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Martha Stewart.

3 August 1941 · 13:33 · Jersey City, New Jersey

Martha Stewart's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Sagittarius, Scorpio rising. Born August 3, 1941 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

About this chart

What is Martha Stewart's sun sign?

Martha Stewart's sun is in Leo.

What is Martha Stewart's moon sign?

Martha Stewart's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Martha Stewart's rising sign?

Martha Stewart's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Martha Stewart born?

Martha Stewart was born August 3, 1941 in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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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 Sagittarius 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.

SunLeo · 9th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonSagittarius · 2nd house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

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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 Aries in the 5th 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 NodeVirgo · 11th house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 5th house

The South Node in Pisces (5th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerAries · 5th house

Mars is at home here. The drive is direct and fast, sometimes reckless. Anger erupts quickly and clears quickly, and the will is pure. The shadow is being unable to wait.

Where it drives. Desire goes into creation and play. A passionate lover, competitive at games, with a strong creative drive and, sometimes, friction with children.

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. Planets in the 10th (Venus) amplify that signal.

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 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.

UranusTaurus · 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 Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 woundLeo · 9th house

The wound is being seen: a fear that the real you is not special enough to love, so you dim your light or chase validation that never quite lands. Applause can feel like oxygen and still leave you hollow. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 7th 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 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 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 meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  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 fire, fixed 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 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 Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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
49%
Earth
18%
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.

Yod · apex Moonuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Moon (Mercury, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Saturn form a yod pointing at Moon 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 Moon: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

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

release point

The release is opposite Moon: 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.

Mercury sextile Neptuneorb 0.37°

In you, Mercury works easily with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.38°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 Jupiterorb 1.49°

In you, Mars works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.50°

In you, Saturn flows together with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 1.87°

In you, Mercury works easily with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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
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 Ariesat 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 sextile Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Mercury trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 1.5°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Saturn 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.

Yodpattern

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Neptune opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.1°

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

North Node opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between North Node and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Martha Stewart
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun10°57' Leo9th houserulership
Moon25°24' Sagittarius2nd house·
Mercury25°25' Cancer9th house·
Venus9°09' Virgo10th housefall
Mars16°18' Aries5th houserulership, chart ruler
Jupiter14°48' Gemini8th housedetriment
Saturn27°17' Taurus7th house·
Uranus29°54' Taurus7th house·
Neptune25°47' Virgo11th house·
Pluto4°07' Leo9th house·
Chiron5°32' Leo9th house·
North Node23°34' Virgo11th houseretrograde
South Node23°34' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith16°28' Taurus7th house·
Part of Fortune24°44' Pisces5th house·
Vertex21°41' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysextileneptune0.37°applying
moonsquareneptune0.38°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune0.68°separating
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune0.69°separating
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune1.06°separating
north-nodeoppositionpart-of-fortune1.17°separating
plutoconjunctionchiron1.43°separating
marssextilejupiter1.49°separating
saturntrineneptune1.50°separating
moonsquarenorth-node1.85°separating
mercurysextilenorth-node1.85°separating
mercurysextilesaturn1.87°applying
north-nodesquarevertex1.88°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node2.22°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune2.56°separating
saturnconjunctionuranus2.61°applying
part-of-fortunesquarevertex3.05°separating
saturntrinenorth-node3.73°separating
moonoppositionvertex3.73°separating
sunsextilejupiter3.85°applying
neptunesquarevertex4.11°separating
uranustrineneptune4.11°applying
suntrinemars5.34°applying
sunconjunctionchiron5.42°separating
sunsquarelilith5.51°applying
venussquarejupiter5.66°applying
sunconjunctionpluto6.84°separating
moonquincunxmercury0.01°separating
marssemisextilelilith0.16°applying
sunsemisquareneptune0.17°separating
sunsesquiquadratemoon0.55°applying
sunquintileuranus0.94°applying
chironsemisquarevertex1.14°applying
venusbiquintilemars1.15°applying
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.23°separating
mercurysemisquarevenus1.27°separating
marssemisquareuranus1.40°separating
jupitersemisextilelilith1.66°applying
sunsemisextilevenus1.81°applying
moonquincunxsaturn1.88°applying