Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Stephen King.

21 September 1947 · 01:30 · Portland, Maine

Stephen King's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Sagittarius, Cancer rising. Born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine.

About this chart

What is Stephen King's sun sign?

Stephen King's sun is in Virgo.

What is Stephen King's moon sign?

Stephen King's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Stephen King's rising sign?

Stephen King's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Stephen King born?

Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine.

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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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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.

SunVirgo · 3rd house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonSagittarius · 5th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. 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.

ASC
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 Sagittarius in the 5th 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 NodeTaurus · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Scorpio (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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Capricorn, 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 rulerSagittarius · 5th house

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.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission.

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 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.

UranusGemini · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 woundScorpio · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  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 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.

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

Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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
15%
Air
20%
Water
33%
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: Mercury, Neptune, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Venus 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.

Mars trine Jupiterorb 0.37°

In you, Mars flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.79°

In you, Mercury works easily with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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 sextile Mercuryorb 1.21°

In you, the Moon works easily with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun square Uranusorb 1.27°

In you, the Sun grinds against Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Moon trine Saturnorb 1.87°

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

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 Libraat home

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

Mars trine Jupiterorb 0.4°

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

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 0.8°

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

North Node trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.8°

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.

Mars sextile North Nodeorb 1.0°

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.

Moon sextile Mercuryorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Moon and Mercury 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.

Sun square Uranusorb 1.3°

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

Jupiter opposition North Nodeorb 1.4°

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Mars opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.8°

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

Pluto square Part of Fortuneorb 3.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Pluto 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 Stephen King
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°23' Virgo3rd house·
Moon16°14' Sagittarius5th housechart ruler
Mercury15°02' Libra4th house·
Venus2°09' Libra3rd houserulership
Mars24°10' Cancer12th housefall
Jupiter23°48' Scorpio5th house·
Saturn18°06' Leo1st housedetriment
Uranus26°07' Gemini11th house·
Neptune10°03' Libra3rd house·
Pluto14°14' Leo1st house·
Chiron7°41' Scorpio4th house·
North Node25°10' Taurus11th house·
South Node25°10' Scorpio5th house·
Black Moon Lilith25°57' Capricorn6th house·
Part of Fortune11°00' Taurus10th house·
Vertex16°33' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonconjunctionvertex0.32°separating
marstrinejupiter0.37°separating
mercurysextilepluto0.79°separating
north-nodetrinelilith0.79°separating
marssextilenorth-node1.00°applying
moonsextilemercury1.21°separating
sunsquareuranus1.27°separating
jupiteroppositionnorth-node1.37°applying
suntrinelilith1.43°separating
mercurysextilevertex1.53°applying
saturntrinevertex1.55°separating
marsoppositionlilith1.79°applying
moontrinesaturn1.87°applying
moontrinepluto1.99°separating
jupitersextilelilith2.16°applying
suntrinenorth-node2.22°separating
plutotrinevertex2.31°applying
mercurysextilesaturn3.08°applying
sunsextilemars3.21°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune3.24°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune3.31°applying
sunsextilejupiter3.59°separating
saturnconjunctionpluto3.87°separating
sunconjunctionvenus4.76°separating
mercuryconjunctionneptune4.98°separating
jupitersquaresaturn5.69°separating
uranussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.11°separating
neptunesesquiquadratenorth-node0.12°applying
uranusquincunxlilith0.15°applying
part-of-fortunebiquintilevertex0.45°separating
moonbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.77°applying
uranussemisextilenorth-node0.94°applying
neptunequincunxpart-of-fortune0.96°applying
venussemisquaresaturn0.96°applying
marsquintilepart-of-fortune1.17°separating
jupitersemisquareneptune1.25°applying
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.38°separating
sunsemisquarepluto1.86°applying
marssemisextileuranus1.94°applying
jupiterquincunxuranus2.31°applying