Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Marc Andreessen.

9 July 1971 · time unknown · Cedar Falls, Iowa
unknown birth time · rising?

Marc Andreessen's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aquarius. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born July 9, 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

About this chart

What is Marc Andreessen's sun sign?

Marc Andreessen's sun is in Cancer.

What is Marc Andreessen's moon sign?

Marc Andreessen's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Marc Andreessen's rising sign?

Marc Andreessen's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown.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

When and where was Marc Andreessen born?

Marc Andreessen was born July 9, 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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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 Aquarius 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.

SunCancer · 10th 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 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.

MoonAquarius · 4th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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RisingVirgo? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. 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 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 NodeAquarius · 5th house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 11th house

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

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 · 11th 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. Thinking is networked. A strategist who works in systems and possibilities, with an intellectually significant circle of friends and a mind set on the future.

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.

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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 (Sun, Venus) 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 air and fixed 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.

UranusLibra · 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 Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 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 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 →

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 woundAries · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that kept the peace by disappearing. It is the refusal to make harmony out of self-erasure. The medicine is letting other people be uncomfortable when your truth needs air. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  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 an air, fixed chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

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 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 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

Cancer Sun · Aquarius Moon · Virgo rising? Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius 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
10%
Earth
15%
Air
41%
Water
33%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Grand Trinecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Moon, Pluto, Saturn)

In your chart, Moon, Pluto, Saturn form a grand trine. Yours crosses elements rather than sitting in one climate. The ease is still real, but it asks you to braid different kinds of gift instead of one pure talent.

gift

Profound natural talent and ease in the element of the trine, a self-sustaining flow of ability that protects and stabilizes the person.

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.

Mystic Rectanglerare
two oppositions linked by trines and sextiles (Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, Saturn form a mystic rectangle. A mystic rectangle is a rare and elegant configuration: two pairs of planets in opposition, with the oppositions linked on the sides by trines and sextiles. It combines tension and ease in a closed, stable shape, the oppositions providing the drive and the soft aspects providing the means to handle it. People with a mystic rectangle tend to have a practical, grounded way of turning their inner tensions into productive, usable form.

gift

The rare combination of motivating tension and the built-in ease to manage it, a configuration that gets things done without tearing itself apart.

difficulty

The stability can become a closed loop, a self-contained system that resists outside input, and the oppositions still need conscious balancing.

release point

The rectangle releases through its oppositions, which ask for integration, while the trines and sextiles are the tools you already have to do it. The work is using the easy aspects to resolve the hard ones rather than letting the shape stay sealed.

Kite · outlet Neptuneuncommon
a grand trine given direction by Neptune (Moon, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

release point

Lean into Neptune. 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.

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 0.31°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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 trine Saturnorb 0.87°

In you, the Moon flows together with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 opposition Neptuneorb 1.78°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Moon opposition Mercuryorb 2.65°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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.

Moon sextile Neptuneorb 2.65°

In you, the Moon works easily with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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
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.

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 0.3°

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

Chiron sextile North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Moon trine Saturnorb 0.9°

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

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Venus square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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

Pluto opposition Vertexorb 1.8°

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

Saturn opposition Neptuneorb 1.8°

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

Moon opposition Mercuryorb 2.7°

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

Sun square Chironorb 3.0°

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

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Chart data for Marc Andreessen
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°49' Cancer10th house·
Moon3°15' Aquarius4th house·
Mercury5°54' Leo11th housechart ruler
Venus3°24' Cancer10th house·
Mars21°56' Aquarius5th house·
Jupiter26°56' Scorpio3rd houseretrograde
Saturn2°22' Gemini9th house·
Uranus9°38' Libra1st house·
Neptune0°35' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
Pluto27°15' Virgo12th house·
Chiron13°49' Aries7th house·
North Node14°39' Aquarius5th houseretrograde
South Node14°39' Leo11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith4°20' Libra1st house·
Part of Fortune16°03' Aries7th house·
Vertex29°02' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersextilepluto0.31°separating
sunsquarepart-of-fortune0.78°separating
chironsextilenorth-node0.83°applying
moontrinesaturn0.87°separating
venussquarelilith0.92°applying
moontrinelilith1.08°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune1.39°separating
neptunetrinevertex1.56°applying
mercurysextilelilith1.57°separating
plutooppositionvertex1.78°applying
saturnoppositionneptune1.78°separating
saturntrinelilith1.95°separating
jupitertrinevertex2.09°separating
chironconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.22°applying
moonoppositionmercury2.65°applying
moonsextileneptune2.65°separating
sunsquarechiron3.00°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.34°applying
saturnsextilevertex3.34°separating
mercurysextilesaturn3.52°separating
jupiterconjunctionneptune3.65°separating
neptunesextilelilith3.74°separating
mercurysextileuranus3.74°applying
uranusoppositionchiron4.18°applying
moonsextilevertex4.21°separating
venussquarevertex4.37°separating
marssquarejupiter5.00°applying
uranustrinenorth-node5.01°applying
saturntrinepluto5.13°separating
lilithoppositionvertex5.30°separating
mercurytrineneptune5.31°separating
uranusconjunctionlilith5.31°applying
jupiteroppositionsaturn5.44°separating
moontrinepluto6.00°separating
moontrineuranus6.40°applying
sunsquareuranus7.18°separating
moonquincunxvenus0.16°separating
neptunesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.46°separating
venusbiquintilejupiter0.47°separating
sunsemisquaresaturn0.55°applying
north-nodesemisquarevertex0.62°applying
marsbiquintilepluto0.69°separating
moonquintilepart-of-fortune0.80°applying
sunbiquintilemars0.89°separating
venussemisextilesaturn1.03°separating
sunsesquiquadrateneptune1.24°separating
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.33°separating
moonquintilechiron1.42°separating
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.77°applying
jupitersesquiquadratechiron1.89°separating
sunquincunxnorth-node2.17°separating