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Serena Williams.

26 September 1981 · 20:28 · Saginaw, Michigan

Serena Williams's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Virgo, Taurus rising. Born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan.

About this chart

What is Serena Williams's sun sign?

Serena Williams's sun is in Libra.

What is Serena Williams's moon sign?

Serena Williams's moon is in Virgo.

What is Serena Williams's rising sign?

Serena Williams's Rising (Ascendant) is Taurus.

When and where was Serena Williams born?

Serena Williams was born September 26, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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 air and earth 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.

SunLibra · 6th house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonVirgo · 6th 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. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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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 Scorpio in the 7th 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 NodeCancer · 4th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 10th house

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

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

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 rulerScorpio · 7th house

Love is intense and all-or-nothing. The instinct is to merge completely or not at all. The shadow is the jealousy that grows from a certainty that love is dangerous.

Where it drives. Venus is at home here. The committed partnership is central, you tend to pair well, and the relationship itself is treated as something to be made beautiful.

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
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 air and cardinal signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusScorpio · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 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 Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 1st house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  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 air, cardinal chart led by Venus. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Libra Sun · Virgo Moon · Taurus rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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 air and earth 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
10%
Earth
38%
Air
41%
Water
10%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Pluto, Saturn, Sun gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Libra 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 Libra stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Libra 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.

Venus square Marsorb 0.75°

In you, Venus grinds against Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.22°

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.

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 1.46°

In you, Mars works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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 square Neptuneorb 1.84°

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.

Mars sextile Saturnorb 3.87°

In you, Mars works easily with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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
North Node trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

Saturn is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.2°

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.

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 1.5°

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

Mars sextile Vertexorb 1.6°

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

Moon trine Chironorb 2.0°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

Mercury square North Nodeorb 0.1°

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

Venus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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.

Venus square Marsorb 0.7°

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

Mars square Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

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Chart data for Serena Williams
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°48' Libra6th housefall
Moon20°23' Virgo6th house·
Mercury29°39' Libra6th house·
Venus16°19' Scorpio7th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mars15°34' Leo5th house·
Jupiter17°02' Libra6th house·
Saturn11°42' Libra6th houseexaltation
Uranus27°14' Scorpio7th house·
Neptune22°14' Sagittarius8th house·
Pluto23°27' Libra6th house·
Chiron22°24' Taurus1st houseretrograde
North Node29°44' Cancer4th houseretrograde
South Node29°44' Capricorn10th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith0°20' Sagittarius7th house·
Part of Fortune16°34' Taurus1st house·
Vertex14°00' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarenorth-node0.09°applying
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune0.26°applying
north-nodetrinelilith0.59°separating
venussquaremars0.75°separating
marssquarepart-of-fortune1.00°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.22°separating
marssextilejupiter1.46°applying
marssextilevertex1.57°separating
moonsquareneptune1.84°applying
moontrinechiron2.02°applying
saturnconjunctionvertex2.30°applying
uranustrinenorth-node2.50°applying
jupiterconjunctionvertex3.03°separating
uranusconjunctionlilith3.09°separating
sunsextilelilith3.48°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune3.81°separating
marssextilesaturn3.87°separating
sunsextilenorth-node4.07°separating
moonsextilevenus4.07°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.83°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn5.33°separating
chironconjunctionpart-of-fortune5.83°applying
sunconjunctionsaturn7.90°applying
saturnquintilenorth-node0.04°applying
neptunequincunxchiron0.18°applying
neptunebiquintilepart-of-fortune0.34°applying
jupiterquincunxpart-of-fortune0.46°separating
saturnsemisquareuranus0.54°applying
jupiterbiquintilechiron0.63°separating
mercurysemisextilelilith0.68°applying
venussemisextilejupiter0.71°applying
plutoquincunxchiron1.04°separating
saturnbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.13°separating
north-nodequintilepart-of-fortune1.17°applying
lilithsemisquarevertex1.33°separating
saturnquintileneptune1.47°separating
jupitersemisquarelilith1.70°separating
uranussemisquarevertex1.76°applying