Sun in the signs
Your Sun sign is the part of astrology everyone knows, and the part most often flattened into a cliché. These pages read the Sun in each sign as a natal placement: what you run on, and what you are slowly making of yourself.
Planets in the signs
Ten planets, twelve signs
Your Sun sign is one line of a longer story. Each planet in your birth chart sits in a sign of its own, and the sign colours how that part of you works: how you love, argue, think, worry and grow. Pick a planet, then a sign.
The personal planets
The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars move quickly, from a couple of days to a couple of months in each sign. Two people born weeks apart can have very different placements here, which is why these say the most about you as an individual.
Moon in the signs
Your Moon sign describes what you need in order to feel safe, how your moods move and what home means to you. Find your placement below.
Mercury in the signs
Mercury is the part of the chart that thinks out loud. Its sign describes how you take in information, what you notice first, and how you put a thought into words.
Venus in the signs
Your Venus sign shows how you love, what draws you to someone and what you happily spend money on. Choose a sign below to read that placement in full.
Mars in the signs
Mars is the planet of drive: how you go after what you want, how you get angry and where your nerve comes from. Its sign describes the style of that push.
The social planets
Jupiter spends about a year in a sign and Saturn about two and a half, so you share these with your school year or so. They describe how you grow and where you build discipline, and they become personal through the house they fall in.
Jupiter in the signs
Jupiter shows where you expand: what you believe in, how you give, and the kind of good fortune that tends to find you. Choose a sign below, or look up your own with our free birth chart calculator.
Saturn in the signs
Saturn shows where life feels heavy at first and solid later: the fears you carry, the rules you test, and the things you end up mastering because you refused to give up on them.
The generational planets
Uranus, Neptune and Pluto stay in one sign for seven to thirty years. Their sign marks a generation’s mood and preoccupations. In your own chart they matter most when they sit on an angle or touch your Sun, Moon or Rising sign.
Uranus in the signs
Uranus is the planet of sudden change, and its sign marks what your generation was born wanting to overturn. Here is what each of the twelve placements means, and how to tell whether it is loud in your own chart.
Neptune in the signs
Neptune stays in a sign for about fourteen years, so its sign describes what a whole generation dreams about, idealises and later feels let down by.
Pluto in the signs
Pluto is the slowest body astrologers use, so its sign marks a generation: the power struggles, taboos and rebuilding work a whole cohort is handed together.
How to read a placement
A planet describes a function: the Moon is what you need to feel safe, Mercury how you take in and pass on information, Mars how you go after things. The sign describes the style. Venus in Capricorn and Venus in Sagittarius both want love; they just court, commit and show affection in very different ways.
The sign is only part of the picture. The house a planet falls in says where in life it does its work, and its aspects to other planets show what it has to cooperate or argue with. Two people with Mars in Leo can be quite unlike each other if one has it beside the Sun and the other has it opposite Saturn.
To read your own placements you need your birth date, and for the Moon and the houses your birth time and city too. The free birth chart calculator shows all ten planets, their signs and degrees, the houses and the aspects in a few seconds.
Your own chart
See all ten in your chart
Enter your birth date, time and city and see which sign each planet was in when you were born, with the houses and aspects. Free, no account, no card. Each sign in the planet table links back to its page here.