
Houston
seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States
cityPhoto: Hequals2henry · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Founded
- August 1836
- Origin
- United States
- Sun sign
- Leo
Houston, seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States, was founded on August 1836 in United States. With the Sun in Leo, Houston's chart begins from a Leo core. The chart is cast for the event date (noon), the standard approach for founding charts.
Astrological profile
The chart’s heart is a Leo Sun at 23°, radiating an innate need for self‑expression, creativity, and recognition. Coupled with a Virgo Moon at 28°, the emotional landscape is detailed, cautious, and service‑oriented, tempering the Sun’s flamboyance with a drive to improve and organize daily life. With the birth time unknown, the Ascendant can only be approximated, so the analysis leans on the strong Leo‑Virgo combination: a personality that can both command attention and attend to the finer points of duty, producing a temperament that is both charismatic and analytically diligent.
A Moon‑square‑Chiron (0°) creates a sharp edge where emotional perfection meets wounded vulnerability; feelings of inadequacy may surface, yet they also open a path toward healing through practical assistance. The same Moon square Mars (1°) adds impulsive tension, urging quick action that can clash with Virgo’s need for precision, fostering a restless inner energy. Jupiter’s quincunx Uranus (0°) injects an unexpected, often restless urge for expansion, prompting the chart holder to seek novel philosophies or unconventional growth that feels slightly out of sync with existing structures. Saturn’s trine Chiron (2°) softens the picture, providing disciplined patience that can methodically work through these wounds, while the Sun’s conjunction with Mercury (1°) amplifies mental confidence, allowing ideas to be articulated with the authority of a natural leader.
Fire dominates the elemental balance (4‑fire to 1‑earth, 2‑air, 3‑water) and the Fixed modality is paramount (5‑fixed to 2‑cardinal, 3‑mutable), indicating a personality driven by decisive will, steady focus, and a resistance to change. The synthesis of a fiery, fixed core with the Virgoan attention to detail yields a resilient, purposeful individual who channels inner tension into disciplined self‑mastery. Overall: a charismatic, steadfast mind that refines ambition through practical healing.
An interpretation of the chart above, generated from the computed placements.
Only the founding month is recorded, so this chart is cast for mid-month — the Sun sign and slower planets hold, but the Moon and exact transits are approximate.
Natal placements
Computed from the birth date (noon). The Moon is approximate and angles are omitted without a birth time.
Houston is a warm and expressive Leo Sun, with a precise and practical Virgo Moon. The chart leans fire and fixed.
Major aspects
△ trine · ⚹ sextile flow easily · □ square · ☍ opposition create tension · ☌ conjunction fuses energies · ⚻ quincunx asks for adjustment
Element & modality balance
Founded the same day
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