Birth Chart in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Birth Chart calculates a tropical natal chart from a birth date, time and location. It returns the sun, moon and rising signs, the ascendant and midheaven, and each planet's sign, degree and retrograde flag. Paid plans add the 12 house cusps, each planet's house, the major aspects and the element and modality balance.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 5 credits per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

birthchart.xlsxsample data

E2fx=VERVE("birthchart", A2, B2, C2, D2, "field", "birth.localTime")

Date

Time

Lat

Lon

Birth › Local Time

Birth › Utc Time

1990-06-15

14:30

40.7128

-74.006

1990-06-15T14:30

1990-06-15T18:30:00Z

click any cell to see its formula5 credits / cell

Ways to use it

One value per row

Fill =VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.localTime") down a column and Birth Chart returns a result for every row — a batch of live values in a single drag, no code.

Enrich data in place

Add Birth Chart beside a table you already have to append its output right where your data lives, then sort, filter, or chart on it.

Stays fresh on its own

Set the sheet to refresh on a schedule and the birth chart values keep themselves current without anyone re-typing.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.localTime")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.localTime")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

timezone
An IANA timezone name (America/New_York) or a UTC offset (+05:30). Looked up from the coordinates when omitted
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "timezone", "America/New_York")
houseSystem
The house system to use
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "houseSystem", "placidus")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Birth
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth")
Birth › Local Time
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.localTime")
Birth › Utc Time
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.utcTime")
Birth › Timezone
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.timezone")
Birth › Utc Offset
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.utcOffset")
Birth › Offset Source
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.offsetSource")
Birth › Latitude
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.latitude")
Birth › Longitude
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth.longitude")
Sun Sign
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "sunSign")
Moon Sign
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "moonSign")
Rising Sign
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "risingSign")
Ascendant
=VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "ascendant")

Birth Chart, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Birth Chart into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "field", "birth") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Birth Chart?

Birth Chart returns birth, birth.localTime, birth.utcTime, birth.timezone and birth.utcOffset, plus 7 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Birth Chart returns?

Yes — Birth Chart takes "timezone" and "houseSystem" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("birthchart", "1990-06-15", "14:30", 40.7128, -74.006, "timezone", "America/New_York") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Can I fill a whole column of Birth Chart at once?

Yes. Put your date values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Birth Chart cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 5 credits. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Birth Chart work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Birth Chart

One value per row

Enrich data in place

Stays fresh on its own

Birth Chart, answered

Put Birth Chart in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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