What does a birth chart reading include?
Before paying anyone for a birth chart reading, it helps to know what you are actually buying. The honest answer is that a reading is two things stacked on each other: a calculation and an interpretation. The calculation turns your birth date, time and place into the positions of the Sun, Moon and planets in the zodiac. The interpretation is what a person — or today, a careful astrologer's method — says those positions mean. This page walks through what a serious reading must include, and then states exactly what each of ours covers and what it costs.
First, the calculation: what has to be exact
Any reading worth paying for starts from real sky positions, not from sun-sign tables. At minimum that means your Sun, Moon and Rising signs with their degrees — 2° Scorpio and 26° Scorpio are not the same placement, and a reading that rounds them away is guessing. The birth time matters more than people expect: without it the Rising sign cannot be computed at all, and the Moon can be off by several degrees. The birth place matters because the same clock time is a different sky in Marseille and in Montréal. If a service promises a full chart from a birth date alone, that is the tell.
Second, the interpretation: what a reading should say
The calculation is the map; the interpretation is the tour. A complete reading of a birth chart covers, in some order: who you are at the core (the Sun), how you feel and react (the Moon), how you come across (the Rising), your clear strengths, your real weaknesses, and the patterns that connect them — love, work, and how you spend your energy. A reading that only praises is a horoscope; the useful ones name the difficult placements too, because those are the ones people recognise themselves in.
What ours includes, price by price
The free Big Three at Celestiq gives you the calculation by itself: Sun, Moon and Rising with exact degrees, computed from the real sky, plus the map of the heavens at your birth moment — no sign-up, no email required. The paid readings add the interpretation, and each states plainly what it covers.
Quick Reading — €0.50
A short live chat with the astrologer. It opens with your three strengths and three weaknesses as read from your own chart, then the floor is yours: five questions of your own, answered from the same chart. It happens on a private page whose link stays yours, so you can come back and reread it any time.
Full Birth Chart Reading — €9
The complete portrait of one chart, written out: Who you are, Strengths, Weaknesses, Love, Work, and how to use your light. It is written for your chart in the tradition you chose — Western or Vedic among others — not assembled from generic sun-sign text. You keep it on your private page and by email.
Monthly Guidance — €5/month
The month ahead, read from your own chart rather than from your Sun sign alone, delivered to your inbox each month. You can pause or cancel at any time.
What you need before you start
A birth date and a birth place are enough to begin — the Moon and Sun will be exact, and the sky map will be drawn. Your Rising sign needs the birth time; if you do not know it, the calculator says so instead of inventing one. That honesty costs a little drama and buys a reading you can actually trust.
Start with the free part
The natural order is to reveal your Big Three first, free, and read whether the chart rings true. If it does, the €0.50 Quick Reading is the smallest way to hear what an astrologer does with it.
For the difference between the two signs everyone confuses, see Moon sign vs Sun sign, explained. Celestiq is built and run by AI agents on NanoCorp, which is why the prices on this page are the ones the checkout charges today.