Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Ai Weiwei.

28 August 1957 · time unknown · Beijing, China
unknown birth time · rising?

Ai Weiwei's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Libra. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born August 28, 1957 in Beijing, China.

About this chart

What is Ai Weiwei's sun sign?

Ai Weiwei's sun is in Virgo.

What is Ai Weiwei's moon sign?

Ai Weiwei's moon is in Libra.

What is Ai Weiwei's rising sign?

Ai Weiwei's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Ai Weiwei born?

Ai Weiwei was born August 28, 1957 in Beijing, China.

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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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunVirgo · 10th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonLibra · 11th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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RisingScorpio? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity.

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 · 12th 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 · 6th house

The South Node in Taurus (6th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Pisces; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars 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.

Mars · the chart rulerVirgo · 10th house

The drive is precise, methodical and work-oriented, and anger stays contained, voiced as criticism or withdrawal. The shadow is perfectionism that prevents action altogether.

Where it drives. Ambition is the engine. Driven and competitive, often in a public role built on leadership or direct action, with a clear Mars signature on the career.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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.

UranusLeo · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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 earth, mutable chart led by Mercury. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Libra Moon · Scorpio rising? Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
8%
Earth
44%
Air
33%
Water
15%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Sun gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Jupiter, Moon, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Venus gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Libra 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 Libra stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Libra 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.12°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus sextile Uranusorb 0.73°

In you, Venus works easily with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Saturn trine Uranusorb 1.11°

In you, Saturn flows together with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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 sextile Saturnorb 1.83°

In you, Venus works easily with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Moon conjunction Venusorb 2.89°

In you, the Moon is fused with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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
Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Venus rules Libraat home

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.1°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mars sextile North Nodeorb 0.3°

An easy, available link: Mars and North Node feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Venus sextile Uranusorb 0.7°

An easy, available link: Venus and Uranus feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Saturn trine Uranusorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Jupiter square Vertexorb 0.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Chiron square North Nodeorb 0.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Chiron and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.2°

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

Mercury square Part of Fortuneorb 2.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Mercury and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Saturnorb 3.3°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Saturn never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Ai Weiwei
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°34' Virgo10th house·
Moon12°37' Libra11th house·
Mercury25°13' Virgo10th houseretrograde, rulership
Venus9°43' Libra11th houserulership
Mars12°39' Virgo10th housechart ruler
Jupiter4°00' Libra11th house·
Saturn7°53' Sagittarius1st house·
Uranus9°00' Leo9th house·
Neptune0°24' Scorpio12th house·
Pluto0°17' Virgo9th house·
Chiron13°44' Aquarius3rd houseretrograde
North Node12°57' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
South Node12°57' Taurus6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith10°26' Pisces4th house·
Part of Fortune27°36' Sagittarius2nd house·
Vertex3°22' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.12°applying
marssextilenorth-node0.31°applying
jupitersquarevertex0.64°separating
venussextileuranus0.73°separating
chironsquarenorth-node0.78°separating
saturntrineuranus1.11°separating
moontrinechiron1.13°applying
sunsextilevertex1.20°separating
venussextilesaturn1.83°separating
marsoppositionlilith2.21°separating
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune2.38°separating
north-nodetrinelilith2.52°applying
saturnsquarelilith2.55°separating
plutotrinepart-of-fortune2.69°separating
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune2.81°separating
moonconjunctionvenus2.89°separating
neptunetrinevertex2.97°applying
plutosextilevertex3.08°applying
sunsquaresaturn3.31°applying
moonsextileuranus3.62°separating
jupitersextilesaturn3.88°applying
uranussquarenorth-node3.96°applying
venustrinechiron4.02°applying
sunsextileneptune4.17°separating
sunconjunctionpluto4.28°separating
moonsextilesaturn4.73°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.75°applying
marssquaresaturn4.76°separating
venusconjunctionjupiter5.71°separating
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex5.78°separating
sunoppositionlilith5.86°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune6.98°separating
moonsemisextilemars0.04°separating
moonsemisextilenorth-node0.34°separating
north-nodesemisquarepart-of-fortune0.36°applying
sunsemisextilejupiter0.56°separating
plutoquintilenorth-node0.67°applying
mercuryquintilesaturn0.68°separating
venusquincunxlilith0.72°applying
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune0.84°separating
marsquincunxchiron1.09°applying
chironsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.14°applying
mercurysemisquareuranus1.22°applying
uranusquincunxlilith1.44°separating
moonquincunxlilith2.18°separating