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Armin van Buuren
Born 1976-12-25 · Leiden, Netherlands · birth time unverified
☉ Capricorn Sun☽ Pisces Moon↑ Pisces RisingMusician
Armin van Buuren's chart reveals a disciplined, ambitious nature... someone who builds toward long-term goals with patience and finds identity through achievement and responsibility. With a Capricorn Sun in the 10th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of career and public life... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Pisces Moon speaks to what Armin needs emotionally... creative escape, spiritual connection, and permission to dissolve into something larger. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets Armin through Pisces rising... gentle, empathic, and slightly ethereal... someone who seems to exist in a world slightly more beautiful than the one everyone else sees. This is the lens through which all of their chart's energy is filtered, the first thing people sense before they know the full story.
Their energy is expansive and adventurous... they chase what excites them with contagious enthusiasm. With 4 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of Armin's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression.
House System:
Planetary Positions
Rising: Pisces · Midheaven: Sagittarius☉Sun
♑ Capricorn
3° · House 10
☽Moon
♓ Pisces
0° · House 12
☿Mercury
♑ Capricorn
22° · House 11
♀Venus
♒ Aquarius
18° · House 12
♂Mars
♐ Sagittarius
25° · House 10
♃Jupiter
♉ Taurus
21° · House 2℞
♄Saturn
♌ Leo
16° · House 6℞
♅Uranus
♏ Scorpio
10° · House 8
♆Neptune
♐ Sagittarius
14° · House 9
♇Pluto
♎ Libra
14° · House 7
☊North Node
♏ Scorpio
1° · House 7℞
⚷Chiron
♈ Aries
27° · House 1℞
Chart Interpretations
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Sun in Capricorn in House 10
Your Sun in Capricorn in the tenth house is among the most naturally powerful configurations in the zodiac ... Capricorn is the sign that governs the Midheaven's themes of career, authority, and public legacy, and the Sun here means your entire sense of self is expressed through, and in many ways defined by, your professional standing and what you build for the world over the full arc of your life. Saturn rules Capricorn, and at the apex of the chart that rulership brings the Sun's need for identity expression into direct alignment with the domain of earned authority and lasting public achievement: you are here to build something of genuine consequence, and the characteristic that most distinguishes this Sun is the willingness to do that work over decades without requiring early recognition as validation. The 10th house is Angular and among the four most powerful positions in the chart; the Sun here is genuinely visible to the world, and the career has the potential to become a defining legacy. Cardinal earth at the Midheaven initiates structure; the structures you build become institutions and lasting contributions rather than personal achievements that fade. To work with this energy consciously, allow your ambition to be matched by a philosophy of contribution ... the greatest Capricorn Midheaven legacies serve something larger than personal advancement. The honest growth edge is the psychological cost of defining yourself entirely by achievement: Capricorn in the 10th can become a person who exists primarily for the world and loses access to the private, unproductive, simply-alive self that is the actual human being behind the legacy.
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Moon in Pisces in House 12
Your Moon in Pisces in the twelfth house is one of the most spiritually powerful emotional placements in the entire zodiac ... the Moon governs your inner emotional world, Pisces is the sign of transcendence and universal compassion, and the twelfth house is the realm of the divine, the hidden, and the collective unconscious. This placement means your emotional life is genuinely connected to something beyond the personal ... you feel the sorrows and joys of the collective with unusual directness and intensity, and your compassion for the suffering of others can feel almost boundless. Your inner world is vast, imaginative, deeply spiritual, and richly populated with dreams, intuitions, and mystical experiences that most people never access. You may find your truest self most fully alive in states of meditation, prayer, creative solitude, or selfless service to those in greatest need. The honest growth challenge is developing strong personal boundaries and practical grounding to prevent your extraordinary spiritual sensitivity from becoming overwhelming or self-dissolving. Consciously build a rich, consistent spiritual practice that provides both profound inner nourishment and clear energetic protection. Your connection to the universal through this placement is one of astrology's most profound gifts ... honoring it through genuine inner practice and conscious self-care allows you to be a source of compassion and healing in the world while maintaining the personal wholeness that makes that service sustainable and authentic.
