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Martin Scorsese.

17 November 1942 · 12:00 · Queens, New York
noon chart · houses approximate
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Plate inativity of Martin Scorsese17 November 1942 · 12:00
the full read

Martin Scorsese's chart, in plain language

A 10-part walk through the chart in five movements, from the core self out to the horizon. The essentials stay in view; anything marked with a small arrow folds open for the finer detail. Jump to any part below, or click a planet, house or aspect on the wheel above for the deep dive.

New to birth charts? The thirty-second primer
  • Planets are the what: ten drives every person carries. The Moon is how you feel, Mercury is how you think, Mars is how you act.
  • Signs are the how: the style each drive wears. A Moon in Taurus feels slowly and steadily; a Moon in Aries feels fast and hot.
  • Houses are the where: twelve areas of life, so the same drive plays out at work, at home, or in love depending on which room it sits in.
  • Aspects are the conversations: angles between two planets that make their drives cooperate, argue, or fuse into one force.

Every reading below follows that grammar: planet (what) in sign (how) in house (where). If you only read one section, read the Big Three; everything after it is that story told in finer and finer detail.

The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of earth and water means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunScorpio · 10th house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonPisces · 2nd house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

ASC
RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Gemini in the 5th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeVirgo · 7th house · earth element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 1st house

The South Node in Pisces (1st house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: the decan and the degree

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Because Capricorn rises, Saturn rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Saturn · the chart rulerGemini · 5th house

The work is on the mind, speech and communication: lessons in taking words seriously. The shadow is the difficulty of saying, simply, what is true.

Where it drives. Joy has to be earned. Self-expression is often inhibited early on, and the work is to keep at the craft until it ripens into real creative mastery.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, this is the private root the public aura grows from. The lowest point in the chart. Imum Coeli. The ground beneath the feet. The IC is the point directly opposite the Midheaven. The deepest, most interior, most hidden point in the chart. It marks the cusp of the fourth house. Where the Midheaven describes the public face, the IC describes the private foundation. The home life. The roots. The ground the person stands on when no one is watching. The sign on the IC describes the texture of the inner life. The atmosphere of the childhood home. The deep, unspoken emotional climate that the person carries inside themselves regardless of what is happening on the surface.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Your Generational Role

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that a whole generation shares each sign. The sign is the era you were born into; the house is your personal assignment within it. This is your generational role: the corner of life where the big shift becomes your job to carry, with a lesson to learn and a gift waiting on the other side of it.

UranusGemini · 4th house

where you break from the past. Uranus carries the urge to break free, wake up, and overturn what has gone stale.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Uranus in Gemini. But in your chart it lands in the 4th house, the house of home, roots, family. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. Your personal share of that work is the 4th house: home, family and your foundations. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of home, roots, family, your work is tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and home, roots, family becomes exactly where you offer the world originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

The era you were born into: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

NeptuneLibra · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Neptune carries the pull toward the boundless: dream, faith, compassion, and the dissolving of every edge.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Neptune in Libra. But in your chart it lands in the 8th house, the house of intimacy, depth, the shared. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. Your personal share of that work is the 8th house: intimacy, shared resources and what gets transformed. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of intimacy, depth, the shared, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and intimacy, depth, the shared becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

PlutoLeo · 7th house

where you are remade. Pluto carries the drive to destroy what is finished and regenerate it from the root.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Pluto in Leo. But in your chart it lands in the 7th house, the house of partnership, the other. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to take worn-out structures down to the root and rebuild them from the power that was buried. Your personal share of that work is the 7th house: partnership and the one-to-one bond. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of partnership, the other, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and partnership, the other becomes exactly where you offer the world regenerative depth, unbreakable will, and the power to transform yourself and the people around you.

The era you were born into: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship through death and rebirth.

Wound & Shadow

Chiron marks the wound: the place that aches, and the place you can eventually heal others from. Black Moon Lilith marks the exiled self: the raw, untamed part that was told to behave.

