Reading Your Sky Chart: Every Section Explained

Tap "Chart" on the sky controls and a whole column of astrology opens up next to the stars — angles, a table of ten placements, a moon phase, and two sections that only compute once you open them. None of it is decorative. Every number in this panel is a live calculation for the exact moment and location your sky map is currently showing.

The header tells you exactly when and where this chart is for

At the top, the panel is labeled Sky chart, with a close button. Right below the heading sits a single line with no heading of its own: the date and time being charted, followed by the observer's latitude and longitude to two decimal places. That line matters more than it looks — everything below it is computed for that specific moment and that specific spot on Earth, not for some generic "now."

Rising and Midheaven are the two angles at the top

Rising is the Ascendant — the zodiac sign crossing the eastern horizon at that exact moment and location. Midheaven is the point of the ecliptic culminating on the meridian, directly overhead in the north-south sense, at that same moment. Both are shown as buttons; tap either one and it unfolds a short reading underneath, specific to whichever sign is sitting there. Both angles depend on precise time and location math, which is why they sit above everything else — they anchor the whole chart.

The Placements table lists all ten bodies plus the North Node

Underneath the angles is the Placements table, with three column headers: Body, Placement, and House. Every row shows a glyph, the body's name, a retrograde marker if it applies, its exact placement in degrees and minutes within a sign, and the house it falls in. All ten chart bodies appear here, plus an eleventh row for the North Node. Clicking any row aims the sky camera at that body and opens a closer view of it.

A moon-phase line and a balance line sit just below the table, unlabeled

Right after the table, one line reports the current moon phase by name along with a percentage lit — something like "Waxing Gibbous · 78% lit." Below that, another unheaded line composes a single sentence describing the chart's overall element and modality tilt — which quality of energy is dominant across this particular sky, and whether any element is missing entirely.

Aspects lists up to eight tightest angles between bodies

The section labeled Aspects lists the tightest geometric relationships between pairs of bodies in the chart, up to eight of them, each one showing the two bodies involved, the aspect's name, and the exact orb in tenths of a degree. Tap any row and it unfolds into a short composed reading of what that specific pairing means.

The sky ahead computes ninety days of real events on demand

The sky ahead is a collapsible section that stays closed until you open it, because the calculation behind it is genuinely heavier than everything else on the page. Once opened, it scans ninety days forward from the charted moment for real astronomical events — sign ingresses, retrograde stations, the Moon's quarter phases, and lunar and solar eclipses — and lists the first fourteen it finds, each with its date.

Your transits compares tonight's sky to your own saved birth chart

Your transits is the second collapsible section, and it only produces results if you've saved a birth date and time in the sky controls. Once you have, it compares tonight's moving sky against your saved chart and lists up to eight of the tightest transiting aspects — the transiting Moon is deliberately excluded here, since it crosses every point in a chart at least once a day and would otherwise dominate the list with noise. Without a saved birth date, the panel shows a plain hint asking you to set one. If your chart is saved but nothing tight is happening tonight, it says so plainly instead of forcing a result.

One honest note worth knowing before you rely on this section: the chart uses whatever observer location the sky map currently has set, not a geocoded birth city — the panel's own hint text says as much. If you want the rising sign and house placements to reflect your actual birth location, set that location in the sky controls before saving your birth date and time.

What this means for you tonight

Open the Chart panel, tap Aspects, and pick whichever row has the tightest orb — the one closest to zero degrees. That's the single strongest geometric relationship happening in the real sky right now, tighter than anything else in the table. Tap it to read what the panel says about it, then open The sky ahead underneath and scan for the nearest upcoming ingress or station — that tells you roughly how many days that particular relationship has left before the sky's geometry shifts into something new. Between the tightest aspect right now and the next real change ahead, you've read the chart the way it's actually built to be read: as a snapshot with a runway in front of it, not a static picture. For the mechanics behind the House numbers themselves, see the twelve houses explained.