What we calculate
Real math in.
Everything in this section is computable: same inputs, same chart, every time.
Planetary positions
Your chart starts as astronomy.
Your birth date, time and place tell us where the Sun, Moon and planets were. A chart service does the sums, based on astronomy. We use the tropical zodiac, a system based on the seasons. We then read these as symbols.
Houses
Houses come from your birth time and place.
Your chart has twelve houses, or areas linked to parts of life. Their positions depend on your birth time and place. We use the Placidus house system to calculate them. Change the time or place and the houses move. That’s why we ask for both.
- 01Birth chart placements
- 02Midheaven and house placements
- 03Solar return timing
- 04Life path and personal year numerology
- 05Transits, annual profections, moon phase, and the astrocartography city check
- 06Places: your planet lines on the map, and how far each one sits from a city
What we interpret
Reflection out.
The moment we say "a Capricorn Midheaven tends to build authority through evidence", we have moved from astronomy into a symbolic language. Astronomy gives us the sky-position data. Astrology gives us a symbolic language for reflection. Astrofluence keeps those separate.
Career direction
Your Midheaven and 10th house, read as the public work you keep coming back to.
Natural work rhythm
Your 6th house, read as the work pace you can hold week after week.
Money and security pressure
Your 2nd house, read as how money and value shape a choice.
Visibility style
Your Mercury sign, read as how your ideas and words land.
Current timing pattern
Your solar return (yearly chart) and personal year, read as the theme of this year.
What a place turns up
Your lines near a city, read by the corner of your chart each one sits on: your public role, how you show up, home and rest, or the people you draw. Under 300 km a line reads loud, up to about 700 km it still counts. That’s our rule of thumb, not advice to move.
Numerology
Numerology is arithmetic first.
First, we add numbers using fixed rules. The same inputs give the same result. Then we interpret the number as a symbol. A “5 year” can prompt you to think about change.
Life path
Sum every digit of the birth date, then reduce the total repeatedly, stopping at the master numbers 11, 22, and 33.
15 July 1990 → 1+9+9+0+0+7+1+5 = 32 → 3+2 = 5
25 October 2001 → 2+0+0+1+1+0+2+5 = 11, a master number, so it stays 11 instead of reducing to 2.
Personal year
Birth month + birth day + the universal year (the digits of the current year summed), reduced to a single digit. Master numbers are not preserved here.
Born 15 July, in 2026: universal year 2+0+2+6 = 10; then 7 + 15 + 10 = 32 → 3+2 = 5. A 5 personal year.
Popular books sometimes reduce each component before summing, or add the life path to the year. Our formula is the one above, documented exactly as the product computes it, so what you read here never diverges from what the app does.
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