drunkenness and sexual abuse. Intuition and Imagination is found here.

Pluto Sign: Endings and New Beginnings

Pluto shows the area of life where you'll personally face the intense powers of creation and destruction. It's the doorway through which volatile compressed pockets of self, spirit and primal energy lies hidden, your rebirth and how you view death.

References

1. Labyrinthos.com