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Alanis Morissette.

1 June 1974 · 09:51 · Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Canada

Alanis Morissette's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio, Leo rising. Born June 1, 1974 in Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Canada.

About this chart

What is Alanis Morissette's sun sign?

Alanis Morissette's sun is in Gemini.

What is Alanis Morissette's moon sign?

Alanis Morissette's moon is in Scorpio.

What is Alanis Morissette's rising sign?

Alanis Morissette's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Alanis Morissette born?

Alanis Morissette was born June 1, 1974 in Ottawa, Eastern Ontario, Canada.

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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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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.

SunGemini · 11th house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonScorpio · 4th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Gemini in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 NodeSagittarius · 5th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 11th house

The South Node in Gemini (11th 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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Aries; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Sun · chart rulerGemini · 11th house

The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Venus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 →

PlutoLibra · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundAries · 9th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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 a water, fixed chart led by the Sun in Gemini. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

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 Gemini, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Gemini key.

The spine, your Big Three

Gemini Sun · Scorpio Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
23%
Earth
10%
Air
15%
Water
51%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Mars, Mercury, Saturn

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Saturn gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Moon opposition Venusorb 0.01°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury square Plutoorb 0.14°

In you, Mercury grinds against Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.52°

In you, Saturn grinds against Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Mercury conjunction Saturnorb 0.67°

In you, Mercury is fused with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars square Uranusorb 1.40°

In you, Mars grinds against Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

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.

Pluto trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Moon sextile Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Venus trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Mercury sextile Venusorb 2.5°

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

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

Moon works against the grain in Scorpio. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Moon opposition Venusorb 0.0°

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

Mercury square Plutoorb 0.1°

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

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Venus square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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

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Chart data for Alanis Morissette
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun10°41' Gemini11th housechart ruler
Moon1°27' Scorpio4th housefall
Mercury3°57' Cancer11th house·
Venus1°28' Taurus10th houserulership
Mars25°27' Cancer12th housefall
Jupiter15°50' Pisces8th houserulership
Saturn4°37' Cancer11th housedetriment
Uranus24°02' Libra4th houseretrograde
Neptune8°10' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto4°06' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Chiron23°09' Aries9th house·
North Node19°25' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
South Node19°25' Gemini11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°11' Aquarius6th house·
Part of Fortune29°25' Sagittarius5th house·
Vertex26°46' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonoppositionvenus0.01°separating
mercurysquarepluto0.14°applying
saturnsquarepluto0.52°separating
mercuryconjunctionsaturn0.67°applying
venussquarelilith0.72°applying
moonsquarelilith0.73°applying
uranusoppositionchiron0.89°applying
marssquareuranus1.40°separating
plutotrinelilith1.92°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune2.03°separating
venustrinepart-of-fortune2.04°separating
marssquarechiron2.29°separating
mercurysextilevenus2.50°applying
moontrinemercury2.51°applying
sunoppositionneptune2.51°separating
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex2.66°separating
uranussextilevertex2.72°separating
venussextilesaturn3.16°applying
moontrinesaturn3.17°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node3.58°applying
chirontrinevertex3.61°applying
chirontrinenorth-node3.74°separating
mercuryoppositionpart-of-fortune4.53°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune4.68°applying
moonsextilevertex4.69°separating
venustrinevertex4.70°separating
sunsquarejupiter5.15°applying
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune5.20°separating
moonsquaremars6.01°separating
suntrinepluto6.58°separating
moonconjunctionuranus7.41°separating
neptunesesquiquadratechiron0.01°applying
marsbiquintilenorth-node0.02°separating
sunsemisquaremars0.24°separating
saturnquintilechiron0.53°applying
moonsesquiquadratejupiter0.61°separating
venussemisquarejupiter0.62°separating
venusbiquintileneptune0.71°applying
uranussemisquareneptune0.87°separating
mercuryquintilechiron1.20°applying
marsquincunxvertex1.32°applying
jupitersemisquarelilith1.34°separating
sunsesquiquadrateuranus1.64°separating
mercuryquincunxlilith1.78°separating
saturnquincunxlilith2.45°separating