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Tori Amos.

22 August 1963 · 13:10 · Newton, Catawba County, United States

Tori Amos's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Libra, Scorpio rising. Born August 22, 1963 in Newton, Catawba County, United States.

About this chart

What is Tori Amos's sun sign?

Tori Amos's sun is in Leo.

What is Tori Amos's moon sign?

Tori Amos's moon is in Libra.

What is Tori Amos's rising sign?

Tori Amos's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Tori Amos born?

Tori Amos was born August 22, 1963 in Newton, Catawba 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 Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 · 10th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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 is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonLibra · 11th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Libra in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 NodeCancer · 9th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (3rd 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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Scorpio; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars 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.

Mars · the chart rulerLibra · 11th house

The drive is considered and diplomatic, expressed through negotiation, uneasy with overt aggression. The shadow is suppressing anger in the name of harmony.

Where it drives. Energy is spent on the cause. You drive a group forward, the friend circle can be contentious, and the future is something to be fought for.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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 fixed 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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 10th house

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

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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 fire, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

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 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

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 · Libra Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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
41%
Earth
10%
Air
33%
Water
15%
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 sextile Saturnorb 0.15°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.66°

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 Venusorb 2.01°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars trine Saturnorb 2.55°

In you, Mars flows together with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars opposition Jupiterorb 2.70°

In you, Mars sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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.

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.

Neptune trine Chironorb 0.1°

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

Jupiter sextile Saturnorb 0.1°

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

Venus trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.6°

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

Where it works
Mercury square Part of Fortuneorb 0.1°

A productive friction: the pull between Mercury and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Jupiter square North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

Pluto opposition Chironorb 1.8°

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.

Mars opposition Jupiterorb 2.7°

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

Mars square North Nodeorb 3.3°

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

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Chart data for Tori Amos
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°53' Leo10th houserulership
Moon8°35' Libra11th house·
Mercury26°07' Virgo10th houserulership
Venus26°52' Leo10th house·
Mars16°30' Libra11th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter19°11' Aries5th houseretrograde
Saturn19°03' Aquarius3rd houseretrograde, rulership
Uranus5°13' Virgo10th house·
Neptune13°05' Scorpio12th house·
Pluto11°26' Virgo10th house·
Chiron13°11' Pisces4th houseretrograde
North Node19°45' Cancer9th houseretrograde
South Node19°45' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith13°54' Scorpio12th house·
Part of Fortune26°14' Sagittarius2nd house·
Vertex3°21' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunetrinechiron0.10°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune0.12°applying
jupitersextilesaturn0.15°separating
jupitersquarenorth-node0.56°applying
venustrinepart-of-fortune0.62°separating
chirontrinelilith0.72°separating
neptuneconjunctionlilith0.81°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.66°applying
plutooppositionchiron1.76°applying
uranussextilevertex1.87°separating
sunconjunctionvenus2.01°applying
plutosextilelilith2.47°separating
marstrinesaturn2.55°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune2.63°separating
marsoppositionjupiter2.70°applying
marssquarenorth-node3.25°applying
sunsextilevertex4.47°applying
saturnsquarelilith5.14°applying
moonsquarevertex5.25°separating
north-nodetrinelilith5.84°applying
saturnsquareneptune5.96°applying
sunconjunctionuranus6.34°applying
moonconjunctionmars7.90°applying
uranussemisquarenorth-node0.47°separating
saturnsesquiquadratevertex0.70°applying
saturnquincunxnorth-node0.70°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus0.74°separating
jupitersesquiquadrateuranus1.03°separating
mercurybiquintilesaturn1.08°separating
neptunesemisquarepart-of-fortune1.85°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune1.97°applying