Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Jean-Claude Van Damme.

18 October 1960 · 06:45 · Berchem-Sainte-Agathe - Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels-Capital, Belgium

Jean-Claude Van Damme's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Virgo, Libra rising. Born October 18, 1960 in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe - Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels-Capital, Belgium.

About this chart

What is Jean-Claude Van Damme's sun sign?

Jean-Claude Van Damme's sun is in Libra.

What is Jean-Claude Van Damme's moon sign?

Jean-Claude Van Damme's moon is in Virgo.

What is Jean-Claude Van Damme's rising sign?

Jean-Claude Van Damme's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Jean-Claude Van Damme born?

Jean-Claude Van Damme was born October 18, 1960 in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe - Sint-Agatha-Berchem, Brussels-Capital, Belgium.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Virgo 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 earth 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.

SunLibra · 1st house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonVirgo · 11th 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 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.

ASC
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 Scorpio in the 2nd 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 NodeVirgo · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Pisces (5th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Capricorn; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

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 rulerScorpio · 2nd house

Love is intense and all-or-nothing. The instinct is to merge completely or not at all. The shadow is the jealousy that grows from a certainty that love is dangerous.

Where it drives. Venus is at home here. Pleasure is in what you own and value: ease with money and possessions, well-developed senses, and support that tends to flow from what you cherish.

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 (Uranus) 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 water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusLeo · 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 Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 woundAquarius · 4th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). 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 water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  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 a water, cardinal chart led by the Moon. 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 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 cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

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

Libra Sun · Virgo Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Virgo 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 earth 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
8%
Earth
23%
Air
31%
Water
38%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mercury, Neptune, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Venus gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Scorpio 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 Scorpio stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Scorpio 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 sextile Uranusorb 0.09°

In you, the Sun works easily with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars opposition Saturnorb 0.63°

In you, Mars sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 Uranusorb 0.82°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.92°

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 sextile Venusorb 1.11°

In you, the Moon works easily with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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
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.

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.

Sun sextile Uranusorb 0.1°

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

Saturn trine Vertexorb 0.3°

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

Black Moon Lilith trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.9°

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.

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

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

Mars opposition Saturnorb 0.6°

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

Venus square Uranusorb 0.8°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Moon square Jupiterorb 1.8°

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

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Chart data for Jean-Claude Van Damme
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°50' Libra1st housefall
Moon26°51' Virgo11th house·
Mercury19°23' Scorpio2nd house·
Venus25°45' Scorpio2nd housedetriment, chart ruler
Mars12°02' Cancer9th housefall
Jupiter28°42' Sagittarius3rd houserulership
Saturn12°39' Capricorn3rd houserulership
Uranus24°55' Leo10th house·
Neptune8°21' Scorpio1st house·
Pluto7°25' Virgo11th house·
Chiron27°36' Aquarius4th houseretrograde
North Node15°01' Virgo11th houseretrograde
South Node15°01' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith18°14' Cancer9th house·
Part of Fortune17°20' Scorpio2nd house·
Vertex12°57' Taurus7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsextileuranus0.09°applying
saturntrinevertex0.30°applying
marsoppositionsaturn0.63°applying
venussquareuranus0.82°separating
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune0.91°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.92°separating
marssextilevertex0.93°applying
jupitersextilechiron1.10°separating
moonsextilevenus1.11°separating
mercurytrinelilith1.14°separating
moonsquarejupiter1.85°applying
venussquarechiron1.86°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.05°separating
north-nodetrinevertex2.07°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune2.30°separating
saturntrinenorth-node2.36°applying
uranusoppositionchiron2.68°applying
suntrinechiron2.76°applying
marssextilenorth-node2.99°applying
north-nodesextilelilith3.21°separating
marstrineneptune3.68°separating
jupitertrineuranus3.78°separating
sunsextilejupiter3.86°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex4.37°separating
neptuneoppositionvertex4.61°applying
saturntrinepluto5.24°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune5.30°applying
plutotrinevertex5.53°applying
mercurysquareuranus5.55°applying
saturnoppositionlilith5.58°separating
sunsquarelilith6.60°separating
mercuryquintilepluto0.04°applying
saturnsemisquarechiron0.06°separating
marssesquiquadratechiron0.58°applying
jupitersesquiquadratevertex0.75°separating
moonquincunxchiron0.75°applying
sunsemisextilevenus0.90°separating
moonsesquiquadratevertex1.10°applying
venusquintilenorth-node1.28°applying
venussesquiquadratemars1.28°applying
uranusquintileneptune1.42°applying
venussemisquaresaturn1.92°applying
moonsemisextileuranus1.93°separating