The one moment when the time is written down

Almost every adult birth chart is cast from an approximate time: what somebody remembers, what was said at home, a rounding to the half hour. A newborn is different. The hospital records the time to the minute and it survives on the discharge notes and the civil registration.

That makes a baby's chart the most precise one you can order. The ascendant moves a degree every four minutes, so the difference between a remembered time and a recorded one is not a nuance.

Name, date, time and place of birth. The place is the town of the hospital, not where the parents live: what matters is where that body was under that sky.

If the birth happened in a hospital in a neighbouring town, use that town. The difference in coordinates is small, but it is the one that is real.

It shows where the Sun, the Moon and the planets stood at that instant, and how they fall across the twelve houses seen from that point on Earth. It is a map of a moment.

It is not a forecast, and it is not a personality report on a three-day-old. We draw the map and declare what data it was drawn from. Any reading is the work of whoever does it, and anyone selling that reading with certainty is worth distrusting.

The first months bring a lot of objects with a short season. A birth chart does not get outgrown: it is a fixed fact, and the piece stays on the nursery wall for years.

We print no mark of ours on the artwork, so what hangs in the room is not an advertisement for a shop. And every order carries a separate certificate with the resolved coordinates, the time zone and the house system, which is what lets that print still be checked twenty years later.

For a child's room the framed A3 print is the usual choice: it reads from close up and does not dominate the wall. The framed piece saves the errand of finding a frame.

It can be ordered as soon as you have the exact time, usually the same day. To make a christening or a presentation, work back from the delivery estimate shown in the cart.