Last updated May 26, 2026

Free Nessus Asteroid Calculator

Enter your birth details to find centaur 7066 Nessus: a pattern-naming prompt by sign and house, read as cycles available for interruption rather than verdicts on character.

What Nessus is, and what this calculator returns

Nessus is centaur 7066, discovered on April 26, 1993 by the Spacewatch survey. It orbits between Saturn and Pluto, completes one circuit of the zodiac roughly every 122 years, and shows up in modern asteroid astrology as a prompt for cyclical patterns of harm and the point at which those patterns become interruptible.

Nessus is one of the four supported centaurs alongside Chiron, Pholus, and Chariklo. For the side-by-side family read use the Centaur Calculator linked below; for the cross-family minor-body scan, use the all-asteroids calculator.

The calculator above returns your Nessus sign, degree, house, and any natal aspects within a tight 2° orb. Positions come from JPL ephemeris data, the same source the rest of the Augurine engine reads. The sign and house entries below give you a written interpretation block by block; the calculator points you to the one that matches your placement.

The stance this page takes

Most Nessus writing online flattens into two readings. One: this is the asteroid of the abuser. Two: this is the asteroid of the victim. Both readings are wrong, and both do harm.

Nessus does not assign roles. It names a pattern available for interruption. Some people inside that pattern repeat it. Some attract it. Some internalize it and turn it inward. Some look at it clearly, name it, and stop the transmission. The chart shows you which patterns are nearby. The role is decided by you, over years, often after the pattern has already been visible for a while. Read every block on this page with that in mind.

How to read your Nessus placement

Sign first. The sign Nessus occupies tells you the style of the pattern: how it tends to enter the room, what it sounds like, where it usually gets named. Read the entry above that matches your placement.

House next. If you have an exact birth time, your Nessus also lands in a specific house, which tells you where in the life the pattern usually plays out. Sign is style. House is venue.

Aspects last. Tight contacts under 2° to natal planets and angles thicken the picture. Conjunctions to the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or Midheaven are the most noticeable. Read aspects as showing which other parts of the chart are part of the pattern, not as fate.

Nessus in the centaur family: Chiron, Pholus, Nessus

Nessus is not a stand-alone curiosity. It is one of three named centaurs that operate as a group in modern astrology, and the readings sharpen when the trio is held together.

Chiron (2060) is the wound and the teaching that comes from working on it. Pholus (5145) is the small action with the disproportionately large consequence, often a lid lifted on a much larger container. Nessus (7066) is the recurring pattern of harm and the point at which the pattern can be interrupted. Chiron tells you where the wound is. Pholus tells you where the small action triggers the large consequence. Nessus tells you what the pattern looks like once the consequence arrives and starts repeating.

If you are working with Nessus seriously, run Chiron alongside it. The two contacts often tell you, together, why a particular pattern is the one your chart is built to work on.

Nessus aspects to natal planets

Aspects narrow the picture. Sign and house tell you the style and the venue; aspects tell you which other parts of the chart are part of the pattern. The standard orb for Nessus contacts on this page is 2°. Anything wider, treat as background.

With the Sun or Moon, the pattern is involved with identity or with the emotional body, and contacts to the Moon are the most common signature of a Nessus theme that took years to name. With Mercury, the pattern lives in language. With Venus, in love and self-worth. With Mars, in anger and initiation. With Saturn, the pattern is structural and time-shaped. With Pluto, it is total, and not a contact you intellectualize your way out of.

Aspects to Chiron are often the place where the breaking actually happens: the wound has already been named, and the same patience now turns toward the pattern.

Nessus in synastry

Two charts overlaid, each person's Nessus sits on the other person's planets, and the question of who carries what becomes visible. The framing matters here more than anywhere else.

A Nessus contact in synastry does not say one person is the abuser and the other is the victim. It says the two of you have a shared theme available, the theme has roles, and the roles can be swapped, declined, or interrupted. Read the contact as the dynamic between you, not the assignment of guilt.

Your Nessus on a partner's Sun or Moon means the theme lands in their identity or emotional body, and they will remember moments that felt like the pattern more clearly than you will. Take their memory seriously. The reverse is also true: their Nessus on your planets reads the same way, with the roles inverted.

