Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

25 April 1949 · 11:10 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, Arrondissement of Nanterre, France

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aries, Leo rising. Born April 25, 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Arrondissement of Nanterre, France.

About this chart

What is Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sun sign?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's sun is in Taurus.

What is Dominique Strauss-Kahn's moon sign?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's moon is in Aries.

What is Dominique Strauss-Kahn's rising sign?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Dominique Strauss-Kahn born?

Dominique Strauss-Kahn was born April 25, 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Arrondissement of Nanterre, France.

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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 Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 fire 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 · 10th 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 is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonAries · 9th house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Taurus in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Libra (4th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Sagittarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun 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 Sun · chart rulerTaurus · 10th house

The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Venus, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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 · 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 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 · 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 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 woundSagittarius · 5th house

The wound is meaning: a crisis of faith from beliefs that were imposed, ridiculed, or simply stopped holding, leaving you lost or purposeless. You may preach what you do not yet live, or wander to outrun the emptiness. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  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 honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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 fire, fixed chart led by the Sun in Taurus. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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 Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Taurus, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Taurus key.

The spine, your Big Three

Taurus Sun · Aries Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 fire 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
56%
Earth
36%
Air
8%
Water
0%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.91°

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 sextile Uranusorb 1.15°

In you, Mars works easily with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Saturn sextile Uranusorb 1.72°

In you, Saturn works easily with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 1.84°

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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 2.21°

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.

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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

Mars rules Ariesat home

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

Jupiter sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Saturn sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

An easy, available link: Saturn 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 0.9°

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.

Mars sextile Uranusorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Black Moon Lilith square Part of Fortuneorb 2.4°

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

Uranus square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.4°

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

Sun square Jupiterorb 3.7°

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

Mercury square Plutoorb 4.0°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 4.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon 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 Dominique Strauss-Kahn
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°52' Taurus10th housechart ruler
Moon3°01' Aries9th house·
Mercury18°09' Taurus11th house·
Venus7°04' Taurus10th houserulership
Mars26°28' Aries10th houserulership
Jupiter1°11' Aquarius7th house·
Saturn29°20' Leo2nd houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus27°37' Gemini11th house·
Neptune13°14' Libra4th houseretrograde
Pluto14°08' Leo1st houseretrograde
Chiron8°05' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
North Node25°41' Aries10th house·
South Node25°41' Libra4th house·
Black Moon Lilith1°00' Aries9th house·
Part of Fortune28°33' Gemini12th house·
Vertex17°22' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersextilelilith0.17°applying
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune0.78°applying
marsconjunctionnorth-node0.79°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.91°separating
uranusconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.94°applying
marssextileuranus1.15°applying
saturnsextileuranus1.72°applying
moonsextilejupiter1.84°separating
uranussextilenorth-node1.94°separating
moonconjunctionlilith2.01°separating
marssextilepart-of-fortune2.09°applying
sunconjunctionvenus2.21°separating
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune2.45°separating
marstrinesaturn2.87°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune2.88°applying
plutotrinevertex3.23°separating
uranussquarelilith3.39°separating
saturntrinenorth-node3.66°applying
sunsquarejupiter3.68°separating
mercurysquarepluto4.02°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune4.46°separating
marssquarejupiter4.71°applying
moontrinechiron5.07°applying
moonsquareuranus5.40°separating
jupitersquarenorth-node5.50°separating
suntrinesaturn5.53°separating
venussquarejupiter5.89°separating
moonsemisquaremercury0.14°separating
plutosemisquarepart-of-fortune0.58°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex0.78°separating
venusquincunxchiron1.02°applying
mercurybiquintileneptune1.07°applying
saturnsemisquareneptune1.11°separating
jupitersemisquarevertex1.19°applying
uranussemisquarepluto1.52°applying
saturnquincunxlilith1.67°separating
jupiterquincunxsaturn1.84°separating
sunsemisextilemoon1.84°applying
plutosesquiquadratelilith1.87°separating