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Cher.

20 May 1946 · 07:25 · El Centro, Imperial County, United States

Cher's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Capricorn, Cancer rising. Born May 20, 1946 in El Centro, Imperial County, United States.

About this chart

What is Cher's sun sign?

Cher's sun is in Taurus.

What is Cher's moon sign?

Cher's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Cher's rising sign?

Cher's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Cher born?

Cher was born May 20, 1946 in El Centro, Imperial County, United States.

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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 Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 · 11th 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. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonCapricorn · 7th 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. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Capricorn in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeGemini · 12th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 6th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (6th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Aquarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerCapricorn · 7th house

Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusGemini · 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 Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 2nd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 woundLibra · 4th house

The wound is relationship: heartbreak, codependency, or losing yourself in others, underpinned by a sense that you are only lovable when you please. Harmony can become a cage you decorate. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. 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 air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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, cardinal chart led by the Moon. 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 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

Taurus Sun · Capricorn Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
10%
Earth
41%
Air
18%
Water
31%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

T-Square · apex Jupitercommon
an opposition under pressure from Jupiter (Jupiter, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn form a T-square with Jupiter at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aries, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Jupiter: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Jupiter can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aries, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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 square Jupiterorb 0.09°

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

Moon trine Mercuryorb 1.81°

In you, the Moon flows together with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 1.96°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 2.75°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Moon opposition Saturnorb 2.84°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

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
Uranus trine Chironorb 1.0°

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

Moon trine Mercuryorb 1.8°

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

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 2.0°

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

Mars sextile Chironorb 2.1°

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

Venus trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.1°

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

Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 2.5°

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.

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 1.1°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

Sun opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.7°

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

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Chart data for Cher
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°59' Taurus11th house·
Moon18°17' Capricorn7th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mercury16°28' Taurus11th house·
Venus25°45' Gemini12th house·
Mars13°20' Leo2nd house·
Jupiter18°23' Libra4th houseretrograde
Saturn21°07' Cancer1st housedetriment
Uranus16°25' Gemini12th house·
Neptune6°02' Libra4th houseretrograde
Pluto9°36' Leo2nd house·
Chiron15°24' Libra4th houseretrograde
North Node20°51' Gemini12th house·
South Node20°51' Sagittarius6th house·
Black Moon Lilith1°42' Sagittarius5th house·
Part of Fortune27°54' Aquarius9th house·
Vertex23°55' Scorpio5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsquarejupiter0.09°separating
uranustrinechiron1.03°separating
sunsquarepart-of-fortune1.08°separating
moontrinemercury1.81°separating
jupitertrineuranus1.96°applying
marssextilechiron2.05°applying
venustrinepart-of-fortune2.15°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node2.46°separating
sunoppositionlilith2.72°applying
jupitersquaresaturn2.75°separating
saturntrinevertex2.80°applying
moonoppositionsaturn2.84°applying
moonsquarechiron2.89°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron2.98°applying
marssextileuranus3.08°applying
mercurysquaremars3.13°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.57°separating
marsconjunctionpluto3.74°separating
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune3.80°separating
part-of-fortunesquarevertex3.98°separating
uranusconjunctionnorth-node4.42°applying
venusconjunctionnorth-node4.91°separating
sunoppositionvertex5.06°separating
chirontrinenorth-node5.45°separating
moonsextilevertex5.63°applying
saturnsquarechiron5.73°separating
suntrineneptune7.05°applying
mercurysemisextileuranus0.05°separating
saturnsemisextilenorth-node0.28°separating
saturnbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.78°applying
mercuryquincunxchiron1.08°separating
venussemisquarepluto1.15°separating
chironsemisquarelilith1.31°separating
sunquintilepluto1.38°separating
sunsesquiquadratechiron1.41°applying
moonsemisquarelilith1.58°separating
jupitersemisquarelilith1.68°applying
venusquincunxvertex1.83°separating
moonquincunxuranus1.87°separating
mercuryquincunxjupiter1.90°applying