Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Reid Hoffman.

5 August 1967 · time unknown · Stanford, California
unknown birth time · rising?

Reid Hoffman's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Leo. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born August 5, 1967 in Stanford, California.

About this chart

What is Reid Hoffman's sun sign?

Reid Hoffman's sun is in Leo.

What is Reid Hoffman's moon sign?

Reid Hoffman's moon is in Leo.

What is Reid Hoffman's rising sign?

Reid Hoffman's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown.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

When and where was Reid Hoffman born?

Reid Hoffman was born August 5, 1967 in Stanford, 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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 fire 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.

SunLeo · 10th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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.

MoonLeo · 10th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingLibra? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. 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 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 NodeTaurus · 7th house

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 1st house

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

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, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter) 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 fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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 · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 →

NeptuneScorpio · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 6th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. 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 fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  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 be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  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 fire, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. 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 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 Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Leo Moon · Libra rising? Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 fire 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
46%
Earth
10%
Air
15%
Water
28%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Jupiter, Moon, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, Moon, Sun gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Leo 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 Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Pluto, Uranus, Venus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Virgo 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 Virgo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Virgo 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 square Marsorb 0.22°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun trine Saturnorb 0.31°

In you, the Sun flows together with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 0.65°

In you, Uranus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

Sun conjunction Jupiterorb 2.21°

In you, the Sun is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.48°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse 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.

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 rules Leoat home

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

Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

Sun trine Saturnorb 0.3°

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

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 0.6°

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

Mercury sextile Vertexorb 1.0°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.5°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto 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.

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.

Mercury square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Moon square Marsorb 0.2°

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

Sun square Marsorb 4.0°

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

Neptune opposition Vertexorb 4.4°

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

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Chart data for Reid Hoffman
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°39' Leo10th houserulership
Moon8°24' Leo10th house·
Mercury24°55' Cancer10th house·
Venus13°45' Virgo11th housefall, chart ruler
Mars8°38' Scorpio1st houserulership
Jupiter14°52' Leo10th house·
Saturn12°20' Aries6th houseretrograde, fall
Uranus22°13' Virgo11th house·
Neptune21°34' Scorpio2nd house·
Pluto19°05' Virgo11th house·
Chiron29°21' Pisces6th houseretrograde
North Node1°20' Taurus7th houseretrograde
South Node1°20' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°43' Aries7th house·
Part of Fortune17°22' Libra12th house·
Vertex25°57' Taurus8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarelilith0.19°separating
moonsquaremars0.22°separating
suntrinesaturn0.31°separating
uranussextileneptune0.65°separating
mercurysextilevertex1.03°applying
sunconjunctionjupiter2.21°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.48°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune2.50°applying
jupitertrinesaturn2.52°separating
mercurysextileuranus2.69°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto3.13°separating
mercurytrineneptune3.34°separating
chironsextilevertex3.40°applying
uranustrinevertex3.72°applying
moontrinesaturn3.93°applying
sunsquaremars4.03°separating
sunconjunctionmoon4.24°applying
neptuneoppositionvertex4.37°applying
mercurytrinechiron4.43°applying
sunsextilepart-of-fortune4.71°applying
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune5.03°separating
venusconjunctionpluto5.34°applying
moonconjunctionjupiter6.45°applying
moonsquarenorth-node7.08°separating
plutobiquintilelilith0.37°applying
moonquintilevertex0.46°separating
jupitersesquiquadratechiron0.52°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.10°applying
venussemisextilejupiter1.11°separating
moonsemisquareuranus1.18°separating
lilithsemisextilevertex1.22°applying
saturnsemisquarevertex1.40°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.40°separating
venusquincunxsaturn1.41°separating
sunsesquiquadratechiron1.69°applying
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune1.73°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node1.99°applying
uranusquincunxlilith2.50°separating