Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Sam Altman.

22 April 1985 · 05:00 · Chicago, Illinois

Sam Altman's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Taurus, Taurus rising. Born April 22, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Sam Altman's sun sign?

Sam Altman's sun is in Taurus.

What is Sam Altman's moon sign?

Sam Altman's moon is in Taurus.

What is Sam Altman's rising sign?

Sam Altman's Rising (Ascendant) is Taurus.

When and where was Sam Altman born?

Sam Altman was born April 22, 1985 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 Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share earth 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.

SunTaurus · 1st 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. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonTaurus · 1st 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. 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
RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Aries in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 NodeTaurus · 1st house

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 7th house

The South Node in Scorpio (7th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Virgo; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Taurus rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerAries · 12th house

Love runs fast, hot and pursuit-driven. Attraction is direct, and the appetite is for the chase or the conquest. The shadow is losing interest the moment the win is secured.

Where it drives. Love lives in the hidden places. Private affections, a quiet artistic life and deep compassion, with a shadow of self-sabotage to watch in matters of the heart.

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
MidheavenCapricorn · the 10th house

With Capricorn on the Midheaven, a room senses gravity: someone serious, capable, clearly built to be in charge.

IC
ICCancer · the 4th house

With Cancer on the IC, home is the original tide: feeling first, belonging as the ground under everything.

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 · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 →

NeptuneCapricorn · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Capricorn

An era that dreams of universal structure, the spiritualising of authority, the dissolving of institutions.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoScorpio · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Scorpio

Pluto is at home here.

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 · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  5. People meet your calm first: solid, unhurried, hard to rush.

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 · Taurus Moon · Taurus rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars all share earth 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
20%
Earth
64%
Air
8%
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 Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Mars, Moon, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Sun 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.

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 opposition Saturnorb 0.03°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.14°

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 conjunction Marsorb 0.74°

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

Mars opposition Saturnorb 0.77°

In you, Mars sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Sun opposition Plutoorb 1.13°

In you, the Sun sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will and your relationship to power and deep change. 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
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.1°

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.

Venus sextile Chironorb 0.1°

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

Chiron sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.4°

An easy, available link: Chiron and Part of Fortune 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 Vertexorb 1.0°

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

Sun trine Neptuneorb 1.3°

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

Where it works
Moon opposition Saturnorb 0.0°

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.

Mars opposition Saturnorb 0.8°

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

Sun opposition Plutoorb 1.1°

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Venus square Neptuneorb 2.6°

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

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Chart data for Sam Altman
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°15' Taurus1st house·
Moon26°31' Taurus1st houseexaltation
Mercury7°51' Aries12th house·
Venus6°07' Aries12th houseretrograde, detriment, chart ruler
Mars27°15' Taurus1st housedetriment
Jupiter14°07' Aquarius11th house·
Saturn26°29' Scorpio7th houseretrograde
Uranus17°35' Sagittarius8th houseretrograde
Neptune3°32' Capricorn9th houseretrograde
Pluto3°23' Scorpio7th houseretrograde
Chiron5°59' Gemini2nd house·
North Node18°09' Taurus1st house·
South Node18°09' Scorpio7th house·
Black Moon Lilith25°31' Aries12th house·
Part of Fortune6°22' Aries12th house·
Vertex13°04' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonoppositionsaturn0.03°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.14°separating
venussextilechiron0.15°applying
venusconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.24°separating
chironsextilepart-of-fortune0.39°applying
moonconjunctionmars0.74°applying
marsoppositionsaturn0.77°separating
jupitertrinevertex1.04°separating
sunoppositionpluto1.13°applying
suntrineneptune1.28°applying
mercuryconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.49°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus1.73°separating
mercurysextilechiron1.87°separating
venussquareneptune2.59°applying
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune2.83°separating
jupitersextileuranus3.48°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node4.03°applying
mercurysquareneptune4.32°separating
mercuryoppositionvertex5.22°applying
sunconjunctionlilith6.73°separating
marsbiquintileneptune0.27°applying
sunsesquiquadrateuranus0.34°applying
neptunesesquiquadratenorth-node0.38°applying
uranusquincunxnorth-node0.56°separating
jupiterquintilelilith0.59°separating
uranussemisquarepluto0.80°applying
marssesquiquadratevertex0.81°applying
north-nodebiquintilevertex0.92°applying
saturnquincunxlilith0.97°applying
moonsemisextilelilith0.99°separating
moonbiquintileneptune1.02°applying
moonsesquiquadratevertex1.56°applying
saturnsemisquarevertex1.58°separating
marssemisextilelilith1.74°separating
neptunequincunxchiron2.45°separating