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Where Nessus is right now, and what transits feel like

Nessus moves about 3° per year on average, so a transit to a natal point can last a long time. When transiting Nessus is within 2° of a natal planet or angle, that part of the chart is currently inside the theme.

Nessus crossing a natal Sun or Moon brings the theme into identity or emotion for several years. Nessus crossing an angle (Ascendant, IC, Descendant, MC) makes the theme visible in a major life arena. Nessus retrograde over a natal point usually correlates with the internal phase of the theme: less acted out, more felt. These windows are often when the pattern becomes nameable for the first time.

Disambiguation: Nessus and bodies it is often confused with

Nessus is not Black Moon Lilith. Black Moon Lilith is a mathematical point, the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit. Nessus is a physical body, minor planet 7066. If you are looking for the lunar point, use the Lilith Sign Calculator.

Nessus is not Asteroid Lilith (1181) either. That is a small asteroid in the main belt, a different body and a different reading. The All Asteroids Calculator covers Asteroid Lilith and the wider asteroid set.

Nessus is not Chiron, and it is not Pholus. Those are centaurs 2060 and 5145, and each has its own reading. Use the Chiron calculator linked above when you want the Chiron contact specifically.

Nessus through the 12 zodiac signs

A short interpretation of Nessus in each zodiac sign. Read the entry that matches your placement above. The other entries give you the texture and shape of the archetype across the full wheel.

Nessus in Aries

loud pattern, fast interruption

Nessus in Aries names a pattern that arrives loud and apologizes fast. The first strike dressed as honesty, the temper that lands the blow and then writes the apology, the cycle that resets the moment the apology is accepted. The same placement describes someone who keeps repeating the loop and someone who became fluent at the half-second pause between trigger and reaction. The interruption point is that pause, held long enough that the first word out is not the rehearsed one.

Nessus in Taurus

slow pattern, material cost

Nessus in Taurus names a pattern that moves slowly and shows up in material life. Staying because the math of leaving is hard, staying because the house is nice, staying because nothing dramatic enough has happened yet. The pattern uses inertia as its main tool, which makes it almost invisible from inside. The interruption point is the question 'what am I actually paying for this,' asked honestly rather than rhetorically, including the line items the arrangement prefers you not name.

Nessus in Gemini

pattern in language

Nessus in Gemini names a pattern that lives in language. The sharp message sent at 11:47pm, the script that always wins the argument, the version of a conversation rehearsed so many times it lands without thinking. The pattern moves through the words rather than around them, which is why the words themselves end up being the wound. The interruption point is the unsent draft: writing the message in full and leaving it overnight is often most of the work; deleting it in the morning is the rest.

Nessus in Cancer

ancestral pattern, named at last

Nessus in Cancer names a family-shaped pattern that lives in the emotional weather of the household rather than in its floorplan. The way care got administered, whose moods set the temperature of the room, whose pain became the family's pain and whose stayed invisible; the loop installed itself through the channel of love, often through the parent who was kindest about it. The interruption point is the first time you stop adjusting your own temperature to keep the household's average comfortable, and tolerate the cooling that follows.

Nessus in Leo

pattern behind performance

Nessus in Leo names a pattern that hides behind performance. The version of you that gets loved is not the version that goes home, and the cost of keeping the loved version on stage compounds quietly underneath. The pattern uses applause as alibi: as long as the audience is responding, the underneath stays unexamined. The interruption point is being seen on a Tuesday in regular clothes, not doing anything impressive, and letting that count as enough.

Nessus in Virgo

pattern dressed as help

Nessus in Virgo names a pattern that wears the clothes of help. Care that arrives with a small invoice attached, correction that runs longer than the mistake required, fixing that quietly keeps the other person dependent on being fixed. The pattern is hard to see because it looks like virtue from inside and outside the relationship. The interruption point is the line between help that builds the other person's capacity and help that preserves the dynamic; one specific instance of stepping back is usually how the line becomes visible.

Nessus in Libra

pattern hidden in peacekeeping

Nessus in Libra hides the pattern inside the peace-keeping gesture itself. The apology that arrives before the conversation, the gift that closes a topic, the smoothed surface that keeps the actual disagreement underground. Conflict postpones and postpones, then arrives sideways, often through the very person who was working hardest to keep things calm. The interruption point is one direct sentence said cleanly, scheduled in advance, and not undone by what gets offered the next morning.

