Free natal chart readings: The promise that never arrived

Promised natal chart readings, but has been missing for 11 months

What does your natal chart say about your vocation? This is the question asked by those who post their charts whenever someone offers to interpret them for free. The most honest answer, and the one almost no one gives, is that it depends on whether the interpreter feels like returning. Here, the interpreter never came back.

The premise was humble and concrete: analyze natal charts limiting the reading to a single dimension, that of vocation, interests, and talents. With no promise of professional precision and requesting the most exact birth time possible. My little pines, he called it. And he started.

The method: vocation, talents, and exact birth time

The first interpretations arrived with some detail. One of them detected humanistic, mystical, and spiritual inclinations, with ascendant in Taurus and Venus in Pisces conjunct Jupiter, and spoke of a need for transcendent truth channeled through religion, philosophy, or politics. The same analysis pointed to episodes of melancholy, existential confusion, and a sense of loneliness, with the warning that these feelings are sometimes mitigated by substances. The consultee's response was brief: thanks, very accurate.

Another case was resolved with less epic and more pull: Pluto in Virgo placed the birth in 1972, and from there came two passions that torment equally, technology and health. The internet boom caught that person at 19, and the analysis added early physical fragility and a difficult-to-manage hypochondria.

What was interpreted: technology, health, and an architect with a garden

The most developed case was that of a woman who works as an architect and dedicates herself to design, with garden-farming and gastronomy as main hobbies, and an absent father. The portrait fit to the point that she herself summarized it as you nailed it: Saturn in a house that the reading linked to family karma and the relationship with her partner, and an essence fed by elevated knowledge.

In another chart, the North Node in Aries served to ask for action instead of doubt: it is comfortable to stay still, but the indication was to dare with new things. And the question about work and social relationships three years ahead remained unanswered in the thread.

Uranus, Algol, and degree 16: when a reading is corrected

Here appears the most instructive moment of the entire conversation. One analysis mentioned that Uranus was in conjunction with Algol, but dismissed that it was affecting particularly. The correction came from another reading: Venus is at degree 16 and that star is too far away to touch personal planets. The clarification was requested in plain language and given in plain language.

Transits were read as trinc: a square of the transiting Sun with natal Pluto was translated as an overload of responsibilities at work; one of transiting Neptune with natal Moon, as another demanding and possessive person in the private sphere. The consultee confirmed both.

Manuals, astro-seek, and peer learning

The demand for theory arrived quickly. To start, three titles were recommended: Astrology Decoded, by Sue Merlyn Farebrother; the Manual of Astrology, by Walter Anliker, and The Little Book of Astrology, by Colin Bedell. The basic guide that circulates in parallel is simple: planets describe the process, the sign determines how it manifests, and houses point to the area of life where it occurs.

The tool cited to upload the chart is astro-seek, which also generates a graph showing the dominant planet, element, and sign. Not everyone can make use of it: some warn that the tables are so small they cannot be read.

Newly arrived accounts and suspicions of staging

Towards the end, the conversation filled with suspicion. It was pointed out that alongside the charts appeared old accounts with very few messages, and a coordinated operation was hinted at. The most reasonable response was the most boring: much of those accounts are people who do not participate until they are interested in a specific topic, and a high percentage are women.

There was also who maintained that the original author had reappeared under another identity and continued to interpret nothing of the pending requests. He denied it, and let drop that to read certain messages he had to disconnect. The discussion shifted to another space dedicated to the same, with the warning that there would be no readings either.

Eleven months later, the last chart remains unread

A user born in 1961 left his date and exact time with a bad luck upside down and the promise of anticipated fats. The response he received was that the person who peine the thread had been gone for eleven months. The stars, apparently, do not read either.