Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Karim Benzema.

19 December 1987 · 22:10 · Lyon, France

Karim Benzema's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius, Virgo rising. Born December 19, 1987 in Lyon, France.

About this chart

What is Karim Benzema's sun sign?

Karim Benzema's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Karim Benzema's moon sign?

Karim Benzema's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Karim Benzema's rising sign?

Karim Benzema's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Karim Benzema born?

Karim Benzema was born December 19, 1987 in Lyon, France.

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

SunSagittarius · 4th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonSagittarius · 4th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

ASC
RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Sagittarius in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Virgo (2nd 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

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerSagittarius · 4th house

Thought reaches for the bigger picture. The mind works philosophically, in large frameworks, and the speech is enthusiastic, sometimes preachy. The shadow is impatience with detail and the assumption that the framework is the answer.

Where it drives. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.

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
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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 fire and mutable signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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.

UranusSagittarius · 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 Sagittarius

A generation that upends belief, reinventing meaning, religion and the search for truth.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCapricorn · 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 Capricorn

An era that dreams of universal structure, the spiritualising of authority, the dissolving of institutions.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoScorpio · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Scorpio

Pluto is at home here.

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 · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  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 seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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 fire, mutable chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

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 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

Sagittarius Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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
56%
Earth
33%
Air
0%
Water
10%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Sun, Uranus gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Sagittarius 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 Uranusorb 0.50°

In you, the Sun is fused with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 conjunction Uranusorb 1.44°

In you, Mercury is fused with Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 conjunction Saturnorb 1.45°

In you, Mercury is fused with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 conjunction Mercuryorb 1.94°

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

Saturn conjunction Uranusorb 2.89°

In you, Saturn is fused with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

Pluto sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.6°

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

Venus sextile North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

North Node sextile Vertexorb 1.4°

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

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.5°

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

Jupiter trine Saturnorb 4.2°

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

Where it works
Mercury opposition Chironorb 0.4°

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

Sun square North Nodeorb 0.4°

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

Uranus square North Nodeorb 0.9°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 1.0°

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.

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Sun opposition Chironorb 1.5°

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

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Chart data for Karim Benzema
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°25' Sagittarius4th house·
Moon15°19' Sagittarius4th house·
Mercury25°29' Sagittarius4th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus27°02' Capricorn5th house·
Mars16°54' Scorpio3rd houserulership
Jupiter19°47' Aries9th house·
Saturn24°02' Sagittarius4th house·
Uranus26°55' Sagittarius4th house·
Neptune7°19' Capricorn5th house·
Pluto11°39' Scorpio3rd house·
Chiron25°54' Gemini10th houseretrograde
North Node27°52' Pisces8th houseretrograde
South Node27°52' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith13°46' Leo12th house·
Part of Fortune12°15' Virgo1st house·
Vertex26°27' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryoppositionchiron0.41°applying
sunsquarenorth-node0.45°applying
sunconjunctionuranus0.50°separating
venusconjunctionvertex0.58°separating
plutosextilepart-of-fortune0.61°applying
venussextilenorth-node0.83°applying
uranussquarenorth-node0.94°applying
uranusoppositionchiron1.03°separating
north-nodesextilevertex1.41°applying
mercuryconjunctionuranus1.44°applying
mercuryconjunctionsaturn1.45°separating
sunoppositionchiron1.52°separating
moontrinelilith1.54°separating
saturnoppositionchiron1.86°applying
sunconjunctionmercury1.94°applying
chironsquarenorth-node1.97°applying
plutosquarelilith2.13°separating
mercurysquarenorth-node2.38°applying
saturnconjunctionuranus2.89°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune3.06°separating
marssquarelilith3.13°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn3.38°separating
saturnsquarenorth-node3.83°applying
jupitertrinesaturn4.25°separating
moontrinejupiter4.48°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune4.94°applying
marsconjunctionpluto5.25°separating
mercurytrinejupiter5.69°separating
suntrinejupiter7.63°separating
venussemisextileuranus0.11°separating
venussesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.22°applying
uranussemisquarepluto0.28°separating
sunsemisextilevenus0.38°applying
neptunebiquintilelilith0.45°separating
uranussemisextilevertex0.47°separating
chironquincunxvertex0.56°separating
plutosesquiquadratechiron0.75°separating
sunsemisquarepluto0.77°separating
part-of-fortunesesquiquadratevertex0.80°separating
north-nodesesquiquadratelilith0.91°separating
sunsemisextilevertex0.96°separating
mercurysemisextilevertex0.97°applying
venusquincunxchiron1.14°separating
mercurysemisquarepluto1.17°applying
plutosesquiquadratenorth-node1.22°applying
sunsesquiquadratelilith1.35°applying
lilithsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.52°separating
mercurysemisextilevenus1.55°applying
moonsemisextilemars1.59°applying
uranussesquiquadratelilith1.85°separating