Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Gavin Newsom.

10 October 1967 · 05:13 · San Francisco, California

Gavin Newsom's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Capricorn, Virgo rising. Born October 10, 1967 in San Francisco, California.

About this chart

What is Gavin Newsom's sun sign?

Gavin Newsom's sun is in Libra.

What is Gavin Newsom's moon sign?

Gavin Newsom's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Gavin Newsom's rising sign?

Gavin Newsom's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Gavin Newsom born?

Gavin Newsom was born October 10, 1967 in San Francisco, California.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 earth 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.

SunLibra · 1st house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonCapricorn · 4th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Scorpio in the 2nd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Libra (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 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

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerScorpio · 2nd house

Thought is penetrating and investigative, drawn to what is hidden. The speech is concentrated and sometimes withholding, and the gift is research and depth. The shadow is suspicion hardening into paranoia.

Where it drives. The mind goes to work on value and resources. You think about money, the voice can become a source of income, and the intellect itself is the asset.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 mutable 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.

UranusVirgo · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 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 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 · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. 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 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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, mutable 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 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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

Libra Sun · Capricorn Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 earth 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
26%
Earth
41%
Air
23%
Water
10%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Pluto, Uranus, Venus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Virgo 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 Virgo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Virgo 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 Moonorb 0.02°

In you, the Sun grinds against the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Mars square Plutoorb 0.50°

In you, Mars grinds against Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 1.36°

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.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 3.45°

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

Sun sextile Marsorb 4.38°

In you, the Sun works easily with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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
Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 0.5°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.4°

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.

Black Moon Lilith sextile Vertexorb 2.3°

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

Venus trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.5°

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

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 3.4°

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

Jupiter trine Black Moon Lilithorb 3.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter 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
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

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.

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.

Sun square Moonorb 0.0°

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

Venus opposition Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Pluto square Part of Fortuneorb 0.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Pluto 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 Gavin Newsom
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°30' Libra1st housefall
Moon16°31' Capricorn4th housedetriment
Mercury11°39' Scorpio2nd housechart ruler
Venus4°28' Virgo12th housefall
Mars20°53' Sagittarius4th house·
Jupiter28°28' Leo12th house·
Saturn8°25' Aries7th houseretrograde, fall
Uranus26°11' Virgo1st house·
Neptune22°44' Scorpio3rd house·
Pluto21°23' Virgo1st house·
Chiron26°40' Pisces7th houseretrograde
North Node28°00' Aries8th houseretrograde
South Node28°00' Libra2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°00' Taurus8th house·
Part of Fortune21°12' Gemini10th house·
Vertex4°18' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsquaremoon0.02°separating
venusoppositionvertex0.17°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune0.18°separating
marsoppositionpart-of-fortune0.32°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node0.47°separating
uranusoppositionchiron0.48°applying
marssquarepluto0.50°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.36°applying
lilithsextilevertex2.30°applying
venustrinelilith2.47°separating
uranussextileneptune3.45°separating
jupitertrinelilith3.54°applying
neptunetrinechiron3.93°applying
north-nodeconjunctionlilith4.00°separating
sunsextilemars4.38°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune4.70°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto4.80°separating
moonsextilemercury4.86°separating
moontrinepluto4.86°applying
uranussquarepart-of-fortune4.98°separating
plutooppositionchiron5.28°applying
marssquareuranus5.30°applying
chironsquarepart-of-fortune5.46°applying
jupitersquareneptune5.72°separating
marssquarechiron5.78°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex5.84°applying
mercurysesquiquadratechiron0.01°separating
uranusbiquintilelilith0.19°applying
mercurysemisquareuranus0.47°separating
plutobiquintilenorth-node0.61°applying
saturnsesquiquadrateneptune0.68°applying
saturnquintilepart-of-fortune0.79°separating
mercuryquintilejupiter1.20°separating
venusquintilepart-of-fortune1.27°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node1.33°separating
marsquintilevertex1.42°applying
neptunequincunxpart-of-fortune1.54°separating
jupiterquincunxchiron1.80°separating
uranusquincunxnorth-node1.81°applying
marssemisextileneptune1.86°applying