🔭 The natal chart, explained
Not one sun sign — the whole sky at the moment you were born
The sign people call theirs is just where the Sun stood on the day they were born. A natal chart goes considerably further, working out everything that was in the sky at that exact moment as coordinates. If a sun-sign horoscope is like reading a Saju chart from the Day Master alone, the natal chart is the full eight characters with the luck pillars laid on top.
It is built in four layers
- The bodies — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. They carry the functions — the equivalent of the Ten Gods in Saju.
- The signs — Aries through Pisces. They set the style each body operates in.
- The houses — Twelve areas of life — where the force shows up. This layer needs a birth time.
- The aspects — The angles between bodies, doing the job that combination and clash do in Saju.
Start with the Big Three
Astrologers call the Sun, Moon and Ascendant the Big Three. Their sensitivity to birth time differs completely, so what you know determines how far the reading can go.
- Sun one degree a day — a birth date settles it
- Moon thirteen a day — with no time at all it may be the next sign over
- Ascendant one degree every four minutes — needs the time and the place
We do not merge it with the Saju reading
Sajunareum does not blend the natal chart into the Saju reading as a single score. They are separate traditions and averaging them blurs both. Setting them side by side and reading where they agree and where they do not is far more useful.