How to Get Your Birthchart for Free! Discover your Cosmic Bleuprint (4)

“Every atom in our bodies has passed through stars, meaning that we are literally made of stardust. For thousands of years, people have explored their emotional, physical, and spiritual links with the sky. These connections can be seen in many areas of life, from religion and creativity to politics and architecture.”

— University of Wales Trinity Saint David – MA Cultural Astronomy and Astrology (Sophia Centre)

✨ Your body is made of stardust.

That’s not a poetic metaphor — it’s a scientific fact. Every cell, every atom in your body was once born inside a star. You are literally cosmic material that breathes, feels, and carries consciousness. And that’s exactly why astrology works: not as belief or prediction, but as an energetic language that reflects your inner design.

This short blog is your practical guide to retrieving your birth chart via a trustworthy site (astro.com), with a clear explanation of why this chart is the starting point of everything in astrology.

🌌 What is a birth chart (or horoscope)?

A birth chart is an energetic snapshot of the sky at the exact moment you were born. It shows where the planets were when you took your first breath. That makes it a unique imprint of your potential — your inner architecture, your cyclical lessons, your soul force, and your energetic memory.

In astrology, we don’t use the chart as a fixed destiny, but as a living compass. It reveals which archetypes you came to play with, evolve through, and remember. It highlights where your power lives, where your growth points lie, and most of all: who you’ve always been beneath it all.

” Astrology is a permission slip that is simply a reflection of the idea of how you have crystallized your particular experience into physical reality, and therefore it can be used to reflect certain things and themes you have chosen to explore on Earth.” — BASHAR

🕰️ Why your birth time matters

If you know your birth time — great. You can get started right away. If not, use “12 PM (noon)” as a temporary stand-in. This is accepted worldwide as the next best thing. Still, it’s well worth finding your exact time.

➡️ You can usually request it from the city hall of your birthplace — most replies come within a day.
⚠️ Don’t rely solely on family memory. Even the most well-meaning mothers often misremember.

🔧 If there’s no way to retrieve your birth time, you might consider a chart rectification. This is a specialized service in astrology where key life events are used to reverse-engineer your likely time of birth.

If you’d like to do so, I reccomend to book a session with Sharon Liar, the go-to rectification expert of Debra Silverman’s Applied Astrology School. An email to her will quickly help you on your journey.

🪐 What you’ll need to generate your chart:

Enter these details at astro.com, one of the most respected astrology platforms worldwide.

📌 Step-by-step instructions on astro.com:

1. Go to the HOME page and tap the menu icon at the top left.
2. Create a free user profile.
3. Navigate to “Free Horoscopes > Natal Chart, Ascendant” and follow the prompts.

🔧 Which settings to choose?

For your first chart, I recommend these settings:

🌀 Under “Extended Chart Selection” you can also check:

• True Node & Mean Node
• Stick to major aspects only for clarity — unless your astrologer advises otherwise

🖨️ Print your chart

Once your data is entered, your chart appears instantly with download and print options — no subscription needed.

Note: the site will save the email address you use to register. If you have multiple inboxes, jot down which one you used to avoid confusion later.

🌠 What’s next?

Your birth chart is just the beginning — a rhythmic compass that reminds you your life has timing. From here, you’re invited to go deeper: to face your patterns, to meet your parts, to integrate both shadow and light as expressions of the same whole.

In my blog series, “Astrological Light Work Series,” I guide you through the five elements, the archetypes, and the soul dynamics that bring your chart to life.

Want to open up, reflect, and integrate further?
Here are a few books that helped me — and many others — not just understand astrology and parts-work but embody it:

• How to Love Yourself – by Teal Swan (which is the revised version of the fabulous ‘Shadows before Dawn’.
• The Completion Process – by Teal Swan
• The Light Work – by Jessica Zweig
• Listening when Parts Speak – by Tamala Floyd
• The Missing Element – by Debra Silverman
• I don’t Believe in Astrology – by Debra Silverman

✨ Your chart is not the end. It’s a beginning.

Not a judgment. Not a limit. But a rhythmic invitation — to carry yourself differently, to remember who you are, and to move with what life is asking of you.

Welcome to your cosmic story.
Welcome home.

Now you can start walking your hero’s journey: ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Why am I here?’

Now go Beyond,
∞ Tini ∞