Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Steve McQueen.

24 March 1930 · 12:15 · Beech Grove, Indiana

Steve McQueen's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Aquarius, Cancer rising. Born March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana.

About this chart

What is Steve McQueen's sun sign?

Steve McQueen's sun is in Aries.

What is Steve McQueen's moon sign?

Steve McQueen's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Steve McQueen's rising sign?

Steve McQueen's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Steve McQueen born?

Steve McQueen was born March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius 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.

SunAries · 9th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonAquarius · 7th 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. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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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 Aquarius in the 7th 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Scorpio (4th 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

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 rulerAquarius · 7th house

Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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.

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MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Venus, Uranus) amplify that signal.

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 fire and cardinal signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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.

UranusAries · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. 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 fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  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.

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

Aries Sun · Aquarius Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius 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
33%
Earth
8%
Air
23%
Water
36%
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 Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Sun, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Sun, Uranus, Venus gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Aries 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 Aries stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Aries is also a discharge valve.

Yod · apex Neptuneuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Neptune (Moon, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Sun form a yod pointing at Neptune in Virgo. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Neptune: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Neptune can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Neptune: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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 sextile Uranusorb 0.29°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.38°

In you, Saturn grinds against Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Sun sextile Moonorb 1.32°

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

Venus square Plutoorb 2.76°

In you, Venus grinds against Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Venus square Saturnorb 3.44°

In you, Venus grinds against Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

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
Saturn rules Capricornat home

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

Jupiter sextile Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Saturn trine Chironorb 0.3°

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

Uranus trine Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

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

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.4°

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

Jupiter opposition Vertexorb 0.8°

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

North Node square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

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

Moon square North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

Mercury in detriment in Piscesuphill

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

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Chart data for Steve McQueen
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°22' Aries9th houseexaltation
Moon2°03' Aquarius7th housechart ruler
Mercury25°44' Pisces9th housedetriment
Venus14°41' Aries10th housedetriment
Mars5°52' Pisces8th house·
Jupiter10°35' Gemini11th housedetriment
Saturn11°15' Capricorn6th houserulership
Uranus10°52' Aries10th house·
Neptune1°23' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Pluto17°26' Cancer12th houseretrograde
Chiron11°32' Taurus10th house·
North Node3°13' Taurus10th houseretrograde
South Node3°13' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith4°15' Aquarius7th house·
Part of Fortune24°26' Taurus11th house·
Vertex11°21' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersextileuranus0.29°applying
saturntrinechiron0.29°separating
saturnsquareuranus0.38°applying
uranustrinevertex0.48°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex0.77°applying
sunsextilelilith0.88°applying
north-nodesquarelilith1.02°separating
moonsquarenorth-node1.17°applying
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune1.30°separating
sunsextilemoon1.32°applying
neptunetrinenorth-node1.84°applying
moonconjunctionlilith2.20°applying
marssextilenorth-node2.65°separating
venussquarepluto2.76°applying
venustrinevertex3.33°separating
venussquaresaturn3.44°separating
venusconjunctionuranus3.82°separating
marsoppositionneptune4.49°separating
marssquarejupiter4.71°applying
marssquarevertex5.48°applying
sunconjunctionuranus7.50°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune7.61°separating
sunconjunctionmercury7.64°applying
sunsquaresaturn7.87°applying
suntrinevertex7.98°applying
plutobiquintilevertex0.09°applying
saturnsemisextilevertex0.10°applying
sunsemisextilenorth-node0.15°separating
chironquincunxvertex0.19°separating
moonquintilevenus0.63°applying
moonquincunxneptune0.67°separating
jupiterquincunxsaturn0.67°applying
uranussemisextilechiron0.67°applying
mercurysemisquarechiron0.80°applying
jupitersemisextilechiron0.96°applying
neptunesemisquarepluto1.06°separating
uranussemisquarepart-of-fortune1.43°separating
marssemisextilelilith1.63°separating
venussesquiquadrateneptune1.70°applying
saturnsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.81°separating
sunquincunxneptune1.99°separating