In the Wisdom of the ancient world, everything was symbolic, nothing meaningless.
It has remained for us, descendants of the Wise Ones, their often ungrateful and unworthy heirs, to so belittle our benefactors as to deny that their heritage to us has any importance or meaning, whereas in truth what they left us is packed with knowledge and meaning. We have ignored this heritage for many hundreds of years falling into a world full of degeneration and decay, whereas if we learnt to read the Wisdom of the Ancients in its many forms, we could have a world, in which, resembled the Garden of Eden.
The astrological birth chart is one of these forgotten or belittled tools, in fact it is a road map for this incarnation. It holds within it the past present and future, as with a map it shows us where we have been, where we are and where we are going. The chart also reads on different levels, we can see where we are on the personality level, on the soul level and also the monadic level, we are multi dimensional beings and the birth chart can show us this.
The planet placements in our charts starts to colour in the picture our charts make of us. The sun in our chart indicates what particular things you have chosen to come to experience in this lifetime, and it gives us the qualities in our nature that we want to cultivate.
The ascendant or rising sign represents where you are going (your ascendant is what constellation is coming over the horizon at the moment of birth). These two things together form the basis of who you are and where you are going.
The Moon in your chart is your emotional makeup, and shows what we need to let go of from the past, and change our weaknesses to strengths.
Lilith is the dark moon and this can indicate to us where we allow our lower desire body to keep us anchored to lower things. It will show us how we can develop detachment.
The planet Chiron in our chart shows us where we have received our deepest wounding in the past, it will show us how we can overcome this and move on.
The Moon's Nodes show our karmic connections, what gifts and talents we have developed in other lifetimes.
Our Part of Fortune shows where we will find our most joy in life.
As you can see from the above the birth chart shows us much, Your life here in physical form is developing your whole self collectively. Unless you clear the negative traits of your personality your Soul and Monadic level cannot develop to higher levels.