Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Jack Nicholson.

22 April 1937 · 11:00 · Neptune City, New Jersey

Jack Nicholson's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Virgo, Leo rising. Born April 22, 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey.

About this chart

What is Jack Nicholson's sun sign?

Jack Nicholson's sun is in Taurus.

What is Jack Nicholson's moon sign?

Jack Nicholson's moon is in Virgo.

What is Jack Nicholson's rising sign?

Jack Nicholson's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Jack Nicholson born?

Jack Nicholson was born April 22, 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey.

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

SunTaurus · 10th house

Built from what endures. Steady, sensual, slow to anger and slow to change. The body is the temple, and the temple is not a metaphor. Values are bedrock; stubbornness is the shadow side of staying power. Lesson: holding too tightly is not the same as holding. 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.

MoonVirgo · 3rd house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Taurus in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 NodeSagittarius · 5th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 11th house

The South Node in Gemini (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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Aries; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun 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 Sun · chart rulerTaurus · 10th house

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.

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
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, Mercury, Venus, Uranus) 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 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.

UranusTaurus · 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 Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundGemini · 11th 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 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family): 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 build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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, fixed chart led by the Sun in Taurus. 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.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Taurus Sun · Virgo Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 earth 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
44%
Earth
49%
Air
0%
Water
8%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Jupiter, Pluto, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Sun form a T-square with Sun at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Scorpio, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Sun: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Sun 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 Scorpio, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Venuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Venus (Jupiter, Pluto, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Venus form a T-square with Venus at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Libra, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Venus: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Venus 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 Libra, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Moon form a grand trine. Yours runs on earth: a closed circuit of craft, patience, and real results. Talent shows as the ability to build what lasts and make vision solid.

gift

Natural earth 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.

Mystic Rectanglerare
two oppositions linked by trines and sextiles (Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Pluto, Saturn form a mystic rectangle. A mystic rectangle is a rare and elegant configuration: two pairs of planets in opposition, with the oppositions linked on the sides by trines and sextiles. It combines tension and ease in a closed, stable shape, the oppositions providing the drive and the soft aspects providing the means to handle it. People with a mystic rectangle tend to have a practical, grounded way of turning their inner tensions into productive, usable form.

gift

The rare combination of motivating tension and the built-in ease to manage it, a configuration that gets things done without tearing itself apart.

difficulty

The stability can become a closed loop, a self-contained system that resists outside input, and the oppositions still need conscious balancing.

release point

The rectangle releases through its oppositions, which ask for integration, while the trines and sextiles are the tools you already have to do it. The work is using the easy aspects to resolve the hard ones rather than letting the shape stay sealed.

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 opposition Plutoorb 0.03°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Moon opposition Saturnorb 0.66°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.75°

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.

Venus square Plutoorb 1.78°

In you, Venus grinds against Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 2.52°

In you, the Moon works easily with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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 sextile Plutoorb 2.5°

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

Moon trine Jupiterorb 2.6°

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.

Saturn trine Plutoorb 3.2°

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

Jupiter sextile Saturnorb 3.2°

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

Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 3.4°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun 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
Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

Jupiter works against the grain in Capricorn. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

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

T-Squarepattern

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

Jupiter opposition Plutoorb 0.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Jupiter and Pluto 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.

Neptune square North Nodeorb 0.5°

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

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Chart data for Jack Nicholson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°05' Taurus10th housechart ruler
Moon29°03' Virgo3rd house·
Mercury21°38' Taurus10th house·
Venus24°45' Aries10th houseretrograde, detriment
Mars5°07' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Jupiter26°30' Capricorn6th housefall
Saturn29°42' Pisces9th house·
Uranus9°08' Taurus10th house·
Neptune16°29' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Pluto26°31' Cancer12th house·
Chiron19°50' Gemini11th house·
North Node16°00' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
South Node16°00' Gemini11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith22°25' Scorpio4th house·
Part of Fortune28°40' Sagittarius5th house·
Vertex17°26' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupiteroppositionpluto0.03°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune0.39°separating
neptunesquarenorth-node0.49°separating
moonoppositionsaturn0.66°applying
mercuryoppositionlilith0.79°applying
neptunesquarevertex0.94°separating
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune1.05°separating
north-nodeconjunctionvertex1.43°separating
venussquarejupiter1.75°separating
venussquarepluto1.78°separating
chironoppositionvertex2.41°separating
moonsextilepluto2.52°separating
moontrinejupiter2.55°separating
saturntrinepluto3.18°separating
jupitersextilesaturn3.21°separating
neptunesquarechiron3.35°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune3.43°separating
chironoppositionnorth-node3.84°separating
venustrinepart-of-fortune3.92°separating
plutotrinelilith4.10°applying
mercurytrinejupiter4.86°applying
mercurytrineneptune5.14°separating
marstrinesaturn5.42°applying
sunsquarepluto5.57°separating
sunsquarejupiter5.60°separating
sunconjunctionuranus7.04°applying
sunconjunctionvenus7.35°separating
moontrinemercury7.42°separating
sunsesquiquadratevertex0.34°applying
sunsesquiquadrateneptune0.60°separating
jupiterbiquintilechiron0.65°separating
uranusbiquintilenorth-node0.87°applying
mercurybiquintilepart-of-fortune1.03°applying
sunsesquiquadratenorth-node1.09°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron1.79°separating
plutoquincunxpart-of-fortune2.14°applying
venusquincunxlilith2.32°applying