Cast your natal chart, free

Enter where and when you were born, and a moment later you’ll have a gilded chart wheel and a grounded reading of your Sun, Moon, and Rising. No account needed, and no card.

Date of birth

Time of birthI don’t know my birth timeLocal clock time. The rising sign needs this.

Place of birthCan’t find it?

House systemNew to this? Placidus is a good default; it’s what most modern charts use, so yours will match what you see elsewhere.

What is a house system, honestly?

Your chart divides the sky into twelve “houses”: areas of life like home, work, and relationships. Astrologers have never fully agreed on where to draw the twelve boundaries, so there are several systems. Your planets and signs are identical in all of them; the only thing that changes is which house a planet sits in.

Placidus is the modern standard (most apps and books use it). Whole Sign is the oldest system: each house is one entire sign, which many people find clearest to learn with. Equal draws twelve even 30° rooms from your Ascendant. None of them is “wrong”; try your chart in two and notice which reading gives you more to think about. The plain-language guide →

Still needed: your date of birth, a birth time (or tick “I don’t know”), your birth place and the 18+ confirmation.

What a reading sounds like

Leo · Sun, a sample

Say the Moon is a waning crescent in Scorpio (low, private, turned inward) while your ruling Sun holds steady in Leo. There’s a pull here between being seen and needing to retreat, and a reading won’t tell you which to choose.

It ends where every Vela reading ends, in a question: where are you performing warmth today rather than feeling it? Sit with that.

Every reading ends in a question, never a verdict: that’s the whole point.

That’s a sample for a Leo Sun. Members wake up to one cast for their own chart against today’s sky. See what a membership holds →

What Vela reads

Every reading is written by Vela’s own engine, from the real sky and your chart: grounded in classical astrology and academic psychology, never a third-party AI, and never a prediction. A lens for reflection, and yours alone.

Your Sun is the core you’re growing into; your Moon is your inner weather; your Rising is how you meet the world, the shorthand people mean by the big three (find all three with the big three calculator), and the doorway into a chart rather than the whole of it. Vela draws on the depth-psychology tradition that asks “what does this surface for you?”, not “what do the stars decree?”.

New here? Start with the free birth chart calculator, or learn how to read a birth chart. Then find your Moon or Rising sign, read today’s horoscopes, or explore tarot, compatibility, and your Mercury, Venus and Mars signs.

The maths use the astronomy-engine library for planetary positions, with Vela’s own layer for the angles, houses, aspects, and dignities, accurate to the arcminute.

The Vela constellation, the Sails of the ship Argo, picked out in gold star-lines above a fine engraved horizon

For developers

Building something that needs a daily horoscope? Vela’s Daily Horoscope API serves honest, reflective readings for all twelve signs, drawn from the real sky: one clean call, free to start. Explore the developer API →