1. Your birth date
Your birth date sets your Sun sign — your core drive and the way you spend energy. It also anchors the transit clock: where the planets are now relative to where they were the day you were born.
2. Your exact birth time
Birth time is what separates a generic horoscope from a real chart reading. It determines your Rising sign, which changes roughly every two hours, and the house each planet falls in. Twenty minutes can move your Ascendant into a different sign and rewrite the whole layout of the chart.
3. Your city of birth
Place of birth gives latitude and longitude, and — just as important — the timezone that was actually in force on your birth date, including wartime and daylight saving shifts. Cosmic Guide resolves your city through a live places search so your birth time converts correctly to universal time. This is the single most common cause of a wrong Moon sign in free chart calculators.
4. Your reading
- ✦ Natal snapshot: Sun, Moon, Rising and dominant element
- ✦ Your archetype — how the chart behaves under pressure
- ✦ Today: headline, energy score, what to lean into and hold back on
- ✦ This month: the theme, the opening and the trap
- ✦ This year: the long arc and where the leverage sits
- ✦ Power dates: specific windows worth acting inside
What Cosmic Guide is not
It is not fortune telling and it is not financial advice. It is a timing lens. The chart describes conditions; you still make the call.