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Mercury in Capricorn in House 11
Your Mercury in Capricorn in the eleventh house brings a strategically patient, results-oriented, and practically disciplined intelligence to your social world ... your friendships, community groups, and collective endeavors benefit from a mind that is genuinely interested in moving from inspiring vision to actual lasting change, and that understands the structural and organizational work that transformation requires. Mercury governs how you think and communicate in social contexts; Capricorn is cardinal earth ruled by Saturn, and in the eleventh house of friendship, community, and collective aspiration, that quality means your most valuable social contribution is your ability to help communities understand what they need to build, not just what they want to become. You are drawn to groups with serious, long-term goals and clear organizational structures. To work with this energy consciously, pair your naturally strategic and structural social intelligence with genuine warmth and appreciation for the people involved in the communities you care about ... effective community leadership requires both practical intelligence and genuine human investment. The growth edge is that Capricorn in the eleventh house can produce a social presence that is more oriented toward collective function than personal connection, making your community contributions feel impersonal even when they are genuinely motivated by care; the growth work is developing equal facility with the relational and structural dimensions of community life.
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Venus in Aquarius in House 12
Your Venus in Aquarius in the twelfth house creates a fascinating tension between your love of intellectual connection and the pull toward solitude, spirituality, and the hidden dimensions of experience. Your deepest experiences of love and beauty may involve universal compassion, spiritual connection to humanity as a whole, or private engagement with ideas and technologies that the mainstream has not yet discovered. You may feel that your most authentic connections happen in the realm of ideas and ideals rather than in ordinary social settings. Hidden humanitarian impulses or secret involvement in progressive causes may be significant. The growth opportunity is integrating your private idealism with visible action, and your intellectual understanding of love with embodied emotional experience. Consciously create bridges between your rich inner world of ideas and your daily relationships, and the universal love you feel privately will find tangible, meaningful expression in the world.
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Mars in Sagittarius in House 10
Your Mars in Sagittarius in the tenth house channels adventurous, philosophical, and vision-driven energy into your career and public reputation. You are drawn to careers that involve teaching, publishing, exploration, law, international work, or spreading meaningful ideas to wide audiences. Your professional reputation is built on your enthusiasm, your conviction, and your ability to inspire others with a larger vision. The challenge is that the same love of new horizons that motivates you can lead to changing professional directions before you've fully built something lasting. The insight: combining your natural visionary drive with a commitment to seeing one major professional project through to its fullest expression creates the lasting legacy your ambitions deserve.
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Jupiter in Taurus in House 2
℞Your Jupiter in Taurus in the second house is one of the strongest placements for material abundance and financial growth, as Jupiter's expansion meets Taurus's natural affinity for resources in the house that governs money and values. You have an instinctive understanding of how to build wealth steadily and you tend to attract financial opportunities through patience and sound judgment rather than speculation. Your relationship with possessions is generous but grounded ... you appreciate quality and invest in things that last. Self-worth is closely tied to your sense of material security, and you genuinely believe you deserve abundance. The risk is over-attachment to material comfort or defining your worth primarily through what you own. When you align your financial growth with values that transcend the material ... generosity, beauty, stewardship ... this placement delivers a truly prosperous and meaningful relationship with abundance.
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Saturn in Leo in House 6
℞Your Saturn in Leo in the sixth house brings leadership qualities and a strong sense of personal pride to your daily work environment. You may struggle with work situations where you are not recognized for your contributions, or where creativity is dismissed in favor of routine compliance. Saturn in detriment in Leo means that the ego can be both wounded and strengthened through the work environment: early career experiences of being overlooked eventually harden into a determination to do the work so excellently that recognition becomes unavoidable. Health-wise, the heart and cardiovascular system may require attention; channeling Leo's dramatic energy into regular physical activity is both grounding and protective.
