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Bono (U2).

10 May 1960 · 02:00 · Dublin, Ireland

Bono (U2)'s birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Scorpio, Capricorn rising. Born May 10, 1960 in Dublin, Ireland.

About this chart

What is Bono (U2)'s sun sign?

Bono (U2)'s sun is in Taurus.

What is Bono (U2)'s moon sign?

Bono (U2)'s moon is in Scorpio.

What is Bono (U2)'s rising sign?

Bono (U2)'s Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Bono (U2) born?

Bono (U2) was born May 10, 1960 in Dublin, Ireland.

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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 Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio 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.

SunTaurus · 3rd house

Built from what endures. Steady, sensual, slow to anger and slow to change. The body is the temple, and the temple is not a metaphor. Values are bedrock; stubbornness is the shadow side of staying power. Lesson: holding too tightly is not the same as holding. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonScorpio · 8th house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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 Capricorn in the 12th 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 NodeVirgo · 7th 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 · 1st house

The South Node in Pisces (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 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.

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 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 earth and fixed 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.

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 shadowCancer · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  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, fixed chart led by Venus. 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 fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

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

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

Taurus Sun · Scorpio Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio 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
0%
Earth
67%
Air
0%
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.

Stellium in Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus 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.

Grand Trine in Earthcommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Pluto, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Venus form a grand trine. Yours runs on earth: a closed circuit of craft, patience, and real results. Talent shows as the ability to build what lasts and make vision solid.

gift

Natural earth 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.

Kite · outlet Moonuncommon
a grand trine in earth given direction by Moon (Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Venus form a kite with Moon as the outlet. The easy talent of the grand trine finally has somewhere to aim: Moon is where the gift becomes usable in the world.

gift

Talent plus drive: Moon turns ease into achievement instead of pure coasting.

difficulty

Moon carries pressure. The opposition can strain, but it is productive strain when you aim it.

release point

Lean into Moon. That is where the whole configuration discharges and the grand trine's gift becomes real.

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 Jupiterorb 0.06°

In you, the Moon works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Venus opposition Neptuneorb 0.18°

In you, Venus sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Jupiter trine Plutoorb 0.59°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 sextile Plutoorb 0.65°

In you, the Moon works easily with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun trine Saturnorb 1.07°

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.

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 Taurusat home

Venus 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.

Grand Trinepattern

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

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Moon sextile Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

Moon works against the grain in Scorpio. 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.

Venus opposition Neptuneorb 0.2°

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

Chiron opposition Vertexorb 0.6°

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

Mars square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.2°

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

Mercury square Part of Fortuneorb 1.3°

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

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Chart data for Bono (U2)
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun19°22' Taurus3rd house·
Moon2°56' Scorpio8th housefall
Mercury10°31' Taurus3rd house·
Venus7°37' Taurus3rd houserulership
Mars29°02' Pisces2nd house·
Jupiter3°00' Capricorn12th houseretrograde, fall
Saturn18°18' Capricorn12th houseretrograde, rulership, chart ruler
Uranus17°02' Leo7th house·
Neptune7°27' Scorpio9th houseretrograde
Pluto3°35' Virgo7th houseretrograde
Chiron1°57' Pisces1st house·
North Node23°13' Virgo7th houseretrograde
South Node23°13' Pisces1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith0°12' Cancer5th house·
Part of Fortune9°10' Leo7th house·
Vertex2°34' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilejupiter0.06°separating
venusoppositionneptune0.18°separating
moonsextilevertex0.37°separating
jupitertrinevertex0.43°applying
jupitertrinepluto0.59°separating
chironoppositionvertex0.62°applying
moonsextilepluto0.65°applying
moontrinechiron0.99°separating
plutoconjunctionvertex1.02°applying
jupitersextilechiron1.05°applying
suntrinesaturn1.07°separating
marssquarelilith1.17°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune1.34°separating
venussquarepart-of-fortune1.55°applying
plutooppositionchiron1.64°applying
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune1.73°separating
chirontrinelilith1.74°applying
sunsquareuranus2.33°separating
lilithsextilevertex2.37°applying
moontrinelilith2.74°separating
jupiteroppositionlilith2.79°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus2.90°separating
mercuryoppositionneptune3.08°separating
plutosextilelilith3.38°applying
suntrinenorth-node3.84°applying
neptunesextilepluto3.86°applying
marssquarejupiter3.97°applying
venustrinepluto4.04°separating
moonconjunctionneptune4.50°applying
venustrinejupiter4.63°separating
moonoppositionvenus4.68°applying
saturntrinenorth-node4.91°applying
venustrinevertex5.05°separating
neptunetrinechiron5.50°applying
marsoppositionnorth-node5.82°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune6.24°applying
moonoppositionmercury7.58°applying
jupiterbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.18°separating
saturnsesquiquadratepluto0.29°separating
venussesquiquadratenorth-node0.59°applying
saturnsesquiquadratevertex0.73°applying
neptunesemisquarenorth-node0.77°applying
jupitersesquiquadrateuranus0.96°applying
north-nodesemisquarepart-of-fortune0.97°separating
saturnquintileneptune1.15°applying
saturnquincunxuranus1.26°applying
marsquintilesaturn1.27°applying
saturnsemisquarechiron1.35°applying
sunsesquiquadratejupiter1.37°separating
uranussemisquarelilith1.83°applying