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Usher.

14 October 1978 · 04:00 · Dallas, Texas

Usher's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Pisces, Virgo rising. Born October 14, 1978 in Dallas, Texas.

About this chart

What is Usher's sun sign?

Usher's sun is in Libra.

What is Usher's moon sign?

Usher's moon is in Pisces.

What is Usher's rising sign?

Usher's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Usher born?

Usher was born October 14, 1978 in Dallas, Texas.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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.

SunLibra · 2nd 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 forged through what you value and what you hold. Self-worth and resources are the school, and the lifelong work is valuing yourself enough to insist on what you genuinely need.

MoonPisces · 7th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. 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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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Scorpio in the 2nd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeVirgo · 1st 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 · 7th house

The South Node in Pisces (7th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Virgo 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 rulerScorpio · 2nd house

Thought is penetrating and investigative, drawn to what is hidden. The speech is concentrated and sometimes withholding, and the gift is research and depth. The shadow is suspicion hardening into paranoia.

Where it drives. The mind goes to work on value and resources. You think about money, the voice can become a source of income, and the intellect itself is the asset.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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.

UranusScorpio · 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 Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 2nd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. 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 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 relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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, mutable 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 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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

Libra Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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
8%
Earth
23%
Air
23%
Water
46%
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: Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Venus 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.62°

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.

Mars conjunction Uranusorb 1.68°

In you, Mars is fused with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Sun conjunction Plutoorb 3.94°

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.

Moon trine Venusorb 4.49°

In you, the Moon flows together with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Sun sextile Neptuneorb 4.56°

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.

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
Mars rules Scorpioat home

Mars 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 0.6°

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.

Pluto trine Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Saturn trine Chironorb 1.5°

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.

Neptune sextile Vertexorb 1.8°

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

Sun trine Vertexorb 2.8°

A natural, flowing ease: 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
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.

Mercury square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.1°

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

Moon opposition North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Mars square Vertexorb 1.1°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Jupiter square Chironorb 1.9°

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

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Chart data for Usher
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun20°42' Libra2nd housefall
Moon27°01' Pisces7th house·
Mercury0°18' Scorpio2nd housechart ruler
Venus22°32' Scorpio3rd housedetriment
Mars16°48' Scorpio3rd houserulership
Jupiter6°17' Leo11th house·
Saturn9°42' Virgo12th house·
Uranus15°07' Scorpio3rd house·
Neptune16°08' Sagittarius3rd house·
Pluto16°45' Libra2nd house·
Chiron8°11' Taurus8th houseretrograde
North Node26°41' Virgo1st houseretrograde
South Node26°41' Pisces7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith0°11' Leo11th house·
Part of Fortune11°35' Aries7th house·
Vertex17°54' Aquarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarelilith0.11°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node0.32°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.62°separating
marssquarevertex1.11°applying
plutotrinevertex1.15°applying
saturntrinechiron1.53°separating
marsconjunctionuranus1.68°separating
neptunesextilevertex1.77°applying
jupitersquarechiron1.89°applying
uranussquarevertex2.79°applying
suntrinevertex2.79°separating
moontrinelilith3.16°applying
north-nodesextilelilith3.49°separating
sunconjunctionpluto3.94°separating
moontrinevenus4.49°separating
neptunetrinepart-of-fortune4.55°separating
sunsextileneptune4.56°separating
venussquarevertex4.62°separating
plutooppositionpart-of-fortune5.17°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune5.31°applying
venusconjunctionmars5.73°applying
mercurysquarejupiter5.99°applying
marssemisextilepluto0.04°separating
marssemisextileneptune0.66°separating
marsbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.79°applying
venusquintilesaturn0.83°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune0.84°applying
neptunesesquiquadratelilith0.96°applying
uranussemisextileneptune1.01°applying
uranussemisextilepluto1.63°applying
sunsemisextilevenus1.83°applying
saturnquincunxpart-of-fortune1.89°applying