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Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Ed Sheeran.

17 February 1991 · 12:00 · Halifax, England
noon chart · houses approximate
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Plate inativity of Ed Sheeran17 February 1991 · 12:00
the full read

Ed Sheeran'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 Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunAquarius · 10th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. 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.

MoonAries · 11th house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. 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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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Aries in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 · 8th 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 · 2nd house

The South Node in Cancer (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: 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 Cancer rises, the Moon rules the whole chart. And your ruler is also one of the lights. The chart doubles down: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerAries · 11th house

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.

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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MidheavenAquarius · the 10th house

With Aquarius on the Midheaven, a room senses independence: someone original, principled, who does not run on the usual rules. Planets in the 10th (Sun) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLeo · the 4th house

With Leo 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 air and fixed 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.

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.

UranusCapricorn · 7th 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 Capricorn. But in your chart it lands in the 7th house, the house of partnership, the other. 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 7th house: partnership and the one-to-one bond. 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 partnership, the other, 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 partnership, the other 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 Capricorn

A generation that breaks down institutions and rebuilds them.

NeptuneCapricorn · 7th 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 Capricorn. But in your chart it lands in the 7th house, the house of partnership, the other. 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 7th house: partnership and the one-to-one bond. 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 partnership, the other, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and partnership, the other becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Capricorn

An era that dreams of universal structure, the spiritualising of authority, the dissolving of institutions.

PlutoScorpio · 6th 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 Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 6th house, the house of work, health, routine. 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 6th house: work, health and the daily routine. 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 work, health, routine, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and work, health, routine 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 Scorpio

Pluto is at home here. An era that remakes sex, death, power and the underworld, putting the hidden 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 woundCancer · 2nd house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. Healing comes from re-parenting yourself: building the safety you lacked, and letting yourself sit inside the circle of care rather than only tending it. Lesson: receiving care is not betrayal of strength. The wound ties to money, security and self-worth: the felt sense of being enough in material terms. Scarcity, underearning or guilt around comfort may trace back here. Healing comes through building value on your own terms and helping others claim what they are worth without apology.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 6th house

She has a low tolerance for small lives, small minds, and small ideas about who she's allowed to become. Somewhere along the way she was told to be reasonable; she politely declined. Her wound is being called difficult by people who needed her to stay containable. Her medicine is the long, ongoing pilgrimage toward her own enormous life. Lilith lives in daily life, work and the body. Routines designed by other people quietly suffocate you; discipline easily becomes self-punishment until you learn the difference. The ordinary day must feel like yours.

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

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 connect: to see the pattern, name it clearly, and link people and ideas that were never going to meet on their own. You are wired to sustain: your gift compounds when you commit and refuse to abandon the thing halfway. With Moon steering and a Aquarius 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 Aquarius core be fed by a Aries heart and carried out through a Cancer 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 air: ideas, language, and the will to connect, and you are built to hold and sustain things. It gives you Moon 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.35°

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.

Mercury square Plutoorb 1.83°

In you, Mercury grinds against Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 2.68°

In you, Mars works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Uranus conjunction Neptuneorb 3.45°

In you, Uranus is fused with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus trine Plutoorb 3.61°

In you, Venus flows together with Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your relationship to power and deep change. 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
Saturn rules Aquariusat home

Saturn 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 0.3°

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.

Neptune sextile Vertexorb 0.7°

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Pluto trine Chironorb 1.7°

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

Venus trine Chironorb 1.9°

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

Where it works
Venus square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.5°

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

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

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

Mercury square Plutoorb 1.8°

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

Saturn opposition Part of Fortuneorb 3.2°

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

Mercury square Vertexorb 3.4°

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

Jupiter opposition Saturnorb 4.9°

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

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Chart data for Ed Sheeran
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°19' Aquarius10th housedetriment
Moon1°33' Aries11th housechart ruler
Mercury18°32' Aquarius9th house·
Venus23°58' Pisces11th houseexaltation
Mars8°47' Gemini12th house·
Jupiter6°06' Leo3rd houseretrograde
Saturn1°12' Aquarius8th houserulership
Uranus12°21' Capricorn7th house·
Neptune15°48' Capricorn7th house·
Pluto20°22' Scorpio6th house·
Chiron22°06' Cancer2nd houseretrograde
North Node27°43' Capricorn8th houseretrograde
South Node27°43' Cancer2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith22°31' Sagittarius6th house·
Part of Fortune4°26' Leo3rd house·
Vertex15°07' Scorpio6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilesaturn0.35°separating
neptunesextilevertex0.68°separating
venussquarelilith1.46°separating
jupiterconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.66°applying
plutotrinechiron1.74°applying
mercurysquarepluto1.83°applying
venustrinechiron1.86°separating
marssextilejupiter2.68°separating
uranussextilevertex2.77°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune2.88°applying
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune3.23°applying
mercurysquarevertex3.42°separating
uranusconjunctionneptune3.45°applying
saturnconjunctionnorth-node3.49°separating
venustrinepluto3.61°separating
venussextilenorth-node3.75°applying
moonsextilenorth-node3.83°separating
mercurysextilelilith3.98°applying
moontrinejupiter4.54°applying
jupiteroppositionsaturn4.89°applying
plutoconjunctionvertex5.25°separating
chironoppositionnorth-node5.61°applying
sunsextilelilith5.80°separating
moonconjunctionvenus7.58°separating
sunsquarepluto7.95°separating
sunbiquintilechiron0.20°separating
venusquintileuranus0.37°applying
chironquincunxlilith0.40°separating
sunsemisextilenorth-node0.59°separating
north-nodequintilevertex0.60°applying
sunsemisquareuranus0.97°separating
marsbiquintileneptune1.02°applying
saturnquintilepluto1.16°applying
jupitersesquiquadratelilith1.41°separating
moonsesquiquadratevertex1.44°separating
marssemisquarechiron1.67°separating
moonsemisquaremercury1.98°applying