Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Martin Scorsese.

17 November 1942 · 00:24 · Queens, New York

Martin Scorsese's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Pisces, Virgo rising. Born November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York.

About this chart

What is Martin Scorsese's sun sign?

Martin Scorsese's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Martin Scorsese's moon sign?

Martin Scorsese's moon is in Pisces.

What is Martin Scorsese's rising sign?

Martin Scorsese's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Martin Scorsese born?

Martin Scorsese was born November 17, 1942 in Queens, 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 Scorpio 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 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.

SunScorpio · 3rd house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

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 Scorpio in the 3rd 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 NodeVirgo · 12th 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 · 6th house

The South Node in Pisces (6th 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.

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 rulerScorpio · 3rd house

Thought is penetrating and investigative, drawn to what is hidden. The speech is concentrated and sometimes withholding, and the gift is research and depth. The shadow is suspicion hardening into paranoia.

Where it drives. Mercury is at home here. The daily mind is the whole life: a voracious learner, a natural communicator, with strong sibling bonds and the local world as the schoolroom.

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 (Saturn) 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 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.

UranusGemini · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 12th 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 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 10th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  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 water, fixed 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 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

Scorpio Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Scorpio 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 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
15%
Water
69%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mars, Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Grand Trine in Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Moon, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Sun 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, Moon, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, 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.

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 conjunction Venusorb 0.18°

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

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.79°

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.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 0.97°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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 trine Neptuneorb 1.48°

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

Moon trine Mercuryorb 2.17°

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

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.8°

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

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.0°

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

Jupiter exalted in Cancerlifted

Jupiter is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Where it works
Pluto opposition Vertexorb 0.6°

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.

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Mercury opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

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

Uranus square North Nodeorb 2.4°

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

Mars square Vertexorb 2.5°

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

Mars square Plutoorb 3.1°

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

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Chart data for Martin Scorsese
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°14' Scorpio3rd house·
Moon18°25' Pisces7th house·
Mercury16°15' Scorpio3rd housechart ruler
Venus24°24' Scorpio3rd housedetriment
Mars10°20' Scorpio3rd houserulership
Jupiter25°12' Cancer11th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn10°12' Gemini10th houseretrograde
Uranus2°54' Gemini9th houseretrograde
Neptune1°26' Libra1st house·
Pluto7°14' Leo11th houseretrograde
Chiron28°44' Leo12th house·
North Node0°29' Virgo12th houseretrograde
South Node0°29' Pisces6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith9°06' Cancer10th house·
Part of Fortune14°18' Taurus9th house·
Vertex7°49' Aquarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunconjunctionvenus0.18°separating
plutooppositionvertex0.58°separating
venustrinejupiter0.79°applying
suntrinejupiter0.97°applying
marstrinelilith1.24°separating
uranustrineneptune1.48°applying
chironconjunctionnorth-node1.76°applying
mercuryoppositionpart-of-fortune1.96°separating
moontrinemercury2.17°separating
saturntrinevertex2.39°applying
uranussquarenorth-node2.42°applying
marssquarevertex2.52°separating
saturnsextilepluto2.97°applying
marssquarepluto3.10°separating
marsoppositionpart-of-fortune3.96°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune4.13°separating
uranussquarechiron4.18°applying
venussquarechiron4.32°applying
sunsquarechiron4.50°applying
uranustrinevertex4.91°separating
suntrinemoon5.80°applying
mercuryconjunctionmars5.92°separating
moontrinevenus5.98°applying
sunsquarenorth-node6.26°applying
moontrinejupiter6.77°applying
sunconjunctionmercury7.97°applying
jupitersemisquaresaturn0.01°applying
sunsesquiquadratelilith0.13°separating
marsquincunxsaturn0.13°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune0.17°applying
venussesquiquadratelilith0.31°separating
marsquintilechiron0.39°applying
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.94°separating
jupiterquintilepart-of-fortune1.10°separating
saturnsemisextilelilith1.10°applying
lilithquincunxvertex1.29°separating
venusquintilevertex1.40°applying
plutosemisextilelilith1.87°separating