Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Kanye West.

8 June 1977 · 08:45 · Atlanta, Georgia

Kanye West's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Pisces, Cancer rising. Born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia.

About this chart

What is Kanye West's sun sign?

Kanye West's sun is in Gemini.

What is Kanye West's moon sign?

Kanye West's moon is in Pisces.

What is Kanye West's rising sign?

Kanye West's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Kanye West born?

Kanye West was born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 · 12th 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. 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.

MoonPisces · 9th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Pisces in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeLibra · 4th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 10th house

The South Node in Aries (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 air territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerPisces · 9th house

Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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.

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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 (Venus, Mars) 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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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 · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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 Venus. 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 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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Gemini Sun · Pisces Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
15%
Earth
31%
Air
23%
Water
31%
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: Mars, Mercury, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Venus 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 Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Moon, Neptune, Sun)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Jupiter, Moon, Neptune)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

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 Neptuneorb 0.09°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 conjunction Marsorb 0.24°

In you, Venus is fused with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Sun square Moonorb 1.17°

In you, the Sun grinds against the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 1.35°

In you, Saturn works easily with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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 square Neptuneorb 1.74°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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
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.

Sun sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

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

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 1.4°

An easy, available link: 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 1.8°

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.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.9°

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

Neptune trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.1°

A natural, flowing ease: Neptune 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
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 Neptuneorb 0.1°

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

Sun square Moonorb 1.2°

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Jupiter in detriment in Geminiuphill

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

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Chart data for Kanye West
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°35' Gemini12th house·
Moon16°25' Pisces9th housechart ruler
Mercury26°17' Taurus11th house·
Venus2°01' Taurus10th houserulership
Mars1°47' Taurus10th housedetriment
Jupiter14°36' Gemini11th housedetriment
Saturn12°47' Leo2nd housedetriment
Uranus8°16' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Neptune14°41' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto11°26' Libra4th houseretrograde
Chiron4°09' Taurus10th house·
North Node22°49' Libra4th houseretrograde
South Node22°49' Aries10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°03' Gemini11th house·
Part of Fortune16°49' Aries10th house·
Vertex1°43' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupiteroppositionneptune0.09°applying
venusconjunctionmars0.24°separating
sunsextilepart-of-fortune0.77°separating
sunsquaremoon1.17°applying
saturnsextilepluto1.35°separating
moonsquareneptune1.74°separating
jupitersextilesaturn1.81°separating
moonsquarejupiter1.83°separating
saturntrineneptune1.89°applying
venusconjunctionchiron2.13°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune2.14°separating
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune2.22°applying
marsconjunctionchiron2.38°applying
sunoppositionneptune2.91°separating
sunconjunctionjupiter2.99°separating
jupitertrinepluto3.16°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.25°applying
lilithoppositionvertex3.34°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune4.03°applying
uranusoppositionchiron4.11°applying
saturnsquareuranus4.53°separating
sunsextilesaturn4.80°separating
suntrinenorth-node5.22°applying
plutooppositionpart-of-fortune5.38°separating
mercuryoppositionvertex5.43°applying
north-nodeoppositionpart-of-fortune5.99°applying
suntrinepluto6.15°separating
marsquincunxvertex0.07°separating
part-of-fortunesesquiquadratevertex0.11°separating
mercurysesquiquadratepluto0.16°applying
venusquincunxvertex0.31°separating
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.33°separating
moonsemisquaremars0.36°separating
moonbiquintilenorth-node0.39°separating
moonsemisextilepart-of-fortune0.40°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.57°separating
moonsemisquarevenus0.60°applying
sunsemisquaremars0.81°separating
chironsemisextilelilith0.89°separating
sunsemisquarechiron1.57°applying
chironquincunxvertex2.45°separating