What is a birth chart?

The Natal Report
The natal report charts the positions of the planets in our solar system at an exact moment in time. The horoscope is a representation of the planet's positions and orbits in relation to the earth at the specific time of your birth and can be viewed as your individualized "astrological fingerprint". This "freeze frame" of the solar system will be calculated from your unique date, time and location of birth and it is filled with information in relation to what the planetary energies at play have to say about you as an individual.

The natal report is compounded from factual astronomical data, and it differs greatly from the common Sun Sign daily horoscope reports that you may be familiar with through reading your favorite magazine or newspaper. As mentioned earlier, a professionally prepared natal chart is a study of the planetary energies at play at the time of your birth. Each planetary position is calculated by the use factual astronomical data and will be charted to provide you with your individual "universal identification". An individual natal profile is compounded through the calculation, charting and interpretation of the data given and will only be as accurate as the accuracy of the date, time and location of birth submitted for charting. To get an accurate time of birth, it is helpful to refer to a birth certificate or the facility in which you were born.

The natal report is an incredible tool in the journey of self-discovery and understanding. Through becoming familiar with it, you may see aspects of your life or personality that you may have already known were there or aspects that you may have not been familiar with at all. At this point it is important to understand that the chart interpretation grounds itself in aspects of your "being" or personality.

Whatever is born, or done, in this moment of time, has the qualities of this moment in time.

- Carl G. Jung

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