Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Neil Young.

12 November 1945 · 06:45 · Toronto, Canada

Neil Young's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Aquarius, Scorpio rising. Born November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Canada.

About this chart

What is Neil Young's sun sign?

Neil Young's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Neil Young's moon sign?

Neil Young's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Neil Young's rising sign?

Neil Young's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Neil Young born?

Neil Young was born November 12, 1945 in Toronto, Canada.

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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 Aquarius 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 air 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 · 1st 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 lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonAquarius · 3rd 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 processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

ASC
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 Leo in the 9th 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 NodeCancer · 8th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 2nd house

The South Node in Capricorn (2nd 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. At 0° of a cardinal sign: a world point. This placement is wired to the wider world; it tends to play out publicly, visibly, on a larger stage than most.

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 rulerLeo · 9th house

The drive is dramatic, confident and built to be witnessed, and the anger is theatrical. The shadow is needing an audience to validate the effort.

Where it drives. The drive is for the wider world. An active traveller with strong convictions, often a teacher with fire, and the occasional clash with foreign cultures or in-laws.

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.

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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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 · 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 Gemini

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 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 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 · 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 woundLibra · 11th house

The wound is relationship: heartbreak, codependency, or losing yourself in others, underpinned by a sense that you are only lovable when you please. Harmony can become a cage you decorate. It plays out most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  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 water, fixed chart led by the Sun in Scorpio. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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 Scorpio, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Scorpio key.

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Aquarius Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius 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 air 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
28%
Earth
0%
Air
23%
Water
49%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Moon, Pluto, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Pluto, Sun form a T-square with Sun at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Sun: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Sun can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Grand Trine in Aircommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Moon, Uranus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Uranus form a grand trine. Yours runs on air: a closed circuit of mind, language, and connection. Talent shows as pattern recognition and the ease of linking people and ideas.

gift

Natural air 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.

Venus square Marsorb 0.08°

In you, Venus grinds against Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.26°

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.

Mercury trine Plutoorb 0.48°

In you, Mercury flows together with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 opposition Plutoorb 1.97°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 2.45°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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
Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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.

Venus trine North Nodeorb 0.4°

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

Mercury trine Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Moon trine Chironorb 1.3°

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

Uranus trine Chironorb 1.4°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Venus square Marsorb 0.1°

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

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Pluto square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.1°

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

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

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Chart data for Neil Young
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun19°44' Scorpio1st house·
Moon13°46' Aquarius3rd house·
Mercury11°19' Sagittarius1st housedetriment
Venus0°14' Scorpio12th housedetriment
Mars0°09' Leo9th housechart ruler
Jupiter16°42' Libra11th house·
Saturn24°52' Cancer9th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus16°27' Gemini8th houseretrograde
Neptune7°41' Libra11th house·
Pluto11°48' Leo9th house·
Chiron15°06' Libra11th house·
North Node0°41' Cancer8th house·
South Node0°41' Capricorn2nd house·
Black Moon Lilith10°40' Scorpio12th house·
Part of Fortune20°27' Leo9th house·
Vertex25°26' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venussquaremars0.08°separating
jupitertrineuranus0.26°separating
venustrinenorth-node0.45°applying
mercurytrinepluto0.48°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune0.71°applying
plutosquarelilith1.13°applying
moontrinechiron1.32°applying
uranustrinechiron1.35°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron1.61°separating
moonoppositionpluto1.97°separating
moonsextilemercury2.45°separating
moontrineuranus2.68°applying
moontrinejupiter2.93°applying
moonsquarelilith3.10°separating
plutosextilechiron3.29°separating
mercurysextileneptune3.63°separating
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune3.75°applying
mercurysextilechiron3.78°applying
venustrinevertex4.80°separating
mercuryoppositionuranus5.13°applying
suntrinesaturn5.13°applying
north-nodeconjunctionvertex5.25°separating
marsconjunctionsaturn5.29°separating
venussquaresaturn5.37°separating
sunsquaremoon5.97°applying
moontrineneptune6.08°separating
moonoppositionpart-of-fortune6.68°applying
sunsquarepluto7.93°separating
uranusbiquintilelilith0.22°separating
lilithsesquiquadratevertex0.23°separating
sunbiquintilevertex0.30°separating
marssemisextilenorth-node0.53°applying
saturnsemisextilevertex0.57°separating
mercurysemisextilelilith0.65°separating
saturnquintileneptune0.82°separating
venussesquiquadrateuranus1.21°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.29°applying
plutosemisquarevertex1.36°separating
mercurysesquiquadratesaturn1.46°separating
moonsesquiquadratenorth-node1.91°applying