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Reid Hoffman.

5 August 1967 · 12:00 · Stanford, California
noon chart · houses approximate
Natal chart for Reid HoffmanASCDSCICMC21°LII19°SCII20°SGIII24°CPIV27°AQV26°PIVI21°ARVII19°TAVIII20°GEIX24°CNX27°LEXI26°VIXII12°20'AR24°43'AR01°20'TA25°57'TA24°55'CN08°24'LE12°39'LE+14°52'LE13°45'VIS19°05'VI22°13'VI17°22'LI01°20'SC08°38'SC+21°34'SC29°21'PI
Plate inativity of Reid Hoffman5 August 1967 · 12:00
the full read

Reid Hoffman'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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 fire 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.

SunLeo · 10th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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 · 10th 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. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Virgo in the 11th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeTaurus · 7th house · earth element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Taurus: steadiness, your own resources, the plain things that sustain you, the body's simple yes. The familiar groove is Scorpio: intensity, entanglement, living on other people's crises. Growth is a calm that needs no storm to feel real.

South NodeScorpio · 1st house

The South Node in Scorpio (1st 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 Libra 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 rulerVirgo · 11th house

Love is practical and devoted, expressed through service, noticing what others need before they ask. The shadow is being unable to receive a gift without correcting it.

Where it drives. Affection flows through friendship. Friends come easily, love sometimes begins inside a group, and an aesthetic vision shapes the future you want.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn 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 fixed 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.

UranusVirgo · 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 Virgo. 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 Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

NeptuneScorpio · 2nd 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 Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 2nd house, the house of money, values, worth. 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 2nd house: money, worth and what you build security on. 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 money, values, worth, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and money, values, worth becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

PlutoVirgo · 11th 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 Virgo. 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 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 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 meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 6th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. Healing comes from grounded spirituality: boundaries that let compassion be a gift rather than a flood, connection without dissolving. Lesson: feeling everything does not mean carrying everything. 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 shadowAries · 7th house

She doesn't wait for the room to be ready for her. She walks in and lets the room adjust. Somewhere along the way she was probably called intense, intimidating, a lot; usually by people whose comfort she was no longer interested in protecting. Her work is not softening; it's aiming. Force without a target burns the people closest to her. Force with a target builds whole new worlds. Lilith negotiates in partnership. You attract intensity, then are asked to lower the flame. The pattern breaks when you stop choosing partners who need you digestible. Intimacy wants the real conversation, not the polite one.

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 sustain: your gift compounds when you commit and refuse to abandon the thing halfway. With Venus steering and a Leo 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 Leo core be fed by a Leo heart and carried out through a Libra 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 hold and sustain 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.

Moon square Marsorb 0.22°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Sun trine Saturnorb 0.31°

In you, the Sun flows together with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 sextile Neptuneorb 0.65°

In you, Uranus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun conjunction Jupiterorb 2.21°

In you, the Sun is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.48°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse 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
Sun rules Leoat home

Sun sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Mars rules Scorpioat home

Mars sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Sun trine Saturnorb 0.3°

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

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 0.6°

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

Mercury sextile Vertexorb 1.0°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.5°

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

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

Venus works against the grain in Virgo. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

Saturn works against the grain in Aries. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mercury square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Moon square Marsorb 0.2°

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

Sun square Marsorb 4.0°

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

Neptune opposition Vertexorb 4.4°

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.

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Chart data for Reid Hoffman
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°39' Leo10th houserulership
Moon8°24' Leo10th house·
Mercury24°55' Cancer10th house·
Venus13°45' Virgo11th housefall, chart ruler
Mars8°38' Scorpio1st houserulership
Jupiter14°52' Leo10th house·
Saturn12°20' Aries6th houseretrograde, fall
Uranus22°13' Virgo11th house·
Neptune21°34' Scorpio2nd house·
Pluto19°05' Virgo11th house·
Chiron29°21' Pisces6th houseretrograde
North Node1°20' Taurus7th houseretrograde
South Node1°20' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°43' Aries7th house·
Part of Fortune17°22' Libra12th house·
Vertex25°57' Taurus8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarelilith0.19°separating
moonsquaremars0.22°separating
suntrinesaturn0.31°separating
uranussextileneptune0.65°separating
mercurysextilevertex1.03°applying
sunconjunctionjupiter2.21°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.48°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune2.50°applying
jupitertrinesaturn2.52°separating
mercurysextileuranus2.69°separating
uranusconjunctionpluto3.13°separating
mercurytrineneptune3.34°separating
chironsextilevertex3.40°applying
uranustrinevertex3.72°applying
moontrinesaturn3.93°applying
sunsquaremars4.03°separating
sunconjunctionmoon4.24°applying
neptuneoppositionvertex4.37°applying
mercurytrinechiron4.43°applying
sunsextilepart-of-fortune4.71°applying
saturnoppositionpart-of-fortune5.03°separating
venusconjunctionpluto5.34°applying
moonconjunctionjupiter6.45°applying
moonsquarenorth-node7.08°separating
plutobiquintilelilith0.37°applying
moonquintilevertex0.46°separating
jupitersesquiquadratechiron0.52°separating
sunsemisextilevenus1.10°applying
venussemisextilejupiter1.11°separating
moonsemisquareuranus1.18°separating
lilithsemisextilevertex1.22°applying
saturnsemisquarevertex1.40°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.40°separating
venusquincunxsaturn1.41°separating
sunsesquiquadratechiron1.69°applying
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune1.73°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node1.99°applying
uranusquincunxlilith2.50°separating