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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.

12 July 1998 · time unknown · Toronto, Canada
unknown birth time · rising?

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aquarius. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born July 12, 1998 in Toronto, Canada.

About this chart

What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's sun sign?

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's sun is in Cancer.

What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's moon sign?

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's rising sign?

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander born?

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was born July 12, 1998 in Toronto, Canada.

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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 Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 water 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.

SunCancer · 10th 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. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonAquarius · 5th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingLibra? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why.

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 · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Pisces (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

Libra 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 rulerGemini · 9th house

Love is curious, conversational and playful. Mental connection is the prerequisite; you need to be talked with. The shadow is multiplying options as a way of never having to choose.

Where it drives. Beauty is found abroad. You are often drawn to people and places far from home, you love teaching and learning, and the aesthetic is wide and worldly.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 fixed 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.

UranusAquarius · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneAquarius · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Aquarius

An era that dreams of universal community, a technological mysticism, the dissolving of the personal into the collective.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoSagittarius · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Sagittarius

An era that remakes belief, philosophy and the larger view, putting meaning 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 woundScorpio · 2nd house

The wound is trust and power: betrayal, loss, or a brush with the taboo that left the heart guarded and braced for the worst. Intensity can become armor that keeps real contact out. It plays out most loudly in the 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 1st 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 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 the Moon. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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 · Aquarius Moon · Libra rising? Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 water 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
8%
Air
41%
Water
41%
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 Aquariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Aquarius: Moon, Neptune, Uranus

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Uranus gather in Aquarius. A stellium in Aquarius concentrates the chart on difference, community, and the future that does not fit old rules. You innovate and detach at high volume: originality and the collective are where the energy stacks.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 1.56°

In you, Saturn grinds against Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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 1.61°

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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 3.06°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 4.59°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Mercury opposition Uranusorb 4.72°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
Jupiter rules Piscesat home

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

Saturn trine North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Neptune sextile Vertexorb 0.8°

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

Mars sextile Saturnorb 1.6°

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

Venus trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.7°

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

Mars sextile North Nodeorb 2.2°

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

Where it works
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.

Uranus square Chironorb 0.8°

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 1.6°

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

Mars square Vertexorb 2.3°

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

Uranus square Part of Fortuneorb 2.9°

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

Sun square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.2°

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

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Chart data for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun20°06' Cancer10th house·
Moon28°03' Aquarius5th house·
Mercury16°19' Leo11th house·
Venus21°37' Gemini9th housechart ruler
Mars4°14' Cancer10th housefall
Jupiter28°00' Pisces6th houserulership
Saturn2°38' Taurus8th house·
Uranus11°36' Aquarius5th houseretrograde
Neptune1°04' Aquarius4th houseretrograde
Pluto5°36' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
Chiron12°24' Scorpio2nd house·
North Node2°02' Virgo11th houseretrograde
South Node2°02' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°19' Libra1st house·
Part of Fortune8°41' Taurus8th house·
Vertex1°55' Aries7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturntrinenorth-node0.60°separating
uranussquarechiron0.81°separating
neptunesextilevertex0.85°separating
saturnsquareneptune1.56°separating
marssextilesaturn1.61°separating
venustrinelilith1.69°applying
marssextilenorth-node2.21°separating
marssquarevertex2.32°separating
uranussquarepart-of-fortune2.91°applying
jupitersextileneptune3.06°applying
sunsquarelilith3.22°applying
plutosquarenorth-node3.57°applying
plutotrinevertex3.69°applying
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune3.73°separating
mercurysquarechiron3.90°separating
jupiterconjunctionvertex3.91°applying
moonoppositionnorth-node3.98°applying
moonsextilesaturn4.59°applying
mercuryoppositionuranus4.72°separating
moontrinelilith4.73°separating
moontrinemars6.19°applying
moontrinevenus6.42°separating
moonsquarepluto7.56°applying
suntrinechiron7.69°separating
suntrinejupiter7.91°applying
moonsemisextilejupiter0.04°separating
north-nodequincunxvertex0.11°applying
sunsesquiquadratepluto0.51°applying
sunquintilepart-of-fortune0.59°applying
jupitersesquiquadratechiron0.60°separating
mercurysesquiquadratevertex0.60°applying
saturnsemisextilevertex0.72°separating
neptunequincunxnorth-node0.96°separating
marsbiquintileuranus1.36°applying
moonquintilepart-of-fortune1.36°separating
marsquincunxpluto1.37°applying
jupitersemisquareuranus1.41°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.53°separating