Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Tim Burton.

25 August 1958 · 23:49 · Burbank, Los Angeles County, United States

Tim Burton's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Capricorn, Gemini rising. Born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, Los Angeles County, United States.

About this chart

What is Tim Burton's sun sign?

Tim Burton's sun is in Virgo.

What is Tim Burton's moon sign?

Tim Burton's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Tim Burton's rising sign?

Tim Burton's Rising (Ascendant) is Gemini.

When and where was Tim Burton born?

Tim Burton was born August 25, 1958 in Burbank, Los Angeles 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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 earth 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.

SunVirgo · 4th 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. The self is built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonCapricorn · 9th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. Feeling needs room to breathe. Comfort comes from travel, study and a larger framework, and the emotions expand toward meaning.

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RisingGemini · the doorway

You arrive already mid-conversation. The eyes find what is interesting before the mouth finds what to say. People feel met at the frequency of the curious question. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Leo in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Gemini 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 NodeLibra · 5th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 11th house

The South Node in Aries (11th 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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Gemini, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Gemini 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 rulerLeo · 4th house

Thought is dramatic and expressive, built around the central idea. The mind works in stories and large themes, the speech has presence, and the conversation has to mean something. The shadow is impatience with detail.

Where it drives. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.

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
MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo on the IC, home is where the heart warms: creative privacy, pride in what you protect.

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 earth and fixed signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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 · 3rd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, 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 · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your mind first: curious, talkative, light on the feet.

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 earth, fixed chart led by Mercury. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

Missing: Little or no water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Capricorn Moon · Gemini rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Gemini 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 earth 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
28%
Earth
41%
Air
31%
Water
0%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Uranus, Venus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Leo 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 Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo 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 Neptuneorb 0.04°

In you, the Sun works easily with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will 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 square Jupiterorb 0.12°

In you, the Moon grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 0.17°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.45°

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.

Sun conjunction Plutoorb 0.49°

In you, the Sun is fused with Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

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 sextile Neptuneorb 0.0°

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

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 0.2°

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

Pluto sextile Vertexorb 0.3°

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

Saturn sextile Chironorb 0.4°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.4°

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.

Sun sextile Vertexorb 0.8°

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

Where it works
Moon square Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Mars square Chironorb 0.8°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

North Node opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.8°

A polarity asking to be balanced: 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 Vertexorb 3.7°

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

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Chart data for Tim Burton
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°32' Virgo4th house·
Moon28°02' Capricorn9th housedetriment
Mercury27°44' Leo4th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Venus12°29' Leo3rd house·
Mars20°18' Taurus12th housedetriment
Jupiter27°54' Libra6th house·
Saturn19°06' Sagittarius7th house·
Uranus13°17' Leo3rd house·
Neptune2°29' Scorpio6th house·
Pluto2°02' Virgo4th house·
Chiron19°29' Aquarius10th houseretrograde
North Node23°35' Libra5th houseretrograde
South Node23°35' Aries11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°49' Aries11th house·
Part of Fortune9°37' Capricorn8th house·
Vertex1°44' Scorpio6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsextileneptune0.04°separating
moonsquarejupiter0.12°separating
mercurysextilejupiter0.17°separating
plutosextilevertex0.29°separating
saturnsextilechiron0.39°applying
neptunesextilepluto0.45°applying
sunconjunctionpluto0.49°separating
neptuneconjunctionvertex0.74°separating
sunsextilevertex0.78°separating
venusconjunctionuranus0.80°applying
marssquarechiron0.82°separating
chironsextilelilith1.33°separating
saturntrinelilith1.72°separating
north-nodeoppositionlilith2.78°applying
moonsquarevertex3.71°applying
jupiterconjunctionvertex3.83°applying
chirontrinenorth-node4.11°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto4.30°separating
jupiterconjunctionnorth-node4.32°separating
moonsquarenorth-node4.44°separating
moonsquareneptune4.45°applying
jupiterconjunctionneptune4.58°applying
sunsextilejupiter4.62°separating
sunconjunctionmercury4.79°separating
saturntrineuranus5.82°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune7.09°applying
moonsquarelilith7.22°separating
moontrinemars7.73°separating
jupiterquintilepart-of-fortune0.29°separating
moonquincunxmercury0.30°separating
marssemisextilelilith0.51°applying
venusquintilenorth-node0.89°separating
marsquincunxsaturn1.21°separating
saturnsemisquareneptune1.61°applying