The planets
If a sign says how and a house says where, a planet says what. These are the ten bodies this site computes and the two angles it draws — the same list every chart here is built from, and nothing padded in to look thorough.
☉︎Sun
about a month in each signWhat the chart is for — the part of a life that is being spent on purpose.
☽︎Moon
about two and a half days in each signWhat you need rather than what you intend — the fastest thing in the chart.
☿︎Mercury
two to three weeks in a sign, longer when retrogradeHow the mind takes things in and hands them back.
♀︎Venus
about four weeks in a signWhat you find beautiful, and what you will do to keep it near you.
♂︎Mars
six or seven weeks in a signHow you go after what you want, and how you fight when it's refused.
♃︎Jupiter
about a year in each signWhere the chart expands, and where it overdoes it.
♄︎Saturn
two and a half years in each signThe limit, the cost, and the thing that gets built because of them.
♅︎Uranus
about seven years in each signWhere the pattern breaks, usually without asking first.
♆︎Neptune
about fourteen years in each signWhere the edges dissolve — imagination, longing, and self-deception in one place.
♇︎Pluto
twelve to thirty years in each sign, depending on its orbitThe slow, non-negotiable rebuild.
The two angles
Not planets — the points where the horizon and the meridian cut the ecliptic. Both need a birth time to the minute, which is why a chart cast without one leaves them out rather than guessing.