Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Carl Sagan.

9 November 1934 · 17:05 · Brooklyn, New York

Carl Sagan's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Sagittarius, Taurus rising. Born November 9, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York.

About this chart

What is Carl Sagan's sun sign?

Carl Sagan's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Carl Sagan's moon sign?

Carl Sagan's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Carl Sagan's rising sign?

Carl Sagan's Rising (Ascendant) is Taurus.

When and where was Carl Sagan born?

Carl Sagan was born November 9, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York.

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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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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.

SunScorpio · 6th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. 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.

MoonSagittarius · 8th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. 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.

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RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Scorpio in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 NodeAquarius · 10th house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 4th house

The South Node in Leo (4th 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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Taurus 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 rulerScorpio · 6th house

Love is intense and all-or-nothing. The instinct is to merge completely or not at all. The shadow is the jealousy that grows from a certainty that love is dangerous.

Where it drives. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.

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.

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MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules. Planets in the 10th (Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo on the IC, home is where the heart warms: creative privacy, pride in what you protect.

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 water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusAries · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 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 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 →

PlutoCancer · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundGemini · 1st house

The wound is your voice and mind: a fear of being unheard or thought unintelligent, often set by being silenced or ridiculed young. You may talk fast to stay ahead of dismissal, or go quiet when the room feels unsafe. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 4th 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 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 water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  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 go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your calm first: solid, unhurried, hard to rush.

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 a water, fixed chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

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

Scorpio Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Taurus rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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
26%
Air
15%
Water
44%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Scorpio 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 Scorpio stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Scorpio 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 Saturnorb 0.19°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus sextile Neptuneorb 0.37°

In you, Venus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Mars conjunction Neptuneorb 1.04°

In you, Mars is fused with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus sextile Marsorb 1.41°

In you, Venus works easily with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 2.27°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Saturn rules Aquariusat home

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

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.2°

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

Venus sextile Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.3°

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

Venus sextile Marsorb 1.4°

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

Moon trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon 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
Pluto square Vertexorb 0.3°

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

Mercury square North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

Venus runs uphill in Scorpio, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Venus square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 2.2°

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

Uranus square Plutoorb 2.7°

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

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Chart data for Carl Sagan
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°49' Scorpio6th house·
Moon21°51' Sagittarius8th house·
Mercury3°27' Scorpio6th houseretrograde
Venus14°33' Scorpio6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mars13°09' Virgo5th house·
Jupiter6°27' Scorpio6th house·
Saturn21°40' Aquarius10th houserulership
Uranus28°45' Aries12th houseretrograde
Neptune14°11' Virgo5th house·
Pluto26°02' Cancer3rd houseretrograde
Chiron8°22' Gemini1st houseretrograde
North Node4°16' Aquarius10th houseretrograde
South Node4°16' Leo4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith12°37' Leo4th house·
Part of Fortune20°19' Aries12th house·
Vertex25°46' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilesaturn0.19°separating
plutosquarevertex0.27°applying
venussextileneptune0.37°separating
mercurysquarenorth-node0.80°separating
marsconjunctionneptune1.04°applying
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune1.35°separating
venussextilemars1.41°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune1.53°separating
venussquarelilith1.93°separating
jupitersquarenorth-node2.20°separating
sunconjunctionvenus2.27°applying
sunsextileneptune2.64°separating
uranussquarepluto2.71°applying
uranusoppositionvertex2.98°applying
mercuryconjunctionjupiter3.00°separating
sunsextilemars3.68°separating
moonsextilevertex3.92°applying
saturntrinevertex4.11°applying
chirontrinenorth-node4.11°separating
sunsquarelilith4.19°separating
mercuryoppositionuranus4.71°applying
marssquarechiron4.77°separating
sunsquaresaturn4.84°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex5.45°separating
uranussquarenorth-node5.51°applying
plutosquarepart-of-fortune5.72°applying
neptunesquarechiron5.80°separating
moontrineuranus6.90°applying
moonsquareneptune7.67°separating
neptunebiquintilepart-of-fortune0.14°applying
moonsemisquarejupiter0.39°separating
uranussesquiquadrateneptune0.43°separating
marssemisextilelilith0.52°separating
marssesquiquadrateuranus0.61°applying
mercurybiquintilechiron1.08°applying
lilithquintilevertex1.14°applying
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.17°applying
neptunesemisextilelilith1.55°applying
jupiterquincunxchiron1.92°applying