Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Kehinde Wiley.

28 February 1977 · time unknown · Los Angeles, California
unknown birth time · rising?

Kehinde Wiley's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Cancer. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born February 28, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

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What is Kehinde Wiley's sun sign?

Kehinde Wiley's sun is in Pisces.

What is Kehinde Wiley's moon sign?

Kehinde Wiley's moon is in Cancer.

What is Kehinde Wiley's rising sign?

Kehinde Wiley's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown.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

When and where was Kehinde Wiley born?

Kehinde Wiley was born February 28, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

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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 Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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.

SunPisces · 10th house

The self forms and dissolves at once. Permeable, intuitive, often unsure where it ends and the field begins. The artist, the mystic, the empath. Lesson: be permeable on purpose, not by accident. 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.

MoonCancer · 1st 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 shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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RisingGemini? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive already mid-conversation. The eyes find what is interesting before the mouth finds what to say. People feel met at the frequency of the curious question.

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 · 5th 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 · 11th house

The South Node in Aries (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 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

Gemini 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 rulerAquarius · 9th house

Thought is innovative and systemic, tilted toward the future. The mind works in patterns and possibilities, the speech can be detached, and the gift is seeing what others have missed. The shadow is contrarianism for its own sake.

Where it drives. The mind reaches for the wider world. Philosophical and oriented toward big ideas: the teacher, the writer, the publisher. Long-distance travel often reshapes the thinking.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss. Planets in the 10th (Sun) amplify that signal.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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.

UranusScorpio · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, 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 · 5th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 · 11th 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 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. 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 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 feel the invisible and translate compassion into form.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your mind first: curious, talkative, light on the feet.

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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Pisces. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Pisces Sun · Cancer Moon · Gemini rising? Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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
18%
Earth
8%
Air
36%
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.

T-Square · apex Uranuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Uranus (Mars, Saturn, Uranus)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

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

In your chart, Moon, Sun, Uranus 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.

Sun trine Moonorb 0.11°

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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.28°

In you, Saturn grinds against Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 1.08°

In you, Mars works easily with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars trine Plutoorb 1.31°

In you, Mars flows together with Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Moon trine Uranusorb 1.46°

In you, the Moon flows together with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Grand Trinepattern

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

Sun trine Moonorb 0.1°

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

Mercury trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.2°

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

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 1.1°

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

Mercury sextile Chironorb 1.1°

An easy, available link: Mercury and Chiron 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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Mars square Vertexorb 1.4°

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

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Chart data for Kehinde Wiley
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun10°07' Pisces10th house·
Moon10°14' Cancer1st houserulership
Mercury27°26' Aquarius9th housechart ruler
Venus20°20' Aries11th housedetriment
Mars14°58' Aquarius9th house·
Jupiter24°19' Taurus12th house·
Saturn11°25' Leo2nd houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus11°41' Scorpio5th houseretrograde
Neptune16°03' Sagittarius6th house·
Pluto13°40' Libra5th houseretrograde
Chiron28°32' Aries11th house·
North Node25°23' Libra5th houseretrograde
South Node25°23' Aries11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°58' Taurus12th house·
Part of Fortune27°37' Libra5th house·
Vertex16°20' Scorpio5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
suntrinemoon0.11°separating
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune0.19°applying
saturnsquareuranus0.28°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith0.36°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune0.92°separating
marssextileneptune1.08°applying
mercurysextilechiron1.10°applying
marstrinepluto1.31°separating
marssquarevertex1.36°applying
moontrineuranus1.46°applying
suntrineuranus1.57°applying
mercurytrinenorth-node2.05°separating
north-nodeconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.24°separating
saturnsextilepluto2.26°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.39°separating
mercurysquarejupiter3.11°separating
chironoppositionnorth-node3.16°separating
marssquareuranus3.28°separating
moonsquarepluto3.44°applying
mercurysquarelilith3.47°separating
marsoppositionsaturn3.57°separating
venustrineneptune4.29°separating
saturntrineneptune4.64°separating
uranusconjunctionvertex4.64°separating
saturnsquarevertex4.93°separating
venusoppositionnorth-node5.04°applying
sunsquareneptune5.93°applying
moontrinevertex6.11°applying
suntrinevertex6.22°applying
sunsesquiquadratenorth-node0.26°applying
neptunesemisextilevertex0.28°applying
moonquintilechiron0.31°separating
mercuryquintileneptune0.62°applying
moonsemisquarejupiter0.90°separating
jupiterquincunxnorth-node1.06°applying
moonsemisextilesaturn1.18°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepluto1.23°applying
moonbiquintilemars1.25°separating
moonsemisquarelilith1.26°separating
sunquincunxsaturn1.29°applying
north-nodequincunxlilith1.42°applying
uranussemisextilepluto1.98°applying