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Ava DuVernay.

24 August 1972 · 12:00 · Long Beach, California
noon chart · houses approximate
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Plate inativity of Ava DuVernay24 August 1972 · 12:00
the full read

Ava DuVernay's chart, in plain language

A 10-part walk through the chart in five movements, from the core self out to the horizon. The essentials stay in view; anything marked with a small arrow folds open for the finer detail. Jump to any part below, or click a planet, house or aspect on the wheel above for the deep dive.

New to birth charts? The thirty-second primer
  • Planets are the what: ten drives every person carries. The Moon is how you feel, Mercury is how you think, Mars is how you act.
  • Signs are the how: the style each drive wears. A Moon in Taurus feels slowly and steadily; a Moon in Aries feels fast and hot.
  • Houses are the where: twelve areas of life, so the same drive plays out at work, at home, or in love depending on which room it sits in.
  • Aspects are the conversations: angles between two planets that make their drives cooperate, argue, or fuse into one force.

Every reading below follows that grammar: planet (what) in sign (how) in house (where). If you only read one section, read the Big Three; everything after it is that story told in finer and finer detail.

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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 earth 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.

SunVirgo · 10th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. 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.

MoonPisces · 4th 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. 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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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Virgo in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 · 3rd house · earth element · 3rd decan

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 · 9th house

The South Node in Cancer (9th 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: the decan and the degree

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Virgo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Because Scorpio rises, Mars rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mars · the chart rulerVirgo · 10th house

The drive is precise, methodical and work-oriented, and anger stays contained, voiced as criticism or withdrawal. The shadow is perfectionism that prevents action altogether.

Where it drives. Ambition is the engine. Driven and competitive, often in a public role built on leadership or direct action, with a clear Mars signature on the career.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, this is the private root the public aura grows from. The lowest point in the chart. Imum Coeli. The ground beneath the feet. The IC is the point directly opposite the Midheaven. The deepest, most interior, most hidden point in the chart. It marks the cusp of the fourth house. Where the Midheaven describes the public face, the IC describes the private foundation. The home life. The roots. The ground the person stands on when no one is watching. The sign on the IC describes the texture of the inner life. The atmosphere of the childhood home. The deep, unspoken emotional climate that the person carries inside themselves regardless of what is happening on the surface.

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.

Your Generational Role

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that a whole generation shares each sign. The sign is the era you were born into; the house is your personal assignment within it. This is your generational role: the corner of life where the big shift becomes your job to carry, with a lesson to learn and a gift waiting on the other side of it.

UranusLibra · 11th house

where you break from the past. Uranus carries the urge to break free, wake up, and overturn what has gone stale.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Uranus in Libra. But in your chart it lands in the 11th house, the house of friends, community, future. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. Your personal share of that work is the 11th house: friendship, community and the future you are building. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of friends, community, future, your work is tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future becomes exactly where you offer the world originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

The era you were born into: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

NeptuneSagittarius · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Neptune carries the pull toward the boundless: dream, faith, compassion, and the dissolving of every edge.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Neptune in Sagittarius. But in your chart it lands in the 1st house, the house of self, body, first impression. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. Your personal share of that work is the 1st house: your own self, your body and the way you show up. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of self, body, first impression, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Sagittarius

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

PlutoLibra · 11th house

where you are remade. Pluto carries the drive to destroy what is finished and regenerate it from the root.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Pluto in Libra. But in your chart it lands in the 11th house, the house of friends, community, future. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to take worn-out structures down to the root and rebuild them from the power that was buried. Your personal share of that work is the 11th house: friendship, community and the future you are building. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of friends, community, future, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future becomes exactly where you offer the world regenerative depth, unbreakable will, and the power to transform yourself and the people around you.

The era you were born into: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship through death and rebirth.

Wound & Shadow

Chiron marks the wound: the place that aches, and the place you can eventually heal others from. Black Moon Lilith marks the exiled self: the raw, untamed part that was told to behave.

Chiron · the woundAries · 5th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. Healing comes through the inner warrior: asserting yourself without apology, channelling anger cleanly, and learning your existence was never in doubt. Lesson: the fight for your place was already won. The wound meets self-expression, romance and play: the fear that the real you is not lovable when seen in joy or desire. Creativity can feel dangerous if visibility once brought pain. Healing comes through making anyway and letting pleasure be part of the medicine.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 1st house

She has known things about people they hadn't admitted to themselves. She's watched the polite mask slip and the real face appear, and she's kept the secret anyway. Her wound is the long, isolating experience of being told her depth was inappropriate. Her medicine is the slow building of a life where her depth is the whole point. Lilith shows on the surface before you speak. Presence, body, the charge people feel in the threshold: magnetic, unapologetic, hard to edit into a smaller costume. Dimming here costs self-erasure; owning it leaves a mark the room does not forget.

