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Ava DuVernay.

24 August 1972 · 17:22 · Long Beach, California

Ava DuVernay's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Pisces, Capricorn rising. Born August 24, 1972 in Long Beach, California.

About this chart

What is Ava DuVernay's sun sign?

Ava DuVernay's sun is in Virgo.

What is Ava DuVernay's moon sign?

Ava DuVernay's moon is in Pisces.

What is Ava DuVernay's rising sign?

Ava DuVernay's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Ava DuVernay born?

Ava DuVernay was born August 24, 1972 in Long Beach, California.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 earth and water 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.

SunVirgo · 7th 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. You become visible through the mirror of the other. Significant relationships are not optional here. They are the field where the self does its real work.

MoonPisces · 2nd house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

ASC
RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Gemini in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 NodeCapricorn · 1st house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 7th house

The South Node in Cancer (7th 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 Virgo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn 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 rulerGemini · 5th house

The work is on the mind, speech and communication: lessons in taking words seriously. The shadow is the difficulty of saying, simply, what is true.

Where it drives. Joy has to be earned. Self-expression is often inhibited early on, and the work is to keep at the craft until it ripens into real creative 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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 mutable 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.

UranusLibra · 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 Libra

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 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 soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 the Sun in Virgo. 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 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 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

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

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Pisces Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 earth and water 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
18%
Earth
41%
Air
8%
Water
33%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Moon, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Sun form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Gemini, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Gemini, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Mars, Moon, Neptune)

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Neptune form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Gemini, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Gemini, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Venus square Uranusorb 0.22°

In you, Venus grinds against Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Sun square Neptuneorb 0.62°

In you, the Sun grinds against Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Moon opposition Marsorb 1.21°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.75°

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.

Jupiter square Plutoorb 2.28°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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
Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

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

Jupiter trine Vertexorb 0.9°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.7°

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.

Mercury sextile Uranusorb 2.3°

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

Saturn sextile Chironorb 2.4°

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

Mercury trine Chironorb 3.2°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Venus square Uranusorb 0.2°

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

Sun square Neptuneorb 0.6°

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

Venus square Chironorb 0.7°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 0.9°

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

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Chart data for Ava DuVernay
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°54' Virgo7th house·
Moon5°07' Pisces2nd house·
Mercury13°36' Leo7th house·
Venus16°07' Cancer6th house·
Mars6°20' Virgo8th house·
Jupiter28°29' Sagittarius11th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn19°16' Gemini5th housechart ruler
Uranus15°54' Libra9th house·
Neptune2°31' Sagittarius10th house·
Pluto0°46' Libra8th house·
Chiron16°50' Aries3rd houseretrograde
North Node25°38' Capricorn1st houseretrograde
South Node25°38' Cancer7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°28' Scorpio10th house·
Part of Fortune26°51' Cancer7th house·
Vertex27°33' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venussquareuranus0.22°separating
sunsquareneptune0.62°applying
venussquarechiron0.71°applying
uranusoppositionchiron0.93°applying
jupitertrinevertex0.93°applying
moonoppositionmars1.21°applying
north-nodeoppositionpart-of-fortune1.22°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.75°applying
jupitersquarepluto2.28°separating
mercurysextileuranus2.30°applying
saturnsextilechiron2.43°separating
moonsquareneptune2.61°separating
sunoppositionmoon3.22°separating
mercurytrinechiron3.23°applying
saturntrineuranus3.37°separating
suntrinejupiter3.41°separating
marssquareneptune3.82°separating
plutosextilepart-of-fortune3.91°separating
sunconjunctionvertex4.35°separating
venustrinelilith4.35°applying
sunconjunctionmars4.44°applying
neptunesquarevertex4.96°separating
plutotrinenorth-node5.13°separating
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune5.66°separating
moonoppositionvertex7.57°separating
sunsesquiquadratechiron0.06°separating
mercurysesquiquadratejupiter0.12°separating
sunbiquintilenorth-node0.26°separating
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.37°applying
jupiterquintileuranus0.59°applying
sunquintilesaturn0.63°separating
neptunesesquiquadratechiron0.68°separating
part-of-fortunesemisextilevertex0.69°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.78°separating
sunsemisquareuranus1.00°separating
sunsemisextilepluto1.13°separating
saturnquincunxlilith1.20°separating
venussesquiquadrateneptune1.40°applying
uranussemisquareneptune1.62°applying
jupiterquincunxpart-of-fortune1.63°applying
north-nodequincunxvertex1.91°separating