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Vincent van Gogh.

30 March 1853 · 11:00 · Zundert, Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Sagittarius, Cancer rising. Born March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands.

About this chart

What is Vincent van Gogh's sun sign?

Vincent van Gogh's sun is in Aries.

What is Vincent van Gogh's moon sign?

Vincent van Gogh's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Vincent van Gogh's rising sign?

Vincent van Gogh's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Vincent van Gogh born?

Vincent van Gogh was born March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 fire and water 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.

SunAries · 10th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. 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.

MoonSagittarius · 6th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Sagittarius in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeGemini · 12th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 6th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (6th 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 Aquarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerSagittarius · 6th house

Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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 mutable 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.

UranusTaurus · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptunePisces · 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 Pisces

Neptune is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoTaurus · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Taurus

An era that remakes value, currency and material life, putting what is owned 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 woundCapricorn · 6th house

The wound is achievement and authority: a father-or-authority wound that insists you are never accomplished enough, whatever the cost. Success can feel like a debt that never clears. It plays out most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. 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 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Aries. 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 air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

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 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 Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 fire and water 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
49%
Earth
8%
Air
0%
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 Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Mars, Neptune, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Venus gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Pisces 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 Pisces stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Pisces is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Pluto, Saturn, Uranus

In your chart, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 1.34°

In you, Mercury flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 square Jupiterorb 1.86°

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

Venus conjunction Marsorb 1.93°

In you, Venus is fused with Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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 conjunction Jupiterorb 3.54°

In you, the Moon is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Saturn sextile Neptuneorb 3.73°

In you, Saturn works easily with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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
Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Neptune sextile Chironorb 0.6°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

Venus is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 1.3°

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

Saturn trine Chironorb 3.1°

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.

Where it works
Moon opposition North Nodeorb 1.7°

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.

Jupiter opposition North Nodeorb 1.8°

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

Mars square Jupiterorb 1.9°

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

Sun square Chironorb 3.2°

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

Mars square North Nodeorb 3.7°

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

Venus square Jupiterorb 3.8°

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

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Chart data for Vincent van Gogh
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun9°39' Aries10th houseexaltation
Moon20°43' Sagittarius6th housechart ruler
Mercury25°36' Aries10th house·
Venus28°03' Pisces10th houseexaltation
Mars26°07' Pisces10th house·
Jupiter24°16' Sagittarius6th houserulership
Saturn15°57' Taurus11th house·
Uranus6°47' Taurus11th house·
Neptune12°13' Pisces9th house·
Pluto0°45' Taurus11th house·
Chiron12°50' Capricorn6th house·
North Node22°28' Gemini12th houseretrograde
South Node22°28' Sagittarius6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith21°58' Taurus11th house·
Part of Fortune2°13' Aries10th house·
Vertex6°24' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilechiron0.62°applying
mercurytrinejupiter1.34°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node1.74°applying
jupiteroppositionnorth-node1.80°separating
marssquarejupiter1.86°separating
venusconjunctionmars1.93°separating
saturntrinechiron3.11°separating
mercurysextilenorth-node3.14°separating
sunsquarechiron3.19°applying
suntrinevertex3.24°separating
moonconjunctionjupiter3.54°applying
marssquarenorth-node3.66°separating
saturnsextileneptune3.73°separating
venussquarejupiter3.79°separating
venusconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.17°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex4.18°separating
moontrinemercury4.87°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto5.16°applying
moonsquaremars5.39°applying
venussquarenorth-node5.59°separating
neptunesquarevertex5.81°separating
moonsquarevenus7.32°applying
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune7.42°separating
plutobiquintilevertex0.35°separating
uranusquincunxvertex0.38°separating
north-nodesemisextilelilith0.50°applying
mercurysemisextilemars0.52°separating
uranussemisquarenorth-node0.68°applying
sunquintilenorth-node0.82°applying
moonsesquiquadrateuranus1.06°applying
moonbiquintilesaturn1.23°applying
moonquincunxlilith1.24°applying
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.27°applying
marsquintilechiron1.28°separating
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune1.47°applying
mercurysemisquareneptune1.62°applying
jupiterquincunxlilith2.30°applying