steer
Sun
19% of the chart
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✦SignatureSignature · Lou Reed
Dominant planets, element, modality, and the one sign that holds the most weight.
steer
Moon
16% of the chart
steer
Mercury
15% of the chart
what "signature" means
Not your Rising. Not your Sun.
your signature sign is the single sign that best summarises your whole chart's gestalt: the crossing of your dominant element (fire, earth, air, water) and your dominant modality (cardinal, fixed, mutable).
think of it like the genre of a playlist, not the first song. your Sun is the track everyone hears first. your Rising is how you walk into the room. signature is the mood the whole collection keeps returning to.
the Rising is the door. signature is the weather inside the house: six placements in water outvote one Aries Rising, every time.
TraditionalMars · Jupiter · Saturn rule the night-side signs
ModernUranus · Neptune · Pluto take over Aqu / Pis / Sco
signature sign
Gemini
Air · Mutable
At the crossing of your dominant element (air) and your dominant modality (mutable) sits Gemini: the sign that summarises the gestalt of your chart, distinct from your Sun, your Moon, or your Rising.
This echoes your Rising; the signature confirms the part of you that's most visible.
The runner-up sits close, so the signature carries a Mutable-Fixed mix in practice.
Reading under Traditional rulership · chart ruler Mercury.
Why Air?
the rising is the door; the signature is the weather inside the house. these are the heaviest-weighted placements that tipped the vote to air, whatever your Rising or Sun happen to be:
- MercuryAquarius15%
- JupiterGemini12%
- VenusAquarius9%
Asteria · the archetype
Sun×Air
The feeling
Your mind arrived before you did and has been three steps ahead ever since. You think in connections, in the space between two ideas nobody else put together. Being understood feels like the rarest thing, and you have spent a life translating yourself into rooms that listen at half speed.
The architecture
This is a Sun-Air chart. The author of your consciousness writes in language, pattern, and exchange. Identity here is relational and intellectual at once. You know who you are by what you can articulate and who you can reach.
Gravity & hope
The danger is living entirely upstairs, all signal and no body, mistaking the conversation about the life for the life. Come down sometimes. Let something be felt before it is explained.
Famous charts · Oprah Winfrey · John Lennon
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The bodies steering your chart
Pullen-style breakdown: each body scored on a Position component (sign, house, dignity, rulership, sect, condition) and an Aspects component (orb-weighted contacts). The Percent sums to 100% across all bodies: your share of the total chart steer.
Sun
19.3%
Pos 12.5
Asp 2.4
Total 14.9
- base weight 8
- in the 10th house (angular)
- sect light (diurnal)
- 6 major aspects on this planet
Moon
15.5%
Pos 11.0
Asp 1.0
Total 12.0
- base weight 8
- in the 4th house (angular)
- 6 major aspects on this planet
Mercury
15.0%
Pos 10.0
Asp 1.6
Total 11.6
- base weight 5
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- ruler of the Ascendant sign
- ruler of the Moon sign
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Jupiter
12.3%
Pos 6.5
Asp 3.0
Total 9.5
- base weight 4
- in the 12th house (cadent)
- conjunct Ascendant within 8°
- ruler of the Sun sign
- in detriment (Gemini)
- 8 major aspects on this planet
Saturn
9.2%
Pos 6.5
Asp 0.6
Total 7.1
- base weight 4
- in the 12th house (cadent)
- ruler of the Midheaven sign
- 3 major aspects on this planet
Venus
8.9%
Pos 5.5
Asp 1.4
Total 6.9
- base weight 5
- in the 9th house (cadent)
- 5 major aspects on this planet
Ascendant
7.8%
Pos 6.0
Asp 0.0
Total 6.0
- the body's front door
- angular by definition
Mars
7.4%
Pos 4.5
Asp 1.2
Total 5.7
- base weight 5
- in the 12th house (cadent)
- in detriment (Taurus)
- 3 major aspects on this planet
Midheaven
4.5%
Pos 3.5
Asp 0.0
Total 3.5
- the public face
- angular by definition
dominant signs
Which signs hold the most chart energy
Pullen-style breakdown of the weighted body placement summed per sign. Includes the same vote weights used for elements + modalities: Sun, Moon and Ascendant cast the heaviest votes; the inner planets follow; outers count quietly.
element radar
The fingerprint of your chart's element distribution. A dominant axis pulls the polygon out of true; balanced elements draw it close to a centred square.
element balance
Element balance
modality balance
Modality balance
Asteria · the archetype library
Forty namings.
The kind of chart a person is, said in the voice of the reading rather than the textbook. Ten planets, four elements, every cell its own arc.
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