Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Otis Redding.

9 September 1941 · time unknown · Dawson, Georgia
unknown birth time · rising?

Otis Redding's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Taurus. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born September 9, 1941 in Dawson, Georgia.

About this chart

What is Otis Redding's sun sign?

Otis Redding's sun is in Virgo.

What is Otis Redding's moon sign?

Otis Redding's moon is in Taurus.

What is Otis Redding's rising sign?

Otis Redding's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Otis Redding born?

Otis Redding was born September 9, 1941 in Dawson, 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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Taurus 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 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.

SunVirgo · 10th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. 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 · 6th 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. 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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RisingScorpio? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. 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 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Pisces (4th 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

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 rulerAries · 6th house

Mars is at home here. The drive is direct and fast, sometimes reckless. Anger erupts quickly and clears quickly, and the will is pure. The shadow is being unable to wait.

Where it drives. Energy is poured into daily work. Hardworking and physically driven, you need real exertion to feel well, and conflict can flare in the workplace.

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. Planets in the 10th (Sun) amplify that signal.

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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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 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 · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 →

NeptuneVirgo · 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 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 →

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 woundLeo · 9th 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 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  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 an earth, fixed chart led by the Sun in Virgo. 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.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Taurus Moon · Scorpio rising? Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Taurus 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 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
18%
Earth
38%
Air
28%
Water
15%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

No major aspect patterns sit tight enough to qualify here. The chart reads as a network of pair contacts rather than a defining geometry.

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 opposition Marsorb 0.18°

In you, Venus sits opposite Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.84°

In you, Mercury works easily with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.53°

In you, Saturn flows together with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Saturn conjunction Uranusorb 1.80°

In you, Saturn is fused with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 3.33°

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
Venus rules Libraat home

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

Mars rules Ariesat home

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

Moon sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

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

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.8°

An easy, available link: Mercury and Pluto 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.

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Saturn 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 opposition Marsorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Geminiuphill

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

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 2.8°

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

Mercury square Vertexorb 2.9°

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

Neptune square Part of Fortuneorb 3.4°

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

Sun square Jupiterorb 3.4°

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

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Chart data for Otis Redding
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°33' Virgo10th house·
Moon1°13' Taurus6th houseexaltation
Mercury4°14' Libra11th house·
Venus23°28' Libra12th houserulership
Mars23°39' Aries6th houseretrograde, rulership, chart ruler
Jupiter19°56' Gemini8th housedetriment
Saturn28°32' Taurus7th house·
Uranus0°20' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Neptune27°01' Virgo11th house·
Pluto5°04' Leo9th house·
Chiron9°48' Leo9th house·
North Node22°44' Virgo10th house·
South Node22°44' Pisces4th house·
Black Moon Lilith20°35' Taurus7th house·
Part of Fortune0°23' Cancer8th house·
Vertex7°09' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venusoppositionmars0.18°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune0.84°separating
mercurysextilepluto0.84°applying
saturntrineneptune1.53°applying
saturnconjunctionuranus1.80°applying
north-nodetrinelilith2.15°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node2.80°applying
mercurysquarevertex2.91°applying
uranustrineneptune3.33°applying
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune3.37°applying
sunsquarejupiter3.38°applying
venustrinejupiter3.54°separating
marssextilejupiter3.72°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune3.85°separating
moonsquarepluto3.85°applying
mercurytrineuranus3.89°separating
suntrinelilith4.03°applying
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node4.28°separating
plutoconjunctionchiron4.72°separating
mercurytrinesaturn5.69°separating
saturntrinenorth-node5.81°applying
moonsextilevertex5.92°applying
sunconjunctionnorth-node6.18°applying
moonconjunctionmars7.57°separating
moonoppositionvenus7.75°separating
uranussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.04°separating
jupitersemisquarepluto0.14°applying
sunsesquiquadratemoon0.33°separating
jupitersemisextilelilith0.65°separating
venussemisextilenorth-node0.74°separating
saturnquintilechiron0.75°applying
venusbiquintileuranus0.87°applying
moonsemisextileuranus0.89°separating
marsquincunxnorth-node0.92°applying
venusbiquintilesaturn0.93°separating
sunbiquintilemars1.10°applying
mercurysesquiquadratelilith1.35°applying
marsquintilevertex1.49°separating
lilithsemisquarevertex1.56°applying
saturnsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.84°applying