A personal note
Why I built Little Star Chart
Little Star Chart began with two children I love: my niece and nephew.
The first Little Star Chart guide was one I made for my niece. I wanted to understand her more deeply — not just what she liked or didn't, but the things underneath: what helped her feel safe, what made her light up, what overwhelmed her, and how I could support her in a way that honored who she naturally is.
Reading it, I felt something click. It wasn't a prediction of who she'd become, or a label to place on her. It was a tender, personalized reflection of who she already seemed to be: her temperament, her strengths, her sensitivities, and the ways she might most naturally move through the world.
I didn't set out to build anything like this. I studied Computer Science at Stanford and spent four years as a software engineer at Instagram, where much of my work was about taking complex systems and making them feel simple and intuitive.
Alongside that work, I was on my own search for self-understanding — one that led me through mindfulness, yoga, meditation, psychology, and eventually astrology.
I came to astrology as a skeptic. A lot of what I found at first felt too abstract, too predictive, or too overwhelming. I wasn't looking for predictions, labels, or a rulebook, and I had no interest in being told who I was supposed to be.
The parts that stayed with me were different. They gave language to things I already felt but had never known how to name, and helped me meet with compassion the patterns, gifts, sensitivities, and needs that had always been there.
Eventually I wondered whether that same kind of insight could help me understand the children I love. So I made that first guide for my niece — then one for my nephew — and Little Star Chart grew from there.
Today it does what it did that first time: it translates a child's birth chart into a warm, practical guide for the people who love them — parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, godparents, and family friends.
One more thing, because a child's birth details are personal: we use them only to compute your child's chart and write their guide. They're never sold or shared.
You don't need to know anything about astrology to enjoy Little Star Chart. And even if astrology isn't usually your thing, you may be surprised by how much of the guide sounds like the child you already know.
My hope is that Little Star Chart helps you see the children you love a little more clearly, support them in a way that feels more personal, and feel more connected to who they are right now.
With love,
Ethan
If you'd like to see what a guide looks like, you can read a sample guide — or begin your child's chart whenever you're ready.