Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Robert Redford.

18 August 1936 · 19:02 · Santa Monica, California

Robert Redford's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Virgo, Aquarius rising. Born August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California.

About this chart

What is Robert Redford's sun sign?

Robert Redford's sun is in Leo.

What is Robert Redford's moon sign?

Robert Redford's moon is in Virgo.

What is Robert Redford's rising sign?

Robert Redford's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Robert Redford born?

Robert Redford was born August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, 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 Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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.

SunLeo · 7th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. You become visible through the mirror of the other. Significant relationships are not optional here. They are the field where the self does its real work.

MoonVirgo · 7th 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. 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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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Pisces in the 1st house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Cancer (5th 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

Aquarius rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerPisces · 1st house

The work is on imagination, compassion and the spiritual life: lessons in finding substance under the dreaming. The shadow is the fear of the formless.

Where it drives. Weight is carried in the self. Often a serious or grave presence, an early life that asked a great deal, and a slow but deep maturing into eventual authority.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

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 mutable 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.

UranusTaurus · 3rd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 7th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 6th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundGemini · 4th house

The wound is your voice and mind: a fear of being unheard or thought unintelligent, often set by being silenced or ridiculed young. You may talk fast to stay ahead of dismissal, or go quiet when the room feels unsafe. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that kept the peace by disappearing. It is the refusal to make harmony out of self-erasure. The medicine is letting other people be uncomfortable when your truth needs air. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Virgo Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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
41%
Earth
36%
Air
15%
Water
8%
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, Moon, Neptune, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Neptune, 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 conjunction Mercuryorb 0.11°

In you, the Moon is fused with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.27°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.06°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Mercury conjunction Neptuneorb 2.37°

In you, Mercury is fused with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Moon conjunction Neptuneorb 2.48°

In you, the Moon is fused with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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.

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.

Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

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

Uranus trine Vertexorb 0.1°

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

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Sun 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
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.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.1°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 1.4°

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

Part of Fortune opposition Vertexorb 1.8°

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

Venus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 2.1°

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

Moon opposition Saturnorb 2.7°

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

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Chart data for Robert Redford
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°53' Leo7th houserulership
Moon18°12' Virgo7th house·
Mercury18°06' Virgo7th houserulership
Venus9°51' Virgo7th housefall
Mars5°35' Leo6th house·
Jupiter14°40' Sagittarius10th houserulership
Saturn20°52' Pisces1st houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus9°35' Taurus3rd houseretrograde
Neptune15°44' Virgo7th house·
Pluto27°45' Cancer6th house·
Chiron22°14' Gemini4th house·
North Node2°04' Capricorn11th houseretrograde
South Node2°04' Cancer5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°57' Libra8th house·
Part of Fortune7°48' Pisces1st house·
Vertex9°38' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranustrinevertex0.06°separating
moonconjunctionmercury0.11°separating
venusconjunctionvertex0.21°separating
venustrineuranus0.27°separating
sunsextilelilith0.94°separating
jupitersquareneptune1.06°separating
saturnsquarechiron1.37°separating
uranussextilepart-of-fortune1.78°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex1.85°separating
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune2.06°separating
mercuryconjunctionneptune2.37°separating
moonconjunctionneptune2.48°separating
moonoppositionsaturn2.66°applying
chirontrinelilith2.72°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn2.77°applying
plutosquarelilith2.80°applying
mercurysquarejupiter3.43°separating
moonsquarejupiter3.54°separating
sunsextilechiron3.66°separating
marssquareuranus3.99°applying
moonsquarechiron4.03°applying
mercurysquarechiron4.14°applying
venussquarejupiter4.82°applying
jupitersquarevertex5.03°separating
saturnoppositionneptune5.14°applying
venusconjunctionneptune5.87°applying
suntrinenorth-node6.18°applying
venussemisquarelilith0.10°applying
marssesquiquadratesaturn0.28°applying
lilithsemisquarevertex0.31°separating
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.91°applying
marssemisquarechiron1.65°applying
sunsemisextilepluto1.86°applying
jupitersesquiquadratepluto1.92°applying
marsquincunxpart-of-fortune2.21°applying