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Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Mike Faist.

17 January 1992 · 12:00 · Gahanna, Ohio
noon chart · houses approximate
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Plate inativity of Mike Faist17 January 1992 · 12:00
the full read

Mike Faist'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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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.

SunCapricorn · 9th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonGemini · 2nd house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. 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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RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Sagittarius in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 · 9th house · earth element · 1st 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 · 3rd house

The South Node in Cancer (3rd 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 Taurus rises, Venus rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Venus · the chart rulerSagittarius · 8th house

Love is freedom-loving and adventurous, oriented toward shared meaning, needing space inside the relationship. The shadow is taking flight when intimacy gets too close.

Where it drives. Love runs deep and entangled. Intimacy is intense, resources often merge or are inherited, and the work is keeping love clear of power.

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
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 (Saturn) 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 earth and cardinal 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.

UranusCapricorn · 9th 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 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 break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. 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 tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and belief, travel, meaning 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 · 9th 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 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and belief, travel, meaning 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 · 7th 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 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and partnership, the other 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 woundLeo · 4th house

The wound is being seen: a fear that the real you is not special enough to love, so you dim your light or chase validation that never quite lands. Applause can feel like oxygen and still leave you hollow. Healing comes from creating for its own joy and meeting the inner child again: your worth is inherent, not won by applause. Lesson: the heart shines brightest when it is not auditioning. 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 · 9th 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 expands through belief, travel and truth that was earned, not borrowed. Dogma and watered-down spirituality make you itchy. Your philosophy has to survive your own questioning.

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 begin: your gift only fully arrives when you let yourself be the one who starts. With Venus steering and a Capricorn 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 Capricorn core be fed by a Gemini heart and carried out through a Taurus 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 start things. It gives you Venus 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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.56°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Uranus conjunction Neptuneorb 2.17°

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.

Jupiter trine Neptuneorb 2.73°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 2.97°

In you, Mercury flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mercury conjunction Uranusorb 3.54°

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

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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.6°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter and Uranus 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.

Venus sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

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

Moon trine Vertexorb 2.6°

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.

Jupiter trine Neptuneorb 2.7°

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

Where it works
Saturn opposition Chironorb 0.6°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Virgouphill

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

Sun square Vertexorb 2.8°

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

Neptune square Part of Fortuneorb 5.0°

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

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 5.1°

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

Black Moon Lilith square Vertexorb 5.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Black Moon Lilith and Vertex 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 Mike Faist
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun26°52' Capricorn9th house·
Moon26°37' Gemini2nd house·
Mercury11°08' Capricorn9th house·
Venus20°45' Sagittarius8th housechart ruler
Mars6°12' Capricorn8th houseexaltation
Jupiter14°06' Virgo5th houseretrograde, detriment
Saturn7°47' Aquarius10th houserulership
Uranus14°40' Capricorn9th house·
Neptune16°50' Capricorn9th house·
Pluto22°31' Scorpio7th house·
Chiron7°12' Leo4th houseretrograde
North Node9°49' Capricorn9th house·
South Node9°49' Cancer3rd house·
Black Moon Lilith29°34' Capricorn9th house·
Part of Fortune21°48' Libra6th house·
Vertex24°02' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitertrineuranus0.56°separating
saturnoppositionchiron0.58°separating
venussextilepart-of-fortune1.04°applying
mercuryconjunctionnorth-node1.31°separating
uranusconjunctionneptune2.17°applying
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex2.23°separating
moontrinevertex2.59°separating
sunconjunctionlilith2.69°applying
jupitertrineneptune2.73°separating
sunsquarevertex2.84°separating
mercurytrinejupiter2.97°applying
venussextilevertex3.28°applying
mercuryconjunctionuranus3.54°applying
marsconjunctionnorth-node3.62°applying
jupitertrinenorth-node4.29°applying
sunsextilepluto4.35°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune4.82°separating
uranusconjunctionnorth-node4.85°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars4.93°separating
neptunesquarepart-of-fortune4.96°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune5.07°separating
lilithsquarevertex5.53°separating
mercuryconjunctionneptune5.71°applying
moonoppositionvenus5.86°separating
marsquintilevertex0.17°separating
sunquincunxmoon0.25°separating
jupiterbiquintilesaturn0.33°applying
jupitersesquiquadratelilith0.46°separating
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune0.72°separating
marsquincunxchiron1.00°applying
marssemisquarepluto1.32°applying
venussesquiquadratechiron1.44°applying
plutosemisextilevertex1.51°applying
marssemisextilesaturn1.58°applying
venussemisextilepluto1.76°applying