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

Raw materials, not a verdict. Everything above was the chart describing itself. This is where it hands the pen to you.

This chart describes a capacity to ignite: to take a cold idea and give it enough heat that other people finally move. You are wired to adapt: your gift shows up when you stay fluid and let the work change shape as it goes. With Mars steering and a Virgo Sun at the core, the potential here is not a fixed fate; it is a set of raw materials. The chart names the tools. What gets built with them is the part astrology cannot tell you, and the part that is entirely yours.

Underneath everything, this is a chart learning to let a Virgo core be fed by a Pisces heart and carried out through a Scorpio face: three different instincts that only become one person when you stop making them compete.

the charge

Here is what the wheel cannot tell you. It hands you fire: drive, faith, and the will to begin, and you are built to adapt and transform things. It gives you Mars as your compass and a map of where the pressure and the ease already live. But none of it is a verdict; it is equipment. The chart is the raw material; the life is what you make of it. That part was never written in the sky. It has always been yours to write.

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.

Venus square Uranusorb 0.02°

In you, Venus grinds against Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Sun opposition Moonorb 0.34°

In you, the Sun sits opposite the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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.

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.49°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun square Neptuneorb 0.83°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.75°

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.

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.

Sun sextile Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Moon trine Vertexorb 1.7°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.8°

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.

Saturn sextile Chironorb 2.4°

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

Mercury sextile Uranusorb 2.5°

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
T-Squarepattern

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

T-Squarepattern

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

Venus square Uranusorb 0.0°

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

Sun opposition Moonorb 0.3°

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

Pluto square Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.5°

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

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Chart data for Ava DuVernay
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun1°41' Virgo10th house·
Moon2°01' Pisces4th house·
Mercury13°24' Leo9th house·
Venus15°54' Cancer9th house·
Mars6°11' Virgo10th housechart ruler
Jupiter28°29' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn19°15' Gemini8th house·
Uranus15°53' Libra11th house·
Neptune2°31' Sagittarius1st house·
Pluto0°45' Libra11th house·
Chiron16°50' Aries5th houseretrograde
North Node25°39' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
South Node25°39' Cancer9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°26' Scorpio1st house·
Part of Fortune12°08' Taurus7th house·
Vertex0°21' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venussquareuranus0.02°separating
sunoppositionmoon0.34°separating
plutosquarevertex0.41°separating
moonsquareneptune0.49°separating
sunsquareneptune0.83°applying
venussquarechiron0.93°applying
uranusoppositionchiron0.95°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune1.27°separating
sunsextilevertex1.33°separating
moontrinevertex1.67°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.75°applying
jupiteroppositionvertex1.86°separating
jupitersquarepluto2.28°separating
saturnsextilechiron2.41°separating
mercurysextileuranus2.48°applying
suntrinejupiter3.20°separating
saturntrineuranus3.36°separating
mercurytrinechiron3.43°applying
moonsextilejupiter3.54°separating
marssquareneptune3.68°separating
venussextilepart-of-fortune3.77°separating
moonoppositionmars4.17°applying
sunconjunctionmars4.51°applying
venustrinelilith4.54°applying
plutotrinenorth-node5.10°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune5.94°applying
sunbiquintilenorth-node0.02°separating
mercurysesquiquadratejupiter0.08°applying
sunsesquiquadratechiron0.16°applying
moonsemisquarechiron0.18°separating
saturnbiquintilenorth-node0.40°applying
sunquintilesaturn0.43°separating
jupiterquintileuranus0.60°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron0.67°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.77°separating
sunsemisquareuranus0.79°separating
sunsemisextilepluto0.92°separating
moonsesquiquadratevenus1.12°separating
moonsesquiquadrateuranus1.14°separating
saturnquincunxlilith1.19°separating
moonquincunxpluto1.26°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.35°applying
venussesquiquadrateneptune1.61°applying
uranussemisquareneptune1.63°applying
mercurysemisquarevertex1.94°applying
neptunequincunxvertex2.16°separating