Five a day
Whose chart is this?
Five real birth charts with the names taken off. Every one is computed from documented birth data, and every answer links to the full chart it came from. The trick is to date the chart before you try to name it.
Chart 1 of 5
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Whose chart is this?
The chart
The Ascendant is on the left, and the zodiac runs anticlockwise from it. Tap a planet to read what it is doing.
Where several planets sit within a few degrees their glyphs are spread apart to stay readable. The coloured tick on the ring marks each one's true degree, and every aspect line is drawn from the true position.
- Sun
- Pisces
- Moon
- Sagittarius
- Rising
- Cancer
How to be good at this
Date the chart first. The three outermost planets move so slowly that they work as a clock: Pluto spends between twelve and thirty years in a sign, Neptune about fourteen, Uranus about seven. Pluto in Cancer means the chart is from before 1939. Once you have a window of a decade or two, the four names underneath usually contain only one person who was born in it.
After that, the Sun sign halves it again, and a stellium or an empty hemisphere is often distinctive enough to remember a chart by. Four options means guessing alone scores about one and a quarter out of five.
Where the charts come from
The gallery holds 182 figures, and a figure only enters it with a documented birth and death time. The birth data carries a Rodden rating, which is astrology's scale for how reliable a birth time is: AA means it came from a birth record, A means it came from the person or their family. Anything weaker is left out rather than fudged, which is why this is a smaller gallery than Astro-Databank's and a more careful one.
Of the 182, 22 can be drawn as a wheel. The other 160 have a documented birth date but not a time, and a wheel is oriented entirely to the Ascendant, which cannot be computed without one. Rather than draw them from an assumed midday and present the result as somebody's chart, they appear only as the wrong answers. Each round draws 4 names from all 182, and there are 5 rounds a day.
The easiest chart to learn to read is your own
Same wheel, same engine, and you already know the answer, which is the fastest way to work out what everything on it is telling you.