Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Barack Obama.

4 August 1961 · 19:24 · Honolulu, Hawaii

Barack Obama's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Gemini, Aquarius rising. Born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

About this chart

What is Barack Obama's sun sign?

Barack Obama's sun is in Leo.

What is Barack Obama's moon sign?

Barack Obama's moon is in Gemini.

What is Barack Obama's rising sign?

Barack Obama's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Barack Obama born?

Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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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 Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 air and fire 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.

SunLeo · 6th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonGemini · 4th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. 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.

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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Capricorn in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeLeo · 7th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 1st house

The South Node in Aquarius (1st 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Aries, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius 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 rulerCapricorn · 12th house

Saturn is at home here. The work is on ambition, mastery and legacy: lessons in the long game. The shadow is work as identity, at the cost of a life.

Where it drives. The hidden asks for the discipline. Often deep loneliness or solitary inner work, the unconscious must be made conscious, and a strong spiritual practice can be the reward.

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.

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 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.

UranusLeo · 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 Leo

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 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 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 woundPisces · 1st house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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, fixed chart led by the Moon. 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.

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 Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Gemini Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 air and fire 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
26%
Earth
18%
Air
38%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus 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.

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 Mercuryorb 1.03°

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

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 1.47°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 1.63°

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.

Moon trine Jupiterorb 2.50°

In you, the Moon flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mars trine Saturnorb 2.75°

In you, Mars flows together with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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
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.

Saturn rules Capricornat home

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

North Node trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.1°

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

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 1.0°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.6°

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.

Uranus trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Uranus 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
Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 1.5°

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

Pluto opposition Chironorb 1.7°

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

Saturn square Part of Fortuneorb 1.9°

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

Moon square Chironorb 2.0°

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

Jupiter square Part of Fortuneorb 3.6°

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

Moon square Plutoorb 3.6°

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

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Chart data for Barack Obama
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°32' Leo6th houserulership
Moon3°21' Gemini4th house·
Mercury2°19' Leo6th house·
Venus1°47' Cancer5th house·
Mars22°34' Virgo7th house·
Jupiter0°51' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
Saturn25°19' Capricorn12th houseretrograde, rulership, chart ruler
Uranus25°16' Leo7th house·
Neptune8°36' Scorpio9th house·
Pluto6°58' Virgo7th house·
Chiron5°19' Pisces1st houseretrograde
North Node27°18' Leo7th houseretrograde
South Node27°18' Aquarius1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°34' Leo7th house·
Part of Fortune27°14' Aries2nd house·
Vertex12°54' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune0.06°applying
moonsextilemercury1.03°separating
mercuryoppositionjupiter1.47°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.63°applying
plutooppositionchiron1.66°separating
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune1.91°separating
moonsquarechiron1.96°applying
uranustrinepart-of-fortune1.97°applying
uranusconjunctionnorth-node2.03°applying
moontrinejupiter2.50°separating
marstrinesaturn2.75°applying
neptunetrinechiron3.29°separating
venustrinechiron3.53°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune3.62°applying
moonsquarepluto3.62°applying
sunsquareneptune3.94°separating
uranusconjunctionlilith4.69°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune5.09°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn5.53°applying
plutoconjunctionvertex5.93°applying
moonsquarenorth-node6.05°separating
saturnquincunxuranus0.06°applying
jupiterbiquintilepluto0.12°separating
sunsemisextilevertex0.36°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus0.54°separating
part-of-fortunesesquiquadratevertex0.66°separating
neptunequintilenorth-node0.70°applying
venusquintilevertex0.89°separating
venusquincunxjupiter0.93°separating
marssemisquareneptune1.03°applying
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.33°separating
uranusquintileneptune1.34°applying
moonsemisextilevenus1.57°separating
saturnquincunxnorth-node1.97°separating
marssemisextilelilith2.00°separating