Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Melanie Griffith.

9 August 1957 · 23:49 · New York, New York

Melanie Griffith's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Aquarius, Taurus rising. Born August 9, 1957 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Melanie Griffith's sun sign?

Melanie Griffith's sun is in Leo.

What is Melanie Griffith's moon sign?

Melanie Griffith's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Melanie Griffith's rising sign?

Melanie Griffith's Rising (Ascendant) is Taurus.

When and where was Melanie Griffith born?

Melanie Griffith was born August 9, 1957 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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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 · 4th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonAquarius · 10th 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. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Virgo in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 NodeScorpio · 6th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 12th house

The South Node in Taurus (12th 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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Pisces; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Taurus rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerVirgo · 5th house

Love is practical and devoted, expressed through service, noticing what others need before they ask. The shadow is being unable to receive a gift without correcting it.

Where it drives. The heart is generous and on display. A strong romantic life, real artistic talent, and joy taken in play and in children. Love is meant to be expressed.

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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MidheavenCapricorn · the 10th house

With Capricorn on the Midheaven, a room senses gravity: someone serious, capable, clearly built to be in charge. Planets in the 10th (Moon) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCancer · the 4th house

With Cancer on the IC, home is the original tide: feeling first, belonging as the ground under everything.

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.

UranusLeo · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, 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 →

PlutoLeo · 5th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 woundAquarius · 10th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): 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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your calm first: solid, unhurried, hard to rush.

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 earth, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

Missing: Little or no water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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 · Aquarius Moon · Taurus rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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
23%
Earth
54%
Air
23%
Water
0%
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: Pluto, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Pluto, Sun, Uranus 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: Mars, Mercury, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, 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.

Saturn trine Uranusorb 0.25°

In you, Saturn flows together with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.35°

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.

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 1.17°

In you, Mars works easily with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars conjunction Plutoorb 1.52°

In you, Mars is fused with Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury conjunction Venusorb 3.75°

In you, Mercury is fused with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

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.

Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Saturn trine Uranusorb 0.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Saturn and Uranus 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 0.5°

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.

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Mars 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.

Chiron square North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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

Moon square North Nodeorb 2.0°

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

Sun square North Nodeorb 2.3°

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

Sun opposition Chironorb 2.6°

A polarity asking to be balanced: 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 Melanie Griffith
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°14' Leo4th houserulership
Moon12°57' Aquarius10th house·
Mercury14°23' Virgo5th houserulership
Venus18°08' Virgo5th housefall, chart ruler
Mars1°13' Virgo5th house·
Jupiter0°33' Libra5th house·
Saturn7°41' Sagittarius7th houseretrograde
Uranus7°55' Leo4th house·
Neptune0°03' Scorpio6th house·
Pluto29°42' Leo5th house·
Chiron14°40' Aquarius10th houseretrograde
North Node14°56' Scorpio6th houseretrograde
South Node14°56' Taurus12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith8°25' Pisces11th house·
Part of Fortune24°20' Scorpio7th house·
Vertex22°51' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturntrineuranus0.25°separating
chironsquarenorth-node0.27°applying
neptunesextilepluto0.35°applying
mercurysextilenorth-node0.55°applying
saturnsquarelilith0.74°separating
marssextileneptune1.17°separating
marsconjunctionpluto1.52°separating
moonconjunctionchiron1.71°applying
moonsquarenorth-node1.98°applying
sunsquarenorth-node2.31°separating
sunoppositionchiron2.57°separating
venussextilenorth-node3.20°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus3.75°separating
sunoppositionmoon4.29°applying
moonoppositionuranus5.03°separating
moonsextilesaturn5.28°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune5.37°separating
sunsextilevertex5.60°applying
mercuryoppositionlilith5.96°separating
sunsquarepart-of-fortune7.09°applying
saturnsemisquarevertex0.17°separating
mercuryquincunxchiron0.28°applying
jupitersemisextileneptune0.50°separating
uranusquincunxlilith0.50°separating
lilithsesquiquadratevertex0.58°separating
jupitersemisquarenorth-node0.61°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune0.66°applying
marssemisextilejupiter0.67°separating
sunquintileneptune0.81°applying
moonbiquintilevenus0.82°separating
jupitersemisextilepluto0.85°separating
jupitersesquiquadratechiron0.88°separating
sunsemisextilevenus0.90°separating
moonquincunxmercury1.43°applying
part-of-fortunesemisextilevertex1.48°separating
sunsemisquarejupiter1.69°separating