Birth charts, also referred to as natal charts, hold an important place in astrology. It is in reference to your birth chart that an astrologer will be able to gain insight into your personality and character traits. Thus providing you with guidance and advice on things that will be best for you.
What is a birth chart?
A birth chart or your natal chart is a chart that represents the exact appearance of the observable universe based on the day, time and place of your birth.
Your natal or your birth chart represents the position, movement, and alignment of the astrological constellations, the stars and the planets on the day, time, and place you were born.
By studying and analysing your birth chart, an astrologer will be able to determine under which zodiac constellations you were born, the location and alignment of stars and planets, and how these celestial bodies can influence the various aspects of your life. By reading your birth chart, astrology will be able to gain insight into how the stars and planets can significantly influence your love life, your finances, your health, and so on.
Importance of Birth Chart in Astrology
A birth chart is an essential element in astrology. Without a birth chart, the preparation of astrological data can be extremely difficult. But on the other hand, a proper and accurate birth chart helps prepare accurate astrological data that goes into making predictions and forecasts.
A birth chart is a representation that maps down the whole life cycle of an individual.
Date and time
The date and time recorded in your birth chart play a very critical role as the planets are always moving, and their positions are constantly changing. Your birth chart is a record of the position of each planet with respect to the twelve zodiac constellations. The twelve zodiac signs indicate the 360 degrees of movement for each of the planets, which comes down to 30 degrees of movement for each of the planets to each zodiac sign. All these plants are in constant motion, and their speed of movement varies from each other. The moon is the fastest-moving celestial body, which takes two and half days to move from one zodiac sign to another.
Since your time and date are fixed and will not change, your birth chart will help astrologers predict the movement of the planets in correspondence to the time and date of your birth as recorded in your birth chart.
Lagna or Ascendant
The Lagna or the ascendant is the unique point of a specific zodiac sign that is represented by longitude accurate to the last second. This ascendant point is based on the latitudinal and longitudinal location of the place you were born.
For all the twelve zodiac signs, every place on the surface of the earth has an ascendant degree and sign for any given date and time. There is a unique ascendant point or degree to each person, which represents the precise point in the eastern horizon for the exact time, date, and place of your birth. This ascendant point will be your unique space and time signature.
The Lagna sign in your birth chart forms the first house of your charts, and moving anti-clockwise, the zodiac signs that follow will become the other houses of your birth chart. Your birth chart will represent the position of each individual planet in different zodiac signs and the ascendant and the 12 houses in your birth chart based on the time, date and place of your birth. And your birth chart is permanent and will not change ever.
Dasha Chart
A data chart is present in every birth chart. This is unique for every individual as it starts from the date and time of your birth. However, the starting point of the dasha chart can be anywhere within your birth chart. This starting point is not random. In fact, a definite mathematical rationale is applied for the computation of the starting point with the location of the moon in your birth chart as a point of reference.
With the inclusion of the dash chart, your birth chart becomes the most essential astrology tool for an astrologer to predict and forecast events in your life.
Conclusion
These being the two major aspects of a birth chart, the study and analysis of these two aspects help an astrologer gain insight into your life, past, present and future and make forecasts and predictions. The analysis deduced from the information from your birth chart can be used for relationship compatibility, financial prospects, setting times and dates for important events and so on. All astrology readings will be based on your birth chart.
