Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Pharrell Williams.

5 April 1973 · 11:00 · Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States

Pharrell Williams's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Taurus, Cancer rising. Born April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.

About this chart

What is Pharrell Williams's sun sign?

Pharrell Williams's sun is in Aries.

What is Pharrell Williams's moon sign?

Pharrell Williams's moon is in Taurus.

What is Pharrell Williams's rising sign?

Pharrell Williams's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Pharrell Williams born?

Pharrell Williams was born April 5, 1973 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunAries · 10th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. 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 · 11th 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 is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Taurus in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeCapricorn · 6th house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 12th house

The South Node in Cancer (12th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Taurus; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerTaurus · 11th house

Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Venus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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 cardinal 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 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.

UranusLibra · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundAries · 10th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Taurus Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
26%
Earth
15%
Air
26%
Water
33%
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.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.22°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will 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 0.29°

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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.42°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Mars conjunction Jupiterorb 0.71°

In you, Mars is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 Venusorb 1.06°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.2°

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

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 0.3°

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.

Sun trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

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

Venus trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.4°

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

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Venus trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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

Where it works
Saturn opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

Mercury square Saturnorb 2.7°

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

Venus square North Nodeorb 3.0°

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

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Chart data for Pharrell Williams
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun15°43' Aries10th houseexaltation
Moon15°15' Taurus11th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Mercury18°39' Pisces9th housedetriment
Venus14°40' Aries10th housedetriment
Mars6°57' Aquarius8th house·
Jupiter7°39' Aquarius8th house·
Saturn15°57' Gemini12th house·
Uranus21°15' Libra4th houseretrograde
Neptune7°14' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto2°43' Libra4th houseretrograde
Chiron16°43' Aries10th house·
North Node11°39' Capricorn6th houseretrograde
South Node11°39' Cancer12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith15°23' Sagittarius6th house·
Part of Fortune14°17' Leo2nd house·
Vertex0°29' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsextilesaturn0.22°applying
marssextileneptune0.29°applying
suntrinelilith0.34°separating
venustrinepart-of-fortune0.37°separating
jupitersextileneptune0.42°separating
saturnoppositionlilith0.56°applying
marsconjunctionjupiter0.71°applying
venustrinelilith0.72°applying
saturnsextilechiron0.78°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune0.96°separating
sunconjunctionchiron1.00°applying
sunconjunctionvenus1.06°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune1.10°separating
venussextilesaturn1.28°applying
chirontrinelilith1.34°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune1.43°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune1.66°separating
venusconjunctionchiron2.06°applying
plutosextilevertex2.23°applying
chirontrinepart-of-fortune2.44°separating
mercurysquaresaturn2.71°separating
venussquarenorth-node3.01°separating
mercurysquarelilith3.27°separating
moonsextilemercury3.41°applying
moontrinenorth-node3.59°separating
sunsquarenorth-node4.07°separating
marstrinepluto4.22°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.53°applying
jupitertrinepluto4.93°separating
chironsquarenorth-node5.07°separating
saturntrineuranus5.31°applying
sunoppositionuranus5.54°applying
moonsquarejupiter7.59°separating
moonquincunxlilith0.14°separating
sunsesquiquadratevertex0.23°separating
sunsemisextilemoon0.48°separating
moonsemisextilevenus0.58°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.66°separating
moonsemisextilesaturn0.70°applying
venussesquiquadratevertex0.83°applying
uranussemisquareneptune0.98°separating
chironsesquiquadratevertex1.24°separating
moonsemisextilechiron1.48°applying
mercurysemisextilechiron1.93°separating