Nessus in Scorpio

loyalty becomes a hold

Nessus is most at home in Scorpio, and the reading is the most direct. Loyalty that has slowly become possession, intimacy that has slowly become a hold, the bond run so deep that leaving feels like betraying yourself rather than the other person. The pattern's signature is temperature: the relationship runs hotter than the rest of life, and the heat is mistaken for proof of importance. The interruption point is one full week of behaving like an unattached person, inside the relationship, and noticing what survives the loss of intensity.

Nessus in Sagittarius

pattern hidden in belief

Nessus in Sagittarius names a pattern that hides inside the larger story. Harm justified by a worldview, a faith, a politics, a sense of where the future is supposed to be heading. The pattern is hard to see because the philosophy is doing the looking, and a philosophy is rarely audited from inside itself. The interruption point is asking whether the framework is being used as a worldview or as a permission slip, and answering honestly even when the framework would prefer you didn't.

Nessus in Capricorn

structural pattern, quietly held

Nessus in Capricorn names a structural pattern. Power held a long time, used quietly, never quite questioned, often inside a family business or a long-running institution. The pattern is protected by the structure that contains it, and the structure can outlive everyone who ever benefited from the silence. The interruption point is the moment a younger person asks 'why are we doing it this way,' and the older person decides to answer honestly instead of defending the structure. The placement carries the option of being the one who finally writes it down differently.

Nessus in Aquarius

pattern hidden in the group

Nessus in Aquarius names a pattern that hides inside the group. Belonging that is conditional on agreement, ideology that requires an excluded person to stay coherent, the in-group that needs an out-group to keep its shape. The pattern is socially enforced and rarely named by the group itself, because naming it would change who belongs. The interruption point is one defense of the excluded person, made out loud, in the room, in front of everyone who would prefer you stayed quiet.

Nessus in Pisces

atmospheric pattern, absorbed

Nessus in Pisces names a pattern that dissolves into atmosphere. Hard to point to, easy to absorb, easier still to mistake for compassion. Often shows up in the person who carries everyone else's emotional weather without anyone, including themselves, noticing the carry. The pattern uses empathy as cover, which is why the carrier ends up holding everyone's debts at once. The interruption point is the first time you say 'this is not mine,' clearly, and let the feeling go back to the person it actually started with.

Nessus through the 12 houses

If you have an exact birth time, your Nessus also lands in a specific house, the life area where this prompt may be easiest to notice. Without a birth time, use the sign placement as the steadier read and skip this section.

Nessus in the 1st house

Nessus in the 1st can fuse the pattern with identity. People meet you and meet the loop in the same handshake. The body and bearing carry it before language has a chance, which means the loop is often visible to others before it is visible to you. The work is the slow one: separating the loop from the person underneath it, in front of the same audience that learned the loop first.

Nessus in the 2nd house

Nessus in the 2nd can place the pattern around money, possessions, and self-worth. Worth measured externally, money used as a quiet hold, value calculated from the balance sheet rather than from the person standing next to it. The interruption point is decoupling worth from inventory: letting one possession or one income line go without immediately replacing it, and noticing what is left when the replacement is refused.

Nessus in the 3rd house

Nessus in the 3rd can place the pattern in daily speech, siblings, and the immediate surroundings. The pattern is built from small recurring rhetorical moves rather than dramatic events: the joke that always cuts the same direction, the question that arrives as accusation, the sibling thread that has been running for thirty years and changes shape but never resolves. The interruption point is one of those small moves declined out loud.

Nessus in the 4th house

Nessus in the 4th places the pattern inside the physical home and the original household structure. Ancestral material is common here and often older than the people currently carrying it, and in this house it lives in concrete architecture: who sits where, who locks which door, whose room nobody enters without knocking. The work is generational and usually quiet: refusing one inherited household role, tolerating the family's response, and not negotiating the refusal back down at the next holiday table when the room asks you to make it easier on everyone.

Nessus in the 5th house

Nessus in the 5th places the pattern around children, creativity, and early romance. The pattern often appears in how the people closest to you respond to your creative work and in the shape the first serious relationships were taught to take. What you make is treated as a draft until it threatens to stand on its own; then the pattern arrives to suggest a small revision. The interruption point is protecting the unfinished thing from the audience that would shape it back into the familiar.

