Astrology guides — Understand your chart.
Clear, honest explanations of what can be calculated from your birth details — and what cannot — checked against how our calculators actually work.
Birth chart without a birth time: what you can still know
What can be calculated from a birth date and place alone, what needs a time, and how to use an approximate one.
The Big Three in astrology: Sun, Moon and Rising explained
What the Sun, Moon and Rising signs each describe and how to read them together.
How to find your birth time
Where a birth time is usually recorded, and what to do when you can only narrow it down.