Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Lana Del Rey.

21 June 1985 · 16:47 · New York, New York

Lana Del Rey's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo, Scorpio rising. Born June 21, 1985 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Lana Del Rey's sun sign?

Lana Del Rey's sun is in Cancer.

What is Lana Del Rey's moon sign?

Lana Del Rey's moon is in Leo.

What is Lana Del Rey's rising sign?

Lana Del Rey's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Lana Del Rey born?

Lana Del Rey was born June 21, 1985 in New York, New York.

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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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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.

SunCancer · 8th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.

MoonLeo · 9th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Cancer in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 · 7th 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 · 1st house

The South Node in Scorpio (1st 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Virgo; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars 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.

Mars · the chart rulerCancer · 8th house

The drive is indirect, defensive and protective, and anger surfaces as withdrawal or moodiness. You fight for family and for feeling. The shadow is passive aggression.

Where it drives. Energy goes underground. Sexual intensity, often an inheritance of charged dynamics around money, and a pull toward work that operates beneath the surface.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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.

UranusSagittarius · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 · 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 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 · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 6th 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 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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, fixed chart led by the Sun in Cancer. 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 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 fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Leo Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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
23%
Earth
10%
Air
8%
Water
59%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Mars, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Sun gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Venuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Venus (Jupiter, Moon, Venus)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

Yod · apex Uranusuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Uranus (Mercury, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Mercury, Uranus, Venus form a yod pointing at Uranus in Sagittarius. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Uranus: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Uranus can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Uranus: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

Yod · apex Mercuryuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Mercury (Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus form a yod pointing at Mercury in Cancer. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Mercury: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Mercury can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Mercury: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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 0.25°

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 sextile Uranusorb 1.13°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury sextile Venusorb 1.47°

In you, Mercury works easily with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your capacity for love and pleasure. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.59°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 Plutoorb 1.64°

In you, the Sun flows together with Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

Moon sextile Chironorb 0.0°

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

Neptune trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.1°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.3°

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

Mercury sextile North Nodeorb 1.0°

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

Jupiter sextile Uranusorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Pluto opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 0.8°

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 Lana Del Rey
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°23' Cancer8th house·
Moon10°34' Leo9th house·
Mercury16°23' Cancer8th house·
Venus14°55' Taurus6th houserulership
Mars8°14' Cancer8th housefall, chart ruler
Jupiter16°30' Aquarius3rd houseretrograde
Saturn22°21' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Uranus15°22' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
Neptune2°17' Capricorn2nd houseretrograde
Pluto2°02' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
Chiron10°34' Gemini7th house·
North Node17°20' Taurus7th houseretrograde
South Node17°20' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°13' Taurus6th house·
Part of Fortune25°37' Sagittarius2nd house·
Vertex28°08' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilechiron0.00°separating
neptunetrinelilith0.07°applying
plutooppositionlilith0.19°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.25°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node0.84°applying
mercurysextilenorth-node0.96°applying
jupitersextileuranus1.13°applying
mercurysextilevenus1.47°separating
venussquarejupiter1.59°applying
suntrinepluto1.64°applying
sunsextilelilith1.83°applying
sunoppositionneptune1.89°applying
sunconjunctionvertex2.26°separating
venusconjunctionnorth-node2.43°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex2.51°separating
plutotrinevertex3.90°applying
neptuneoppositionvertex4.16°applying
moonsquarevenus4.35°applying
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune4.77°separating
moontrineuranus4.81°applying
uranusoppositionchiron4.81°applying
saturnoppositionnorth-node5.01°separating
jupitersquaresaturn5.85°separating
moonoppositionjupiter5.94°applying
jupitertrinechiron5.94°applying
marsoppositionneptune5.96°separating
mercurytrinesaturn5.97°applying
moonsquarenorth-node6.78°applying
sunconjunctionmars7.85°applying
neptunesesquiquadratenorth-node0.06°applying
moonsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.06°separating
mercuryquincunxjupiter0.12°applying
saturnbiquintilevertex0.23°applying
venusquincunxuranus0.46°applying
sunsemisquarevenus0.48°applying
jupitersemisquareneptune0.78°separating
marssesquiquadratesaturn0.88°separating
mercuryquincunxuranus1.01°separating
sunsesquiquadratejupiter1.11°applying
uranussemisquarepluto1.66°separating
venussemisquarevertex1.78°separating
uranussesquiquadratelilith1.85°separating
sunsemisquarenorth-node1.95°applying
uranusquincunxnorth-node1.97°applying