Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Richard Branson.

18 July 1950 · 07:00 · Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom

Richard Branson's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Virgo, Leo rising. Born July 18, 1950 in Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom.

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What is Richard Branson's sun sign?

Richard Branson's sun is in Cancer.

What is Richard Branson's moon sign?

Richard Branson's moon is in Virgo.

What is Richard Branson's rising sign?

Richard Branson's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Richard Branson born?

Richard Branson was born July 18, 1950 in Blackheath, London Borough of Lewisham, United Kingdom.

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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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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.

SunCancer · 12th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonVirgo · 1st house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

ASC
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 Cancer in the 12th 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 NodeAries · 9th house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 3rd house

The South Node in Libra (3rd 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.

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

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 rulerCancer · 12th house

Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

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.

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 water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusCancer · 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 Cancer

A generation that breaks the family open, redefining home and belonging.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 woundSagittarius · 5th house

The wound is meaning: a crisis of faith from beliefs that were imposed, ridiculed, or simply stopped holding, leaving you lost or purposeless. You may preach what you do not yet live, or wander to outrun the emptiness. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Cancer. 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.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Virgo Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
33%
Earth
23%
Air
20%
Water
23%
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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.30°

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.

Mars sextile Plutoorb 0.44°

In you, Mars works easily with Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars conjunction Neptuneorb 1.97°

In you, Mars is fused with Neptune, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 2.40°

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.

Moon sextile Uranusorb 4.82°

In you, the Moon works easily with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

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

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.

Mars sextile Chironorb 0.3°

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

Mars sextile Plutoorb 0.4°

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

Black Moon Lilith trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.5°

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

Pluto trine Chironorb 0.8°

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

Where it works
Saturn square Chironorb 0.5°

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

Uranus opposition Vertexorb 1.5°

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

Venus square Part of Fortuneorb 3.3°

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.

Pluto square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.7°

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.

North Node square Vertexorb 4.6°

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

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Chart data for Richard Branson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°02' Cancer12th housechart ruler
Moon1°36' Virgo1st house·
Mercury3°07' Leo12th house·
Venus24°37' Gemini11th house·
Mars16°40' Libra3rd housedetriment
Jupiter6°43' Pisces8th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn15°49' Virgo2nd house·
Uranus6°25' Cancer11th house·
Neptune14°42' Libra3rd house·
Pluto17°06' Leo1st house·
Chiron16°20' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
North Node0°21' Aries9th houseretrograde
South Node0°21' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°48' Taurus10th house·
Part of Fortune21°17' Virgo2nd house·
Vertex4°55' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitertrineuranus0.30°applying
marssextilechiron0.33°separating
marssextilepluto0.44°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune0.48°applying
saturnsquarechiron0.51°applying
plutotrinechiron0.76°separating
uranusoppositionvertex1.50°separating
neptunesextilechiron1.64°applying
jupitersextilevertex1.80°applying
marsconjunctionneptune1.97°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.40°separating
mercurytrinenorth-node2.77°separating
moontrinevertex3.32°applying
venussquarepart-of-fortune3.33°separating
plutosquarelilith3.71°separating
sunsextilepart-of-fortune3.75°separating
sunsextilelilith4.23°separating
north-nodesquarevertex4.57°separating
moonsextileuranus4.82°applying
chironsquarepart-of-fortune4.96°separating
saturntrinelilith4.99°separating
moonoppositionjupiter5.12°applying
suntrinenorth-node5.32°applying
saturnconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.47°applying
venussquarenorth-node5.73°applying
moonsemisquaremars0.06°separating
neptunebiquintilelilith0.11°separating
mercuryquintilelilith0.32°separating
sunsemisextilevenus0.42°applying
mercuryquintileneptune0.43°separating
uranussemisquarelilith0.61°applying
marssemisextilesaturn0.84°separating
lilithsesquiquadratevertex0.88°separating
saturnsemisextileneptune1.13°separating
moonquincunxnorth-node1.25°separating
saturnsemisextilepluto1.28°applying
moonsemisextilemercury1.52°applying
plutosesquiquadratenorth-node1.74°separating
mercurysesquiquadratechiron1.79°separating
mercuryquincunxvertex1.80°applying
moonsemisquareneptune1.90°separating