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Yves Saint Laurent.

1 August 1936 · 19:45 · Oran, Oran District, Algeria

Yves Saint Laurent's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Capricorn, Aquarius rising. Born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Oran District, Algeria.

About this chart

What is Yves Saint Laurent's sun sign?

Yves Saint Laurent's sun is in Leo.

What is Yves Saint Laurent's moon sign?

Yves Saint Laurent's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Yves Saint Laurent's rising sign?

Yves Saint Laurent's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Yves Saint Laurent born?

Yves Saint Laurent was born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Oran District, Algeria.

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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 Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 · 6th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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 forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonCapricorn · 11th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. 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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RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Pisces in the 1st house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 NodeCapricorn · 11th house

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 5th house

The South Node in Cancer (5th 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerPisces · 1st house

The work is on imagination, compassion and the spiritual life: lessons in finding substance under the dreaming. The shadow is the fear of the formless.

Where it drives. Weight is carried in the self. Often a serious or grave presence, an early life that asked a great deal, and a slow but deep maturing into eventual authority.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

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.

UranusTaurus · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 →

NeptuneVirgo · 7th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 6th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundGemini · 4th house

The wound is your voice and mind: a fear of being unheard or thought unintelligent, often set by being silenced or ridiculed young. You may talk fast to stay ahead of dismissal, or go quiet when the room feels unsafe. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that kept the peace by disappearing. It is the refusal to make harmony out of self-erasure. The medicine is letting other people be uncomfortable when your truth needs air. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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.

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 · Capricorn Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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
51%
Earth
15%
Air
15%
Water
18%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Leo 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 Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo 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 conjunction Venusorb 0.09°

In you, Mercury is fused with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Sun square Uranusorb 0.18°

In you, the Sun grinds against Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 sextile Saturnorb 0.38°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.42°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Moon opposition Marsorb 2.20°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.4°

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

Uranus trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.8°

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

Mars trine Saturnorb 2.6°

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

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

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

Sun square Uranusorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 0.4°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 0.6°

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

Moon square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.8°

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 1.1°

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

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Chart data for Yves Saint Laurent
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun9°20' Leo6th houserulership
Moon22°13' Capricorn11th housedetriment
Mercury18°39' Leo6th house·
Venus18°34' Leo6th house·
Mars24°25' Cancer6th housefall
Jupiter14°44' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn21°50' Pisces1st houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus9°31' Taurus2nd house·
Neptune15°09' Virgo7th house·
Pluto27°18' Cancer6th house·
Chiron21°14' Gemini4th house·
North Node3°09' Capricorn11th houseretrograde
South Node3°09' Cancer5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°01' Libra8th house·
Part of Fortune10°29' Virgo7th house·
Vertex13°35' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionvenus0.09°separating
sunsquareuranus0.18°applying
moonsextilesaturn0.38°separating
jupitersquareneptune0.42°separating
saturnsquarechiron0.60°applying
moonsquarelilith0.80°applying
uranustrinepart-of-fortune0.98°applying
jupitersquarevertex1.14°applying
marssquarelilith1.40°separating
neptuneconjunctionvertex1.56°separating
chirontrinelilith1.78°separating
moonoppositionmars2.20°applying
marstrinesaturn2.58°separating
mercurysextilechiron2.59°applying
venussextilechiron2.67°applying
marsconjunctionpluto2.88°applying
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex3.10°separating
venustrinejupiter3.84°separating
mercurytrinejupiter3.92°separating
uranustrinevertex4.08°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune4.24°applying
plutosquarelilith4.28°applying
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.66°separating
moonoppositionpluto5.08°applying
suntrinejupiter5.40°applying
saturntrinepluto5.46°separating
uranustrineneptune5.64°separating
moontrineneptune7.08°separating
sunbiquintilenorth-node0.19°separating
venussesquiquadratenorth-node0.42°separating
mercurysesquiquadratenorth-node0.51°separating
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.78°separating
moonquincunxchiron0.98°separating
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune1.06°applying
sunsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.16°applying
saturnquincunxlilith1.18°separating
plutosemisquarevertex1.29°applying
plutosemisquarepart-of-fortune1.82°separating