How to read Zodavia charts?

The charts on Zodavia are provided by Astrologic Go - Professional Astrology Software

The Astrologic chart carries a summary of the main influences in Astrology.

All the necessary information is present, in condensed form.

Main areas

Areas of the chart

The chart has 5 main areas

  1. Information header
  2. Chart wheel
  3. List of positions
  4. Aspect grid
  5. Score by signs

Information header

Chart information
  1. Name of the chart (in some cases the name of the technique appears after the name of the chart)
  2. The date of the chart and information about the date, for example whether it is a Julian date or whether the time used is GMT
  3. Name of the place and country of the chart
  4. Longitude and latitude of the place
  5. Time zone and time zone changes
  6. House calculation system and house orbs
  7. Universal time of the chart
  8. Moon phase

Chart wheel

Chart wheel
  1. Longitude degree of the house cusps and the sign; on the angular houses the minute is included as well.
  2. The angular houses have a thin arc showing the limits within which a body can be in conjunction with that angle.
  3. Longitude of the bodies and points.
  4. House number.
  5. Aspects between planets and points.

By default the aspects are drawn showing their degree of exactness (with the exception of the conjunction) through the thickness of the aspect line: the thicker the line, the more exact the aspect.

List of positions

List of positions
  1. Declination of the body or point (useful for checking parallels).
  2. * Longitude of the body or point, and also the motions:
  3. Essential dignities by sign (domicile, detriment, exaltation and fall)
  4. Physical presence of the body or point in the houses (C = House)
  5. ** Influence of the body or point on the houses (I = Influence)
  6. House calculation system, house orbs and sidereal time

The motions of the bodies are:

  • Ÿ = Direct (not shown by default)
  • b = Stationary direct
  • Ç = Retrograde
  • m = Stationary retrograde

* Because of their motion and importance, the Sun and the Moon are shown down to the seconds of arc.

Aspect grid

Aspect grid

The aspects are shown at the crossing between the rows and columns of the points and planets, and include:

  1. The symbol of the aspect by longitude.
  2. The orb to the exact angle of the aspect.
  3. Whether the aspect is applying, with the letter A, or separating, with the letter S.
  4. Parallels and contraparallels of declination, with or without the aspect by longitude.

Score by signs

Score table
  1. Elements: air, fire, earth and water
  2. Modalities: cardinal, fixed and mutable
  3. Primitive qualities: hot, cold, moist and dry
  4. Polarities: positive and negative

For the elements and the modalities, the members of each item are shown along with the total counted next to the symbol of the item.

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