How to read your own astrological chart: 9 Planets Of Astrology & Their Effects

Reading your own astrological chart involves understanding the position of the nine primary astrological planets and their placement, their effects in the twelve houses of your chart. Here’s a detailed guide on how to read your own chart:

Guide your astrological birth chart:

Obtain your birth chart:

• You need your birth date, your exact birth time, and place of birth.
• Use online astrology software which calculate your chart and give you an accurate horoscope. To get an accurate horoscope get Leostar astrology software.
• Or visit an astrologer to get your natal chart.

Understanding the basic components:

• Zodiac sign: the 12 zodiac signs (Aries, Taurus, Gemini, cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces) each have unique characteristics.
• Houses: the chart is divided into 12 houses, each representing different life areas ( for example: personality, wealth, communication , profession, marriage, and destiny )
• Planets: the primary planets include the sun, moon, mercury, Venus, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, rahu, ketu.
• Aspects: the angles between planets (conjunctions, squares, trines etc.) show how planets interact, influencing your experiences and challenges.

Planets and their significance:

• Sun: represents ego, identity, and core self
• Moon: governs emotions, instincts, and subconscious.
• Mercury: rules communication, intellect, and reason
• Venus: associated with love, beauty, and art
• Mars: represents drive, aggression, and action
• Jupiter: symbolizes growth, luck, and expansion
• Saturn: stands for discipline, responsibility and challenges
• Rahu: ambition, obsession, unconventionality
• Ketu : detachment, spirituality, past life

Effects of planets in Houses: 

First house (ascendant):

• Sun: person has strong personality, leadership qualities, thin body, has advanced nostrils and large forehead, short haired.
• Moon:  person is emotional and intuitive.
• Mercury: person is quick-witted, communication
• Venus:  person is attractive, and sociable
• Mars: person is  energetic and assertive
• Jupiter: person is  optimistic and generous
• Saturn :  person is disciplined and mature
• Rahu: person having few children hating the king, engaged in lowly deeds, courageous, kind and suspicious of things.
• Ketu:  person is cowardly and diplomatic, mischievous, fickle 

Second house (wealth, values):

• Sun: person is  focus on wealth accumulation, lucky, mouth patient
• Moon: person has emotional security through possession, sweet spoken, tolerant and peaceful
• Mercury:  financial gains through intellect, mathematician, physician
• Venus: the person spent money on beauty, art, long lived, high government position
• Mars:  person is aggressive pursuit of wealth, bitter spoken
• Jupiter: person is sweet spoken person, wealthy, astrologer, public servant, popular
• Saturn: person is profitable and separate from family, hates saints, eye disease
• Rahu: person is  collective, less wealthy, jealous and abroad
• Ketu:  person is unhealthy, bitter, and fearful of king

Third house (communication, siblings):

• Sun: person have strong communication skill,
• Moon: person is  emotional in commination,
• Mercury: person have intellectual and analytical communication,
• Venus:  person has harmonious relation with siblings.
• Mars: person have argumentative tendencies, courageous
• Jupiter: A person who has an expensive mind, travels for education.
• Saturn: serious communication, difficulties with siblings
• Rahu: person has few children, rich, courageous
• Ketu: person is artistic, rich

Forth house (home, family):

• Sun:  person have focus on home life
• Moon: person is emotional attachment to family, close to mother
• Mercury: person have  intellectual home environment
• Venus:  person have beautiful, harmonious home
• Mars:  person is active in  home, possible conflicts
• Jupiter:   People have large, prosperous homes.
• Saturn: person have  responsibility, possible restriction in home
• Rahu: person is dissatisfied, multilingual
• Ketu: person is fickle, talkative and disinterested

Fifth house (creativity, children):

• Sun:  person have creativity and self-expression
• Moon:  person have emotional connection with children
• Mercury: person have  intellectual pursuit, hobbies
• Venus:  Alove for arts, romance
• Mars: energetic hobbies, competitive
• Jupiter: joyful, abundant creativity
• Saturn: serious, disciplined approach to creativity
• Rahu: person is soft spoken , lucky, opinionate, stomach patient
• Ketu: person is yogi, sharp minded, and angry

Sixth house (health, enemy, and service)

• Sun:  person is focus on health and work
• Moon: people have an emotional approach to work.
• Mercury: analytical, detail-oriented work
• Venus: harmonious work environment
• Mars: energetic work, possible health issues.
• Jupiter: growth through service
• Saturn: hard work, disciplined in health
• Rahu: person is slayer of enemies, long life, rich and famous
• Ketu: person is preventive of evil, long life and rich

Seventh house (marriage, day to day income):

• Sun: person is strong focus on relationships
• Moon: emotional partnership.
• Mercury: intellectual relationship
• Venus: romantic, harmonious partnerships
• Mars: passionate, possibly argumentative relationship
• Jupiter: beneficial, expansive partnerships
• Saturn: serious, possibly challenging partnerships
• Rahu: person is greedy, suffering from diabetes
• Ketu: person is slow, stupid and unhappy,

Eighth house (transformation, shared resources)

• Sun: focus on transformation and shared resources
• Moon: emotional depth, inheritance
• Mercury: intellectual approach to transformation
• Venus: financial gains through partnerships
• Mars: intense drive, conflicts over resources
• Jupiter: expansion through transformation
• Saturn: challenges in shared resources
• Rahu: the person is angry, wasteful
• Ketu: person is misogynist, evil public servant

Ninth house (philosophy, travel):

• Sun: person is  focus on higher education
• Moon: emotional connection to beliefs
• Mercury: intellectual exploration, travel
• Venus: love for travel, higher education
• Mars: active pursuit of knowledge travel
• Jupiter: expensive, optimistic views
• Saturn:  person is serious, disciplined study
• Rahu: person is migrant, evil minded, devoid of fortune
• Ketu: the person is lover of happiness, hardworking in vain

Tenth house (career, public life)

• Sun: person have strong focus on career
• Moon: person have emotional connection to career
• Mercury: person have intellectual career pursuit
• Venus: person have  harmonious professional life
• Mars: person is driven, competitive career
• Jupiter: career expansion, success
• Saturn: person is hard work, career challenges
• Rahu: person is thrifty, talkative, interested in poetry and literature
• Ketu: person is happy in religious pilgrimages

Eleventh house (friendships, goals):

• Sun: person is  focus on friendships, and goals
• Moon: person have  emotional connection with friends
• Mercury: intellectual social circles
• Venus: harmonious friendships
• Mars: person is  energetic pursuit of goals
• Jupiter: person have  beneficial friendships, expansive goals
• Saturn: person have  serious, possibly restrictive friendships
• Rahu: the person receive money from foreigners,
• Ketu: person is intelligent, destroyer of ill effect

Twelfth house (subconscious, spirituality):

• Sun: person is  focus on inner life, spirituality
• Moon: emotional depth, subconscious
• Mercury: person is  analytical subconscious
• Venus: person have  love for solitude, spirituality
• Mars: inner struggles, spiritual action
• Jupiter:  person has spiritual growth
• Saturn: person accept  karmic challenges
• Rahu: person is irrational, spendthrift
• Ketu: attainment of salvation, religious knowledge, strength, 

By understanding the roles of the nine planets and analyzing their position and interactions in your birth chart, you can gain insights into your personality, strengths and life challenges. To know detailed information about your birth chart talk to our well experienced astrologers.