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Ursula von der Leyen.

8 October 1958 · time unknown · Brussels, Belgium
unknown birth time · rising?

Ursula von der Leyen's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Leo. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born October 8, 1958 in Brussels, Belgium.

About this chart

What is Ursula von der Leyen's sun sign?

Ursula von der Leyen's sun is in Libra.

What is Ursula von der Leyen's moon sign?

Ursula von der Leyen's moon is in Leo.

What is Ursula von der Leyen's rising sign?

Ursula von der Leyen's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Ursula von der Leyen born?

Ursula von der Leyen was born October 8, 1958 in Brussels, Belgium.

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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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 fire 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.

SunLibra · 10th house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. 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.

MoonLeo · 8th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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RisingSagittarius? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up.

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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Aries (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 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

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerScorpio · 11th house

Growth comes through depth, transformation and the willingness to go down, carried by faith in the rebirth. The shadow is the obsession that will not release.

Where it drives. Abundance flows through community. Many friends, strong group affiliations, a wide chosen family and a generous sense of the future.

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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MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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 · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 4th 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 4th house (home, roots, family): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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, cardinal chart led by Venus. 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.

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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Libra Sun · Leo Moon · Sagittarius rising? Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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 fire 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
38%
Earth
0%
Air
54%
Water
8%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.40°

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 sextile Moonorb 0.40°

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.

Sun sextile Uranusorb 0.81°

In you, the Sun works easily with Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Mars square Plutoorb 0.88°

In you, Mars grinds against Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Moon conjunction Uranusorb 1.21°

In you, the Moon is fused with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
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.

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 Moonorb 0.4°

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

Sun sextile Uranusorb 0.8°

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

Mercury trine Chironorb 1.0°

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

Mercury sextile Uranusorb 1.4°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

North Node square Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Mars square Plutoorb 0.9°

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

Uranus opposition Chironorb 2.4°

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.

Black Moon Lilith square Vertexorb 2.8°

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

North Node opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 3.3°

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.

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Chart data for Ursula von der Leyen
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun14°39' Libra10th housefall
Moon14°15' Leo8th house·
Mercury16°50' Libra10th house·
Venus5°56' Libra9th houserulership
Mars2°30' Gemini6th house·
Jupiter6°08' Scorpio11th housechart ruler
Saturn20°42' Sagittarius1st house·
Uranus15°27' Leo8th house·
Neptune3°46' Scorpio11th house·
Pluto3°23' Virgo9th house·
Chiron17°51' Aquarius2nd houseretrograde
North Node22°19' Libra10th houseretrograde
South Node22°19' Aries4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°35' Aries4th house·
Part of Fortune7°59' Libra10th house·
Vertex22°49' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.40°separating
sunsextilemoon0.40°separating
north-nodesquarevertex0.50°separating
sunsextileuranus0.81°applying
marssquarepluto0.88°applying
mercurytrinechiron1.01°applying
moonconjunctionuranus1.21°applying
mercurysextileuranus1.38°separating
saturnsextilenorth-node1.61°applying
venusconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.05°applying
sunconjunctionmercury2.19°separating
jupiterconjunctionneptune2.36°separating
uranusoppositionchiron2.39°applying
moonsextilemercury2.59°applying
jupitersextilepluto2.76°separating
lilithsquarevertex2.78°separating
saturnsextilechiron2.86°separating
suntrinechiron3.20°applying
north-nodeoppositionlilith3.28°separating
venustrinemars3.43°separating
moonoppositionchiron3.60°applying
mercurysextilesaturn3.87°applying
chirontrinenorth-node4.47°separating
saturntrinelilith4.88°separating
saturntrineuranus5.25°separating
mercuryconjunctionnorth-node5.48°applying
marstrinepart-of-fortune5.48°applying
mercurysquarevertex5.98°applying
moontrinesaturn6.46°applying
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune6.67°separating
sunconjunctionnorth-node7.66°applying
venussemisextilejupiter0.20°applying
moonquintilemars0.25°separating
jupitersemisquaresaturn0.43°separating
mercurysesquiquadratemars0.66°applying
saturnquintilepart-of-fortune0.73°separating
marsquintileuranus0.96°separating
venusquintilevertex1.12°separating
marsquincunxneptune1.27°separating
mercurysemisquarepluto1.54°applying
jupitersemisextilepart-of-fortune1.84°applying
saturnsemisquareneptune1.93°separating
saturnquincunxvertex2.11°applying