Chart shapes
Bundle
The whole chart heaped into a third of the wheel
- The rule
- All ten planets inside 120 degrees
- Read through one planet
- No
What it is
Every planet inside a trine, which leaves two thirds of the zodiac completely empty. It is the most concentrated a chart can be, and the hardest of the seven to produce: the slow planets have to be unusually close together for it to happen at all.
Because the ten are packed into four signs at most, a bundle almost always contains one or more stelliums.
How it reads
Concentration, and the tradition is emphatic about it. Everything a bundle chart has is pointed in one direction, and the reading associates it with specialism, self-sufficiency and a certain indifference to whatever falls outside the occupied arc.
The empty two thirds is part of the reading rather than a blank. What is missing is described as territory the person does not naturally enter, and the tradition treats acquiring it as deliberate work rather than something that happens by itself.
Jones read the bundle as the shape most likely to make its own opportunities, on the grounds that nothing in it is being pulled in a second direction.
How common it actually is
Genuinely rare, and the only shape here that stays rare however the thresholds are set: 0.86 per cent of charts, about one in 116. Everything inside a trine requires the slow planets to be unusually close together, and no reasonable adjustment to the numbers changes that.
What to watch for
The word rare, which is attached to this shape constantly. It is uncommon and the measured number is worth having before repeating it.
Is your chart a bundle?
The birth chart tool names your shape along with the span it occupies and the widest empty arc. Bear in mind that the thresholds are a convention rather than a fact, so a different tool may reasonably give you a different word for the same chart. The hub prints the exact numbers this site uses.
The other shapes
- SplashSpread all the way round, with no large empty arc
- BowlAll ten planets inside one half of the wheel
- BucketA bowl, plus one planet standing alone on the other side
- LocomotiveAll ten inside two thirds, leaving an empty trine
- SeesawTwo groups of planets facing each other across two clear gaps
- SplayIrregular clumps that fit none of the other six