The sky
on 19 January 2017.
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, you feel before you understand. You sense what the other person lacks, and you give without keeping count.
Pisces closes the zodiac. Two fish swim in opposite directions, tied by a cord. The star that makes the knot is called Alrescha: “the cord”, in Arabic.
Venus is in exaltation in this sign. Your difficulty is seeing the person as they are.
Why?
What draws you in and what you offer — in love as in taste. In Pisces, it happens by absorption. You take on the mood of a room without choosing to, and sometimes mistake it for your own. Received as a guest of honour: amplified, sometimes past reason. A strength to dose, not to prove.
What gets you moving
You move without a straight line. You go around, you wait for it to pass, you sense where it will give. Direct confrontation costs you.
Your strength comes in waves: nothing for days, then everything in one night.
Why?
What you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance. In Pisces, it happens by absorption. You take on the mood of a room without choosing to, and sometimes mistake it for your own.
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.
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.
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 with someone. A partnership, a meeting, a well-found agreement open more doors than solitary effort.
Libra is the only sign of the zodiac that isn’t a living thing: it is an instrument. It weighs, and it stops only when both pans are level.
You help the people around you grow, and they often return it.
Why?
What you take for granted, and the ground where you let yourself overreach. In Libra, it is measured against the other person. You adjust to whoever is across from you, until your own position blurs.
Where you hold firm
You want convictions that hold. You doubt for a long time, you check, you build your own view.
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.
What you believe, you have paid for, and you hold to it.
Why?
What you take seriously, and where you hold yourself to a line. In Sagittarius, it needs a horizon. You take badly to having your ground narrowed, and you leave rather than negotiate.
What dominates
You feel before you understand, and your memory files moments by what they did to you, not by their dates. Water's known flip side: absorbing moods that are not yours.
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 | ♑︎ Capricorn until 22:24, then ♒︎ Aquarius |
| ☽︎ Moon | ♎︎ Libra until 23:09, then ♏︎ Scorpio |
| ☿︎ Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn |
| ♀︎ Venus | ♓︎ Pisces |
| ♂︎ Mars | ♓︎ Pisces |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | ♎︎ Libra |
| ♄︎ Saturn | ♐︎ Sagittarius |
| ♅︎ Uranus | ♈︎ Aries |
| ♆︎ Neptune | ♓︎ Pisces |
| ♇︎ Pluto | ♑︎ Capricorn |
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.
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