ALVEM
Cosmic Charts Guide
In astrology a "chart" is not one single thing. There are dozens of ways to compare the moment you were born with the sky right now, or with someone else's birth moment — and each one answers a different question. This guide walks through 11 chart types, one at a time, in plain language.
Natal Chart (Birth Chart)Your personal potential and life path — the foundation every other chart rests on.
Synastry ChartWhat surfaces when two birth charts are laid over each other?
Transit ChartWhat is the sky doing to your chart right now?
Solar ReturnThe chart of the year ahead, cast on your birthday.
Lunar ReturnA monthly emotional chart that repeats roughly every 27 days.
Saturn ReturnThe traditional "threshold of maturity", arriving once every ~29.5 years.
Composite ChartA third chart cast not for two people, but for the relationship itself.
Progressions (Progressed Chart)How a birth chart "matures" over time.
Draconic ChartA lesser-known technique that takes the lunar nodes as its zero point.
RectificationWorking backwards from lived events when your birth time is uncertain.
Horary (Question Chart)The oldest technique of all — built on the moment a question is asked, not on a birth moment.
Ten of these eleven calculations are available in the ALVEM app. Horary is
not included in the current version.