Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Idris Elba.

6 September 1972 · 08:00 · London, England

Idris Elba's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Leo, Libra rising. Born September 6, 1972 in London, England.

About this chart

What is Idris Elba's sun sign?

Idris Elba's sun is in Virgo.

What is Idris Elba's moon sign?

Idris Elba's moon is in Leo.

What is Idris Elba's rising sign?

Idris Elba's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Idris Elba born?

Idris Elba was born September 6, 1972 in London, England.

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

SunVirgo · 12th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonLeo · 11th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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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 Cancer in the 10th 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 NodeCapricorn · 4th house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 10th house

The South Node in Cancer (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 earth territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Virgo, 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 rulerCancer · 10th house

Love is nurturing and protective, built around sanctuary. The home is the love language, and the instinct is to feed people and be fed in return. The shadow is surveillance disguised as care.

Where it drives. Charm is part of the public life. Often a recognised or aesthetically known figure, with a Venusian thread running through the career and the reputation.

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. Planets in the 10th (Venus) amplify that signal.

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.

UranusLibra · 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 Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 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 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 · 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 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 woundAries · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 2nd house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth): 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 refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  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 earth, mutable chart led by Mercury. 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.

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

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Leo Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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
23%
Earth
36%
Air
23%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mars, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Sun 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 conjunction Marsorb 0.39°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury square Neptuneorb 1.16°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.43°

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.

Moon trine Jupiterorb 2.11°

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.

Jupiter square Plutoorb 2.49°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

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
Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

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

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.

Neptune trine Vertexorb 2.1°

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

Moon trine Jupiterorb 2.1°

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.

Venus trine Vertexorb 2.3°

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

Where it works
Uranus opposition Chironorb 0.1°

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

Pluto opposition Vertexorb 0.6°

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

Mercury square Neptuneorb 1.2°

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 1.9°

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

Jupiter square Plutoorb 2.5°

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

Venus opposition North Nodeorb 3.1°

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

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Chart data for Idris Elba
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun13°46' Virgo12th house·
Moon26°36' Leo11th house·
Mercury1°28' Virgo11th houserulership
Venus28°15' Cancer10th housechart ruler
Mars14°09' Virgo12th house·
Jupiter28°42' Sagittarius3rd houserulership
Saturn19°58' Gemini9th house·
Uranus16°32' Libra1st house·
Neptune2°37' Sagittarius3rd house·
Pluto1°12' Libra1st house·
Chiron16°26' Aries7th houseretrograde
North Node25°09' Capricorn4th houseretrograde
South Node25°09' Cancer10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith21°50' Scorpio2nd house·
Part of Fortune13°04' Virgo12th house·
Vertex0°34' Aries7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranusoppositionchiron0.11°separating
sunconjunctionmars0.39°applying
plutooppositionvertex0.64°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.71°separating
marsconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.10°separating
mercurysquareneptune1.16°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.43°applying
jupitersquarevertex1.86°applying
neptunetrinevertex2.06°separating
moontrinejupiter2.11°applying
venustrinevertex2.31°applying
jupitersquarepluto2.49°applying
mercurytrinejupiter2.76°separating
venussextilepluto2.95°applying
venusoppositionnorth-node3.10°separating
north-nodesextilelilith3.31°applying
saturntrineuranus3.42°applying
saturnsextilechiron3.53°separating
venustrineneptune4.37°applying
moonsquarelilith4.76°separating
moonconjunctionmercury4.87°applying
marssquaresaturn5.81°applying
moonsquareneptune6.03°applying
sunsquaresaturn6.19°applying
mercurysesquiquadratechiron0.04°separating
mercurysemisquareuranus0.07°applying
jupiterquintileuranus0.16°applying
venussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.19°separating
mercurysemisextilepluto0.27°separating
mercurybiquintilenorth-node0.32°separating
venusquincunxjupiter0.45°applying
mercuryquintilesaturn0.49°applying
sunsemisquarevenus0.52°applying
chironbiquintilelilith0.59°applying
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.81°separating
venussemisquaremars0.90°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex0.90°separating
uranussemisquareneptune1.08°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.20°separating
moonquincunxnorth-node1.44°separating
moonsemisextilevenus1.66°applying
saturnquincunxlilith1.88°separating
marsquincunxchiron2.27°applying