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River Phoenix.

23 August 1970 · 12:03 · Madras, Jefferson County, United States

River Phoenix's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Taurus, Scorpio rising. Born August 23, 1970 in Madras, Jefferson County, United States.

About this chart

What is River Phoenix's sun sign?

River Phoenix's sun is in Virgo.

What is River Phoenix's moon sign?

River Phoenix's moon is in Taurus.

What is River Phoenix's rising sign?

River Phoenix's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was River Phoenix born?

River Phoenix was born August 23, 1970 in Madras, Jefferson County, 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 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 · 7th 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. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

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 chart ruler is Mars, in Leo in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 NodePisces · 4th house

The pull is toward Pisces: trust, surrender, compassion, a sense of the whole. The familiar groove is Virgo: over-analysis, perfectionism, anxious fixing. Growth is loosening the grip and letting life be imperfect and held.

South NodeVirgo · 10th house

The South Node in Virgo (10th 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 water 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

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 rulerLeo · 10th house

The drive is dramatic, confident and built to be witnessed, and the anger is theatrical. The shadow is needing an audience to validate the effort.

Where it drives. Ambition is the engine. Driven and competitive, often in a public role built on leadership or direct action, with a clear Mars signature on the career.

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
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, Mars) 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 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.

UranusLibra · 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 Libra

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 woundAries · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 10th 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 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 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 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.

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 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
49%
Air
10%
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.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mercury, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Pluto, Sun 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.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Moon, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Sun form a T-square with Sun at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Pisces, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Sun: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Sun can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Pisces, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Marscommon
an opposition under pressure from Mars (Mars, Moon, Neptune)

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Neptune form a T-square with Mars at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Mars: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Mars can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Neptune, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Neptune, Saturn, Sun form a T-square with Sun at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Pisces, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Sun: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Sun can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Pisces, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Marscommon
an opposition under pressure from Mars (Mars, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Saturn form a T-square with Mars at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Mars: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Mars can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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 conjunction Plutoorb 0.07°

In you, Mercury is fused with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 square Moonorb 0.77°

In you, the Sun grinds against the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Mars square Saturnorb 0.87°

In you, Mars grinds against Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 sextile Jupiterorb 0.95°

In you, the Sun works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Moon opposition Neptuneorb 1.28°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

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
Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

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.

Sun sextile Jupiterorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Sun and Jupiter 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.

Jupiter trine North Nodeorb 1.7°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.0°

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
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Neptune square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.7°

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.

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Chart data for River Phoenix
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°13' Virgo10th house·
Moon29°27' Taurus7th houseexaltation
Mercury26°08' Virgo11th houserulership
Venus16°07' Libra12th houserulership
Mars23°22' Leo10th housechart ruler
Jupiter1°10' Scorpio12th house·
Saturn22°29' Taurus7th house·
Uranus6°47' Libra11th house·
Neptune28°10' Scorpio1st house·
Pluto26°12' Virgo11th house·
Chiron9°40' Aries5th houseretrograde
North Node2°49' Pisces4th house·
South Node2°49' Virgo10th house·
Black Moon Lilith28°49' Leo10th house·
Part of Fortune4°22' Leo9th house·
Vertex12°15' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionpluto0.07°applying
moonsquarelilith0.63°separating
neptunesquarelilith0.65°separating
sunsquaremoon0.77°applying
marssquaresaturn0.87°separating
sunsextilejupiter0.95°applying
moonoppositionneptune1.28°separating
sunconjunctionlilith1.40°separating
jupitertrinenorth-node1.66°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.96°applying
mercurysextileneptune2.03°applying
sunsquareneptune2.05°separating
jupitersextilelilith2.34°separating
uranussextilepart-of-fortune2.42°separating
chironsextilevertex2.59°separating
sunoppositionnorth-node2.61°applying
uranusoppositionchiron2.88°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune3.20°applying
moontrinepluto3.24°separating
moontrinemercury3.31°separating
moonsquarenorth-node3.37°applying
mercurytrinesaturn3.64°separating
saturntrinepluto3.72°separating
venustrinevertex3.86°separating
north-nodeoppositionlilith4.00°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node4.65°applying
marssquareneptune4.80°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune4.91°applying
chirontrinepart-of-fortune5.31°applying
marsconjunctionlilith5.45°applying
uranustrinevertex5.48°applying
saturnoppositionneptune5.67°applying
moonsquaremars6.08°separating
sunconjunctionmars6.85°separating
moonconjunctionsaturn6.96°separating
moontrineuranus7.34°applying
sunsquaresaturn7.72°separating
saturnquintilepart-of-fortune0.13°separating
venusquintilepart-of-fortune0.24°applying
venusbiquintilesaturn0.37°applying
saturnsesquiquadrateuranus0.71°applying
marsquintilevertex0.89°applying
sunsemisquarevenus0.91°separating
marssesquiquadratechiron1.30°applying
north-nodequincunxpart-of-fortune1.54°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.58°separating
moonsesquiquadratevenus1.67°applying
venussesquiquadratenorth-node1.70°applying
moonquincunxjupiter1.71°applying