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Start here: your birth date, local birth time and birthplace. These details personalize your chart, StarCard and stories. You can change them anytime. Creating a chart remembers these details on this device. No login needed.
Example chart · enter your details above
Your sky, at a glance.
Jan 1, 2000, 12:00 PM · Ruston
Sagittarius
Tropical: Capricorn
Libra
Waning Crescent
9 / 10
Names change between the maps.
Tropical signs follow the seasons. This chart places the same bodies in astronomical constellations.
See what changesYour chart’s stories & phasesSun, Moon, horizon, and the unequal year.
Birth Moment · calculated astronomy
The texture of your moment.
Local light at Ruston, plus the Moon’s distance and the planets’ apparent motion as viewed from Earth’s centre.
Sun centre above horizon
Sun 34.4° above the geometric horizon.
A calculated light band, not a visibility or weather report.
≈403,100 km
Moving farther from Earth.
Earth-centre to Moon-centre · 2516 km/day in the one-hour sample.
Apparent lunar diameter: 29.63 arcminutes.
1 of 8 retrograde
Saturn.
No turn flagged in the surrounding 24-hour sample.
At birthWaning Crescent
21.0% illuminated · 24.8 days since New Moon
Next principal lunar phaseNew Moon
· America/Chicago
Shemhazai & Istahar · reading the measurements
The open window
Choose one question that catches your attention. Try a small response in your day, then return and notice what you understand differently.
Your first sky held the Sun above the horizon: a lamp in the open. Let this be an image of giving something inward a visible form.
What would you like to bring into the open?
Inspired by: Ruston · Sun 34.4° · Sun centre above horizonThe farther Moon leaves more darkness around its light. Space need not mean absence; sometimes it is what lets affection breathe and a feeling become clear. The distance was opening: consider where a little freedom might deepen care.
Where might a little breathing room help?
Inspired by: 403,101 km · 29.63 arcminutes across · recedingSaturn traced apparent backward passages. An old question can become new when you return with a different understanding.
What is worth revisiting with what you know now?
Inspired by: Apparent retrograde motionYour Moon stood farther from the Sun’s apparent road. A small departure can reveal a view the familiar path conceals; difference need not be exile.
What becomes possible when you trust your own angle?
Inspired by: Moon 5.12° north of the eclipticHow we build this layer · birth-context-v2
Creative prompts selected by transparent rules, not personality findings or predictions. These astronomical calculations do not establish an effect on your life.
Uses the Sun’s centre and an airless, level geometric horizon. Bands are split at 0°, −6°, −12° and −18°; 0° is not the observed sunrise or sunset boundary. Weather, refraction, terrain and sky brightness are not assessed.
Distance and apparent diameter are geocentric. Approaching/receding uses a centred one-hour distance sample; under 1 km/day is “nearly steady,” not a confirmed apsis. The nearer/middle/farther readings split at 375,000 and 395,000 km. Lunar latitude readings split at absolute 1° and 3°. These are authored interpretive thresholds, not physical events; proximity to the ecliptic alone does not establish an eclipse.
Retrograde is apparent motion in geocentric ecliptic longitude. The existing chart’s turning flag compares the preceding and following 12 hours. Planets do not physically reverse their orbits; these flags do not imply effects on people.
Local light, lunar distance and direction, apparent planetary motion, and lunar latitude each select their own reading. These creative rules never change your constellation placements.