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Uranus in Scorpio in House 8
Your Uranus in Scorpio in the eighth house is one of the most powerful placements in the zodiac, since Scorpio naturally rules this domain of shared resources, death, rebirth, and deep psychological transformation. Fixed water energy is doubled here, and Uranus charges it with revolutionary intensity, making your encounters with the hidden dimensions of life sudden, powerful, and permanently life-changing. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms society's relationship with death, power, financial systems, and taboo, and with Uranus in your eighth house, you are personally at the epicenter of that transformation. You may experience dramatic shifts in joint finances, profound psychological awakenings, or encounters with mortality that permanently alter your understanding of what matters. Your capacity for deep intimacy is extraordinary, and you understand things about human nature that most people prefer to deny. The challenge is not becoming consumed by the intensity of your own inner world or addicted to crisis. When you channel your remarkable depth into conscious transformation rather than unconscious compulsion, you become someone of extraordinary psychological power and wisdom.
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Neptune in Sagittarius in House 9
Your Neptune in Sagittarius in the ninth house ... Sagittarius rules the ninth house ... creates a particularly resonant and powerful placement, merging Neptune's spiritual expansion with Sagittarius' natural philosophical home. Neptune in Sagittarius is generational, but this ninth house placement makes the quest for meaning and transcendence a personally defining and often consuming theme. You are drawn to spiritual traditions, philosophical systems, and cross-cultural exploration with a depth of enthusiasm that can itself become transformative for others. You may be a natural teacher, guide, or seeker of extraordinary breadth. The practical insight is to develop disciplined depth within a particular tradition or approach, allowing the breadth of your exploration to be enriched by genuine depth rather than perpetual beginnings.
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Pluto in Libra in House 7
Your Pluto in Libra in the seventh house is a deeply powerful placement, as Libra naturally rules this house of partnerships, marriage, and one-on-one relationships. Pluto amplifies every seventh house theme to an extraordinary degree, making your closest bonds the central arena for life-transforming experiences. You are drawn to partnerships with an intensity that transcends casual dating ... you seek soul-deep connection and are willing to undergo tremendous personal change to achieve it. Partners may be powerful, complex, and psychologically intense, or you may attract relationships that force you to confront your own hidden drives around control, dependency, and the balance of power. Love is never superficial for you; it is always an agent of profound transformation. The challenge is ensuring that your partnerships are mutually empowering rather than codependent, manipulative, or defined by power struggles. When you enter relationships with both vulnerability and strength, your partnerships become the most powerful catalyst for personal evolution in your entire life.
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North Node in Scorpio in House 7
℞Your North Node in Scorpio in the seventh house points toward growth through deeply intimate, psychologically transformative partnerships. You are here to learn that the most fulfilling close relationships are those that go all the way in ... that require full psychological vulnerability, genuine merging of resources and emotional worlds, and the courage to be genuinely changed by love. The seventh house focuses this growth on marriage, partnerships, and intimate bonds. Choose partners who value depth over comfort, allow yourself to be genuinely known and genuinely changed by close relationships, and resist the pull toward comfortable partnerships built on pleasant surfaces. Deep love that transforms you is your evolutionary destination.
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Chiron in Aries in House 1
℞Chiron in Aries in the first house places the Wounded Healer at the exact center of identity and self-expression ... the most personally visible point in the chart, carrying a wound that cuts to the question of whether you have the right to exist fully and boldly as yourself. Aries is cardinal fire, ruled by Mars, the planet of action and assertion, so this placement doesn't wound through subtlety: the injury touches your confidence, your courage, and your most basic sense that your presence in the world is welcome and worthwhile. The first house amplifies whatever it contains into the immediate impression you make, meaning this wound is often visible to others even before you've named it yourself ... a hesitation in how you enter a room, a habit of making yourself smaller. What makes Chiron extraordinary is that the wound is also the gift: your exquisite sensitivity to the experience of feeling unseen or dismissed gives you an almost uncanny ability to recognize that pain in others and meet it with genuine compassion. To work with this energy consciously, practice acting without waiting for permission or guaranteed approval ... Aries heals by moving, not by preparing to move. The honest challenge is that the wound around self-assertion can become self-fulfilling: shrinking to avoid rejection only deepens the very feeling of unworthiness you're trying to protect, and the growth is discovering that the courage you've been waiting to feel comes after the action, not before it.