Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Tilda Swinton.

5 November 1960 · time unknown · London, England
unknown birth time · rising?

Tilda Swinton's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Gemini. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born November 5, 1960 in London, England.

About this chart

What is Tilda Swinton's sun sign?

Tilda Swinton's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Tilda Swinton's moon sign?

Tilda Swinton's moon is in Gemini.

What is Tilda Swinton's rising sign?

Tilda Swinton's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Tilda Swinton born?

Tilda Swinton was born November 5, 1960 in London, England.

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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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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.

SunScorpio · 9th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. 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.

MoonGemini · 4th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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RisingCapricorn? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to.

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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Pisces (2nd 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Capricorn; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerCapricorn · 1st house

Saturn is at home here. The work is on ambition, mastery and legacy: lessons in the long game. The shadow is work as identity, at the cost of a life.

Where it drives. Weight is carried in the self. Often a serious or grave presence, an early life that asked a great deal, and a slow but deep maturing into eventual authority.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Mercury) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 fixed 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.

UranusLeo · 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 Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 woundAquarius · 1st house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. 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 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 Saturn. 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 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

Saturn is the loudest force in your chart, which means structure, discipline, and the serious build lead. You are saturnine, defined by responsibility and the long climb, mature beyond your years and built for what lasts.

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Gemini Moon · Capricorn rising? Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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
10%
Earth
31%
Air
15%
Water
44%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mercury, Neptune, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Sun gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.76°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will 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 trine Marsorb 0.99°

In you, Mercury flows together with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.21°

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.

Moon square Plutoorb 1.45°

In you, the Moon grinds against Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Mars opposition Saturnorb 3.30°

In you, Mars sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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
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.

Saturn trine North Nodeorb 0.2°

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.

Sun sextile North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.8°

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

Mercury trine Marsorb 1.0°

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

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.

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.

Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

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

Moon square Plutoorb 1.4°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 1.9°

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

Mars opposition Saturnorb 3.3°

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

Chiron opposition Vertexorb 4.0°

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

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Chart data for Tilda Swinton
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun13°04' Scorpio9th house·
Moon6°22' Gemini4th house·
Mercury18°08' Scorpio10th houseretrograde
Venus18°01' Sagittarius11th house·
Mars17°08' Cancer7th housefall
Jupiter1°51' Capricorn12th housefall
Saturn13°50' Capricorn1st houserulership, chart ruler
Uranus25°29' Leo7th house·
Neptune9°01' Scorpio9th house·
Pluto7°49' Virgo8th house·
Chiron27°24' Aquarius1st houseretrograde
North Node13°38' Virgo8th houseretrograde
South Node13°38' Pisces2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°16' Cancer7th house·
Part of Fortune4°42' Leo7th house·
Vertex23°26' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturntrinenorth-node0.20°separating
sunsextilenorth-node0.57°applying
sunsextilesaturn0.76°applying
mercurytrinemars0.99°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.21°separating
moonsquarepluto1.45°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune1.66°separating
uranusoppositionchiron1.91°applying
uranusconjunctionvertex2.06°separating
mercurytrinelilith2.15°separating
marsconjunctionlilith3.14°applying
marsoppositionsaturn3.30°separating
marssextilenorth-node3.50°separating
chironoppositionvertex3.97°applying
sunconjunctionneptune4.05°separating
suntrinemars4.07°applying
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune4.32°separating
venussquarenorth-node4.38°separating
sunconjunctionmercury5.06°applying
sunsextilepluto5.25°separating
mercurysquarevertex5.31°separating
venustrinevertex5.42°applying
plutoconjunctionnorth-node5.82°applying
jupitertrinepluto5.96°applying
suntrinelilith7.20°applying
moonsquarenorth-node7.27°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus0.11°applying
venusquincunxmars0.88°separating
moonsemisquarelilith1.09°separating
chironbiquintilelilith1.13°applying
mercurysemisquarejupiter1.27°applying
saturnsemisquarechiron1.43°separating
moonbiquintilesaturn1.47°applying
venussesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.69°applying
venusquincunxlilith2.26°applying