Nessus in the 6th house

Nessus in the 6th places the pattern inside work, daily routine, and health. It hides inside chores and inside the question of who does the labor nobody counts. The body often registers what the schedule does not, which is why the first signal is somatic before it is articulate. The interruption point is making the invisible labor visible: one ledger, written down, read aloud to the person who has been quietly benefiting from its silence.

Nessus in the 7th house

Nessus in the 7th places the pattern inside one-to-one partnership. The dynamic is reciprocal: whatever the placement is doing here is also being done back, even when the volumes are uneven. The myth's channel runs straight through this house, where the harm tends to ride inside the very relationship that should be safe. The work is naming the pattern as a pattern, between the two people, without trying to assign who started it first.

Nessus in the 8th house

Nessus in the 8th is the heaviest placement and the most direct read. Shared resources, sex, inheritance, the parts of life where one person quietly holds something over another. The signature is the unstated leverage: money known about, body known about, secret known about, all of it functioning as the gravity of the relationship without being named. The 8th-house version often inherits the pattern from a previous generation, and the work is structural: changing who actually holds what, on paper, in the will, in the joint account, so the leverage no longer has anywhere to live.

Nessus in the 9th house

Nessus in the 9th places the pattern inside belief, doctrine, travel, and teachers. The pattern hides inside the worldview rather than inside the behavior, which is why it survives scrutiny so easily; the worldview is the thing scrutinizing. The interruption point is checking whether the belief belongs to you or is being used to give you permission for the move you already wanted to make, and answering as if the question were sincere.

Nessus in the 10th house

Nessus in the 10th places the pattern in public role, career, and authority. Often visible from outside: harm done at work, harm done from a position of authority, or harm done to you by one. The placement carries unusual weight because the audience is real and the record is durable. The interruption point is one career-shaped decision the rehearsed pattern would refuse, made on the record, and not walked back in the meeting afterward.

Nessus in the 11th house

Nessus in the 11th places the pattern inside friend groups, networks, and causes. The pattern hides in the social weather of a community and rarely gets named by the community itself, because naming it would change who belongs. The interruption point is being the person who declines to participate when the group turns on someone, and tolerating what the group does in response without trying to reabsorb the warmth too quickly.

Nessus in the 12th house

Nessus in the 12th places the pattern in the hidden, internalized, ancestral layer. Often invisible to you and visible to everyone else. The pattern operates beneath the level of conscious decision until something pulls it into language. The work is slow and usually therapeutic: bringing the pattern into words is most of the job, and being believed by one person who does not flinch is most of the rest.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is asteroid Nessus (7066) in astrology?

Nessus is minor planet 7066, classed as a centaur, with an orbit between Saturn and Pluto. In modern astrology it can be read as a prompt for cyclical patterns of harm and the point at which the cycle becomes interruptible. It is not a verdict on character. The chart names the pattern; the role inside it is not assigned by the placement.

How do I find my Nessus sign?

Enter your birth date, time, and place above. The calculator computes centaur 7066 Nessus at your birth moment from a local JPL SBDB-derived Keplerian element set and returns the sign, degree, and house when birth time and location are known. Nessus moves slowly, roughly 3° per year on average, so its sign placement stays steady for several years at a time.

Is Nessus the asteroid of abuse?

No, and the question is the wrong frame. Nessus names a pattern of cyclical harm and an interruption point inside it. The same placement can describe someone who keeps repeating the pattern, someone who absorbs it, and someone who became the person in the lineage who finally named it and stopped the transmission. Read it as a pattern available for interruption, not as a role assignment.

Is Nessus an asteroid or a centaur?

Both. The technical classification is centaur, a small group of minor planets with orbits between Jupiter and Neptune. Nessus is also minor planet number 7066. Calling it 'asteroid Nessus' or 'centaur Nessus' refers to the same body. Chiron and Pholus are also centaurs and form a group with Nessus that is often read together.

What orb should I use for Nessus aspects?

Two degrees is a standard. Anything wider than that we treat as background for this calculator. Tight conjunctions, oppositions, and squares read most reliably; trines and sextiles register as available rather than active.

What if I don't know my exact birth time?

You will see the Nessus sign, which is the steadier read for a slow-moving body. The house section depends on the hour of birth, so it is skipped when birth time is unknown. The interpretation on the sign section is the main thing to read.

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