The Stellium
Think of someone whose whole life seems organised around one thing: a passion, a career, a family, a cause. Everything else arranges itself around it. That is a stellium: several planets crowded into one part of the chart, pulling everything toward them.
A stellium is three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house. Drawn on the wheel, it is a cluster of glyphs packed into one slice.
Stellium. Three or more planets gathered in one sign or house. That part of life, and that sign's style, becomes a centre of gravity.
How to spot it
Look for a crowd of planet glyphs in one part of the wheel. Count them, and check whether they are in one sign, one house, or both. A stellium in both one sign and one house is especially strong.
Why it changes how you read a chart
Here is something that surprises people. A stellium can make someone seem far more like that sign than their Sun sign suggests. A person with the Sun in Gemini but four planets in Taurus may come across as much more Taurean than Geminian. When a chart has a stellium, many astrologers read it before anything else, because so much of the life flows through it.
- Planets
- Three or more
- Built from
- Conjunctions in one sign or house
- Usually in
- One sign or one house
Is there a pattern in your chart?
Grand trines, T-squares, stelliums: see which shapes your planets make.
