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Pablo Picasso.

25 October 1881 · 23:15 · Málaga, Spain

Pablo Picasso's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Sagittarius, Leo rising. Born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain.

About this chart

What is Pablo Picasso's sun sign?

Pablo Picasso's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Pablo Picasso's moon sign?

Pablo Picasso's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Pablo Picasso's rising sign?

Pablo Picasso's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Pablo Picasso born?

Pablo Picasso was born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain.

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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 Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 fire 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 · 4th 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. 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.

MoonSagittarius · 5th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Scorpio in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 NodeSagittarius · 5th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 11th house

The South Node in Gemini (11th 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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Sun · chart rulerScorpio · 4th house

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.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 fixed 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 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.

UranusVirgo · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneTaurus · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Taurus

An era that dreams of natural abundance and embodied spirit, softening the hard edges of materialism.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoTaurus · 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 Taurus

An era that remakes value, currency and material life, putting what is owned 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 woundTaurus · 10th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 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 meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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, fixed chart led by the Sun in Scorpio. 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.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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 · Sagittarius Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 fire 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
38%
Earth
15%
Air
10%
Water
36%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 0.68°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.52°

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.

Mars sextile Saturnorb 2.90°

In you, Mars works easily with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 3.16°

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.

Moon sextile Venusorb 3.69°

In you, the Moon works easily with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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
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.

Uranus trine Neptuneorb 1.5°

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.

Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.6°

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

Mars sextile Saturnorb 2.9°

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

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 3.2°

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.

Moon sextile Venusorb 3.7°

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

Where it works
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.

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 0.7°

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

Neptune square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.1°

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

Uranus square Vertexorb 2.4°

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

Mercury opposition Chironorb 3.2°

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

Venus square Part of Fortuneorb 4.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus 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 Pablo Picasso
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°42' Scorpio4th housechart ruler
Moon8°12' Sagittarius5th house·
Mercury24°14' Scorpio4th house·
Venus4°31' Libra3rd houserulership
Mars12°21' Cancer12th housefall
Jupiter23°33' Taurus10th houseretrograde
Saturn9°27' Taurus10th houseretrograde
Uranus17°02' Virgo2nd house·
Neptune15°30' Taurus10th houseretrograde
Pluto28°47' Taurus10th houseretrograde
Chiron21°03' Taurus10th houseretrograde
North Node9°23' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
South Node9°23' Gemini11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith14°27' Leo1st house·
Part of Fortune0°08' Cancer11th house·
Vertex19°25' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryoppositionjupiter0.68°separating
neptunesquarelilith1.05°applying
moonconjunctionnorth-node1.18°applying
uranustrineneptune1.52°separating
uranussquarevertex2.38°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron2.51°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune2.58°separating
marssextilesaturn2.90°separating
marssextileneptune3.16°applying
mercuryoppositionchiron3.19°separating
moonsextilevenus3.69°separating
uranustrinechiron4.01°applying
venussquarepart-of-fortune4.39°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto4.54°applying
lilithtrinevertex4.96°applying
saturnsquarelilith5.00°separating
north-nodetrinelilith5.06°separating
jupiterconjunctionpluto5.23°separating
neptuneconjunctionchiron5.54°applying
venustrinepluto5.74°separating
moontrinelilith6.24°applying
sunoppositionsaturn6.74°applying
saturnquincunxnorth-node0.06°applying
mercurybiquintilepart-of-fortune0.11°separating
neptunesemisquarepart-of-fortune0.38°applying
lilithsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.67°applying
sunsemisquareuranus0.68°separating
venusbiquintilesaturn1.07°separating
moonquincunxsaturn1.24°applying
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune1.35°separating
marssemisquarepluto1.43°applying
venussesquiquadratechiron1.52°applying
chironquincunxvertex1.63°applying
sunsemisquarevertex1.71°applying
sunsemisextilevenus1.81°separating