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Salvador Dalí.

11 May 1904 · 08:45 · Figueres, Spain

Salvador Dalí's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aries, Cancer rising. Born May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain.

About this chart

What is Salvador Dalí's sun sign?

Salvador Dalí's sun is in Taurus.

What is Salvador Dalí's moon sign?

Salvador Dalí's moon is in Aries.

What is Salvador Dalí's rising sign?

Salvador Dalí's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Salvador Dalí born?

Salvador Dalí was born May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain.

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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 Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunTaurus · 11th house

Built from what endures. Steady, sensual, slow to anger and slow to change. The body is the temple, and the temple is not a metaphor. Values are bedrock; stubbornness is the shadow side of staying power. Lesson: holding too tightly is not the same as holding. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonAries · 9th house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Aries in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeVirgo · 3rd house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 9th house

The South Node in Pisces (9th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon 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 Moon · chart rulerAries · 9th house

Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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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MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Venus, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

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 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.

UranusSagittarius · 6th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Sagittarius

A generation that upends belief, reinventing meaning, religion and the search for truth.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that dreams of universal belonging, a mystical motherhood, the dissolving of family lines.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language 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 woundAquarius · 7th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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 Moon. 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 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

Taurus Sun · Aries Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
31%
Earth
46%
Air
8%
Water
15%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Mars, Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Mooncommon
an opposition under pressure from Moon (Moon, Neptune, Uranus)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Moon 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 Libra, 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 square Saturnorb 0.45°

In you, the Sun grinds against Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Venus sextile Neptuneorb 0.57°

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

Saturn trine Plutoorb 1.18°

In you, Saturn flows together with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Moon square Neptuneorb 1.55°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 Marsorb 1.70°

In you, Mercury is fused with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

Saturn rules Aquariusat home

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

Venus sextile Neptuneorb 0.6°

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

Mars trine North Nodeorb 1.1°

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.

Saturn trine Plutoorb 1.2°

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

Moon sextile Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

An easy, available link: Moon and Part of Fortune 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.

Sun square Saturnorb 0.4°

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 1.6°

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

Black Moon Lilith square Part of Fortuneorb 2.7°

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

Mercury square Saturnorb 2.8°

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

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Chart data for Salvador Dalí
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun20°12' Taurus11th house·
Moon2°28' Aries9th housechart ruler
Mercury23°28' Taurus11th houseretrograde
Venus4°35' Taurus10th houserulership
Mars25°10' Taurus11th housedetriment
Jupiter16°52' Aries10th house·
Saturn20°39' Aquarius8th houserulership
Uranus29°24' Sagittarius6th houseretrograde
Neptune4°01' Cancer12th house·
Pluto19°28' Gemini12th house·
Chiron0°06' Aquarius7th houseretrograde
North Node26°16' Virgo3rd houseretrograde
South Node26°16' Pisces9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith1°45' Pisces8th house·
Part of Fortune4°29' Gemini11th house·
Vertex8°36' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsquaresaturn0.45°applying
venussextileneptune0.57°separating
marstrinenorth-node1.09°applying
saturntrinepluto1.18°separating
moonsquareneptune1.55°applying
mercuryconjunctionmars1.70°separating
moonsextilepart-of-fortune2.03°applying
neptunetrinelilith2.27°applying
uranussextilelilith2.35°separating
moonsextilechiron2.36°separating
jupitersextilepluto2.61°applying
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune2.74°applying
mercurytrinenorth-node2.79°separating
mercurysquaresaturn2.82°applying
venussextilelilith2.84°separating
moonsquareuranus3.07°separating
uranussquarenorth-node3.13°applying
sunconjunctionmercury3.26°applying
jupitersextilesaturn3.79°applying
chirontrinenorth-node3.84°separating
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex4.12°separating
chirontrinepart-of-fortune4.39°separating
venussquarechiron4.48°separating
marssquaresaturn4.52°separating
uranusoppositionneptune4.62°separating
marstrinechiron4.93°applying
sunconjunctionmars4.97°applying
venustrineuranus5.19°separating
suntrinenorth-node6.06°applying
moontrinevertex6.14°applying
moonoppositionnorth-node6.20°separating
saturnquintilevertex0.05°separating
mercurybiquintileuranus0.08°applying
venussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.09°separating
venussemisquarepluto0.11°separating
jupitersemisquarelilith0.12°separating
north-nodequintilevertex0.34°separating
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.39°separating
neptunesemisextilepart-of-fortune0.47°applying
uranussemisextilechiron0.70°separating
moonsemisextilelilith0.72°separating
sunsemisextilepluto0.73°separating
sunsemisquareneptune1.19°separating
saturnsesquiquadrateneptune1.64°separating
chironsemisextilelilith1.65°separating