birth chart

noun

plural birth charts

astrology : a document describing all of the possible astrological influences on a subject based on the precise time and place of the subject's birth

After years of reading your sun sign's horoscope and nothing else, having your birth chart read can be downright illuminating. Suddenly, you aren't just one solitary sign, but a complex being made up of many planetary signs and points.

—Sara Coughlin

The planets in one's horoscope are archetypal symbols, and the birth chart itself is said to be a unique "map of our soul," that can illuminate our self-awareness of who we are.

—Larry Schwimmer

called also natal chart

Examples of birth chart in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Her Midheaven is ruled (and responds to) her natal Mercury and Venus in Libra, which all happen to occupy the most public point in her birth chart. —Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026

How this truly affects you will be based on your sign and birth chart, but this is typically a period of introversion and self-reflection. —Ayrika L Whitney, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026

This includes daily, weekly, monthly and yearly horoscopes, as well as energy insights for career, health, love life and family; plus sections on birth charts presented in simple language. —Kody Boye, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026

In fact, the Sun sign is merely one morsel of the ten planets that make up a birth chart (the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). —Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1899, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for birth chart

• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart
• upstart