The sky
on 21 December 1948.
The sign of each planet that day, calculated from astronomical ephemerides (Paris time). When a planet changes sign during the day, the exact time is given: that’s where the birth time decides.
If this is your birth date
What you are trying to become
Your birth time settles it.
Why?
What you are trying to become, and what you need to be recognised for.
What settles you
Your birth time settles it.
Why?
What settles you and what puts you on alert, before any conscious decision.
What people see first
It takes your birth time and city.
Why?
The first thing people register about you, before they know you.
What draws you
What draws you comes from elsewhere. Another language, another accent, a way of seeing you did not know. You like the door left open.
The centre of our galaxy lies in the direction of Sagittarius: look toward the archer, and you are looking at the heart of the Milky Way. Jupiter, the largest planet, rules this sign.
People keep you by leaving with you, never by holding you back.
Why?
What draws you in and what you offer — in love as in taste. In Sagittarius, it needs a horizon. You take badly to having your ground narrowed, and you leave rather than negotiate.
What gets you moving
You know how to wait for your moment. You aim far, you hold an effort with no witness, and your patience frightens people more than an outburst.
Capricorn begins at the December solstice, the day the Sun turns back. Its symbol is a sea goat: half mountain, half ocean. Saturn rules it.
Mars is in exaltation in this sign: your strength is discipline.
Why?
What you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance. In Capricorn, it gets built and proven. You aim far, demand a lot of yourself, and give yourself credit late. Received as a guest of honour: amplified, sometimes past reason. A strength to dose, not to prove.
How you think
You think in plans. You go to what is useful, you say little, and you only talk about what you have checked.
Your humour is dry, and it takes a moment to notice.
Why?
How you think and speak — the pace, the level of detail, what you keep to yourself. In Capricorn, it gets built and proven. You aim far, demand a lot of yourself, and give yourself credit late.
Where you think big
You grow slowly, floor by floor. A title, a responsibility, a project that takes ten years: you believe in what lasts.
Jupiter is in its fall in this sign: your optimism asks for proof.
Why?
What you take for granted, and the ground where you let yourself overreach. In Capricorn, it gets built and proven. You aim far, demand a lot of yourself, and give yourself credit late. Opposite its exaltation: weakened ground. Not a sentence — a place where you learn what others take for granted.
Where you hold firm
You let nothing pass, especially in yourself. Work done well reassures you, and a flaw can keep you awake.
Mercury rules this sign and is exalted in it, a case unique in the zodiac. The brightest star is Spica, the ear of wheat.
Your rigour is your strength, as long as you know when to stop.
Why?
What you take seriously, and where you hold yourself to a line. In Virgo, it gets settled in the details. You spot what is off before looking for it, and you say so. Retrograde at your birth: seen from Earth, the planet was moving backwards. What it governs turns inward first, and shows later than it does in other people.
What isn’t there
There is no water in your chart. Not one point, out of the 8 we count.
Feeling is not your first channel — that is not coldness, it is an order of operations: you process first, you feel second.
Why?
We count the ten planets and the rising sign, as in the app.
The rest of your chart
See the full sky of this day
| Planet | Sign that day |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | ♐︎ Sagittarius until 23:33, then ♑︎ Capricorn |
| ☽︎ Moon | ♌︎ Leo until 01:19, then ♍︎ Virgo |
| ☿︎ Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn |
| ♀︎ Venus | ♐︎ Sagittarius |
| ♂︎ Mars | ♑︎ Capricorn |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | ♑︎ Capricorn |
| ♄︎ Saturn ℞ retrograde | ♍︎ Virgo |
| ♅︎ Uranus ℞ retrograde | ♊︎ Gemini |
| ♆︎ Neptune | ♎︎ Libra |
| ♇︎ Pluto ℞ retrograde | ♌︎ Leo |
The Sun changes sign that day: your birth time settles it.
The Moon changes sign that day: your birth time settles it.
What’s missing without the time
The rising sign, the houses and the exact degree of each planet depend on the time and place: the rising sign changes about every two hours. Add them in the calculator, or find your full chart in the app.
Calculate my rising sign for this day →That day, at what minute?
With your time and city, AstroXP calculates your rising sign, your houses, the aspects between your planets, and every morning the real sky on that chart.
On a computer? Scan this code with your phone.