Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Andy Warhol.

6 August 1928 · 06:30 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Andy Warhol's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Aries, Leo rising. Born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About this chart

What is Andy Warhol's sun sign?

Andy Warhol's sun is in Leo.

What is Andy Warhol's moon sign?

Andy Warhol's moon is in Aries.

What is Andy Warhol's rising sign?

Andy Warhol's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Andy Warhol born?

Andy Warhol was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Leo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share fire as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunLeo · 12th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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.

MoonAries · 9th house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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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 Leo in the 12th 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 NodeGemini · 10th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 4th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (4th 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 air 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

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 rulerLeo · 12th house

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.

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.

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MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters. Planets in the 10th (Mars, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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 fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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.

UranusAries · 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 Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundTaurus · 10th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. 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 fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  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 fire, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Aries Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Leo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share fire as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
74%
Earth
26%
Air
0%
Water
0%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Neptune, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Sun, Venus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Moon, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Saturn, Sun form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Saturn, Sun, Uranus)

In your chart, Saturn, Sun, Uranus form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

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.

Mars square Neptuneorb 0.10°

In you, Mars grinds against Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 Moonorb 0.13°

In you, the Sun flows together with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Sun trine Saturnorb 1.10°

In you, the Sun flows together with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 trine Saturnorb 1.23°

In you, the Moon flows together with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 Plutoorb 3.57°

In you, the Moon grinds against Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Sun trine Moonorb 0.1°

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

Uranus sextile North Nodeorb 0.2°

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

Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun 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
Mars square Neptuneorb 0.1°

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

Mars opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

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.

Neptune square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.4°

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Pluto square Part of Fortuneorb 2.9°

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

Sun square Chironorb 3.5°

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

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Chart data for Andy Warhol
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun13°41' Leo12th houserulership, chart ruler
Moon13°49' Aries9th house·
Mercury3°09' Leo12th house·
Venus23°34' Leo1st house·
Mars28°14' Taurus10th housedetriment
Jupiter9°29' Taurus10th house·
Saturn12°35' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Uranus7°09' Aries9th houseretrograde
Neptune28°19' Leo1st house·
Pluto17°23' Cancer12th house·
Chiron10°08' Taurus10th house·
North Node7°00' Gemini10th houseretrograde
South Node7°00' Sagittarius4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith27°57' Scorpio4th house·
Part of Fortune14°31' Aries9th house·
Vertex1°30' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marssquareneptune0.10°applying
suntrinemoon0.13°separating
uranussextilenorth-node0.15°separating
marsoppositionlilith0.27°separating
neptunesquarelilith0.37°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron0.66°applying
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.71°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune0.84°applying
suntrinesaturn1.10°separating
moontrinesaturn1.23°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune1.94°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune2.87°separating
neptunetrinevertex3.17°applying
sunsquarechiron3.54°separating
moonsquarepluto3.57°applying
mercurysextilenorth-node3.85°applying
mercurytrineuranus4.00°applying
sunsquarejupiter4.19°separating
venussquarelilith4.39°applying
venussquaremars4.66°applying
venusconjunctionneptune4.76°applying
mercurytrinelilith5.19°separating
saturntrineuranus5.43°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node5.58°separating
uranussquarevertex5.66°applying
suntrineuranus6.53°separating
moonconjunctionuranus6.66°separating
moonsesquiquadrateneptune0.48°separating
moonsemisquaremars0.58°separating
moonsesquiquadratelilith0.85°separating
neptunesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.19°applying
saturnbiquintilepluto1.20°applying
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune1.29°applying
venussesquiquadrateuranus1.42°separating
lilithsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.56°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex1.65°separating
saturnquincunxchiron2.44°applying