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Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Damien Hirst.

7 June 1965 · 12:00 · Bristol, England
noon chart · houses approximate
Natal chart for Damien HirstASCDSCICMC7°VII28°VIII25°LIIII0°SGIV8°CPV11°AQVI7°PIVII28°PIVIII25°ARIX0°GEX8°CNXI11°LEXII10°33'GE11°07'GE+13°49'GE16°28'GE01°20'CNOOB10°52'VI13°43'VI20°08'VI28°35'VI17°53'SC13°49'SG19°37'SG26°38'CPOOB11°04'AQ16°51'PI22°25'PI
Plate inativity of Damien Hirst7 June 1965 · 12:00
the full read

Damien Hirst'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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 earth 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.

SunGemini · 10th house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. 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.

MoonVirgo · 2nd house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

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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 Gemini in the 10th 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 NodeGemini · 10th house · air element · 2nd decan

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 · 4th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (4th 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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Libra; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Because Virgo rises, Mercury rules 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 rulerGemini · 10th house

Mercury is at home here. A quick, plural mind, hungry for input, fluent in speech, excellent at synthesis and translation. The shadow is shallow breadth and a quiet avoidance of depth.

Where it drives. The mind is your public signature. The voice is known, and the work often involves writing, speaking, broadcasting or teaching.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius 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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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.

UranusVirgo · 1st 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 Virgo. 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 break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. 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 tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression 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 Virgo

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

NeptuneScorpio · 3rd 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 Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 3rd house, the house of mind, words, siblings. 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 3rd house: how you think, speak and learn. 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 mind, words, siblings, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and mind, words, siblings becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

PlutoVirgo · 1st 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 Virgo. 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 7th 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. Healing comes from grounded spirituality: boundaries that let compassion be a gift rather than a flood, connection without dissolving. Lesson: feeling everything does not mean carrying everything. The wound negotiates in partnership: being chosen, being met as an equal, the fear of being left. Relationships may repeat the original cut until the pattern is seen. Healing and teaching often flow through the mirror of the one-to-one bond.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 5th house

She built her own authority because the existing one didn't make room for her. She's the woman who runs the meeting the men think they're running. Her wound is the long history of being underestimated, talked down to, or asked to soften her competence so it didn't read as threat. Her medicine is no longer downplaying what she is in fact extremely good at. Lilith meets creativity, pleasure and romance. Desire and creative impulse arrive in capital letters here. Suppressing the fire does not make it smaller; it makes it leak sideways into drama or resentment.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 build: to turn vision into something real, durable and genuinely useful in the world. You are wired to adapt: your gift shows up when you stay fluid and let the work change shape as it goes. With Mercury steering and a Gemini 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 Gemini core be fed by a Virgo heart and carried out through a Virgo 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 earth: patience, craft, and the will to build, and you are built to adapt and transform things. It gives you Mercury 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.

Mercury square Uranusorb 0.26°

In you, Mercury grinds against Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Jupiter square Uranusorb 0.31°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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 square Saturnorb 0.39°

In you, the Sun grinds against Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Mercury conjunction Jupiterorb 0.57°

In you, Mercury is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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 trine Neptuneorb 1.03°

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
Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

Mercury trine Vertexorb 0.0°

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

Jupiter trine Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Saturn trine Neptuneorb 1.0°

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.

Moon trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Mars sextile Neptuneorb 2.2°

An easy, available link: Mars and Neptune 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.

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.

T-Squarepattern

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

Pluto square North Nodeorb 0.1°

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

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Chart data for Damien Hirst
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°28' Gemini10th house·
Moon28°35' Virgo2nd house·
Mercury11°07' Gemini10th houserulership, chart ruler
Venus1°20' Cancer10th house·
Mars20°08' Virgo1st house·
Jupiter10°33' Gemini10th housedetriment
Saturn16°51' Pisces7th house·
Uranus10°52' Virgo1st house·
Neptune17°53' Scorpio3rd houseretrograde
Pluto13°43' Virgo1st house·
Chiron22°25' Pisces7th house·
North Node13°49' Gemini10th house·
South Node13°49' Sagittarius4th house·
Black Moon Lilith26°38' Capricorn5th house·
Part of Fortune19°37' Sagittarius4th house·
Vertex11°04' Aquarius6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrinevertex0.05°separating
plutosquarenorth-node0.09°applying
mercurysquareuranus0.26°separating
jupitersquareuranus0.31°applying
sunsquaresaturn0.39°applying
marssquarepart-of-fortune0.52°separating
jupitertrinevertex0.52°applying
mercuryconjunctionjupiter0.57°separating
saturntrineneptune1.03°applying
moontrinelilith1.95°separating
marssextileneptune2.25°separating
marsoppositionchiron2.28°applying
mercurysquarepluto2.60°applying
sunconjunctionnorth-node2.65°separating
mercuryconjunctionnorth-node2.69°applying
north-nodetrinevertex2.74°separating
sunsquarepluto2.75°separating
moonsquarevenus2.75°applying
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune2.76°applying
chironsquarepart-of-fortune2.80°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto2.86°applying
uranussquarenorth-node2.95°applying
saturnsquarenorth-node3.05°separating
saturnoppositionpluto3.14°separating
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune3.15°applying
jupitersquarepluto3.16°applying
jupiterconjunctionnorth-node3.26°applying
marsoppositionsaturn3.28°separating
sunsquaremars3.67°applying
neptunetrinechiron4.52°separating
sunconjunctionmercury5.34°applying
suntrinevertex5.39°separating
saturnconjunctionchiron5.55°applying
sunsquareuranus5.60°separating
mercurysquaresaturn5.73°applying
north-nodeoppositionpart-of-fortune5.80°applying
plutosquarepart-of-fortune5.90°applying
sunconjunctionjupiter5.91°separating
sunsquarechiron5.94°applying
saturnoppositionuranus5.99°separating
moonoppositionchiron6.18°separating
uranusquincunxvertex0.21°applying
venusquintilepluto0.38°applying
mercurysesquiquadratelilith0.52°applying
uranussesquiquadratelilith0.78°separating
jupitersesquiquadratelilith1.08°applying
sunquincunxneptune1.42°applying
venussesquiquadrateneptune1.55°applying
neptunesemisextilepart-of-fortune1.73°separating