In the above example, the lord of the 10th house is Moon. And each one of these zodiac signs is inherently ruled by a specific planet(s) as shown in the table below: in the above chart the 10th house is in the 4th sign, the sign of Cancer.

If you'd like to learn how to read a birth chart through a visual medium then please check out this video.Įvery house in your birth chart will be in a specific zodiac e.g. In order to analyze your birth chart, you'd need to understand the meaning of houses, zodiacs signs, and planets, which you'd find in this article. Sun is sitting in the 5th house in the sign of Aquarius in the above chart. Once you have an understanding of this you could figure out how planets are placed in your birth chart e.g. The ascendant is the starting point and so the first house in the birth chart will fall in the ascendant and the rest of the houses and zodiac signs will be arranged thereafter in the anti-clockwise direction. I hope by now you are able to read which sign is your rising sign/ascendant. If in your case the number is '1' then the ascendant is Aries, if it is '2' then is Taurus, '3' is Gemini, '4' is Cancer, '5' is Leo, '6' is Virgo, '8' is Scorpio, '9' is Sagittarius, '10' is Capricorn, '11' is Aquarius, '12' is Pisces.

That sign for this person is the ascendant. She is not related at all to the gods the Romans knew, upon whom the language of astrology is based.Do you see the number “7” in the above chart? That is the 7th zodiac sign, which is Libra. Makemake is from the mythology of Easter Island, in the south eastern Pacific Ocean. Or how about asteroid 1388 Aphrodite instead of Venus? Asteroid 5731 Zeus instead of Jupiter? Asteroid 4341 Poseidon instead of Neptune? As the above illustration from The British Museum shows, astrology began with the ancient Roman/Latin deities like Jupiter and Saturn. If and when astronomers name an asteroid or dwarf planet after Discordia she will become part of the family tree of Latin/Roman astrology.To understand how confusing life becomes when some astrologers mix up Greeks and Romans – imagine if we used Greek icons like the asteroid 69230 Hermes instead of (or in addition to) Mercury. The Romans took Athena and turned her into Minerva, who is the daughter of Jupiter. She is actually the forerunner of Minerva.

Sedna is not in the Latin family tree of astrology – she is a symbol from a completely different culture – the Inuit people of the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.

Natal chart degrees