Free Birth Chart Calculator and Guided Reflection
This free birth chart calculator draws your Western or Vedic natal chart from your birth date, time and city. You’ll see your Sun, Moon and rising sign, the planets in their signs and houses, and the main aspects. You can begin without an account; unknown birth times are handled honestly.
Start with curiosity and a little room to explore.
Two free ways to start: birth chart calculator or guided reflection.
Between readings, our New Moon and Full Moon journal prompts give you a simple monthly rhythm for reflection.
Explore your birth chart
A few starting details open paths for reflection.
Choose Western or Vedic, then enter your birth date, time and city. Explore your calculated placements and free reflection prompts, then download your chart to your own device. If your birth time is unknown, see approximate daily ranges without a guessed rising sign or houses.
Start with what is on your mind
Different reading formats, one space for your own perspective.
Make three simple choices about your focus, intention and pace. Explore a preview. Verify your email to open and save your full free reflection, with questions and a small next step. No birth details needed.
Is this free?
Yes. Generate, explore and download your chart without an account. Verify your email to open and save your full guided reflection. No payment is required.
What is the difference between Western and Vedic?
The Western option uses the tropical zodiac. The Vedic option uses the sidereal zodiac with Lahiri ayanamsa. Western charts offer Placidus or whole-sign houses; Vedic charts use whole-sign houses when your birth time is known. Their placements can differ because they use different zodiac reference points.
How are my details used?
The chart form sends your birth details to this website to resolve the selected city and local time; your browser calculates the chart. Downloaded charts stay on your device unless you share them. Guided reflections need no birth details; verifying your email lets you save your chosen reflection to your account. Optional notes remain in the page unless you copy or download them; browser session restoration may retain page state. Hosting and security services may keep request logs.
How are the reflections created?
Your guide uses editorial reflections selected from your choices or chart placements. Astrology is a symbolic practice for reflection, not a scientific personality assessment or prediction. Keep what feels useful and make your own decisions.
Reading and experience directory
The free chart and reflection tools above are separate from our planned expanded offers. The links below explain each proposed format. Purchases, bookings, course enrolment and membership sign-ups are not open for these planned offers. Planning a reading? Use these questions to ask an astrologer.
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The birthday edition (planned solar return reading) →
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How the birth chart calculator works
The calculator turns your birth date, birthplace and birth time into a natal chart: the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets at that moment, seen from that place. You choose a framework first, Western (tropical zodiac) or Vedic (sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsa), and then enter the details you actually know. Unsure of your exact time? See how birth time rectification works and what it can’t do.
- Birth date sets the positions of the slower planets and, usually, your Sun sign.
- Birthplace resolves your location and the local time zone that applied on that date, including any daylight-saving rules.
- Birth time is needed for the rising sign, the house positions and sometimes the Moon sign. If you are unsure, use unknown-time mode rather than guessing.
Once your chart is calculated, start with your Sun, Moon and rising sign, then look at the planets and the aspects between them. Our birth chart reading guide walks through what each layer means, and how to read a birth chart covers signs, planets and houses step by step.
Birth chart calculator with houses
Houses divide the chart into twelve areas of life and depend on an accurate birth time and place. With a known time, you can read which house each planet falls in. Without one, house placements are left open rather than invented. Our guide to a birth chart without birth time explains why.
Not sure where to begin? Try a guided reflection
If you would rather not enter birth details, the guided reflection starts with three simple questions about what is on your mind and offers prompts you can think or write about. It is a separate, free starting point.
Birth chart calculator questions
Is the birth chart calculator free?
Yes. You can calculate and explore a Western or Vedic birth chart free of charge, and you can begin without creating an account.
Does the calculator show my Sun, Moon and rising sign?
Yes. With a known birth time, you can see your Sun, Moon and rising sign. Without a reliable time, the rising sign is not presented as certain, and the Moon is shown with any uncertainty for that day.
Can I use the calculator without a birth time?
Yes. Select unknown-time mode. Planet signs that do not change during the day still hold, while the rising sign and houses stay open.
What is the difference between the Western and Vedic calculators?
They use different zodiacs. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac and Vedic astrology uses a sidereal zodiac with the Lahiri ayanamsa, so the same planet can appear in different signs. See Vedic birth chart for details.
What happens to my birth details?
The form sends your details to this website to resolve your city and local time and to calculate the chart. Read our privacy policy and privacy questions before sharing chart inputs for more.
Find your available starting point
Understand the natal reading approach, compare Western and Vedic conventions, or learn about reflection without birth details.
Birth chart guides
Every guide explains its method and its limits, so you can choose where to begin. See all astrology guides →
Western birth chart: the tropical zodiac, house systems and the inputs you need.
Vedic birth chart: the sidereal zodiac with Lahiri ayanamsa and whole-sign houses.
Birth chart without a birth time: what stays reliable when the time is unknown, and what does not.
Birth chart reading: planets, signs and aspects as practical starting points.
Synastry chart: how two natal charts are compared, inter-aspect by inter-aspect.
Birth chart compatibility: differences and communication, without a perfect-match score.
Love astrology: affection, needs and relationship reflection.
Health astrology & wellbeing: cultural history and symbolic reflection, with clear medical limits.
Business astrology: work, motivation and planning as symbolic reflection.
Rising sign meaning: your Ascendant, the twelve rising signs and your chart ruler.
Big three astrology: reading your Sun, Moon and rising sign together.
Venus sign meaning: Venus in each of the twelve signs.
The 12 houses in astrology: what each house represents and how to read it.
Whole sign vs Placidus houses: how house systems differ and how to choose.
Sidereal vs tropical zodiac: why your sign can change between Western and Vedic charts.
Birth time rectification: how an unknown birth time is estimated, and the limits.
Synastry vs composite chart: two ways to compare charts in a relationship.
Readings & experiences: compare the free journey with formats still in preparation.