Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Kurt Cobain.

20 February 1967 · 19:38 · Aberdeen, Washington

Kurt Cobain's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Cancer, Virgo rising. Born February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington.

About this chart

What is Kurt Cobain's sun sign?

Kurt Cobain's sun is in Pisces.

What is Kurt Cobain's moon sign?

Kurt Cobain's moon is in Cancer.

What is Kurt Cobain's rising sign?

Kurt Cobain's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Kurt Cobain born?

Kurt Cobain was born February 20, 1967 in Aberdeen, Washington.

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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 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 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 · 6th 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 forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonCancer · 10th 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 is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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 Pisces in the 6th 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 NodeTaurus · 8th house

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 2nd house

The South Node in Scorpio (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 earth territory.

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

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

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 rulerPisces · 6th house

Thought is intuitive and associative, sometimes hard to put into words. The mind works in images and feelings, and the speech can turn poetic or vague. The shadow is the difficulty of translating an inner knowing into language.

Where it drives. The mind is applied to the practical. Analytical, precise and oriented toward useful detail, the work often involves communication or analysis, and perfectionism is the risk.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 mutable 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.

UranusVirgo · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 7th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  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 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 water, mutable chart led by the Moon. 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 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

Pisces Sun · Cancer Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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 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
8%
Water
77%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Mercury, Saturn, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Saturn, Sun, Venus gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

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

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

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, 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, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn 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.

Kite · outlet Uranusuncommon
a grand trine in water given direction by Uranus (Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Venus form a kite with Uranus as the outlet. The easy talent of the grand trine finally has somewhere to aim: Uranus is where the gift becomes usable in the world.

gift

Talent plus drive: Uranus turns ease into achievement instead of pure coasting.

difficulty

Uranus carries pressure. The opposition can strain, but it is productive strain when you aim it.

release point

Lean into Uranus. That is where the whole configuration discharges and the grand trine's gift becomes real.

Kite · outlet Uranusuncommon
a grand trine in water given direction by Uranus (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus form a kite with Uranus as the outlet. The easy talent of the grand trine finally has somewhere to aim: Uranus is where the gift becomes usable in the world.

gift

Talent plus drive: Uranus turns ease into achievement instead of pure coasting.

difficulty

Uranus carries pressure. The opposition can strain, but it is productive strain when you aim it.

release point

Lean into Uranus. That is where the whole configuration discharges and the grand trine's gift becomes real.

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 Marsorb 0.01°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.86°

In you, Venus flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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 sextile Neptuneorb 1.10°

In you, Uranus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.33°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Jupiter trine Neptuneorb 1.34°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

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.

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.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Where it works
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 opposition Plutoorb 1.3°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Venus opposition Uranusorb 3.3°

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

Pluto opposition Chironorb 4.5°

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

Mercury opposition Uranusorb 4.8°

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

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Chart data for Kurt Cobain
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°48' Pisces6th house·
Moon13°23' Cancer10th houserulership
Mercury18°27' Pisces6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus26°33' Pisces7th houseexaltation
Mars1°48' Scorpio2nd houserulership
Jupiter25°41' Cancer10th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn28°43' Pisces7th house·
Uranus23°15' Virgo12th houseretrograde
Neptune24°21' Scorpio3rd house·
Pluto19°47' Virgo12th houseretrograde
Chiron24°16' Pisces7th house·
North Node9°34' Taurus8th houseretrograde
South Node9°34' Scorpio2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith6°21' Aries7th house·
Part of Fortune11°46' Taurus8th house·
Vertex13°48' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
suntrinemars0.01°separating
neptunetrinechiron0.07°applying
moontrinevertex0.41°separating
venustrinejupiter0.86°separating
uranusoppositionchiron1.03°separating
uranussextileneptune1.10°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto1.33°applying
jupitertrineneptune1.34°applying
jupitertrinechiron1.41°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune1.62°separating
part-of-fortunesextilevertex2.03°separating
venusconjunctionsaturn2.17°applying
north-nodeconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.19°separating
venustrineneptune2.21°separating
venusconjunctionchiron2.28°separating
jupitersextileuranus2.44°applying
jupitertrinesaturn3.03°separating
venusoppositionuranus3.31°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto3.46°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.81°separating
saturntrineneptune4.38°separating
saturnconjunctionchiron4.45°separating
plutooppositionchiron4.49°separating
mercuryconjunctionvertex4.66°separating
mercuryoppositionuranus4.79°applying
moontrinemercury5.07°applying
saturnoppositionuranus5.48°separating
mercuryconjunctionchiron5.82°applying
mercurytrineneptune5.89°applying
plutooppositionvertex5.99°applying
moonsquarelilith7.04°separating
sunsquareneptune7.47°separating
sunbiquintilejupiter0.12°separating
venussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.21°applying
chironsemisquarenorth-node0.30°applying
venusbiquintilemars0.75°separating
uranussesquiquadratenorth-node1.33°applying
mercurysesquiquadratemars1.66°separating
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.96°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node1.98°separating