Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Layne Staley.

22 August 1967 · 07:38 · Kirkland, King County, United States

Layne Staley's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Pisces, Virgo rising. Born August 22, 1967 in Kirkland, King County, United States.

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What is Layne Staley's sun sign?

Layne Staley's sun is in Leo.

What is Layne Staley's moon sign?

Layne Staley's moon is in Pisces.

What is Layne Staley's rising sign?

Layne Staley's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Layne Staley born?

Layne Staley was born August 22, 1967 in Kirkland, King County, United States.

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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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunLeo · 12th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonPisces · 7th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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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 Leo in the 12th 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 NodeAries · 8th house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 2nd house

The South Node in Libra (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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Sagittarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

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 rulerLeo · 12th house

Thought is dramatic and expressive, built around the central idea. The mind works in stories and large themes, the speech has presence, and the conversation has to mean something. The shadow is impatience with detail.

Where it drives. The mind works behind the scenes. Quiet, dreamy and intuitive, the intellect operates out of sight, and can become a fine instrument for writing the interior life.

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.

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 fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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 · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  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 be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  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 fire, mutable chart led by the Sun in Leo. 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 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 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 Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
41%
Earth
26%
Air
8%
Water
26%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Pluto, Uranus, Venus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Virgo 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 Virgo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Virgo 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 square Jupiterorb 0.20°

In you, Mars grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars sextile Plutoorb 1.29°

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.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 1.49°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.03°

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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 2.11°

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

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
Sun rules Leoat home

Sun 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.

Mercury trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.1°

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

Sun trine North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Mars sextile Plutoorb 1.3°

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.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 1.5°

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

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

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

Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

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

Neptune square Vertexorb 0.1°

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

Mars square Jupiterorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 3.1°

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

Jupiter opposition Vertexorb 3.2°

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

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Chart data for Layne Staley
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°48' Leo12th houserulership
Moon27°24' Pisces7th house·
Mercury26°42' Leo12th housechart ruler
Venus10°06' Virgo12th houseretrograde, fall
Mars18°21' Scorpio3rd houserulership
Jupiter18°33' Leo12th house·
Saturn11°47' Aries8th houseretrograde, fall
Uranus23°10' Virgo1st house·
Neptune21°40' Scorpio3rd house·
Pluto19°38' Virgo1st house·
Chiron28°47' Pisces7th houseretrograde
North Node29°34' Aries8th houseretrograde
South Node29°34' Libra2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith26°35' Aries8th house·
Part of Fortune12°00' Aries8th house·
Vertex21°45' Aquarius6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesquarevertex0.07°applying
mercurytrinelilith0.12°separating
marssquarejupiter0.20°applying
saturnconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.22°separating
suntrinenorth-node0.77°applying
marssextilepluto1.29°applying
moonconjunctionchiron1.39°applying
uranussextileneptune1.49°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.03°applying
sunconjunctionmercury2.11°applying
suntrinelilith2.22°separating
mercurytrinenorth-node2.87°applying
north-nodeconjunctionlilith2.99°applying
jupitersquareneptune3.12°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex3.19°applying
marsconjunctionneptune3.32°applying
marssquarevertex3.40°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto3.52°separating
moonoppositionuranus4.24°separating
mercuryoppositionvertex4.95°separating
mercurysquareneptune5.03°separating
uranusoppositionchiron5.63°applying
moontrineneptune5.73°separating
sunoppositionvertex7.06°separating
sunsquareneptune7.14°separating
moonoppositionpluto7.76°separating
sunquincunxchiron0.02°separating
mercurysesquiquadratesaturn0.09°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.30°applying
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.35°separating
uranusbiquintilenorth-node0.41°applying
venusquintileneptune0.43°applying
marsbiquintilesaturn0.56°separating
moonquincunxmercury0.70°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node0.78°applying
moonsemisextilelilith0.81°separating
plutobiquintilelilith0.94°separating
jupitersemisextilepluto1.09°applying
sunquincunxmoon1.41°applying
uranusquincunxvertex1.41°separating
venussesquiquadratelilith1.48°separating
venusquincunxsaturn1.68°separating
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.81°separating
venusquincunxpart-of-fortune1.90°separating
mercuryquincunxchiron2.09°applying
plutoquincunxvertex2.10°applying