Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Viola Davis.

11 August 1965 · time unknown · St. Matthews, South Carolina
unknown birth time · rising?

Viola Davis's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Aquarius. Birth time is unpublished, so Rising is unknown — Asteria does not fake a house system from noon. Born August 11, 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina.

About this chart

What is Viola Davis's sun sign?

Viola Davis's sun is in Leo.

What is Viola Davis's moon sign?

Viola Davis's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Viola Davis's rising sign?

Viola Davis's birth time is unpublished, so the Rising sign is unknown. Asteria does not invent house cusps from noon.

When and where was Viola Davis born?

Viola Davis was born August 11, 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina.

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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 Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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.

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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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.

MoonAquarius · 4th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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RisingLibra? · the doorway

Birth time is unknown (noon placeholder), so this rising is approximate. You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why.

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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Sagittarius (2nd 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Libra; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerVirgo · 11th house

Love is practical and devoted, expressed through service, noticing what others need before they ask. The shadow is being unable to receive a gift without correcting it.

Where it drives. Affection flows through friendship. Friends come easily, love sometimes begins inside a group, and an aesthetic vision shapes the future you want.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 mutable 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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 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 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 · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. 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 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 · Aquarius Moon · Libra rising? Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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
26%
Earth
10%
Air
49%
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: Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Pluto, Uranus, Venus 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.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Moon, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Moon, Neptune, Sun form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Mars trine Jupiterorb 0.06°

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

Saturn opposition Plutoorb 0.58°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Sun square Neptuneorb 1.47°

In you, the Sun grinds against Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Uranus conjunction Plutoorb 1.58°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.58°

In you, Saturn flows together with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

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.

Mars trine Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Moon trine North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.6°

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

Mercury sextile Marsorb 1.6°

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

Mercury sextile Jupiterorb 1.7°

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.

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

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

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Saturn opposition Plutoorb 0.6°

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

Venus opposition Chironorb 1.1°

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

Sun square Neptuneorb 1.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Neptune 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.

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Chart data for Viola Davis
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun18°45' Leo10th houserulership
Moon11°17' Aquarius4th house·
Mercury26°05' Leo10th houseretrograde
Venus20°33' Virgo11th housefall, chart ruler
Mars24°29' Libra12th housedetriment
Jupiter24°25' Gemini9th housedetriment
Saturn15°41' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Uranus13°32' Virgo11th house·
Neptune17°16' Scorpio1st house·
Pluto15°07' Virgo11th house·
Chiron21°37' Pisces5th houseretrograde
North Node11°33' Gemini8th houseretrograde
South Node11°33' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith3°55' Aquarius4th house·
Part of Fortune17°04' Aries6th house·
Vertex7°15' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marstrinejupiter0.06°separating
moontrinenorth-node0.27°separating
saturnoppositionpluto0.58°applying
venusoppositionchiron1.07°applying
sunsquareneptune1.47°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto1.58°applying
saturntrineneptune1.58°separating
mercurysextilemars1.60°applying
mercurysextilejupiter1.67°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune1.68°separating
uranussquarenorth-node1.99°separating
saturnoppositionuranus2.15°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.16°applying
jupitersquarechiron2.80°separating
venussextileneptune3.28°separating
lilithtrinevertex3.34°applying
plutosquarenorth-node3.56°separating
uranussextileneptune3.73°applying
venussquarejupiter3.87°applying
moontrinevertex4.03°separating
saturnsquarenorth-node4.14°separating
north-nodeconjunctionvertex4.30°applying
neptunetrinechiron4.35°applying
venusoppositionsaturn4.86°separating
venusconjunctionpluto5.44°separating
sunsextilejupiter5.68°applying
sunsextilemars5.74°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune5.78°applying
saturnconjunctionchiron5.94°separating
moonsquareneptune5.99°applying
sunconjunctionmercury7.34°applying
moonconjunctionlilith7.37°separating
sunoppositionmoon7.46°applying
neptunequincunxpart-of-fortune0.20°separating
sunquintilevertex0.51°applying
jupiterbiquintileneptune1.15°separating
lilithquintilepart-of-fortune1.16°applying
saturnsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.38°separating
venussesquiquadratelilith1.64°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.80°separating
moonsesquiquadratejupiter1.86°separating
plutoquincunxpart-of-fortune1.95°applying
moonquincunxuranus2.26°applying