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KAWS.

4 November 1974 · time unknown · Jersey City, New Jersey
unknown birth time · rising?

KAWS's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Cancer. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born November 4, 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About this chart

What is KAWS's sun sign?

KAWS's sun is in Scorpio.

What is KAWS's moon sign?

KAWS's moon is in Cancer.

What is KAWS's rising sign?

KAWS's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was KAWS born?

KAWS was born November 4, 1974 in Jersey 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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 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.

SunScorpio · 9th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonCancer · 6th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingCapricorn? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to.

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 · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Gemini (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 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

Capricorn rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerCancer · 6th house

Saturn is in detriment here. The work is on emotional life and belonging: lessons in being safe inside the self. The shadow is emotional armour.

Where it drives. The body teaches through limitation. Often a demanding job or a chronic health issue, with mastery of the practice arriving through sheer accumulated effort.

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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MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 Mars. 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

Mars is the loudest force in your chart, which means drive, desire, and assertion lead. You are martial, defined by energy and the will to pursue, a person of action who moves on want rather than waiting.

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Cancer Moon · Capricorn rising? Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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 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
0%
Earth
15%
Air
10%
Water
74%
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: Mars, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Sun, 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.

Stellium in Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Mercury, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Pluto, Uranus gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Grand Trine in Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Moon, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Sun form a grand trine. Yours runs on water: a closed circuit of feeling, intuition, and care. Talent shows as emotional accuracy and the ability to hold what others miss.

gift

Natural water 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.

Grand Trine in Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Moon, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Venus form a grand trine. Yours runs on water: a closed circuit of feeling, intuition, and care. Talent shows as emotional accuracy and the ability to hold what others miss.

gift

Natural water 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.

Grand Trine in Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Mars, Moon)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Moon form a grand trine. Yours runs on water: a closed circuit of feeling, intuition, and care. Talent shows as emotional accuracy and the ability to hold what others miss.

gift

Natural water 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.

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.34°

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.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.35°

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

Sun conjunction Venusorb 0.46°

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

Moon trine Venusorb 1.01°

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

Sun trine Moonorb 1.48°

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

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
Moon rules Cancerat home

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

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.

Jupiter rules Piscesat home

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

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Where it works
Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Neptune 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.

Saturn in detriment in Canceruphill

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

Moon square Plutoorb 2.4°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 2.4°

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for KAWS
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°53' Scorpio9th house·
Moon10°25' Cancer6th houserulership
Mercury24°59' Libra9th house·
Venus11°25' Scorpio9th housedetriment
Mars5°00' Scorpio9th houserulership
Jupiter7°59' Pisces2nd houserulership
Saturn18°53' Cancer6th houseretrograde, detriment, chart ruler
Uranus29°00' Libra9th house·
Neptune8°20' Sagittarius10th house·
Pluto8°00' Libra8th house·
Chiron21°18' Aries3rd houseretrograde
North Node10°28' Sagittarius11th house·
South Node10°28' Gemini5th house·
Black Moon Lilith19°36' Aquarius1st house·
Part of Fortune21°23' Virgo8th house·
Vertex27°10' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.34°separating
jupitersquareneptune0.35°separating
sunconjunctionvenus0.46°applying
moontrinevenus1.01°applying
suntrinemoon1.48°applying
chironsextilelilith1.70°applying
uranussextilevertex1.83°separating
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node2.14°applying
mercurysextilevertex2.18°applying
moonsquarepluto2.42°separating
saturnsquarechiron2.42°applying
moontrinejupiter2.43°separating
plutosextilenorth-node2.48°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node2.49°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune2.50°separating
marstrinejupiter2.98°applying
venustrinejupiter3.44°separating
mercuryoppositionchiron3.68°separating
suntrinejupiter3.91°separating
mercuryconjunctionuranus4.01°applying
mercurytrinelilith5.38°separating
moontrinemars5.41°separating
chirontrinevertex5.86°separating
sunconjunctionmars6.89°separating
suntrinesaturn7.00°applying
sunsquarelilith7.72°applying
jupiterquincunxpluto0.01°separating
moonquincunxnorth-node0.06°separating
chironquincunxpart-of-fortune0.08°separating
mercurysemisquarenorth-node0.49°applying
saturnquincunxlilith0.72°separating
neptunequintilelilith0.73°applying
venussemisextilenorth-node0.95°separating
moonquintilepart-of-fortune1.02°separating
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune1.39°applying
sunsemisextilenorth-node1.41°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune1.65°separating
jupitersemisquarechiron1.67°separating
moonsemisquarevertex1.76°applying
lilithquincunxpart-of-fortune1.78°applying
moonquincunxneptune2.08°separating