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The Average Face of Each Zodiac Sign

The average faces for each zodiac sign calculated using Midjourney's AI to aggregate images of public figures of diverse ages with Sun/Moon/Rising and/or 3+ inner planet stelliums in each zodiac sign.

I attempted to assemble as much ethnic diversity as I could, though quality data is often lacking on people traditionally marginalized by Western history, so more work is needed on that front. Some images represent a "racial average" of 1 of each White, Black, Latinx, East Asian and West Asian appearing-averages, in efforts to make a universal standard.

Others are simply an average of the entire database.

Others are averaged by visual "types". For instance, Cancer stellium women with Gemini-Scorpio as a secondary influence seem more prone to appear in historic databases than any other sort of Cancer stellium, and are visually very identifiable. So much so that I created a category for this combination of signs amid "standard Cancer".

These averages are continually being updated as new data comes in. Each image references ~15-20 individuals whose natal chart uniquely reflects a stellium (3+ significant chart aspects) in the given sign. In most instances, gender is based on assigned sex at birth.

Referencing data gathered by friends at the Astrofaces Project and the user-submitted database at Astroseek.com, I've been able to check my averages of renowned public figures sourced in the Astrodatabank & Astrotheme databases to determine the accuracy/legitimacy of each visual average.

Notes:

You may not resemble your sun sign, because another sign may predominate your chart. Visit a site like Astro-charts.com to make a free chart & see which sign is most dominant in your chart. For maximum accuracy, you will need correct birth time & place in addition to birth date. Appearance seems to be most astrologically influenced by Sun sign, Rising sign (1st house / Ascendant), and Moon, but also by concentrations of the same sign in inner planets such as Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Outer celestial bodies like Uranus, Neptune & Pluto, which are said to have generational significance rather than individual significance in most cases, due to their very slow (years long) rotations around the sun.

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Voting ended onMay 8, 2023

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