Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Dave Grohl.

14 January 1969 · 07:33 · Warren County, Ohio, United States

Dave Grohl's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Sagittarius, Aquarius rising. Born January 14, 1969 in Warren County, Ohio, United States.

About this chart

What is Dave Grohl's sun sign?

Dave Grohl's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Dave Grohl's moon sign?

Dave Grohl's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Dave Grohl's rising sign?

Dave Grohl's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Dave Grohl born?

Dave Grohl was born January 14, 1969 in Warren County, Ohio, 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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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.

SunCapricorn · 12th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. 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.

MoonSagittarius · 10th 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 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.

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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Aries in the 2nd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeAries · 2nd house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 8th house

The South Node in Libra (8th 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 fire 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

Aquarius rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerAries · 2nd house

The work is on action and the will: lessons in restraint, patience and choosing which battles to fight. The shadow is the inhibition of healthy initiative.

Where it drives. Resources are the hard lesson. Often early financial restriction, with the work being to build genuine, durable worth and, in time, real mastery of money.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 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 · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 →

NeptuneScorpio · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 5th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

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

Capricorn Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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
23%
Earth
15%
Air
33%
Water
28%
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.

Moon sextile Uranusorb 0.80°

In you, the Moon works easily with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun trine Plutoorb 0.80°

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

Venus trine Marsorb 1.98°

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

Jupiter conjunction Uranusorb 2.01°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 2.81°

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.

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
Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

Moon trine North Nodeorb 0.2°

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

Mercury sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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

Moon sextile Uranusorb 0.8°

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

Sun trine Plutoorb 0.8°

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

Venus is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Where it works
Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

Saturn works against the grain in Aries. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Moon square Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Uranus opposition North Nodeorb 1.0°

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

Pluto square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.6°

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

Venus square Part of Fortuneorb 2.1°

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

Jupiter opposition North Nodeorb 3.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Jupiter 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 Grohl
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°13' Capricorn12th house·
Moon3°11' Sagittarius10th house·
Mercury13°05' Aquarius1st house·
Venus10°45' Pisces1st houseexaltation
Mars8°46' Scorpio9th houserulership
Jupiter5°59' Libra8th house·
Saturn19°13' Aries2nd housefall, chart ruler
Uranus3°59' Libra8th houseretrograde
Neptune28°08' Scorpio10th house·
Pluto25°01' Virgo8th houseretrograde
Chiron29°25' Pisces2nd house·
North Node3°00' Aries2nd houseretrograde
South Node3°00' Libra8th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°27' Gemini5th house·
Part of Fortune12°50' Sagittarius10th house·
Vertex3°37' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moontrinenorth-node0.19°separating
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune0.26°separating
moonsquarevertex0.42°separating
moonsextileuranus0.80°applying
suntrinepluto0.80°applying
uranusoppositionnorth-node0.98°separating
neptunetrinechiron1.27°separating
plutosquarelilith1.57°applying
venustrinemars1.98°separating
jupiterconjunctionuranus2.01°separating
venussquarepart-of-fortune2.08°applying
moonsextilejupiter2.81°applying
jupiteroppositionnorth-node2.99°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.12°separating
chironconjunctionnorth-node3.59°applying
moontrinechiron3.77°separating
sunsextileneptune3.92°applying
mercurysquaremars4.32°separating
plutooppositionchiron4.40°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.57°applying
neptunetrinenorth-node4.86°applying
sunsquaresaturn5.00°separating
moonconjunctionneptune5.05°separating
sunsextilechiron5.19°applying
neptunesquarevertex5.47°applying
chironsquarelilith5.96°applying
moonsquarevenus7.57°applying
marsbiquintilenorth-node0.23°applying
marssesquiquadratelilith0.32°separating
uranussemisextilevertex0.37°applying
north-nodequincunxvertex0.61°separating
saturnsesquiquadratevertex0.61°separating
sunquincunxlilith0.77°separating
moonsesquiquadratesaturn1.03°applying
marssemisquarepluto1.24°applying
mercurysemisquarechiron1.32°applying
sunsemisquarevenus1.53°separating