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Grimes.

17 March 1988 · 23:30 · Vancouver, BC, Canada

Grimes's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Aries, Scorpio rising. Born March 17, 1988 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

About this chart

What is Grimes's sun sign?

Grimes's sun is in Pisces.

What is Grimes's moon sign?

Grimes's moon is in Aries.

What is Grimes's rising sign?

Grimes's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Grimes born?

Grimes was born March 17, 1988 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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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 Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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.

SunPisces · 4th house

The self forms and dissolves at once. Permeable, intuitive, often unsure where it ends and the field begins. The artist, the mystic, the empath. Lesson: be permeable on purpose, not by accident. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonAries · 5th 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 to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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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 Capricorn in the 2nd 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 rulerCapricorn · 2nd house

Mars is exalted here. The drive is disciplined, ambitious and long-range, and anger is cold and patient. The shadow is ruthlessness in the service of the goal.

Where it drives. Energy goes into building resources. You work hard for money and hold what you earn, sometimes tightly, and the appetites are strong.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusCapricorn · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Capricorn

A generation that breaks down institutions and rebuilds them.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCapricorn · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Capricorn

An era that dreams of universal structure, the spiritualising of authority, the dissolving of institutions.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoScorpio · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Scorpio

Pluto is at home here.

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 woundGemini · 8th house

The wound is your voice and mind: a fear of being unheard or thought unintelligent, often set by being silenced or ridiculed young. You may talk fast to stay ahead of dismissal, or go quiet when the room feels unsafe. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. 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 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to feel the invisible and translate compassion into form.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  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 water, fixed chart led by the Sun in Pisces. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Pisces Sun · Aries Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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
23%
Earth
36%
Air
0%
Water
41%
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 Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Jupiter trine Saturnorb 0.03°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.35°

In you, Mercury works easily with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 0.38°

In you, Mercury works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Moon square Uranusorb 0.45°

In you, the Moon grinds against Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Venus opposition Plutoorb 0.75°

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.

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.

Saturn rules Capricornat home

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

Jupiter trine Saturnorb 0.0°

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

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.4°

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

Chiron sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.4°

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

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 0.4°

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

Where it works
Chiron square North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

North Node square Vertexorb 0.3°

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

Moon square Uranusorb 0.4°

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

Venus opposition Plutoorb 0.8°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Moon square Saturnorb 1.6°

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

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Chart data for Grimes
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°52' Pisces4th house·
Moon0°27' Aries5th house·
Mercury2°26' Pisces4th housedetriment
Venus13°02' Taurus6th houserulership
Mars16°45' Capricorn2nd houseexaltation, chart ruler
Jupiter2°03' Taurus6th house·
Saturn2°05' Capricorn2nd houserulership
Uranus0°54' Capricorn2nd house·
Neptune10°01' Capricorn2nd house·
Pluto12°16' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
Chiron23°21' Gemini8th house·
North Node23°06' Pisces4th houseretrograde
South Node23°06' Virgo10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°43' Leo9th house·
Part of Fortune10°57' Scorpio12th house·
Vertex22°45' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitertrinesaturn0.03°applying
chironsquarenorth-node0.26°separating
north-nodesquarevertex0.34°applying
mercurysextilesaturn0.35°separating
chironsextilelilith0.37°separating
mercurysextilejupiter0.38°separating
moonsquareuranus0.45°separating
chironconjunctionvertex0.60°separating
venusoppositionpluto0.75°separating
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune0.92°applying
lilithsextilevertex0.97°separating
jupitertrineuranus1.14°separating
saturnconjunctionuranus1.17°separating
plutoconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.33°applying
mercurysextileuranus1.53°separating
moonsquaresaturn1.62°applying
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune2.08°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.25°applying
sunconjunctionmoon2.58°separating
venustrineneptune3.00°separating
sunsquareuranus3.03°applying
venustrinemars3.73°applying
sunsquaresaturn4.21°applying
sunsquarechiron4.53°separating
sunconjunctionnorth-node4.78°separating
sunsquarevertex5.12°separating
moonsquarechiron7.11°separating
moonconjunctionnorth-node7.36°separating
moonsquarevertex7.71°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.15°separating
sunsesquiquadratepluto0.60°separating
north-nodequincunxlilith0.62°separating
mercurysemisquaremars0.68°separating
moonbiquintilelilith0.74°separating
sunquintilemars0.88°applying
marsbiquintilelilith0.96°applying
neptunequintilenorth-node1.07°applying
neptunesesquiquadratelilith1.31°applying
mercuryquintilevenus1.41°separating
moonsemisextilejupiter1.59°applying
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.93°separating
moonsemisextilemercury1.97°applying