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Ice Cube.

15 June 1969 · 15:00 · Los Angeles, California

Ice Cube's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Cancer, Libra rising. Born June 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, California.

About this chart

What is Ice Cube's sun sign?

Ice Cube's sun is in Gemini.

What is Ice Cube's moon sign?

Ice Cube's moon is in Cancer.

What is Ice Cube's rising sign?

Ice Cube's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Ice Cube born?

Ice Cube was born June 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, 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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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.

SunGemini · 9th house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonCancer · 9th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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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 Taurus in the 7th 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 NodePisces · 5th 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 · 11th house

The South Node in Virgo (11th 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

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 rulerTaurus · 7th house

Venus is at home here. Love is sensual, loyal and steady, devoted to quality and permanence, with the body as its first language. The shadow is possessiveness dressed up as devotion.

Where it drives. Venus is at home here. The committed partnership is central, you tend to pair well, and the relationship itself is treated as something to be made beautiful.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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.

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 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 · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 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 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 · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 woundAries · 6th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 9th 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 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  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, mutable 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.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

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

Gemini Sun · Cancer Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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
10%
Earth
26%
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.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus 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.

Yod · apex Marsuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Mars (Mars, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Saturn form a yod pointing at Mars in Sagittarius. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Mars: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Mars can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Mars: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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 sextile Neptuneorb 0.31°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.39°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 opposition Marsorb 0.58°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Sun square Plutoorb 2.14°

In you, the Sun grinds against Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Sun square Jupiterorb 2.33°

In you, the Sun grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

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
Moon rules Cancerat home

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

Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.3°

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

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.4°

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

Neptune trine North Nodeorb 0.9°

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

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Mercury opposition Marsorb 0.6°

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

Sun square North Nodeorb 1.1°

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

Jupiter opposition North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Virgouphill

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

Moon square Chironorb 1.6°

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

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Chart data for Ice Cube
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°35' Gemini9th house·
Moon5°01' Cancer9th houserulership
Mercury4°28' Gemini8th houserulership
Venus8°53' Taurus7th houserulership, chart ruler
Mars5°02' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
Jupiter26°55' Virgo12th housedetriment
Saturn5°24' Taurus7th house·
Uranus29°54' Virgo12th house·
Neptune26°36' Scorpio2nd houseretrograde
Pluto22°27' Virgo11th house·
Chiron6°37' Aries6th house·
North Node25°42' Pisces5th houseretrograde
South Node25°42' Virgo11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith10°31' Cancer9th house·
Part of Fortune2°04' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex1°20' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersextileneptune0.31°separating
moonsextilesaturn0.39°separating
mercuryoppositionmars0.58°applying
neptunetrinenorth-node0.90°separating
sunsquarenorth-node1.11°applying
jupiteroppositionnorth-node1.21°separating
uranustrinevertex1.44°applying
marstrinechiron1.59°separating
moonsquarechiron1.61°applying
venussextilelilith1.64°applying
sunsquarepluto2.14°separating
mercurysextilechiron2.16°applying
sunsquarejupiter2.33°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune2.95°separating
jupiterconjunctionuranus2.98°applying
mercuryconjunctionvertex3.13°separating
plutooppositionnorth-node3.25°applying
uranussextileneptune3.29°separating
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune3.34°separating
venusconjunctionsaturn3.48°separating
marsoppositionvertex3.70°applying
moonsextilevenus3.87°applying
chironsquarelilith3.89°separating
uranusoppositionnorth-node4.19°separating
jupitertrinevertex4.42°applying
jupiterconjunctionpluto4.46°separating
mercurytrineuranus4.57°separating
neptuneoppositionvertex4.73°separating
moonsquareuranus5.12°separating
sunsquareuranus5.31°applying
moonconjunctionlilith5.51°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune7.48°applying
moonquincunxmars0.03°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.07°separating
north-nodebiquintilepart-of-fortune0.36°separating
marsquincunxsaturn0.37°separating
saturnbiquintileuranus0.49°applying
marsbiquintilelilith0.52°applying
moonsemisextilemercury0.55°separating
marsquintilepluto0.59°applying
sunsemisquarevenus0.71°separating
part-of-fortunequincunxvertex0.73°separating
mercurysemisextilesaturn0.94°applying
neptunesesquiquadratelilith1.08°applying
saturnsemisextilechiron1.22°applying
venussesquiquadratepluto1.43°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node1.82°applying
sunquincunxneptune2.02°applying
mercuryquincunxpart-of-fortune2.40°separating