Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Edward Norton.

18 August 1969 · 14:00 · Boston, Massachusetts

Edward Norton's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Libra, Scorpio rising. Born August 18, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts.

About this chart

What is Edward Norton's sun sign?

Edward Norton's sun is in Leo.

What is Edward Norton's moon sign?

Edward Norton's moon is in Libra.

What is Edward Norton's rising sign?

Edward Norton's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Edward Norton born?

Edward Norton was born August 18, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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.

SunLeo · 9th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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.

MoonLibra · 11th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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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 Sagittarius in the 1st 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 NodePisces · 4th house

The pull is toward Pisces: trust, surrender, compassion, a sense of the whole. The familiar groove is Virgo: over-analysis, perfectionism, anxious fixing. Growth is loosening the grip and letting life be imperfect and held.

South NodeVirgo · 10th house

The South Node in Virgo (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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Scorpio, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerSagittarius · 1st house

The drive is enthusiastic, expansive and principled. Anger flares dramatically but burns out fast. The shadow is the moral high ground used as a weapon.

Where it drives. Drive is in the body. A strong physical presence, athletic and direct, sometimes moving faster than thought. The fight is visible.

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
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 (Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto) 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 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 · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 woundAries · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  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 a fire, fixed chart led by Mercury. 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.

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

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Libra Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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
26%
Earth
26%
Air
23%
Water
26%
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: Jupiter, Moon, Uranus

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Uranus 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.

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 square Neptuneorb 0.38°

In you, the Sun grinds against Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Mercury sextile Venusorb 0.72°

In you, Mercury works easily with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your capacity for love and pleasure. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.13°

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.

Jupiter conjunction Uranusorb 3.61°

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.

Sun sextile Moonorb 3.91°

In you, the Sun works easily with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Mercury sextile Venusorb 0.7°

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

Uranus trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.1°

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.

Where it works
Sun square Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Jupiter opposition Chironorb 0.6°

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

Pluto opposition North Nodeorb 2.6°

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

Mercury opposition North Nodeorb 2.7°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 3.2°

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.

Uranus opposition Chironorb 4.2°

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.

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Chart data for Edward Norton
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°35' Leo9th houserulership
Moon29°30' Libra11th house·
Mercury18°33' Virgo10th houserulership
Venus17°50' Cancer8th house·
Mars11°56' Sagittarius1st housechart ruler
Jupiter5°37' Libra10th house·
Saturn8°56' Taurus5th house·
Uranus2°00' Libra10th house·
Neptune25°58' Scorpio12th house·
Pluto23°50' Virgo10th house·
Chiron6°13' Aries4th houseretrograde
North Node21°16' Pisces4th house·
South Node21°16' Virgo10th house·
Black Moon Lilith17°40' Cancer8th house·
Part of Fortune2°43' Aquarius2nd house·
Vertex12°20' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venusconjunctionlilith0.17°separating
sunsquareneptune0.38°applying
jupiteroppositionchiron0.60°applying
mercurysextilevenus0.72°separating
uranustrinepart-of-fortune0.72°applying
mercurysextilelilith0.89°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.13°applying
plutooppositionnorth-node2.57°separating
mercuryoppositionnorth-node2.72°applying
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune2.89°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune3.22°applying
saturnsextilevertex3.40°applying
venustrinenorth-node3.44°applying
chironsextilepart-of-fortune3.49°applying
jupiterconjunctionuranus3.61°separating
north-nodetrinelilith3.61°applying
sunsextilemoon3.91°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.21°applying
neptunetrinenorth-node4.69°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto5.29°applying
lilithconjunctionvertex5.32°separating
venusconjunctionvertex5.50°separating
marstrinechiron5.73°separating
saturnsesquiquadratepluto0.10°applying
venusbiquintilemars0.10°applying
marsbiquintilelilith0.28°separating
marsquincunxvertex0.40°applying
plutoquintilevertex0.50°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.83°separating
saturnbiquintileuranus0.93°applying
neptunesesquiquadratevertex1.37°applying
sunsemisextilepluto1.75°separating
sunsemisquarevertex1.75°applying