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Serena Williams.

26 September 1981 · 20:28 · Saginaw, Michigan
Natal chart for Serena WilliamsASCDSCICMC25°TAI20°GEII10°CNIII1°LEIV27°LEV5°LIVI25°SCVII20°SGVIII10°CPIX1°AQX27°AQXI5°ARXII22°24'TA08°11'GE29°44'CN15°36'LE20°55'VI03°51'LI11°42'LI+17°03'LI23°27'LI25°11'LI29°41'LI16°22'SC27°15'SC00°20'SG22°14'SG29°44'CP
Plate inativity of Serena Williams26 September 1981 · 20:28
the full read

Serena Williams'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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Virgo 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.

SunLibra · 5th house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonVirgo · 5th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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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 Scorpio in the 6th 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 NodeCancer · 3rd house · water element · 3rd decan

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 9th house

The South Node in Capricorn (9th 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 Pisces, 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 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 rulerScorpio · 6th house

Love is intense and all-or-nothing. The instinct is to merge completely or not at all. The shadow is the jealousy that grows from a certainty that love is dangerous.

Where it drives. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.

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.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusScorpio · 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 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 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 Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

NeptuneSagittarius · 8th 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 Sagittarius. 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and intimacy, depth, the shared becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

PlutoLibra · 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 Libra. 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 Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 12th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. Healing comes from valuing yourself plainly, enjoying the physical world without guilt, and building safety in small, steady steps. Lesson: enough is a practice, not a verdict handed down by others. The wound hides in the inner life: old grief, spiritual overwhelm, the part of the cut that has no obvious cause. Solitude can heal or haunt depending on whether the exile is conscious. Healing comes through compassionate retreat and work with what is unseen.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 7th 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 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 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 begin: your gift only fully arrives when you let yourself be the one who starts. With Venus steering and a Libra 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 Libra core be fed by a Virgo 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 air: ideas, language, and the will to connect, 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.

Venus square Marsorb 0.77°

In you, Venus grinds against Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.22°

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.

Moon square Neptuneorb 1.31°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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 1.44°

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.

Mars sextile Saturnorb 3.89°

In you, Mars works easily with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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
North Node trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.2°

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.

Mars sextile Jupiterorb 1.4°

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

Moon trine Chironorb 1.5°

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

Uranus trine North Nodeorb 2.5°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

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

Mercury square North Nodeorb 0.1°

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

Venus square Marsorb 0.8°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 1.3°

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

North Node square Vertexorb 4.5°

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

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Chart data for Serena Williams
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°51' Libra5th housefall
Moon20°55' Virgo5th house·
Mercury29°41' Libra6th house·
Venus16°22' Scorpio6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mars15°36' Leo4th house·
Jupiter17°03' Libra6th house·
Saturn11°42' Libra6th houseexaltation
Uranus27°15' Scorpio7th house·
Neptune22°14' Sagittarius8th house·
Pluto23°27' Libra6th house·
Chiron22°24' Taurus12th houseretrograde
North Node29°44' Cancer3rd houseretrograde
South Node29°44' Capricorn9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith0°20' Sagittarius7th house·
Part of Fortune8°11' Gemini1st house·
Vertex25°11' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysquarenorth-node0.05°applying
north-nodetrinelilith0.60°separating
venussquaremars0.77°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.22°separating
moonsquareneptune1.31°applying
marssextilejupiter1.44°applying
moontrinechiron1.49°applying
plutoconjunctionvertex1.74°applying
uranustrinenorth-node2.49°applying
neptunesextilevertex2.95°applying
uranusconjunctionlilith3.09°separating
sunsextilelilith3.51°separating
saturntrinepart-of-fortune3.53°separating
marssextilesaturn3.89°separating
sunsextilenorth-node4.11°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune4.33°applying
mercuryconjunctionvertex4.49°separating
north-nodesquarevertex4.55°applying
moonsextilevenus4.55°separating
uranusoppositionchiron4.84°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn5.34°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn7.86°applying
saturnquintilenorth-node0.03°applying
neptunequincunxchiron0.18°applying
plutosesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.27°separating
saturnsemisquareuranus0.53°applying
jupiterbiquintilechiron0.64°separating
mercurysemisextilelilith0.66°applying
venussemisextilejupiter0.68°applying
plutoquincunxchiron1.04°separating
saturnquintileneptune1.48°separating
jupitersemisquarelilith1.71°separating