Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Michael Stipe.

4 January 1960 · 00:26 · Decatur, Georgia

Michael Stipe's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Pisces, Libra rising. Born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia.

About this chart

What is Michael Stipe's sun sign?

Michael Stipe's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Michael Stipe's moon sign?

Michael Stipe's moon is in Pisces.

What is Michael Stipe's rising sign?

Michael Stipe's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Michael Stipe born?

Michael Stipe was born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia.

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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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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.

SunCapricorn · 4th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. 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.

MoonPisces · 6th 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. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Sagittarius in the 2nd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 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

Libra 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 rulerSagittarius · 2nd house

Love is freedom-loving and adventurous, oriented toward shared meaning, needing space inside the relationship. The shadow is taking flight when intimacy gets too close.

Where it drives. Venus is at home here. Pleasure is in what you own and value: ease with money and possessions, well-developed senses, and support that tends to flow from what you cherish.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 mutable 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 · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 · 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 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 woundAquarius · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 Moon. 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.

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 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

Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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
38%
Earth
23%
Air
15%
Water
23%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Sagittarius 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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 1.00°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Saturn sextile Neptuneorb 1.08°

In you, Saturn works easily with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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 Marsorb 2.00°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 trine Uranusorb 2.22°

In you, Mars flows together with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 2.77°

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.

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
Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

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

Saturn rules Capricornat home

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

Mercury trine Vertexorb 0.3°

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

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 1.0°

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

Saturn sextile Neptuneorb 1.1°

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

North Node sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Mercury square North Nodeorb 2.0°

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

Moon square Marsorb 2.0°

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

Part of Fortune square Vertexorb 2.8°

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

Moon opposition North Nodeorb 3.2°

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

Jupiter opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 3.4°

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

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Chart data for Michael Stipe
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°51' Capricorn4th house·
Moon24°40' Pisces6th house·
Mercury29°48' Sagittarius3rd housedetriment
Venus2°13' Sagittarius2nd housechart ruler
Mars22°39' Sagittarius3rd house·
Jupiter19°26' Sagittarius3rd houserulership
Saturn9°50' Capricorn4th houserulership
Uranus20°26' Leo11th houseretrograde
Neptune8°45' Scorpio2nd house·
Pluto5°59' Virgo11th houseretrograde
Chiron24°35' Aquarius5th house·
North Node27°49' Virgo12th houseretrograde
South Node27°49' Pisces6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith16°00' Gemini9th house·
Part of Fortune26°40' Cancer10th house·
Vertex29°28' Aries7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrinevertex0.34°separating
jupitertrineuranus1.00°applying
saturnsextileneptune1.08°separating
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune1.15°applying
marssextilechiron1.93°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node1.98°separating
moonsquaremars2.00°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune2.01°applying
marstrineuranus2.22°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.77°separating
part-of-fortunesquarevertex2.79°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn3.03°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node3.16°applying
marsconjunctionjupiter3.22°separating
jupiteroppositionlilith3.44°separating
venussquarepluto3.76°applying
saturntrinepluto3.85°separating
sunsextileneptune4.11°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.16°separating
moonsquaremercury5.14°applying
marssquarenorth-node5.16°applying
moonsquarejupiter5.23°separating
venustrinepart-of-fortune5.55°separating
suntrinepluto6.87°separating
moontrinevenus7.56°applying
moonsemisextilechiron0.07°separating
sunquintilemoon0.20°separating
saturnsemisquarechiron0.24°separating
moonsesquiquadrateneptune0.91°separating
marssemisquareneptune1.10°applying
jupiterbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.24°applying
neptunebiquintilelilith1.24°separating
lilithsemisquarevertex1.53°separating
north-nodequincunxvertex1.65°separating
chironquincunxpart-of-fortune2.08°applying