Chiron · the woundLeo · 7th house

The wound is being seen: a fear that the real you is not special enough to love, so you dim your light or chase validation that never quite lands. Applause can feel like oxygen and still leave you hollow. Healing comes from creating for its own joy and meeting the inner child again: your worth is inherent, not won by applause. Lesson: the heart shines brightest when it is not auditioning. The wound negotiates in partnership: being chosen, being met as an equal, the fear of being left. Relationships may repeat the original cut until the pattern is seen. Healing and teaching often flow through the mirror of the one-to-one bond.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 6th house

She was the family's emotional weather system long before she had a word for it. She learned early how to absorb what wasn't hers to carry; she's spent the rest of her life learning how to put it back down. Her wound is being needed before she was known. Her medicine is mothering herself first, and letting the rest figure out their own dinner. Lilith lives in daily life, work and the body. Routines designed by other people quietly suffocate you; discipline easily becomes self-punishment until you learn the difference. The ordinary day must feel like yours.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Raw materials, not a verdict. Everything above was the chart describing itself. This is where it hands the pen to you.

This chart describes a capacity to feel accurately: to read what is truly happening beneath the surface and hold it with care. You are wired to sustain: your gift compounds when you commit and refuse to abandon the thing halfway. With Saturn steering and a Scorpio Sun at the core, the potential here is not a fixed fate; it is a set of raw materials. The chart names the tools. What gets built with them is the part astrology cannot tell you, and the part that is entirely yours.

Underneath everything, this is a chart learning to let a Scorpio core be fed by a Pisces heart and carried out through a Capricorn face: three different instincts that only become one person when you stop making them compete.

the charge

Here is what the wheel cannot tell you. It hands you water: feeling, depth, and the will to care, and you are built to hold and sustain things. It gives you Saturn as your compass and a map of where the pressure and the ease already live. But none of it is a verdict; it is equipment. The chart is the raw material; the life is what you make of it. That part was never written in the sky. It has always been yours to write.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.23°

In you, Venus flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 0.29°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun trine Moonorb 0.42°

In you, the Sun flows together with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 0.52°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Moon trine Venusorb 0.70°

In you, the Moon flows together with Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Mars rules Scorpioat home

Mars sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 0.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Venus and Jupiter feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Moonorb 0.4°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Moon feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 0.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Jupiter feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Venus square Vertexorb 0.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Vertexorb 0.9°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

Venus runs uphill in Scorpio, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Uranus square North Nodeorb 2.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Uranus and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury opposition Part of Fortuneorb 3.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mercury and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars square Plutoorb 3.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Mars and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Martin Scorsese
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°40' Scorpio10th house·
Moon24°15' Pisces2nd house·
Mercury16°58' Scorpio10th house·
Venus24°58' Scorpio10th housedetriment
Mars10°38' Scorpio9th houserulership
Jupiter25°11' Cancer7th houseretrograde, exaltation
Saturn10°10' Gemini5th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Uranus2°53' Gemini4th houseretrograde
Neptune1°26' Libra8th house·
Pluto7°14' Leo7th houseretrograde
Chiron28°45' Leo7th house·
North Node0°28' Virgo7th houseretrograde
South Node0°28' Pisces1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith9°09' Cancer6th house·
Part of Fortune19°57' Taurus4th house·
Vertex25°34' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venustrinejupiter0.23°applying
sunconjunctionvenus0.29°separating
suntrinemoon0.42°separating
suntrinejupiter0.52°applying
venussquarevertex0.60°applying
moontrinevenus0.70°applying
sunsquarevertex0.89°applying
moontrinejupiter0.93°applying
uranustrineneptune1.45°applying
marstrinelilith1.49°separating
chironconjunctionnorth-node1.72°applying
uranussquarenorth-node2.42°separating
saturnsextilepluto2.94°applying
mercuryoppositionpart-of-fortune2.98°applying
chironconjunctionvertex3.18°separating
marssquarepluto3.40°separating
venussquarechiron3.79°applying
sunsquarechiron4.07°applying
uranussquarechiron4.14°applying
moonsextilepart-of-fortune4.31°separating
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune4.73°separating
north-nodeconjunctionvertex4.91°applying
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune5.02°separating
venussquarenorth-node5.51°applying
part-of-fortunesquarevertex5.62°separating
sunsquarenorth-node5.80°applying
moonoppositionneptune7.18°applying
moontrinemercury7.29°separating
sunconjunctionmercury7.71°applying
jupitersemisquaresaturn0.02°separating
marsquintilechiron0.11°applying
jupitersemisextilevertex0.37°separating
marsquincunxsaturn0.47°separating
sunsesquiquadratelilith0.52°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune0.53°separating
venussesquiquadratelilith0.81°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.97°separating
saturnsemisextilelilith1.02°applying
moonquincunxvertex1.31°applying
moonsesquiquadratemars1.38°applying
lilithsemisquarevertex1.41°applying
plutosemisextilelilith1.92°separating