Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

David Lynch.

20 January 1946 · 03:00 · Missoula, Montana

David Lynch's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Virgo, Scorpio rising. Born January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana.

About this chart

What is David Lynch's sun sign?

David Lynch's sun is in Capricorn.

What is David Lynch's moon sign?

David Lynch's moon is in Virgo.

What is David Lynch's rising sign?

David Lynch's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was David Lynch born?

David Lynch was born January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana.

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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 Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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.

SunCapricorn · 3rd 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. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonVirgo · 10th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. 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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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Cancer in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Sagittarius (2nd 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.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars 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.

Mars · the chart rulerCancer · 8th house

The drive is indirect, defensive and protective, and anger surfaces as withdrawal or moodiness. You fight for family and for feeling. The shadow is passive aggression.

Where it drives. Energy goes underground. Sexual intensity, often an inheritance of charged dynamics around money, and a pull toward work that operates beneath the surface.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Moon) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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 earth and cardinal signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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 · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 11th 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 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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

Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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
0%
Earth
59%
Air
8%
Water
33%
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 Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mars conjunction Saturnorb 0.00°

In you, Mars is fused with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus square Jupiterorb 0.22°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.29°

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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 2.92°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Uranus sextile Plutoorb 2.94°

In you, Uranus works easily with Pluto, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

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 sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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.

Pluto trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.3°

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

Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.4°

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

Saturn trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.4°

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.4°

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

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

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

Venus square Jupiterorb 0.2°

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

Mars square Chironorb 0.3°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 0.3°

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

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

Mercury square Part of Fortuneorb 3.1°

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.

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Chart data for David Lynch
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun29°45' Capricorn3rd house·
Moon5°08' Virgo10th house·
Mercury15°59' Capricorn2nd house·
Venus26°50' Capricorn3rd house·
Mars20°46' Cancer8th houseretrograde, fall, chart ruler
Jupiter26°37' Libra11th house·
Saturn20°45' Cancer8th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus13°49' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Neptune8°35' Libra11th houseretrograde
Pluto10°53' Leo9th houseretrograde
Chiron21°06' Libra11th house·
North Node29°38' Gemini8th houseretrograde
South Node29°38' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith18°21' Scorpio1st house·
Part of Fortune12°52' Aries5th house·
Vertex29°13' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marsconjunctionsaturn0.00°separating
venussquarejupiter0.22°separating
marssquarechiron0.34°separating
saturnsquarechiron0.34°separating
north-nodeconjunctionvertex0.41°applying
uranussextilepart-of-fortune0.95°applying
plutotrinepart-of-fortune1.99°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.29°applying
mercurysextilelilith2.37°applying
saturntrinelilith2.41°applying
marstrinelilith2.41°applying
jupitertrinevertex2.60°applying
sunconjunctionvenus2.92°applying
uranussextilepluto2.94°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node3.02°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune3.11°separating
sunsquarejupiter3.14°separating
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune4.28°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn4.78°applying
mercuryoppositionmars4.78°applying
mercurysquarechiron5.12°applying
uranustrineneptune5.23°applying
moonsextilenorth-node5.51°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron5.51°separating
venussquarechiron5.73°separating
marssquarejupiter5.85°separating
jupitersquaresaturn5.85°separating
moonsextilevertex5.92°separating
sunquincunxnorth-node0.12°separating
lilithbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.52°applying
sunquincunxvertex0.54°separating
sunquintilelilith0.60°applying
sunbiquintilemoon0.61°applying
moonsemisquaresaturn0.62°applying
moonsemisquaremars0.62°applying
sunsesquiquadrateuranus0.93°separating
moonsemisquarechiron0.96°applying
sunquintilepart-of-fortune1.12°applying
moonquintilelilith1.21°applying
venussesquiquadrateuranus1.99°applying
mercuryquincunxuranus2.16°separating
venusquincunxvertex2.39°applying