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Robert Redford.

18 August 1936 · 19:02 · Santa Monica, California
Natal chart for Robert RedfordASCDSCICMC6°PII19°ARII20°TAIII15°GEIV7°CNV2°LEVI6°VIVII19°LIVIII20°SCIX15°SGX7°CPXI2°AQXII09°35'TA22°14'GE02°04'CN27°45'CN05°37'LE25°56'LE+09°54'VI15°44'VI18°09'VI+18°43'VI19°35'VI24°57'LI14°40'SG+02°04'CP13°26'AQ20°52'PI
Plate inativity of Robert Redford18 August 1936 · 19:02
the full read

Robert Redford'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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunLeo · 6th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. The self is forged in the practical labour of ordinary days. Work, health, routine and craft are the curriculum, and you know who you are by what you do, and do well.

MoonVirgo · 7th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingPisces · the doorway

You arrive and adjust to the room. The body responds to whatever atmosphere it finds, taking on the quality of the container. People feel a quiet attunement they cannot name. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Sagittarius in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Pisces 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 NodeCapricorn · 10th house · earth element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Capricorn: maturity, responsibility, building a structure that outlasts the mood of the day. The familiar groove is Cancer: retreating into the familiar, emotional dependence. Growth is stepping into the world as your own authority.

South NodeCancer · 4th house

The South Node in Cancer (4th 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 Pisces rises, Jupiter rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Jupiter · the chart rulerSagittarius · 9th house

Jupiter is at home here. Growth comes through philosophy, travel and meaning, carried by faith in the larger pattern. The shadow is dodging the particular by way of the universal.

Where it drives. Jupiter is at home here. The wider world is the path of fortune: travel, higher study, publishing and the foreign, carried by a strong sense of faith.

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.

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MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini 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 earth and mutable signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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.

UranusTaurus · 2nd 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 Taurus. But in your chart it lands in the 2nd house, the house of money, values, worth. 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 2nd house: money, worth and what you build security on. 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 money, values, worth, 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 money, values, worth 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 Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

NeptuneVirgo · 7th 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 Virgo. 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 dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. 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 telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and partnership, the other becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Virgo

An era that dreams of perfect service and holistic health, the dissolving of the line between body and spirit.

PlutoCancer · 5th 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 Cancer. But in your chart it lands in the 5th house, the house of creativity, romance, play. 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 5th house: creativity, romance and what you make. 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 creativity, romance, play, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and creativity, romance, play 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundGemini · 4th house

The wound is your voice and mind: a fear of being unheard or thought unintelligent, often set by being silenced or ridiculed young. You may talk fast to stay ahead of dismissal, or go quiet when the room feels unsafe. Healing comes from speaking anyway: trusting your ideas carry weight, and finding curiosity and play in how you say them. Lesson: intelligence does not need unanimous approval to be real. The wound is rooted at home and in family: belonging, roots, who held you and how. The private foundation may carry old grief that no one named. Healing comes from re-parenting yourself and building a home where the wound is finally met with care.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 8th house

She used to be the peacekeeper. The one who read the room and adjusted herself to keep it pleasant. Then she noticed that the peace she was keeping was almost never hers. Her wound is the long apprenticeship of disappearing herself to keep other people comfortable. Her medicine is the unfamiliar, glorious act of letting them be uncomfortable. Lilith runs through sex, money, power and what is hidden. Surface merging bores you into self-sabotage; you want the voltage of honest depth. Trust earned here is absolute or not offered at all.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 build: to turn vision into something real, durable and genuinely useful in the world. You are wired to adapt: your gift shows up when you stay fluid and let the work change shape as it goes. With Jupiter steering and a Leo 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 Leo core be fed by a Virgo heart and carried out through a Pisces 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 earth: patience, craft, and the will to build, and you are built to adapt and transform things. It gives you Jupiter 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 Uranusorb 0.33°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 conjunction Mercuryorb 0.56°

In you, the Moon is fused with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.06°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Moon opposition Saturnorb 2.15°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury conjunction Neptuneorb 2.43°

In you, Mercury is fused with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

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

Venus trine Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Sun sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

An easy, available link: Sun and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Jupiter sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Jupiter and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

Venus works against the grain in Virgo. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Jupiter square Neptuneorb 1.1°

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

Saturn opposition Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Saturn square Chironorb 1.4°

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

Moon opposition Saturnorb 2.1°

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

Chiron square Vertexorb 2.7°

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

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Chart data for Robert Redford
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°56' Leo6th houserulership
Moon18°43' Virgo7th house·
Mercury18°09' Virgo7th houserulership
Venus9°54' Virgo7th housefall
Mars5°37' Leo6th house·
Jupiter14°40' Sagittarius9th houserulership, chart ruler
Saturn20°52' Pisces1st houseretrograde
Uranus9°35' Taurus2nd houseretrograde
Neptune15°44' Virgo7th house·
Pluto27°45' Cancer5th house·
Chiron22°14' Gemini4th house·
North Node2°04' Capricorn10th houseretrograde
South Node2°04' Cancer4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°57' Libra8th house·
Part of Fortune13°26' Aquarius12th house·
Vertex19°35' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venustrineuranus0.33°separating
moonconjunctionmercury0.56°separating
moonconjunctionvertex0.86°applying
sunsextilelilith0.97°separating
jupitersquareneptune1.06°separating
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune1.23°separating
saturnoppositionvertex1.29°applying
saturnsquarechiron1.37°separating
mercuryconjunctionvertex1.42°applying
moonoppositionsaturn2.15°applying
mercuryconjunctionneptune2.43°separating
chironsquarevertex2.66°separating
mercuryoppositionsaturn2.71°applying
chirontrinelilith2.72°separating
plutosquarelilith2.80°applying
moonconjunctionneptune2.99°separating
mercurysquarejupiter3.49°separating
moonsquarechiron3.52°applying
sunsextilechiron3.69°separating
neptuneconjunctionvertex3.85°applying
uranussquarepart-of-fortune3.86°separating
marssquareuranus3.96°applying
moonsquarejupiter4.05°separating
mercurysquarechiron4.08°applying
venussquarejupiter4.77°applying
jupitersquarevertex4.91°applying
saturnoppositionneptune5.14°applying
venusconjunctionneptune5.82°applying
suntrinenorth-node6.14°applying
venussemisquarelilith0.05°applying
part-of-fortunebiquintilevertex0.14°separating
marssesquiquadratesaturn0.25°applying
moonbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.72°applying
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.91°applying
marssemisquarevertex1.04°separating
mercurybiquintilepart-of-fortune1.28°applying
marssemisquarechiron1.62°applying
sunsemisextilepluto1.82°applying
moonsemisquaremars1.90°applying
jupitersesquiquadratepluto1.92°applying
neptunequincunxpart-of-fortune2.29°separating