Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Dave Chappelle.

24 August 1973 · 08:46 · Washington, D.C.

Dave Chappelle's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Cancer, Virgo rising. Born August 24, 1973 in Washington, D.C..

About this chart

What is Dave Chappelle's sun sign?

Dave Chappelle's sun is in Virgo.

What is Dave Chappelle's moon sign?

Dave Chappelle's moon is in Cancer.

What is Dave Chappelle's rising sign?

Dave Chappelle's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Dave Chappelle born?

Dave Chappelle was born August 24, 1973 in Washington, D.C..

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

SunVirgo · 12th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonCancer · 10th 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 is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

ASC
RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Leo in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeCapricorn · 4th house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 10th house

The South Node in Cancer (10th 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerLeo · 11th house

Thought is dramatic and expressive, built around the central idea. The mind works in stories and large themes, the speech has presence, and the conversation has to mean something. The shadow is impatience with detail.

Where it drives. Thinking is networked. A strategist who works in systems and possibilities, with an intellectually significant circle of friends and a mind set on the future.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 →

PlutoLibra · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundAries · 7th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. 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 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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, mutable 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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

Virgo Sun · Cancer Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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
26%
Water
23%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Pluto, Uranus, Venus gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Libra 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 Libra stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Libra is also a discharge valve.

Yod · apex Marsuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Mars (Mars, Neptune, Venus)

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Venus form a yod pointing at Mars in Taurus. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Mars: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Mars can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Mars: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

Yod · apex Neptuneuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Neptune (Mars, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Saturn form a yod pointing at Neptune in Sagittarius. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Neptune: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Neptune can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Neptune: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

Yod · apex Saturnuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Saturn (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn form a yod pointing at Saturn in Cancer. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Saturn: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Saturn can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Saturn: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

Yod · apex Marsuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Mars (Mars, Neptune, Pluto)

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Pluto form a yod pointing at Mars in Taurus. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Mars: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Mars can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Mars: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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.

Mars square Jupiterorb 0.40°

In you, Mars grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.49°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.79°

In you, Saturn grinds against Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 1.05°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Jupiter trine Plutoorb 1.16°

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.

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.

Venus rules Libraat home

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

Sun trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.5°

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 1.1°

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

Jupiter trine Plutoorb 1.2°

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

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Uranus opposition Chironorb 0.1°

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

Venus square North Nodeorb 0.2°

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

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Chart data for Dave Chappelle
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°12' Virgo12th house·
Moon12°25' Cancer10th houserulership
Mercury21°51' Leo11th housechart ruler
Venus6°32' Libra1st houserulership
Mars4°35' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter4°11' Aquarius5th houseretrograde
Saturn2°15' Cancer10th housedetriment
Uranus20°22' Libra1st house·
Neptune4°41' Sagittarius3rd house·
Pluto3°02' Libra1st house·
Chiron20°29' Aries7th houseretrograde
North Node6°19' Capricorn4th houseretrograde
South Node6°19' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith1°00' Capricorn4th house·
Part of Fortune8°53' Leo11th house·
Vertex23°13' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranusoppositionchiron0.12°applying
suntrinelilith0.19°separating
venussquarenorth-node0.21°separating
marssquarejupiter0.40°separating
jupitersextileneptune0.49°separating
saturnsquarepluto0.79°applying
sunsextilesaturn1.05°applying
jupitertrinepluto1.16°applying
saturnoppositionlilith1.25°applying
mercurytrinechiron1.37°separating
mercurysextileuranus1.49°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.65°applying
marstrinenorth-node1.74°applying
venussextileneptune1.85°separating
plutosquarelilith2.03°applying
marssextilesaturn2.34°separating
venustrinejupiter2.34°separating
venussextilepart-of-fortune2.35°applying
plutosquarenorth-node3.29°applying
suntrinemars3.39°applying
sunsquareneptune3.48°applying
venusconjunctionpluto3.50°separating
marstrinelilith3.59°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node4.08°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune4.21°applying
venussquaresaturn4.29°separating
marssquarepart-of-fortune4.30°applying
jupiteroppositionpart-of-fortune4.70°separating
suntrinenorth-node5.13°applying
north-nodeconjunctionlilith5.33°applying
venussquarelilith5.53°separating
moonsquarevenus5.88°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node6.09°separating
moonsquareuranus7.96°applying
marsquincunxneptune0.09°applying
saturnquintilechiron0.24°applying
mercurysemisquarevenus0.33°separating
uranusquintilepart-of-fortune0.52°applying
mercurysesquiquadratenorth-node0.53°separating
part-of-fortunesesquiquadratevertex0.66°separating
uranussemisquareneptune0.69°separating
neptunesesquiquadratechiron0.81°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex1.36°applying
uranusquintilelilith1.37°applying
marsquincunxpluto1.55°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node1.65°applying
sunsemisextilepluto1.84°applying
jupiterquincunxsaturn1.94°applying
venusquincunxmars1.95°separating
saturnquincunxneptune2.43°applying