This is a quick and comprehensive guide to casting your SIDEREAL birth chart with the free Astrodienst online software. This is exactly how I cast my own chart and the charts of my clients. These instructions can be followed for desktop or mobile. To learn what the difference is between the Tropical and Sidereal zodiacs, click here.

1. Go to astro.com

2. Click on the three lines at the top left corner of the website.

3. Click on the drop down menu for horoscope drawings & data and choose extended chart selection.

4. Follow the prompted instructions to create a profile if you need to.

5. At the top under birth data, select the name for the horoscope you want to cast. To the right, you can add a new person or event’s birth data, or edit an already existing entry. 

6. Under sections, for chart type select natal chart wheel.

7. You can keep the chart drawing style as web default style. 

8. You do not need to change the start date. 

9. Click open the zodiac and houses drop down menu.

10. For the house system select whole signs. For zodiac, select Sidereal. 

11. For ayanamsha, select Hindu/Lahiri.

12. Keep the geocentric setting. 

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13. Scroll down and open the display and calculation options menu. If you want your chart to look EXACTLY how I would cast it, select mean node, day formula for Pars Fortunae, Uranus - Pluto off/on, and Chiron off. 

    

14. Scroll down and reveal the additional objects drop down menu. Select Pars Fortunae a second time under common elements. Then, to the right of it (or below it if you’re on mobile) in the manual entry field, type in day formula for Pars Fortunae. This step is to ensure the Lot of Fortune appears in your chart. You can skip this step if that is not important to you. 

15. Scroll back to the top of the page and click the green show the chart button. 

16. Finally, as an optional last step, you can click save default settings directly under the name for the chart. This will automatically apply all the settings for your current chart to all future charts. You can change these settings at any time. 

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