Do you have a stellium? And is it yours?
About 20 in 100 charts have four or more planets in one sign. Many of those are partly shared with everyone born around the same time. Enter your birth details and we'll check yours, and say which parts are yours.
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What is a stellium?
A stellium is four or more of the ten planets, the Sun and Moon included, falling in the same sign. Its spread is the distance from the first of them to the last, in degrees.
Four or more planets sit in the same sign, so a lot of you works through that one sign's way of doing things. Astrologers call this a stellium. It gives the sign more weight in a chart, often more than the Sun sign has.
It tends to show as a strong, concentrated focus, and sometimes as a blind spot, since so much runs through one approach. When slow outer planets are part of it, much of it is shared with everyone born within a few years of you. What's more your own is which of the faster planets joined them.
How common is a stellium?
Here's how often one turns up, and how quickly that falls as the planets get closer together, measured across 100,000 random birth charts from 1930 to 2025:
| Stellium | Charts with one |
|---|---|
| Any stellium: four or more planets in one sign | 20 in 100 |
| Spread over 10° or less | about 1 in 57 |
| Spread over 5° or less | about 1 in 520 |
We count the Sun, the Moon and the eight planets, by sign. A stellium's tightness is its spread, first planet to last, and your result is read against this table.
Questions
Is a stellium rare?
No, it's fairly common. Measured across 100,000 random charts, about 20 in 100 have one. A tightly packed one is less common, and about 1 in 520 has four or more planets within 5° of each other.
Is my stellium personal, or shared with my generation?
It's often partly shared. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto stay in a sign for years, so when two of them are in your stellium, everyone born within a few years of you has them there too. Your result says so when that's the case. What's more your own is which of the faster planets joined them.
Which planets count?
We count the Sun, the Moon and the eight planets from Mercury to Pluto. The Moon's nodes, Chiron and the angles aren't counted. A stellium here is by sign, not by house, since where the house lines fall depends on which house system is used.
What if I don't know my birth time?
Most planets barely move in a day, but the Moon moves about 13°, so without a birth time it can't be placed. If three of your planets share a sign and the Moon could have made the fourth, the calculator says it can't be sure rather than saying no.