177 | Astrology 101: How to Read Your Birth Chart with Annie Bertrand
- Emily Reuschel
- 12 minutes ago
- 4 min read
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If astrology has always felt like a foreign language full of symbols, glyphs, houses, nodes, and mysterious lines running across a wheel you are in exactly the right place. In this episode, I’m joined by ancestral astrologer, Annie Bertrand, for a true beginner-friendly walkthrough of the basics. Instead of staying conceptual, Annie reads directly from my birth chart, so you can follow along with your own and finally make sense of what you’re seeing.
Annie breaks astrology down to its simplest, most foundational layers: the “big three” (sun, moon, rising), what the planets represent, how houses work, and how to interpret the symbols and placements on your chart. She explains astrology as your soul’s language, and offers a grounded perspective on what your chart can reveal about your life path, innate patterns, emotional wiring, and even the challenges your soul chose to work through.
We explore the meaning of the sun as your core identity, the moon as your emotional world, and the rising sign as the lens through which you move through life. Annie also walks through Mercury, Venus, and Mars for communication, love, self-worth, motivation, and action. From generational planets like Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus to karmic markers like the nodes and Chiron, this conversation makes astrology accessible for anyone who has ever felt overwhelmed by the terminology or unsure where to start.
If you’ve been curious about what your chart is actually telling you, or you’ve wanted a safe, approachable way to learn astrology without feeling lost, this episode is your invitation. Grab your chart (Annie recommends astro-seek.com or the CHANI app), follow along, pause as needed, and let this be your first step into understanding the deeper blueprint of who you are.
This is part one of a two-part series with Annie. Today is the foundational “how it works” conversation. In part two, we’ll dive into Annie’s signature expertise: ancestral healing, mother wounds, soul-level contracts, and how our families’ charts interweave across generations.
Meet Annie:
Annie Bertrand is an Ancestral Astrologer, energy healer, and cycle-breaking mama of two spirited kids. Known for her pioneering work blending karmic astrology and ancestral healing, Annie helps moms and healers decode their soul contracts, reparent their lineage, and raise families rooted in freedom, not fear.
In this episode, Astrology 101: How to Read Your Birth Chart, we cover:
What a birth chart actually is and how astrology functions as a “soul language”
How to download your chart and the easiest tools for beginners (Astro-Seek and the CHANI app)
The Big Three—sun, moon, and rising—and how each one shapes your identity, emotions, and worldview
How to read the houses in your chart and what each house represents in your life
What the planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars) reveal about your communication style, love language, self-worth, motivation, and action
How generational planets like Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus shape collective patterns across entire generations
What the nodes mean (North Node and South Node) and how they point to your destiny path, past life mastery, and karmic patterns
What Chiron represents as the “wounded healer” and how it shows up in your personal and relational story
How to interpret the lines (aspects) in the center of the chart and what they reveal about inner tension, ease, and integration
A live walkthrough of Emily’s chart as Annie explains placements, patterns, and how everything ties together
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