In the Chart Wheel, the planets are placed in their Zodiac positions. The Zodiac stretches in a circle through all 360 degrees of the surounding sky, and this circle is divided into sections of 30 degrees, the familiar 12 signs. Planet positions are measured within signs by degrees, minutes, and seconds of circular arc. Each degree contains 60 minutes of arc and each minute of arc contains 60 seconds of arc.

The Chart Wheel is divided into 12 sections called Houses. The houses are numbered from 1 to 12. The pie-like lines that divide one house from the next are called house cusps.

Keep in mind that our Earth makes a complete turn on its axis once in 24 hours. The Chart Wheel represents the space surrounding where we were born. It is as if we were standing outside with the sky above us (upper part of chart) and the Earth beneath our feet (lower hemisphere). As the Earth turns, it brings each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac to any part of the wheel once in 24 hours, a new deree of the zodiac every 4 minutes.

ZODIAC CHART WHEEL

a SUN…The Sun is associated with a sense of power. The house that the Sun occupies will be strongly emphasized. The activities of that house will be of great importance to the subject throughout his life. The characteristics of the sign associated with the Sun are usually intensified. The positive aspect of the Sun is creativity, affection and generosity. The negative trait of the Sun is arrogance.

/ MOON…The Moon conveys the sense of instinct and cyclic changes. The Moon is the second most important planet aside from the Sun. The characteristics of the sign in the Moon usually reflects the personality of the subject. Habits, emotions, motherhood, family and social response are the associations of the moon. Positiveness of the Moon is imaginativeness, business shrewdness, maternal instinct and patience. Negative traits include stubbornness, unreliability and irrational behavior.

g MERCURY…Mercury is communication. Mercury is associated with computers, intellect, science and mental perception. The positive characteristics of Mercury are good memory, logical, communicative and clever. The negative traits are mental constipating, argumentative, nervousness and sarcastic.

v VENUS…The keywords of Venus are love and harmony. Venus is associated with feelings, love, beauty, arts, and fashion. The positiveness of Venus is friendly, well mannered, artistic and lovable. The negative traits are selfish, and unrealistically romantic.

m MARS…Fire and energy come to mind with Mars. In ancient times, Mars was regarded as the bringier of wars. It has been perceived as the most powerful planet. Aggression, quickness in action, war and weapons and masculinity are always associated with Mars. The negative traits are boisterous, war-like and quarrelsome.

j JUPITER…The keyword of Jupiter is expansion. Jupiter is sometimes known as the good planet. The House in which Jupiter is found usually is associated with very favorable outcomes in that department of life. The expanding quality of the planet can also be associated with the physical size of Jupiter…the largest planet in the solar system. Positive traits are compassionate, optimistic, sportive. Negative traits are extravagance, irresponsible, indulgent, over-optimistic, and care-free.

t SATURN…Limitation and hardship are the main attributes of Saturn. A subject always encounters limitation on the activities in life that are characteristics of the House where Saturn is. Saturn is always associated with slow moving, difficulty, and tension. Because Saturn is a planet that tests the success or tenacity of a subject’s action, Saturn is positively associated with perseverance and fortitude. As well, Saturn sometimes is associated with ill health. The positive traits are trustworthiness, tenacity, and discipline. The negative traits are self-pitying, depressive, difficult.

u URANUS…Sudden changes is best to represent Uranus. Uranus is associated with modern science, medicine, sex and tele-communication radio systems. The positive traits are inventive and original. The negative traits are sexually perverted, abnormal and impulsive.

n NEPTUNE…The keyword of Neptune is unknown. Neptune may reflect the hidden potential capability of a person. The positive traits are subtle, artistic and sensitive. The negative traits are indecisive, careless, and unworldly.

P PLUTO…Due to its recent discovery (1930), astrologers have not been certain of what Pluto is best to associate with a subjects characteristics. The best to associate with Pluto is the marking of a new beginning (the end of a cycle) of a life event. Pluto very often is symbolically associated with business, the hidden and unconscious power. The positive traits are financial astuteness, able to start new in unfavorable circumstances. The negative traits are underworld association, and seediness.

ASCENDANT

RS The Ascendant in a birth chart is known as the rising sign. It is the starting point of the first house in a chart. Contrary to the standard horoscope analysis in the newspaper, where the personality of a person is based on the Sun Sign (the sign where the sun is), astrologers usually put emphasis on the characteristics of the first House, or Ascendant, to project a personality profile.

MID HEAVEN

On the birth chart, the Mid heaven is the point where the sun is found a midday. The sign where the Mid heaven is found not only has a strong bearing on the subject’s outward expression of oneself in one’s world, lifestyle, choice of career, attitude, but also in events that the subject has no direct control. The Mid heaven represents ego, and the characteristics that are associated with the sign in which the Mid heaven is found, are expressed in an external manner.

PART OF FORTUNE

In what area you would do well in. Luck.

A Natal Chart is made from your month, day, year, time of birth (am/pm), city and state of birth. This gives you, your own personality, the person you are and will become!

The planets will not be in the same placement at the time of your birth again for another 25,000 years, there are no two personalities the same in the world…you are unique!!

The Sun, Moon and Rising form your personality, it’s like a pyramid, Sun on top and Moon and Rising at each bottom end.

There is a treasure chest of information in a Natal Chart!

PROGRESSIONS

Progressions contain the primary timing for your development and growth and show how you evolve and grow. They are generally felt internally. You may make external changes based on them, but they are like the unfolding of your astrological DNA. The timing for all of these changes is very personal, based solely on your own chart. Because evolution is slow, these are slow changes.

Your progressed chart is different from your birth chart in that it moves each planet by its amount of daily travel for each year of life after the person is born. Progressions show how you evolve and develop over time.

SOUTH and NORTH NODES

This is your life long challenge. This is something most people work on all there life and never complete. While there are some that become aware of this and some do work this out. The Nodes are both the same in the goal. This is no easy task for the ones that are aware, what about the ones that are not aware of there life long goal?

“There is not even a blade of grass, however infinitesimal, that is not ruled by some star”.