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Gerard Way.

9 April 1977 · 10:52 · Summit, Union County, United States

Gerard Way's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Capricorn, Cancer rising. Born April 9, 1977 in Summit, Union County, United States.

About this chart

What is Gerard Way's sun sign?

Gerard Way's sun is in Aries.

What is Gerard Way's moon sign?

Gerard Way's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Gerard Way's rising sign?

Gerard Way's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Gerard Way born?

Gerard Way was born April 9, 1977 in Summit, Union County, United States.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunAries · 10th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. 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.

MoonCapricorn · 6th 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. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Capricorn in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeLibra · 4th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 10th house

The South Node in Aries (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 air territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerCapricorn · 6th house

Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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) 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 cardinal 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.

UranusScorpio · 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 Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 10th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 11th 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 11th house (friends, community, future): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Aries. 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 air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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 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 Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Capricorn Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
41%
Earth
26%
Air
8%
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.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Mercury, Saturn, Uranus)

In your chart, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus 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.

Mars square Neptuneorb 0.03°

In you, Mars grinds against Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.66°

In you, Saturn grinds against Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 square Saturnorb 1.03°

In you, Mercury grinds against Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Venus opposition Plutoorb 1.60°

In you, Venus sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury opposition Uranusorb 1.69°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

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 exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Part of Fortune trine Vertexorb 1.0°

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

Venus trine Neptuneorb 1.8°

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

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 2.7°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 3.4°

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.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 3.7°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

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

Mars square Neptuneorb 0.0°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 0.4°

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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.7°

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

Mercury square Saturnorb 1.0°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

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Chart data for Gerard Way
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun19°40' Aries10th houseexaltation
Moon4°51' Capricorn6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mercury8°55' Taurus11th house·
Venus14°13' Aries10th houseretrograde, detriment
Mars16°02' Pisces9th house·
Jupiter1°11' Gemini11th housedetriment
Saturn9°57' Leo2nd houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus10°36' Scorpio5th houseretrograde
Neptune16°00' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto12°37' Libra4th houseretrograde
Chiron0°42' Taurus10th house·
North Node24°20' Libra4th house·
South Node24°20' Aries10th house·
Black Moon Lilith28°23' Taurus11th house·
Part of Fortune5°14' Aries10th house·
Vertex6°16' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marssquareneptune0.03°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune0.39°separating
saturnsquareuranus0.66°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex1.03°separating
mercurysquaresaturn1.03°applying
venusoppositionpluto1.60°applying
mercuryoppositionuranus1.69°applying
venustrineneptune1.78°separating
saturnsextilepluto2.67°applying
jupiterconjunctionlilith2.80°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.38°separating
suntrineneptune3.66°separating
saturntrinevertex3.68°applying
moontrinemercury4.07°applying
moontrinechiron4.15°separating
venustrinesaturn4.28°applying
sunoppositionnorth-node4.68°applying
saturntrinepart-of-fortune4.71°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex5.07°applying
marstrineuranus5.42°separating
sunconjunctionvenus5.44°separating
moonsextileuranus5.76°applying
sunoppositionpluto7.05°separating
moonsquarepluto7.77°applying
marsbiquintilesaturn0.08°separating
neptunesesquiquadratechiron0.31°applying
marssemisquarechiron0.34°separating
marsquintilelilith0.35°applying
chironbiquintilevertex0.43°separating
saturnquintilelilith0.44°separating
moonbiquintilelilith0.46°separating
jupitersemisextilechiron0.49°separating
uranusbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.63°separating
plutosesquiquadratelilith0.77°separating
moonquintilemars0.81°separating
venussemisquarelilith0.84°applying
jupiterbiquintilenorth-node0.85°separating
moonbiquintilesaturn0.90°separating
mercurybiquintileneptune1.09°applying
moonsemisextilevertex1.42°applying
moonquintilenorth-node1.50°applying
sunsesquiquadratevertex1.60°applying
venussemisextilemars1.81°separating
venussemisquarejupiter1.97°separating