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Free Sabian Symbols chart

Your Sabian symbols are the images of the degrees your Sun, Moon, Ascendant and planets stand in, one of 360 pictures for each position, counted from one: a Sun at Taurus 14°20′ takes the symbol for Taurus 15. They need your birth time and place, because the Ascendant moves about a degree every four minutes.

Enter your birth date, time and place to see the Sabian symbol of every placement in your chart: the degree each one falls in, our image for it, its keyword and its keynote, the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant first.

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The local time where you were born, as on a long-form birth certificate. The chart is drawn for that minute.

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About Sabian Symbols

Your Sabian symbols are the images of the degrees your planets stand in, each position read in the degree it falls in, counted from one: the sample person's Sun at Capricorn 29°55′ takes Capricorn 30, and the Moon, the Ascendant and every other point take theirs, with an image, keyword and keynote in our words.

Elsie Wheeler described the 360 pictures and Marc Edmund Jones wrote them down in San Diego in 1925 and published them in 1953; the degree before and after are read as Lynda Hill does.

How we compute it

Tropical positions from EsoTerrier's ephemeris engine (JPL DE440s); each placement takes the degree it is in, counted from one; True Nodes; Lilith (mean). Near a whole degree a small change in the birth time moves a placement into the neighbouring image, so the chart prints the minutes too.

An example

  • Sun · Capricorn 29°55′

    Capricorn 30

    A closed-door meeting of businessmen.

    Closed doors. Plans are made in private, among a few.

  • Moon · Cancer 7°47′

    Cancer 8

    A parade of rabbits wearing clothes.

    Playing at dignity. Simple creatures imitate the forms of a higher order.

  • Ascendant · Leo 21°03′

    Leo 22

    A homing pigeon carrying a message.

    Faithful delivery. A message reaches its destination by instinct and training.

PlacementPositionDegreeKeyword
Midheaven Taurus 13 Handling the load
Mercury Aquarius 11 Quiet revelation
Venus Capricorn 12 Knowledge made visible
Mars Taurus 1 Pure source
Jupiter Taurus 27 Heritage for sale
Saturn Capricorn 8 Domestic joy
Uranus Capricorn 3 Open spirit
Neptune Capricorn 11 Protected abundance
Pluto Scorpio 15 Playing with form
North Node Pisces 6 Disciplined display
South Node Virgo 6 Circular motion
Chiron Cancer 3 Guiding the half-wild

And 5 minor points (the Descendant, the IC, the Vertex, the Part of Fortune and Lilith), shown folded in the full chart.

A sample chart for a fictional person, read as our chart reads it: the Sun, the Moon and the Ascendant first, each with its position, the degree it falls in and our image, keyword and keynote; then the Midheaven, the planets, the nodes and Chiron with their degree and keyword. The Sun at Capricorn 29°55′ reads Capricorn 30.

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Sabian symbols after Elsie Wheeler and Marc Edmund Jones (San Diego, 1925). The wording of the images, the keywords and the keynotes are EsoTerrier's own. The degree before and after are read after Lynda Hill.