Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Steve Carell.

16 August 1962 · 08:59 · Concord, Middlesex County, United States

Steve Carell's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Pisces, Virgo rising. Born August 16, 1962 in Concord, Middlesex County, United States.

About this chart

What is Steve Carell's sun sign?

Steve Carell's sun is in Leo.

What is Steve Carell's moon sign?

Steve Carell's moon is in Pisces.

What is Steve Carell's rising sign?

Steve Carell's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Steve Carell born?

Steve Carell was born August 16, 1962 in Concord, Middlesex County, United States.

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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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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.

SunLeo · 11th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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.

MoonPisces · 6th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. 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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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Virgo in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeLeo · 11th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 5th house

The South Node in Aquarius (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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerVirgo · 12th house

Mercury is at home here. A precise, analytical, detail-oriented mind, excellent at editing, refining and finding the error, articulate and exact in speech. The shadow is the inner critic that polishes everything to death.

Where it drives. The mind works behind the scenes. Quiet, dreamy and intuitive, the intellect operates out of sight, and can become a fine instrument for writing the interior life.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 water and mutable signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 6th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine). 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 water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Leo. 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.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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
15%
Earth
26%
Air
36%
Water
23%
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 Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mercury, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Pluto, Uranus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Jupiter opposition Plutoorb 0.38°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 0.38°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mercury conjunction Plutoorb 0.76°

In you, Mercury is fused with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury sextile Neptuneorb 0.85°

In you, Mercury works easily with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Jupiter trine Neptuneorb 1.23°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

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.

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 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 North Nodeorb 0.6°

An easy, available link: Venus 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
Pluto opposition Chironorb 0.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Pluto and Chiron 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.

Jupiter opposition Plutoorb 0.4°

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

Mercury opposition Jupiterorb 0.4°

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

Mars square Vertexorb 0.6°

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

Mercury opposition Chironorb 0.8°

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

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Chart data for Steve Carell
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun23°10' Leo11th houserulership
Moon2°55' Pisces6th house·
Mercury10°01' Virgo12th houserulership, chart ruler
Venus8°23' Libra1st houserulership
Mars26°08' Gemini9th house·
Jupiter9°38' Pisces6th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn6°55' Aquarius5th houseretrograde, rulership
Uranus0°24' Virgo11th house·
Neptune10°52' Scorpio2nd house·
Pluto9°16' Virgo12th house·
Chiron9°13' Pisces6th houseretrograde
North Node8°57' Leo11th houseretrograde
South Node8°57' Aquarius5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°21' Libra1st house·
Part of Fortune8°03' Aries7th house·
Vertex25°31' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
plutooppositionchiron0.04°separating
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune0.33°separating
jupiteroppositionpluto0.38°applying
mercuryoppositionjupiter0.38°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron0.42°applying
venussextilenorth-node0.56°applying
marssquarevertex0.61°separating
mercuryconjunctionpluto0.76°separating
mercuryoppositionchiron0.80°separating
mercurysextileneptune0.85°applying
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune0.89°applying
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune1.15°separating
jupitertrineneptune1.23°separating
venustrinesaturn1.47°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.60°applying
neptunetrinechiron1.64°separating
neptunesquarenorth-node1.92°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node2.03°separating
moonoppositionuranus2.52°separating
sunsextilemars2.97°applying
saturnsquareneptune3.95°separating
saturntrinelilith4.56°applying
lilithoppositionpart-of-fortune5.70°applying
moonconjunctionchiron6.31°applying
moonoppositionpluto6.35°applying
moonconjunctionjupiter6.72°applying
moontrinemars6.78°separating
moonoppositionmercury7.11°applying
sunconjunctionuranus7.23°applying
moontrineneptune7.95°applying
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.11°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.22°separating
marssesquiquadrateneptune0.27°separating
chironquincunxnorth-node0.28°applying
plutosemisextilenorth-node0.32°separating
neptunesesquiquadratevertex0.34°separating
moonbiquintilevenus0.53°separating
moonquincunxlilith0.56°separating
jupiterquincunxnorth-node0.70°applying
venusquincunxchiron0.84°applying
venussemisextilepluto0.88°applying
mercurysemisextilenorth-node1.08°separating
marsquintilepluto1.13°applying
chironsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.16°applying
plutoquincunxpart-of-fortune1.21°separating
venusquincunxjupiter1.26°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratevertex1.58°separating
jupitersemisextilepart-of-fortune1.58°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus1.64°separating
uranussemisextilelilith1.96°separating
mercuryquincunxpart-of-fortune1.96°separating
saturnquincunxpluto2.35°separating
sunquincunxvertex2.36°applying