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Ian Somerhalder.

8 December 1978 · 09:52 · Covington, St. Tammany Parish, United States

Ian Somerhalder's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Aries, Aquarius rising. Born December 8, 1978 in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, United States.

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What is Ian Somerhalder's sun sign?

Ian Somerhalder's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Ian Somerhalder's moon sign?

Ian Somerhalder's moon is in Aries.

What is Ian Somerhalder's rising sign?

Ian Somerhalder's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Ian Somerhalder born?

Ian Somerhalder was born December 8, 1978 in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, 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 Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 fire 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.

SunSagittarius · 11th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonAries · 2nd 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. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Virgo in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeVirgo · 8th house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 2nd house

The South Node in Pisces (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 earth territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Aquarius rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerVirgo · 8th house

The work is on labour, health and daily practice: lessons in excellence without obsession. The shadow is an inner critic with no mercy.

Where it drives. The deep places ask for discipline. Often complex dynamics around shared resources or sexuality, with the work being to handle power well and earn mastery of the underworld.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Mercury, Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 mutable 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 · 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 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 · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Sagittarius. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Aries Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 fire 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
59%
Earth
8%
Air
15%
Water
18%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Sun gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Sagittarius is also a discharge valve.

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Mercury, Moon)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Moon form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 0.48°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 0.69°

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.

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 0.96°

In you, Mercury flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 conjunction Neptuneorb 1.76°

In you, the Sun is fused with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon trine Jupiterorb 1.93°

In you, the Moon flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

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
Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon 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 0.7°

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.

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 1.0°

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

Moon trine Jupiterorb 1.9°

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

North Node trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Where it works
Venus square Jupiterorb 0.5°

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

Chiron square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Uranus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.5°

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

Sun square Saturnorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for Ian Somerhalder
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°12' Sagittarius11th house·
Moon6°51' Aries2nd house·
Mercury9°44' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde, detriment
Venus9°16' Scorpio9th housedetriment
Mars26°55' Sagittarius11th house·
Jupiter8°47' Leo7th houseretrograde
Saturn13°41' Virgo8th housechart ruler
Uranus18°29' Scorpio10th house·
Neptune17°57' Sagittarius11th house·
Pluto18°39' Libra9th house·
Chiron5°42' Taurus3rd houseretrograde
North Node23°01' Virgo8th houseretrograde
South Node23°01' Pisces2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith6°20' Leo7th house·
Part of Fortune20°58' Taurus4th house·
Vertex1°52' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venussquarejupiter0.48°separating
moontrinelilith0.51°separating
chironsquarelilith0.63°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.69°applying
mercurytrinejupiter0.96°applying
sunconjunctionneptune1.76°applying
moontrinejupiter1.93°applying
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune2.04°applying
jupiterconjunctionlilith2.44°applying
sunsextilepluto2.45°applying
uranusoppositionpart-of-fortune2.49°applying
sunsquaresaturn2.51°separating
moontrinemercury2.89°applying
venussquarelilith2.92°separating
jupitersquarechiron3.08°applying
mercurytrinelilith3.40°applying
venusoppositionchiron3.56°separating
chirontrinevertex3.84°applying
marssquarenorth-node3.91°separating
mercurysquaresaturn3.95°separating
saturnsquareneptune4.27°separating
marstrinevertex4.95°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node5.05°applying
sunconjunctionmercury6.46°separating
sunsquarenorth-node6.81°applying
suntrinejupiter7.42°separating
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.05°applying
uranussemisextilepluto0.16°applying
plutoquintilelilith0.31°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus0.47°applying
uranussemisextileneptune0.53°separating
jupitersemisquarenorth-node0.77°applying
moonsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.88°separating
moonbiquintilevertex1.02°applying
moonsemisextilechiron1.15°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node1.25°separating
north-nodesemisquarelilith1.67°applying
plutosemisquarevertex1.78°separating
plutoquincunxpart-of-fortune2.33°applying
moonquincunxvenus2.41°applying