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Derek Muller (Veritasium).

9 November 1982 · 12:00 · Traralgon, Australia
noon chart · houses approximate
Natal chart for Derek Muller (Veritasium)ASCDSCICMC11°AQI3°PIII29°PIIII1°TAIV7°GEV11°CNVI11°LEVII3°VIVIII29°VIIX1°SCX7°SGXI11°CPXII25°39'TA26°23'GE05°31'CN26°10'LE27°37'LI27°42'LI+09°50'SC16°17'SC17°32'SC19°52'SC21°06'SC03°45'SG25°20'SG05°31'CP06°03'CP+OOB15°39'CP
Plate inativity of Derek Muller (Veritasium)9 November 1982 · 12:00
the full read

Derek Muller (Veritasium)'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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Leo 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.

SunScorpio · 10th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. 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.

MoonLeo · 7th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

ASC
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 Libra in the 9th 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 NodeCancer · 5th house · water element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 11th house

The South Node in Capricorn (11th 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Because Aquarius rises, Saturn rules 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 rulerLibra · 9th house

Saturn is exalted here. The work is on partnership, fairness and balance: lessons in commitment and integrity in relationship. The shadow is cold distance disguised as fairness.

Where it drives. Belief must be built, not inherited. Often sceptical of received wisdom, you have to construct your own philosophy, and it becomes a deep, hard-won mastery.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus 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 water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusSagittarius · 10th 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 Sagittarius. But in your chart it lands in the 10th house, the house of career, reputation, calling. 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 10th house: career, reputation and your public path. 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 career, reputation, calling, 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 career, reputation, calling 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 Sagittarius

A generation that upends belief, reinventing meaning, religion and the search for truth.

NeptuneSagittarius · 11th 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 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future 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 · 9th 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 9th house, the house of belief, travel, meaning. 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 9th house: belief, travel and the search for meaning. 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 belief, travel, meaning, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and belief, travel, meaning 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 woundTaurus · 4th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. Healing comes from valuing yourself plainly, enjoying the physical world without guilt, and building safety in small, steady steps. Lesson: enough is a practice, not a verdict handed down by others. The wound is rooted at home and in family: belonging, roots, who held you and how. The private foundation may carry old grief that no one named. Healing comes from re-parenting yourself and building a home where the wound is finally met with care.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 12th 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 hides in the inner life, dreams and what runs underground. The fire burns inward when it has no outlet; solitude is sanctuary or prison depending on whether you are creating or only suppressing. The depth was never the problem.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 feel accurately: to read what is truly happening beneath the surface and hold it with care. You are wired to sustain: your gift compounds when you commit and refuse to abandon the thing halfway. With Saturn steering and a Scorpio 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 Scorpio core be fed by a Leo heart and carried out through a Aquarius 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 water: feeling, depth, and the will to care, and you are built to hold and sustain things. It gives you Saturn 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.

Saturn conjunction Plutoorb 0.08°

In you, Saturn is fused with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.83°

In you, the Moon flows together with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 1.25°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 1.46°

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

Moon sextile Saturnorb 1.54°

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.

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
Moon sextile Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

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

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

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

Pluto trine Vertexorb 1.2°

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

Where it works
Moon square Chironorb 0.5°

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

Mars opposition North Nodeorb 0.5°

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

Neptune opposition Vertexorb 1.1°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

Venus runs uphill in Scorpio, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 4.5°

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

Moon square Part of Fortuneorb 5.1°

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

does this land for you? tell me · your read shapes the next build.

Chart data for Derek Muller (Veritasium)
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°17' Scorpio10th house·
Moon26°10' Leo7th house·
Mercury9°50' Scorpio10th house·
Venus17°32' Scorpio10th housedetriment
Mars6°03' Capricorn11th houseexaltation
Jupiter19°52' Scorpio10th house·
Saturn27°42' Libra9th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Uranus3°45' Sagittarius10th house·
Neptune25°20' Sagittarius11th house·
Pluto27°37' Libra9th house·
Chiron25°39' Taurus4th houseretrograde
North Node5°31' Cancer5th houseretrograde
South Node5°31' Capricorn11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith15°39' Capricorn12th house·
Part of Fortune21°06' Scorpio10th house·
Vertex26°23' Gemini5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnconjunctionpluto0.08°separating
moonsextilevertex0.22°separating
moonsquarechiron0.51°separating
marsoppositionnorth-node0.52°separating
sunsextilelilith0.64°separating
moontrineneptune0.83°separating
neptuneoppositionvertex1.05°applying
plutotrinevertex1.24°separating
sunconjunctionvenus1.25°separating
jupiterconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.25°applying
saturntrinevertex1.32°separating
moonsextilepluto1.46°applying
moonsextilesaturn1.54°applying
venussextilelilith1.89°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.29°separating
venusconjunctionjupiter2.32°applying
saturnsextileneptune2.37°separating
sunconjunctionjupiter3.57°applying
venusconjunctionpart-of-fortune3.57°applying
mercurysextilemars3.79°separating
mercurytrinenorth-node4.32°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune4.54°applying
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.82°applying
moonsquarepart-of-fortune5.05°separating
jupiteroppositionchiron5.79°applying
moonsquarejupiter6.30°separating
sunconjunctionmercury6.45°applying
moonsquareuranus7.60°applying
marssemisquarepart-of-fortune0.06°applying
neptunequincunxchiron0.32°applying
mercurysemisquareneptune0.49°applying
jupiterbiquintilevertex0.52°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.59°separating
jupitersesquiquadratenorth-node0.66°applying
part-of-fortunebiquintilevertex0.72°separating
chironsemisextilevertex0.74°separating
marssemisquarejupiter1.19°separating
mercurysesquiquadratevertex1.55°applying
uranusquincunxnorth-node1.77°applying
plutoquincunxchiron1.98°separating
saturnquincunxchiron2.06°separating