Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

François Mitterrand.

26 October 1916 · 04:00 · 16, Avenue de Jarnac, France

François Mitterrand's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Libra, Libra rising. Born October 26, 1916 in 16, Avenue de Jarnac, France.

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What is François Mitterrand's sun sign?

François Mitterrand's sun is in Scorpio.

What is François Mitterrand's moon sign?

François Mitterrand's moon is in Libra.

What is François Mitterrand's rising sign?

François Mitterrand's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was François Mitterrand born?

François Mitterrand was born October 26, 1916 in 16, Avenue de Jarnac, France.

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Plate inativity of François Mitterrand26 October 1916 · 04:00
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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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 air 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.

SunScorpio · 2nd house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. The self is forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.

MoonLibra · 1st 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 shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Virgo in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Virgo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerVirgo · 12th house

Love is practical and devoted, expressed through service, noticing what others need before they ask. The shadow is being unable to receive a gift without correcting it.

Where it drives. Love lives in the hidden places. Private affections, a quiet artistic life and deep compassion, with a shadow of self-sabotage to watch in matters of the heart.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Saturn, Neptune, Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 fixed 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.

UranusAquarius · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 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 Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 · 6th 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 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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, cardinal 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 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

Scorpio Sun · Libra Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 air 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
18%
Earth
18%
Air
41%
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.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Jupiter, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun form a T-square with Saturn at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Jupiter, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Sun form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Jupiter, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn form a T-square with Saturn at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.27°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 trine Uranusorb 0.32°

In you, Mercury flows together with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Sun trine Plutoorb 1.92°

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.

Mars trine Neptuneorb 1.94°

In you, Mars flows together with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Sun square Saturnorb 2.08°

In you, the Sun grinds against Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

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
Mercury trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Chiron sextile North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

Sun trine Plutoorb 1.9°

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.

Mars trine Neptuneorb 1.9°

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

Neptune trine Vertexorb 2.0°

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

Mars trine Saturnorb 2.6°

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

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

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

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square North Nodeorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter square Saturnorb 0.3°

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

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Chart data for François Mitterrand
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°24' Scorpio2nd house·
Moon23°43' Libra1st house·
Mercury15°27' Libra1st house·
Venus20°45' Virgo12th housefall, chart ruler
Mars2°54' Sagittarius3rd house·
Jupiter0°03' Taurus8th houseretrograde
Saturn0°19' Leo10th housedetriment
Uranus15°46' Aquarius5th house·
Neptune4°50' Leo10th house·
Pluto4°20' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Chiron22°26' Pisces6th houseretrograde
North Node23°36' Capricorn4th houseretrograde
South Node23°36' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith28°37' Cancer10th house·
Part of Fortune11°27' Libra1st house·
Vertex6°53' Aries7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsquarenorth-node0.11°separating
jupitersquaresaturn0.27°separating
mercurytrineuranus0.32°applying
chironsextilenorth-node1.16°applying
jupitersquarelilith1.43°applying
venusoppositionchiron1.69°applying
saturnconjunctionlilith1.70°applying
suntrinepluto1.92°applying
marstrineneptune1.94°applying
neptunetrinevertex2.04°applying
sunsquaresaturn2.08°separating
sunoppositionjupiter2.35°separating
sunsquareneptune2.44°applying
plutosquarevertex2.55°separating
marstrinesaturn2.58°separating
venustrinenorth-node2.85°applying
sunsquarelilith3.78°separating
marstrinevertex3.97°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.00°separating
marstrinelilith4.28°separating
uranustrinepart-of-fortune4.32°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune4.52°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex4.57°separating
jupitersquareneptune4.79°separating
moonsquarelilith4.91°applying
north-nodeoppositionlilith5.03°separating
moonoppositionjupiter6.34°applying
moonsquaresaturn6.62°applying
moontrineuranus7.94°separating
venusquintilemars0.15°applying
sunsemisextilemars0.50°applying
neptunesemisextilepluto0.51°separating
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune0.83°applying
marsquintileuranus0.87°applying
saturnquintilepart-of-fortune0.88°separating
venussemisquareneptune0.91°separating
venusbiquintileuranus1.02°applying
moonquincunxchiron1.27°separating
north-nodequintilevertex1.28°separating
mercuryquintileneptune1.39°applying
marsquincunxpluto1.42°applying