Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Bob Dylan.

24 May 1941 · 21:05 · Duluth, Minnesota

Bob Dylan's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Taurus, Sagittarius rising. Born May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota.

About this chart

What is Bob Dylan's sun sign?

Bob Dylan's sun is in Gemini.

What is Bob Dylan's moon sign?

Bob Dylan's moon is in Taurus.

What is Bob Dylan's rising sign?

Bob Dylan's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Bob Dylan born?

Bob Dylan was born May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota.

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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 Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 · 6th 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 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.

MoonTaurus · 5th house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Taurus in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 NodeVirgo · 9th house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 3rd house

The South Node in Pisces (3rd 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 Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerTaurus · 5th house

Growth comes through patience, value and material steadiness, carried by faith in what endures. The shadow is over-indulgence in physical comfort.

Where it drives. The heart grows large. Generous in love and strong in creative output, with joy taken in romance and in children. Self-expression is where the luck lives.

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
MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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 · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 →

NeptuneVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 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 Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundCancer · 7th house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. 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 earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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, mutable chart led by Mercury. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Gemini Sun · Taurus Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
15%
Earth
31%
Air
44%
Water
10%
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 Geminicommon
three or more planets clustered in Gemini: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Gemini. A stellium in Gemini concentrates the chart on mind, language, and the need to connect dots. You think and talk in high volume: information, curiosity, and dual tracks are where life keeps packing itself.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Uranus

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Uranus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Sun sextile Plutoorb 1.14°

In you, the Sun works easily with Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will 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 conjunction Saturnorb 1.43°

In you, the Moon is fused with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.68°

In you, Uranus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Mercury square Neptuneorb 1.90°

In you, Mercury grinds against Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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 square Marsorb 2.47°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 leans toward flow. More of it comes easily than fights you; the work is not wasting the ease.

Where it flows
Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

Sun sextile Vertexorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 0.2°

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

Moon exalted in Tauruslifted

Moon is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Sun sextile Plutoorb 1.1°

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

Uranus sextile Chironorb 1.2°

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

Where it works
Mercury square Neptuneorb 1.9°

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

North Node square Part of Fortuneorb 2.4°

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

Sun square Marsorb 2.5°

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

Black Moon Lilith square Vertexorb 5.1°

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

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Chart data for Bob Dylan
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°30' Gemini6th house·
Moon21°30' Taurus5th houseexaltation
Mercury23°02' Gemini7th houserulership
Venus12°59' Gemini6th house·
Mars5°58' Pisces2nd house·
Jupiter29°40' Taurus5th housechart ruler
Saturn20°04' Taurus5th house·
Uranus26°37' Taurus5th house·
Neptune24°56' Virgo9th houseretrograde
Pluto2°22' Leo8th house·
Chiron27°50' Cancer7th house·
North Node29°52' Virgo9th houseretrograde
South Node29°52' Pisces3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith8°36' Taurus4th house·
Part of Fortune2°19' Capricorn1st house·
Vertex3°27' Leo8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsextilevertex0.05°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node0.21°applying
plutoconjunctionvertex1.09°applying
sunsextilepluto1.14°separating
uranussextilechiron1.22°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn1.43°separating
uranustrineneptune1.68°separating
jupitersextilechiron1.82°separating
mercurysquareneptune1.90°applying
chironsextilenorth-node2.03°applying
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune2.44°separating
sunsquaremars2.47°applying
plutosextilenorth-node2.49°separating
marssextilelilith2.62°applying
jupitersextilepluto2.70°applying
neptunesextilechiron2.90°separating
jupiterconjunctionuranus3.04°separating
uranustrinenorth-node3.25°applying
moontrineneptune3.43°applying
north-nodesextilevertex3.58°separating
suntrinenorth-node3.63°separating
marssextilepart-of-fortune3.65°separating
jupitersextilevertex3.79°applying
sunconjunctionjupiter3.84°separating
plutoconjunctionchiron4.52°applying
jupitertrineneptune4.72°separating
saturntrineneptune4.87°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node4.94°applying
moonconjunctionuranus5.12°applying
lilithsquarevertex5.14°separating
chironconjunctionvertex5.61°applying
sunsextilechiron5.66°separating
sunconjunctionuranus6.88°separating
plutoquincunxpart-of-fortune0.05°separating
moonquintilevertex0.05°separating
venussemisquarechiron0.14°separating
saturnquintilepluto0.29°applying
uranusbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.30°separating
mercurysemisquarelilith0.56°applying
part-of-fortunequincunxvertex1.13°separating
moonquintilepluto1.14°separating
sunquincunxpart-of-fortune1.19°separating
neptunesesquiquadratelilith1.34°applying
saturnquintilevertex1.38°applying
moonsemisextilemercury1.53°applying