Astrological birth charts provide a map of your life, a unique guide to your personality traits, your strengths and weaknesses. Your birth chart can also reveal information about your past, present and future.
Some people confuse the astrological terms ‘birth chart’ and ‘horoscope’. Horoscopes appear online, in magazines and in newspapers every day; these consist of short messages relevant to each of the 12 star signs of the zodiac. Horoscopes offer a forecast for the day, week or month and are created by studying astrological charts for everyone who shares the same sun sign.
If you want astrological information that is much more relevant to you, astrological birth charts are essential because it is far more specific than a horoscope. A skilled astrologer draws up your birth chart using your time, date and place of birth. Each sign, planet and house in your birth chart has a meaning that an astrologer interprets to help you understand yourself better.
How accurate are astrological birth charts?
An astrologer looks at the positions of the planets, and their interactions with each other, at the exact time of your birth, to analyze your birth chart. Planetary movements can be predicted accurately because they follow regular cycles that have been observed by star gazers for many, many years.
Astrologers often use their intuitive or psychic skills to help interpret astrological birth charts, and some astrologers study psychology to help them understand human nature in greater depth. The combination of psychology and astrology can help to make astrological birth charts interpretation all the more powerful.
How an astrologer interprets astrological birth charts
If you have your own birth chart drawn up, you will find that it comes in the form of a circle or wheel divided up into 12 sections. Each section contains symbols and glyphs relating to planets, star signs and aspects. The correct interpretation of astrological birth charts takes a great deal of skill and, very often, many years of study.
One of the easiest ways to begin to understand your birth chart is to find out about the houses. Each of the 12 sections in your birth chart represents a house, and each house represents an area of your life. The second house relates to money, possessions and your financial affairs, for example, while the fourth house relates to your home, your parents and your early environment.
A cluster of planets in one particular house can represent an area of your life that is significant, while a house lacking in planets can represent parts of your life that may need attention and work.
