Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Natalie Wood.

20 July 1938 · 11:16 · San Francisco, California

Natalie Wood's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Taurus, Libra rising. Born July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California.

About this chart

What is Natalie Wood's sun sign?

Natalie Wood's sun is in Cancer.

What is Natalie Wood's moon sign?

Natalie Wood's moon is in Taurus.

What is Natalie Wood's rising sign?

Natalie Wood's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Natalie Wood born?

Natalie Wood was born July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California.

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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 Taurus 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.

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.

MoonTaurus · 7th house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. 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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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 Virgo in the 11th 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 NodeScorpio · 2nd 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 · 8th house

The South Node in Taurus (8th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Cancer, 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 rulerVirgo · 11th 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. Affection flows through friendship. Friends come easily, love sometimes begins inside a group, and an aesthetic vision shapes the future you want.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mars, Pluto) amplify that signal.

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 water and cardinal 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.

UranusTaurus · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 →

PlutoCancer · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundCancer · 9th house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 3rd house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  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 water, cardinal 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.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

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 · Taurus Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Taurus 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
18%
Earth
26%
Air
15%
Water
41%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Mars, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Pluto, Sun gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 0.05°

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

Mars conjunction Plutoorb 0.99°

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.

Sun conjunction Marsorb 1.24°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon square Plutoorb 1.36°

In you, the Moon grinds against Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.71°

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.

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 Piscesat home

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

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Moon exalted in Tauruslifted

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

Chiron sextile Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.7°

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

Uranus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.9°

An easy, available link: Uranus 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
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.

Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

Saturn works against the grain in Aries. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Moon square Plutoorb 1.4°

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

Moon square Marsorb 2.4°

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

Saturn square Part of Fortuneorb 2.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn 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 Natalie Wood
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°23' Cancer10th house·
Moon0°58' Taurus7th houseexaltation
Mercury22°08' Leo11th house·
Venus7°33' Virgo11th housefall, chart ruler
Mars28°37' Cancer10th housefall
Jupiter0°55' Pisces5th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn17°57' Aries7th housefall
Uranus17°20' Taurus8th house·
Neptune19°02' Virgo12th house·
Pluto29°36' Cancer10th house·
Chiron5°02' Cancer9th house·
North Node24°43' Scorpio2nd house·
South Node24°43' Taurus8th house·
Black Moon Lilith12°49' Capricorn3rd house·
Part of Fortune15°23' Cancer10th house·
Vertex3°43' Taurus7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilejupiter0.05°separating
marsconjunctionpluto0.99°applying
sunconjunctionmars1.24°applying
chironsextilevertex1.31°separating
moonsquarepluto1.36°separating
uranustrineneptune1.71°applying
uranussextilepart-of-fortune1.94°separating
sunconjunctionpluto2.23°applying
moonsquaremars2.35°separating
venussextilechiron2.53°separating
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune2.56°separating
lilithoppositionpart-of-fortune2.58°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node2.58°applying
suntrinenorth-node2.67°separating
moonconjunctionvertex2.74°applying
jupitersextilevertex2.80°separating
sunsquaremoon3.59°separating
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune3.65°separating
venustrinevertex3.85°separating
marstrinenorth-node3.91°separating
moonsextilechiron4.06°applying
plutosquarevertex4.11°applying
jupitertrinechiron4.11°separating
mercurytrinesaturn4.18°separating
uranustrinelilith4.51°applying
mercurysquareuranus4.80°separating
plutotrinenorth-node4.90°separating
marssquarevertex5.10°applying
saturnsquarelilith5.14°applying
venustrinelilith5.26°applying
sunsquarevertex6.33°applying
moontrinevenus6.59°applying
uranusquintilepluto0.28°separating
part-of-fortunequintilevertex0.32°separating
neptunesesquiquadratevertex0.32°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.52°applying
saturnsemisextileuranus0.62°applying
marsquintileuranus0.71°applying
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.76°applying
saturnquincunxneptune1.09°separating
jupiterquincunxpluto1.31°applying
marsquincunxjupiter2.30°applying