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Abraham Lincoln.

12 February 1809 · 06:54 · Hodgenville, Larue County, United States

Abraham Lincoln's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Capricorn, Aquarius rising. Born February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Larue County, United States.

About this chart

What is Abraham Lincoln's sun sign?

Abraham Lincoln's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Abraham Lincoln's moon sign?

Abraham Lincoln's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Abraham Lincoln's rising sign?

Abraham Lincoln's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Abraham Lincoln born?

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Larue County, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and earth means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAquarius · 12th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonCapricorn · 12th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. Feeling runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Sagittarius in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeScorpio · 8th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 2nd house

The South Node in Taurus (2nd house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius rising puts Saturn in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Saturn · the chart rulerSagittarius · 9th house

The work is on belief, philosophy and meaning: lessons in earning your own convictions. The shadow is dogma standing in for inquiry.

Where it drives. Belief must be built, not inherited. Often sceptical of received wisdom, you have to construct your own philosophy, and it becomes a deep, hard-won mastery.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and mutable signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusScorpio · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoPisces · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Pisces

An era that remakes the spiritual and the dissolved, putting the source itself through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 12th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 3rd house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is an air, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Aquarius. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Aquarius, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aquarius key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Capricorn Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of air and earth means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
26%
Earth
15%
Air
41%
Water
18%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

Tremendous focus through Pisces: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Pisces energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Pisces stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Pisces is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Mercury trine Uranusorb 0.64°

In you, Mercury flows together with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.78°

In you, Venus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Moon square Marsorb 1.57°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Sun trine Marsorb 2.04°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Mercury conjunction Plutoorb 3.31°

In you, Mercury is fused with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Mercury trine Uranusorb 0.6°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury and Uranus feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.8°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.8°

A natural, flowing ease: Venus and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Marsorb 2.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Mars feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Black Moon Lilith trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Black Moon Lilith and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Pluto opposition Vertexorb 0.8°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Pluto and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

Sun runs uphill in Aquarius, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

Moon runs uphill in Capricorn, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

Mercury runs uphill in Pisces, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

Venus runs uphill in Aries, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

Mars runs uphill in Libra, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

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Chart data for Abraham Lincoln
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun23°27' Aquarius12th housedetriment
Moon27°04' Capricorn12th housedetriment
Mercury10°18' Pisces1st housedetriment
Venus7°28' Aries1st housedetriment
Mars25°29' Libra8th housedetriment
Jupiter22°05' Pisces1st houserulership
Saturn3°08' Sagittarius9th housechart ruler
Uranus9°40' Scorpio8th house·
Neptune6°41' Sagittarius9th house·
Pluto13°37' Pisces1st house·
Chiron11°43' Aquarius12th house·
North Node6°09' Scorpio8th houseretrograde
South Node6°09' Taurus2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith26°18' Taurus3rd house·
Part of Fortune28°24' Capricorn12th house·
Vertex14°22' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrineuranus0.64°separating
plutooppositionvertex0.76°applying
moontrinelilith0.76°separating
venustrineneptune0.78°separating
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.35°applying
moonsquaremars1.57°separating
suntrinemars2.04°applying
uranussquarechiron2.06°separating
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune2.11°applying
sunsquarelilith2.85°applying
marssquarepart-of-fortune2.92°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto3.31°applying
uranusconjunctionnorth-node3.51°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune3.55°applying
mercurysquareneptune3.62°separating
uranustrinepluto3.94°separating
mercuryoppositionvertex4.06°applying
mercurytrinenorth-node4.15°separating
venustrinesaturn4.32°separating
moonsextilejupiter4.98°separating
chironsquarenorth-node5.57°separating
mercurysesquiquadratemars0.19°applying
plutosemisquarepart-of-fortune0.20°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.53°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.69°separating
marsquincunxlilith0.81°applying
jupitersesquiquadratenorth-node0.93°separating
part-of-fortunesesquiquadratevertex0.96°separating
sunsemisquarevenus1.00°applying
venusquincunxnorth-node1.31°separating
sunsemisextilejupiter1.38°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron1.42°applying
moonsemisquarepluto1.55°applying
moonsemisquaremercury1.75°separating
plutosemisextilechiron1.89°applying
venusquincunxuranus2.21°applying