How to Download Your Astrology Natal Birth Chart

Looking at your Natal Birth Chart for the first time is both exciting and overwhelming!

Have you ever seen your full birth chart drawn out like the wheel below?

This is a wheel that professional astrologers use. It is a map of where the planets and asteroids were located in the sky the moment you were born. 

What does it all mean?

I describe a Natal Birth Chart like composing a sentence.

The Zodiac signs seen in the pictographs around the outside of the wheel are the adjectives. They are the descriptors or personality traits that characterize an aspect.

The Houses seen in the center of the circle labeled 1 through 12 are the nouns. The Houses describe the area of life where something happens like career, home life, relationships, self worth, etc.

The Planets are the verbs. They show how traits of yourself and life manifest through movement and how the Zodiac signs and Houses connect.

Before we get to downloading your chart...

Firstly, I do not recommend Co-Star!!!

Personally, I recommend working with full wheel charts or working with someone who can read charts.

If you are interested in learning how to read charts and use astrology in your daily life... 

• Take one of my courses,
• Join my monthly free class GPS Astrology Class, 
• Attend a workshop or
• Start learning the basics by reading articles on my blog.

If you want to start reading daily charts or do spot readings for friends, I highly recommend buying the AstroGold app for your phone. It's worth the one-time payment of $40!

If you want to do Professional Readings, I highly recommend AstroGold's professional software (for Mac users only.) PC Users use Solar Fire.

But these apps won't be necessary for simply downloading your natal chart. Keep scrolling👇🏼.

If you are interested in downloading your Human Design, Gene Keys or Cards of Destiny charts, visit this article for instructions on these other systems.

With that out of the way, let's download your natal birth chart!

How to Download Your Chart

Follow the written instructions below or follow along my YouTube video. The video walks you through the same instructions. Click on the YouTube thumbnail below.

1. To download your chart for Free, go to Astro.com.
2. Click on 'Horoscopes' > 'Extended Chart Selection'  
3. Click on 'Enter birth data.' *If you already have an account on Astro.com, jump to Step 4.
   1. If you plan on running charts often, especially for friends and family, I recommend creating a free account. Every chart you create will be saved in your Astro.com library. 
   2. Enter your birth data and click 'continue.' You don't need to hit 'show / hide extended settings' at this time. 
4. Now you should be on the 'Extended Chart Selection' page. Use the settings in the following images. I've put a few notes about settings below:
   1. If you already have an account on Astro.com, next to 'Horoscope for:' click on the name button with the drop down arrows to choose a person's chart. To add a new person, next to the name click the blue "+Add" button.
   2. The 'Start date' doesn't matter in this case because we are not looking at transit charts.
5. Next to 'Image size' Click on 'landscape, if possible'.
   1. Under 'Aspects' check 'to Chiron' and 'to lunar node and eclipses'.
6. Under 'Additional objects' click on Pars Fortunae, Vertex, Lilith, Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, Eris, Aldebaran, Antares, Regulus, Sirius, Algol.
7. You may add any extra asteroids and fixed stars that you wish to see. 
8. Then click the big green button, "Show the chart >>" 

9. Once you see your chart, you may right click on the image and click 'Save Image'. In addition to saving it as a PNG, I recommend saving it as a PDF. I have found that the PDF version of these charts work best and are the most clear.

1. You can click on "PDF Additional tables" to download a list of your planet and house degrees.