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Nickmercs.

26 November 1990 · 12:00 · Detroit, Michigan
noon chart · houses approximate
Natal chart for NickmercsASCDSCICMC29°AQI18°ARII20°TAIII13°GEIV4°CNV26°CNVI29°LEVII18°LIVIII20°SCIX13°SGX4°CPXI26°CPXII05°45'GE13°49'GE27°03'CN29°41'CN13°34'LES16°59'VI18°21'SC04°13'SG10°28'SG13°18'SGOOB23°03'SGOOB07°42'CPOOB12°52'CP21°55'CP+29°41'CP18°40'PI
Plate inativity of Nickmercs26 November 1990 · 12:00
the full read

Nickmercs'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 Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Pisces 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.

SunSagittarius · 9th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. 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.

MoonPisces · 1st house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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 Capricorn in the 11th 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 NodeCapricorn · 12th 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 · 6th house

The South Node in Cancer (6th 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.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

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 rulerCapricorn · 11th house

Saturn is at home here. The work is on ambition, mastery and legacy: lessons in the long game. The shadow is work as identity, at the cost of a life.

Where it drives. Community is built slowly. Often restricted friendships or a thin social life early on, with the work being to build a chosen family and, eventually, to lead one.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Mercury) amplify that signal.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini 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 fire and mutable signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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 · 11th 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 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 break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. 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 tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future 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 · 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 Capricorn. 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 Capricorn

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

PlutoScorpio · 8th 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 8th house, the house of intimacy, depth, the shared. 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 8th house: intimacy, shared resources and what gets transformed. 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 intimacy, depth, the shared, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and intimacy, depth, the shared 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 · 6th 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 runs through work, health and routine: being useful, being well, the daily grind of good-enough. The body may carry stress as symptom; service can become self-erasure. Healing lives in sustainable habit and learning that your health counts in the care plan.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 9th 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 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 fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

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 ignite: to take a cold idea and give it enough heat that other people finally move. You are wired to adapt: your gift shows up when you stay fluid and let the work change shape as it goes. With Saturn steering and a Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius core be fed by a Pisces 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 fire: drive, faith, and the will to begin, and you are built to adapt and transform 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.

Moon trine Plutoorb 0.31°

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

Sun opposition Marsorb 1.54°

In you, the Sun sits opposite Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 3.11°

In you, Venus flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 3.25°

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.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 3.56°

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

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 Capricornat 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 sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter 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 Plutoorb 0.3°

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

Pluto sextile Vertexorb 1.4°

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

Venus trine Jupiterorb 3.1°

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

Where it works
Black Moon Lilith opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.5°

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

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Sun opposition Marsorb 1.5°

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

Moon opposition Vertexorb 1.7°

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

Chiron opposition North Nodeorb 2.6°

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

Part of Fortune square Vertexorb 3.2°

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

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Chart data for Nickmercs
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°13' Sagittarius9th house·
Moon18°40' Pisces1st house·
Mercury23°03' Sagittarius10th housedetriment
Venus10°28' Sagittarius9th house·
Mars5°45' Gemini3rd houseretrograde
Jupiter13°34' Leo6th house·
Saturn21°55' Capricorn11th houserulership, chart ruler
Uranus7°42' Capricorn11th house·
Neptune12°52' Capricorn11th house·
Pluto18°21' Scorpio8th house·
Chiron27°03' Cancer6th houseretrograde
North Node29°41' Capricorn12th houseretrograde
South Node29°41' Cancer6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith13°18' Sagittarius9th house·
Part of Fortune13°49' Gemini4th house·
Vertex16°59' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune0.25°applying
jupitertrinelilith0.27°applying
moontrinepluto0.31°separating
lilithoppositionpart-of-fortune0.52°applying
plutosextilevertex1.38°separating
sunoppositionmars1.54°applying
moonoppositionvertex1.69°separating
chironoppositionnorth-node2.63°applying
venusconjunctionlilith2.84°applying
venustrinejupiter3.11°applying
part-of-fortunesquarevertex3.16°separating
moonsextilesaturn3.25°applying
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune3.36°applying
saturnsextilepluto3.56°separating
lilithsquarevertex3.68°applying
neptunetrinevertex4.11°applying
moonsquaremercury4.39°applying
sunsextilenorth-node4.53°separating
venusoppositionmars4.71°separating
jupitersquarepluto4.79°separating
moonsquarepart-of-fortune4.85°separating
saturntrinevertex4.94°separating
saturnoppositionchiron5.14°applying
uranusconjunctionneptune5.16°applying
moonsquarelilith5.37°separating
moonsextileneptune5.80°separating
sunconjunctionvenus6.24°separating
suntrinechiron7.16°separating
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.13°separating
neptunesemisextilelilith0.44°separating
plutoquintilenorth-node0.67°separating
jupiterquincunxneptune0.71°applying
north-nodesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.87°applying
moonbiquintilejupiter0.90°applying
neptunequincunxpart-of-fortune0.95°applying
moonquintileuranus1.03°applying
marsbiquintileneptune1.11°separating
mercurysemisextilesaturn1.14°separating
marssesquiquadratesaturn1.16°separating
chironsesquiquadratelilith1.24°separating
north-nodesemisquarelilith1.39°applying
venussesquiquadratechiron1.60°applying
chironsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.76°separating
marsquincunxuranus1.95°separating