Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Courtney Love.

9 July 1964 · 14:08 · San Francisco, California

Courtney Love's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Cancer, Libra rising. Born July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, California.

About this chart

What is Courtney Love's sun sign?

Courtney Love's sun is in Cancer.

What is Courtney Love's moon sign?

Courtney Love's moon is in Cancer.

What is Courtney Love's rising sign?

Courtney Love's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Courtney Love born?

Courtney Love was born July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, California.

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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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 air 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.

SunCancer · 9th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonCancer · 9th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Gemini in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeCancer · 9th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (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 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

Libra 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 rulerGemini · 8th house

Love is curious, conversational and playful. Mental connection is the prerequisite; you need to be talked with. The shadow is multiplying options as a way of never having to choose.

Where it drives. Love runs deep and entangled. Intimacy is intense, resources often merge or are inherited, and the work is keeping love clear of power.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things. Planets in the 10th (Mercury) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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 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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth): 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 protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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, cardinal 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.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

Cancer Sun · Cancer Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 air 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
18%
Earth
8%
Air
36%
Water
38%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

No major aspect patterns sit tight enough to qualify here. The chart reads as a network of pair contacts rather than a defining geometry.

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 Jupiterorb 1.95°

In you, the Sun works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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 Neptuneorb 2.51°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 2.76°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.98°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse 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.

Mars square Plutoorb 3.60°

In you, Mars grinds against Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. 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
Moon rules Cancerat home

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

North Node trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter sextile Chironorb 0.9°

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

Sun trine Chironorb 1.0°

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

Sun sextile Jupiterorb 1.9°

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

Mercury sextile Vertexorb 2.4°

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

Where it works
Mercury square Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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.

Saturn square Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Venus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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

Chiron square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.1°

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

Venus square Chironorb 1.8°

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

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 2.8°

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

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Chart data for Courtney Love
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°38' Cancer9th house·
Moon23°15' Cancer9th houserulership
Mercury1°37' Leo10th house·
Venus20°24' Gemini8th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Mars15°45' Gemini8th house·
Jupiter19°35' Taurus7th house·
Saturn4°32' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Uranus7°18' Virgo11th house·
Neptune15°08' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Pluto12°09' Virgo11th house·
Chiron18°38' Pisces5th houseretrograde
North Node2°03' Cancer9th houseretrograde
South Node2°03' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith19°45' Sagittarius2nd house·
Part of Fortune1°56' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex4°01' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune0.12°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune0.32°applying
saturnsquarevertex0.53°applying
venusoppositionlilith0.65°applying
jupitersextilechiron0.95°separating
suntrinechiron1.00°applying
chironsquarelilith1.11°separating
venussquarechiron1.77°applying
sunsextilejupiter1.95°applying
mercurysextilevertex2.39°applying
saturntrinenorth-node2.49°applying
suntrineneptune2.51°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune2.61°applying
saturnoppositionuranus2.76°separating
marssquarechiron2.89°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.98°applying
uranussquarevertex3.29°separating
neptunetrinechiron3.50°applying
marssquarepluto3.60°separating
moonsextilejupiter3.67°separating
marsoppositionlilith4.00°applying
jupiteroppositionneptune4.45°separating
moontrinechiron4.61°separating
venusconjunctionmars4.65°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto4.86°applying
sunsextilepluto5.48°separating
sunconjunctionmoon5.61°separating
mercuryquintilejupiter0.04°separating
jupiterquincunxlilith0.16°applying
mercurysemisextilenorth-node0.44°applying
marsquincunxneptune0.62°separating
venusbiquintileneptune0.73°separating
venussemisextilejupiter0.82°applying
mercurysemisquaremars0.87°separating
moonsemisquareuranus0.95°separating
marssesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.19°applying
sunsemisquarevertex1.37°applying
chironsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.70°applying
sunsemisextilemars1.89°separating
sunsesquiquadratesaturn1.90°applying
neptunesesquiquadratenorth-node1.92°applying
north-nodesemisextilevertex1.95°separating
part-of-fortunequincunxvertex2.07°separating
sunquincunxlilith2.11°applying