Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Keith Richards.

18 December 1943 · 06:00 · Dartford, England

Keith Richards's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Virgo, Sagittarius rising. Born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, England.

About this chart

What is Keith Richards's sun sign?

Keith Richards's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Keith Richards's moon sign?

Keith Richards's moon is in Virgo.

What is Keith Richards's rising sign?

Keith Richards's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Keith Richards born?

Keith Richards was born December 18, 1943 in Dartford, England.

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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 Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 · 1st 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. 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 · 9th 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 needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

ASC
RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Leo in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 NodeLeo · 8th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 2nd house

The South Node in Aquarius (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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerLeo · 9th house

Growth comes through creative expression, generosity and visibility, carried by faith in the self. The shadow is grandiosity outrunning the substance.

Where it drives. Jupiter is at home here. The wider world is the path of fortune: travel, higher study, publishing and the foreign, carried by a strong sense of faith.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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 mutable 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.

UranusGemini · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 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 Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 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 Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundVirgo · 9th house

The wound is never good enough: a sharp eye for flaws that turns inward as self-criticism, overwork, and worth measured only in usefulness. You may fix everyone else's life while neglecting your own body. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 9th 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 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 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 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 order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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 Mercury. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Virgo Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
38%
Earth
33%
Air
18%
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 Geminicommon
three or more planets clustered in Gemini: Mars, Saturn, Uranus

In your chart, Mars, Saturn, Uranus gather in Gemini. A stellium in Gemini concentrates the chart on mind, language, and the need to connect dots. You think and talk in high volume: information, curiosity, and dual tracks are where life keeps packing itself.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mars sextile Plutoorb 0.05°

In you, Mars works easily with Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 Marsorb 0.22°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 trine Jupiterorb 1.59°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.93°

In you, Uranus flows together with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 square Uranusorb 2.10°

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

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 sextile Plutoorb 0.1°

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

Saturn sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.1°

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

Mars sextile North Nodeorb 0.9°

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

Mercury trine Chironorb 1.1°

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

Chiron sextile Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Uranus sextile North Nodeorb 1.5°

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

Where it works
Mercury opposition Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Moon square Marsorb 0.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and Mars 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 Uranusorb 2.1°

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

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.3°

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.

Sun opposition Saturnorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for Keith Richards
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°26' Sagittarius1st house·
Moon8°10' Virgo9th house·
Mercury14°35' Capricorn2nd house·
Venus11°18' Scorpio11th housedetriment
Mars8°23' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Jupiter27°01' Leo9th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Saturn22°57' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Uranus6°04' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Neptune4°08' Libra10th house·
Pluto8°26' Leo8th houseretrograde
Chiron15°38' Virgo9th house·
North Node7°31' Leo8th house·
South Node7°31' Aquarius2nd house·
Black Moon Lilith23°03' Leo9th house·
Part of Fortune17°57' Pisces3rd house·
Vertex14°24' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marssextilepluto0.05°separating
saturnsextilelilith0.10°separating
mercuryoppositionvertex0.18°separating
moonsquaremars0.22°separating
marssextilenorth-node0.86°applying
plutoconjunctionnorth-node0.91°applying
mercurytrinechiron1.06°applying
chironsextilevertex1.24°separating
uranussextilenorth-node1.46°separating
suntrinejupiter1.59°applying
uranustrineneptune1.93°applying
moonsquareuranus2.10°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune2.31°applying
marsconjunctionuranus2.32°applying
uranussextilepluto2.37°separating
suntrinelilith2.38°separating
sunoppositionsaturn2.48°separating
venussquarepluto2.87°separating
venustrinevertex3.10°applying
moonsextilevenus3.13°applying
mercurysextilevenus3.28°separating
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune3.38°applying
neptunesextilenorth-node3.39°separating
part-of-fortunetrinevertex3.56°separating
venussquarenorth-node3.77°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith3.98°applying
marstrineneptune4.25°applying
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune4.99°applying
moontrinemercury6.41°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune7.48°separating
moonconjunctionchiron7.48°applying
mercurybiquintilemars0.20°separating
moonsemisextilepluto0.27°separating
saturnsemisquarenorth-node0.43°applying
saturnsemisquarepluto0.48°separating
moonsemisextilenorth-node0.64°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.87°separating
sunsesquiquadratepluto2.00°separating