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Charles Darwin.

12 February 1809 · 03:00 · Shrewsbury, England

Charles Darwin's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Capricorn, Sagittarius rising. Born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.

About this chart

What is Charles Darwin's sun sign?

Charles Darwin's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Charles Darwin's moon sign?

Charles Darwin's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Charles Darwin's rising sign?

Charles Darwin's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Charles Darwin born?

Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England.

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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 Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn 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.

SunAquarius · 2nd house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. The self is forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.

MoonCapricorn · 2nd house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. 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.

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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 Pisces in the 3rd 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 NodeScorpio · 11th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 5th house

The South Node in Taurus (5th 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 water 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

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 rulerPisces · 3rd house

Jupiter is the traditional ruler here. Growth comes through compassion, mysticism and dissolution, carried by faith in the field. The shadow is inflation through fantasy.

Where it drives. Growth is in the mind. A lifelong learner, often a teacher or a writer, surrounded by ideas, books and a generous local life.

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. Planets in the 10th (Mars) amplify that signal.

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 water and mutable 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.

UranusScorpio · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 →

PlutoPisces · 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 Pisces

An era that remakes the spiritual and the dissolved, putting the source itself 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 woundAquarius · 2nd house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 6th 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 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  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 a fire, cardinal chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

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

Aquarius Sun · Capricorn Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn 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
33%
Earth
15%
Air
33%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mercury trine Uranusorb 0.04°

In you, Mercury flows together with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.33°

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

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 0.53°

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.

Sun trine Marsorb 2.36°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 3.03°

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.

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 Piscesat home

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

Mercury trine Uranusorb 0.0°

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

Venus trine Neptuneorb 0.3°

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

Jupiter trine Vertexorb 0.5°

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.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 0.5°

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.

Uranus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

An easy, available link: 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
Moon opposition Vertexorb 1.0°

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

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

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Chart data for Charles Darwin
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun23°03' Aquarius2nd housedetriment
Moon21°28' Capricorn2nd housedetriment
Mercury9°43' Pisces3rd housedetriment
Venus7°00' Aries3rd housedetriment
Mars25°25' Libra10th housedetriment
Jupiter21°59' Pisces3rd houserulership, chart ruler
Saturn3°07' Sagittarius12th house·
Uranus9°40' Scorpio11th house·
Neptune6°41' Sagittarius12th house·
Pluto13°36' Pisces3rd house·
Chiron11°42' Aquarius2nd house·
North Node6°13' Scorpio11th houseretrograde
South Node6°13' Taurus5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith26°15' Taurus6th house·
Part of Fortune8°54' Capricorn1st house·
Vertex22°29' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrineuranus0.04°separating
venustrineneptune0.33°separating
jupitertrinevertex0.49°applying
moonsextilejupiter0.53°separating
uranussextilepart-of-fortune0.76°separating
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune0.80°separating
moonoppositionvertex1.02°applying
venussquarepart-of-fortune1.90°applying
uranussquarechiron2.03°separating
suntrinemars2.36°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune2.68°separating
marssquarevertex2.94°separating
mercurysquareneptune3.03°separating
sunsquarelilith3.20°applying
uranusconjunctionnorth-node3.44°separating
mercurytrinenorth-node3.49°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune3.56°applying
lilithsextilevertex3.78°separating
mercuryconjunctionpluto3.89°applying
venustrinesaturn3.89°separating
uranustrinepluto3.93°separating
moonsquaremars3.95°applying
moontrinelilith4.79°applying
chironsquarenorth-node5.47°separating
moonquintileuranus0.20°separating
moonsemisquareneptune0.22°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.46°separating
sunquincunxvertex0.57°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.66°separating
mercurysesquiquadratemars0.70°applying
jupitersesquiquadratenorth-node0.77°separating
venusquincunxnorth-node0.78°separating
neptunesesquiquadratevertex0.80°applying
marsquincunxlilith0.84°applying
sunsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.85°applying
sunsemisquarevenus1.05°applying
sunsemisextilejupiter1.06°separating
jupiterquintilepart-of-fortune1.08°separating
marsquintilepart-of-fortune1.49°applying
sunsemisextilemoon1.59°applying
plutosemisextilechiron1.91°applying
mercurysemisextilechiron1.98°applying