Your Astrological Toolbox
Putting in the Planets
We now have the chart wheel and the twelve house
cusps drawn in. The only thing missing are the planets,
which are then placed on the chart wheel—in whatever
houses they belong.
At any given moment, the Sun, the Moon, and the
planets are located somewhere in the zodiac, moving
along at their various speeds. For example, at my birth
the Sun was in the zodiac sign Cancer, at 25-degrees
and 48 minutes of Cancer.
We can see by looking at my birth chart that the 8th
house cusp starts at 15-degrees of Cancer and ends at
25 - degrees of the sign Leo. My Sun, therefore, at 25-
degrees of Cancer, falls within the 8th house, and can
be penciled in. If you have a computer program, then all
of this is done for you. Each planet is put in its
appropriate house. If more than one planet is in a house