Comprehensive Natal Chart Analysis Instructions
Comprehensive Natal Chart Analysis Instructions
- Verify accurate birth details to calculate houses and the Ascendant.
- Identify the Ascendant sign and its ruling planet to set the chart's overall tone.
- List each planet's sign, house, and aspects, including the Sun, Moon, personal planets, outer planets, and notable asteroids.
- Evaluate essential dignity, sect, and retrograde status for planetary strength or challenges.
- Examine elemental balance (fire, earth, air, water) and modalities (cardinal, fixed, mutable) for temperament clues.
- Map aspect patterns such as T-square, Grand Trine, Yod, or Stellium.
- Analyze the four angles (AC, DC, MC, IC) and planets closely conjunct them.
- Review house emphasis to identify life areas with high activity or learning curves.
- Trace rulership chains between planets to understand how energies flow through the chart.
- Integrate repeating themes into a concise narrative of innate potentials and developmental hurdles.
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📐 Arith(m)etic Worksheet
Following the book’s method — “pull three datasets from the catalog” (body, aspect, body) and combine them with sign and house — record each contact as:
| a (body 1) | 1 (sign of a) | house of a | aspect (operator) | b (body 2) | 2 (sign of b) | house of b | orb | applying/separating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | … |
Then read: (a + 1)^house(a) × (b + 2)^house(b) = interpretation — i.e., body-in-sign, coloured by house, joined by the aspect’s quality. In Natal work the bodies come from the one natal chart.
Construction reminder: the natal chart is cast for the exact birth moment and place (UT, RAMC, latitude).
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Sources (worksheet)
- Mikah Smith, Astrology Arith(m)etic — The Building Blocks of Astrology (Schizo Studios EPUB, 2025-12-31), vault copy: Astrology Arith(m)etic - Book Text