A Beginner’s Guide to Pulling Your Zodiac Chart (and Why It Matters for Your Healing Journey)

In my monthly energy forecasts, I often talk about zodiac themes, collective transits, and how certain signs may be more activated than others. These patterns can explain why some months feel heavy, emotional, expansive, or transformative — but to understand how these energies personally affect you, it helps to know your own natal chart.

This post will walk you through how to easily pull your chart on astro.com (free, quick, and beginner-friendly), so you can start exploring which signs and planets shape your energetic blueprint.

This is not a reading — but it is a powerful first step on your spiritual self-discovery path.

Why Your Natal Chart Matters (Even If You’re Not “Into Astrology”)

Your natal chart is a symbolic map of the sky at the moment you took your first breath. Many people use it for personality insights — but it’s much more than that.

From a spiritual and energetic perspective, your chart can reveal:

• Recurring life themes

• Patterns you entered this world with, as well as ones you may have developed over time

• The emotional wounds or fears you’re here to transform

• Your soul’s natural strengths, gifts, and growth path

• Where karmic lessons may show up in relationships, work, and identity

  
  

You don’t need to be an astrologer to benefit from this.Even a surface-level understanding of your sign placements can help you make sense of emotional cycles, triggers, and why certain healing themes keep resurfacing.

How to Pull Your Natal Chart (Beginner-Friendly Guide)

You don't need special knowledge — just:

• Your birth date

• Your birth time (the more accurate, the better)

• Your birth location

  
  

Then follow these steps:

Step 1 — Go to Astro.com Chart Calculator

Visit: Astro.com → Free Horoscopes → Horoscope Drawings and Data → Create an Ephemeris (or try this link)

This tool gives you a visual chart plus a list of your planetary placements.

You will be asked to create an account at this stage-it is free and you get to save your own chart data.

Step 2 — Enter Your Birth Details

You will be asked for:

• Your name and gender (any name is fine — it doesn’t affect the chart)

• Date of birth

• Exact time of birth (use midday if unknown)

• City + country of birth

  
  

Click Continue.

Step 3 — View Your Chart & Planetary Placements

You’ll now see:

• A circular chart (the "wheel")

• A table showing each planet and the sign it sits in

  
  

For now, the key thing to note is your placements — for example:

• Sun in Sagittarius

• Moon in Cancer

  
  

These placements alone already tell you which collective energies might influence you most deeply each month.

A quick guide of energetic signatures of each of the 12 signs, and areas affected by each of the planets, might help with starting to decipher what your energetic signature might contain. This is here as a reference tool rather than a code to be deciphered all at once-start with maybe identifying your Sun or Moon, look up the planet's meaning and then the energy of the sign it is in. Does it resonate?

Sign	Element	Essence of the Energy
Aries	Fire	Initiating, bold, catalytic energy; wants movement, truth, and forward action.
Taurus	Earth	Grounded, stabilising, sensory; values security, comfort, and steady growth.
Gemini	Air	Curious, communicative, flexible; processes life through ideas and connection.
Cancer	Water	Emotional, intuitive, nurturing; focuses on belonging, roots, and inner safety.
Leo	Fire	Expressive, creative, heart-led; seeks authentic self-expression and joy.
Virgo	Earth	Discerning, practical, refining; oriented toward improvement, clarity, and service.
Libra	Air	Harmonising, relational, aesthetic; seeks balance, fairness, and meaningful bonds.
Scorpio	Water	Deep, transformative, emotionally intense; reveals truth and invites evolution.
Sagittarius	Fire	Expansive, philosophical, adventurous; pursues meaning, wisdom, and freedom.
Capricorn	Earth	Structured, ambitious, resilient; grounded in responsibility, mastery, and legacy.
Aquarius	Air	Visionary, innovative, collective-minded; brings change through insight and detachment.
Pisces	Water	Empathic, mystical, fluid; dissolves boundaries to access compassion and higher awareness.

Planet / Point	What It Represents	Energetic / Archetypal Essence
Sun	Core self, identity, life force	Your essence, purpose, vitality, and what you’re here to grow into.
Moon	Emotions, needs, inner safety	Your emotional body, subconscious patterns, comfort needs, and intuitive self.
Rising (ASC)	Social self, approach to life	The “lens” you meet the world through; your instinctive style and first impressions.
Descendant (DSC)	Partnerships, relationship patterns	What you seek in connection; qualities you attract or must integrate.
Mercury	Thinking, communication, learning	Your mental processes, communication style, and how you interpret the world.
Venus	Love, values, relationships	What you value, how you give/receive affection, beauty, pleasure, and harmony.
Mars	Drive, desire, action	How you assert, pursue goals, handle anger, and generate momentum.
Jupiter	Expansion, wisdom, blessings	Where you experience growth, opportunity, faith, and learning.
Saturn	Lessons, structure, boundaries	Your karmic curriculum: discipline, responsibility, fears, mastery, long-term goals.
Uranus	Awakening, change, liberation	Where you break patterns, innovate, rebel, or experience sudden shifts.
Neptune	Dreams, intuition, illusion	The mystical, imaginative, empathetic part of you; also where confusion may arise.
Pluto	Transformation, power, shadow work	Deep evolution, soul contracts, psychological rebirth, and hidden patterns.
North Node	Growth path, future evolution	Qualities your soul is learning to embody in this lifetime.
South Node	Past-life themes, familiar patterns	Your comfort zone, old identities, and karmic patterns ready to be released.
Midheaven (MC)	Career, reputation, direction	Your public path, contribution, and the energy you bring into your vocation.
Imum Coeli (IC)	Roots, foundation, inner world	Your childhood imprint, home life, ancestry, and internal sense of safety.

What To Do With Your Natal Chart (Without Needing to Be an Astrologer)

Once you know your placements, you can start looking at your life with new clarity.

Ask yourself:

1. Which signs appear the most?

This often points to the energetic themes you’re here to master.

2. Do you have planets in the sign I mentioned in the monthly forecast?

If yes, you may feel this month’s themes more strongly.

3. How do the descriptions make you feel?

Your emotional response is often the most accurate intuitive compass.

These reflections alone can begin opening a deeper conversation with yourself.

If Interpreting Your Chart Feels Overwhelming… That’s Completely Normal

Astrology is a vast system — you’re not expected to understand the whole thing on day one.

If you’re curious to go deeper, you have a few paths available:

1. Self-Discovery Through Reflection

You can explore your placements through journaling, somatic awareness, and intuitive inquiry. (I’ll be creating a series of beginner-friendly guides for this.)

2. A Guided Course (Coming Soon)

I’m developing a one-day workshop that shows you how to use your chart to map:

• Your emotional patterns

• Core wounds and shadow themes

• Evolutionary lessons

• Protective mechanisms and gifts

• Timelines of major turning points

  
  

It will blend astrology, nervous-system awareness, and intuitive shadow work — perfect for those on a healing or spiritual awakening path.

If this interests you, you can join the newsletter to receive early access.

3. A Professional Natal Chart Reading

If you’d prefer an astrologer to interpret your placements for you, I recommend seeking someone who uses an archetypal, trauma-aware, or soul-centred approach.(I’ll add a list of trusted astrologers here soon.)

Final Thoughts

Pulling your natal chart is more than an exercise in curiosity — it’s the beginning of a relationship with your own energy. It helps you understand why certain emotional or spiritual patterns feel familiar, where your resilience lives, and what your soul is gently nudging you toward.

As you explore your chart, move slowly, stay grounded, and meet yourself with tenderness.Everything you discover is simply information — a doorway into deeper healing.