Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Robin Williams.

21 July 1951 · 13:34 · Chicago, Illinois

Robin Williams's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Pisces, Scorpio rising. Born July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Robin Williams's sun sign?

Robin Williams's sun is in Cancer.

What is Robin Williams's moon sign?

Robin Williams's moon is in Pisces.

What is Robin Williams's rising sign?

Robin Williams's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Robin Williams born?

Robin Williams was born July 21, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share water as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCancer · 9th 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. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonPisces · 4th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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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 Cancer in the 9th 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 · 5th 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 · 11th house

The South Node in Virgo (11th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Cancer; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

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 rulerCancer · 9th house

The drive is indirect, defensive and protective, and anger surfaces as withdrawal or moodiness. You fight for family and for feeling. The shadow is passive aggression.

Where it drives. The drive is for the wider world. An active traveller with strong convictions, often a teacher with fire, and the occasional clash with foreign cultures or in-laws.

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 (Mercury, Venus, Pluto) 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 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 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.

UranusCancer · 9th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): 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 soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  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 a water, cardinal chart led by the Moon. 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.

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 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 Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Cancer Sun · Pisces Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share water as their element, which gives you a single, unified nature rather than competing currents. The same fuel runs through all three pillars, intensified. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
26%
Earth
18%
Air
0%
Water
56%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Mars, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mars, Sun, Uranus gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

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

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

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, 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, Capricorn, 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 Capricorn, 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.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.32°

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.

Venus sextile Uranusorb 0.65°

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

Mars conjunction Uranusorb 1.06°

In you, Mars is fused with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 opposition Venusorb 1.24°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Venus sextile Marsorb 1.71°

In you, Venus works easily with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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
Uranus trine North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.3°

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.

Venus sextile Uranusorb 0.7°

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

Mars trine North Nodeorb 1.4°

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

Venus sextile Marsorb 1.7°

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

Moon trine Uranusorb 1.9°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Uranus 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.

Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

Mars works against the grain in Cancer. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

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

Saturn square Chironorb 0.1°

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

Venus opposition North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

North Node square Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

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

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Chart data for Robin Williams
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°10' Cancer9th house·
Moon8°56' Pisces4th house·
Mercury22°03' Leo10th house·
Venus10°11' Virgo10th housefall
Mars11°53' Cancer9th housefall, chart ruler
Jupiter13°52' Aries6th house·
Saturn27°51' Virgo11th house·
Uranus10°50' Cancer9th house·
Neptune16°53' Libra12th house·
Pluto18°48' Leo10th house·
Chiron27°56' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
North Node10°31' Pisces5th houseretrograde
South Node10°31' Virgo11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°03' Cancer9th house·
Part of Fortune11°41' Gemini8th house·
Vertex7°33' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsquarechiron0.08°applying
uranustrinenorth-node0.32°separating
sunsextilesaturn0.32°separating
venusoppositionnorth-node0.33°applying
venussextileuranus0.65°applying
marsconjunctionuranus1.06°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune1.17°separating
moonoppositionvenus1.24°applying
marstrinenorth-node1.38°separating
moonsquarevertex1.39°separating
venussquarepart-of-fortune1.50°applying
moonconjunctionnorth-node1.57°applying
venussextilemars1.71°separating
moontrineuranus1.89°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.92°separating
marssquarejupiter1.98°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune2.19°separating
venussquarevertex2.63°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune2.74°applying
moontrinemars2.95°applying
north-nodesquarevertex2.96°applying
jupiteroppositionneptune3.02°applying
jupitersquareuranus3.04°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto3.24°separating
chironoppositionlilith4.12°separating
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex4.13°separating
saturnsquarelilith4.20°separating
jupitertrinepluto4.94°applying
marssquareneptune5.00°applying
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune5.20°separating
mercurytrinechiron5.88°applying
moontrinelilith6.89°separating
marssemisextilepart-of-fortune0.21°separating
sunquincunxchiron0.24°separating
neptunebiquintilenorth-node0.37°separating
chironquintilenorth-node0.58°separating
plutoquintilevertex0.74°applying
uranussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.85°applying
neptunequintilechiron0.95°separating
moonquintilechiron0.99°applying
sunsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.49°separating
plutosemisquarelilith1.75°applying