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Arthur Rimbaud.

20 October 1854 · 06:00 · Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France

Arthur Rimbaud's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Libra, Libra rising. Born October 20, 1854 in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France.

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What is Arthur Rimbaud's sun sign?

Arthur Rimbaud's sun is in Libra.

What is Arthur Rimbaud's moon sign?

Arthur Rimbaud's moon is in Libra.

What is Arthur Rimbaud's rising sign?

Arthur Rimbaud's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Arthur Rimbaud born?

Arthur Rimbaud was born October 20, 1854 in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share air 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.

SunLibra · 1st house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonLibra · 12th 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 runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Libra in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeTaurus · 8th house

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 2nd house

The South Node in Scorpio (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 earth territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Capricorn, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerLibra · 12th house

Venus is at home here. Love is partnership in the truest sense, aesthetic and diplomatic, drawn to balance. The shadow is avoiding conflict at the cost of the actual relationship.

Where it drives. Love lives in the hidden places. Private affections, a quiet artistic life and deep compassion, with a shadow of self-sabotage to watch in matters of the heart.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 air and cardinal signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusTaurus · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptunePisces · 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 Pisces

Neptune is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoTaurus · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Taurus

An era that remakes value, currency and material life, putting what is owned 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 woundCapricorn · 3rd house

The wound is achievement and authority: a father-or-authority wound that insists you are never accomplished enough, whatever the cost. Success can feel like a debt that never clears. It plays out most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 Venus. 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.

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 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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Libra Sun · Libra Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share air 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
10%
Earth
8%
Air
64%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Moon, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Moon, Sun, 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.

Yod · apex Venusuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Venus (Neptune, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Neptune, Uranus, Venus form a yod pointing at Venus in Libra. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Venus: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Venus can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Venus: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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 sextile Marsorb 0.55°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 0.98°

In you, Mercury works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 1.89°

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 1.93°

In you, Saturn grinds against Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Venus trine Saturnorb 2.36°

In you, Venus flows together with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

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 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.

Moon sextile Marsorb 0.6°

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

Uranus trine Chironorb 0.9°

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

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 1.0°

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

Neptune trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.1°

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

Jupiter trine Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

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

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Mercury opposition Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Sun square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.4°

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 1.9°

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

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Chart data for Arthur Rimbaud
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun26°31' Libra1st housefall
Moon6°15' Libra12th house·
Mercury18°45' Scorpio2nd house·
Venus13°05' Libra12th houserulership, chart ruler
Mars6°48' Sagittarius2nd house·
Jupiter19°43' Capricorn3rd housefall
Saturn15°26' Gemini8th houseretrograde
Uranus15°23' Taurus7th houseretrograde
Neptune13°30' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Pluto2°50' Taurus7th houseretrograde
Chiron16°18' Capricorn3rd house·
North Node22°21' Taurus8th houseretrograde
South Node22°21' Scorpio2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°08' Cancer9th house·
Part of Fortune12°22' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex18°32' Taurus7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryoppositionvertex0.21°separating
moonsextilemars0.55°applying
uranustrinechiron0.90°separating
mercurysextilejupiter0.98°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune1.13°applying
jupitertrinevertex1.19°separating
sunsquarelilith1.39°separating
uranussextileneptune1.89°applying
saturnsquareneptune1.93°applying
chirontrinevertex2.25°applying
venustrinesaturn2.36°applying
mercurysextilechiron2.45°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node2.62°applying
north-nodesextilelilith2.78°separating
neptunesextilechiron2.79°separating
uranusoppositionpart-of-fortune3.02°applying
uranusconjunctionvertex3.15°separating
venussquarechiron3.22°applying
mercuryoppositionuranus3.35°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron3.43°separating
mercuryoppositionnorth-node3.60°applying
north-nodeconjunctionvertex3.81°applying
chironsextilepart-of-fortune3.92°separating
jupitertrineuranus4.33°separating
mercurytrineneptune5.24°separating
jupiteroppositionlilith5.41°separating
sunoppositionpluto6.32°applying
sunsquarejupiter6.79°separating
moonconjunctionvenus6.83°applying
saturnsemisextileuranus0.04°applying
venusquincunxneptune0.43°applying
venusbiquintilevertex0.54°separating
venussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.70°separating
saturnquincunxchiron0.86°separating
moonquintilelilith0.89°applying
moonsesquiquadratenorth-node1.11°applying
sunsesquiquadrateneptune1.98°applying
venusquincunxuranus2.32°applying