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Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Tom Cruise.

3 July 1962 · 14:10 · Syracuse, New York
Natal chart for Tom CruiseASCDSCICMC21°LII18°SCII20°SGIII25°CPIV29°AQV27°PIVI21°ARVII18°TAVIII20°GEIX25°CNX29°LEXI27°VIXII20°10'TA26°10'TA19°50'GE+11°19'CN02°13'LE09°02'LE19°23'LE27°55'LE08°01'VI27°28'VI10°48'SC12°17'SC09°02'AQ10°00'AQ+10°42'PI12°41'PIS+
Plate inativity of Tom Cruise3 July 1962 · 14:10
the full read

Tom Cruise'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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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.

SunCancer · 9th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonLeo · 10th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Leo in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeLeo · 10th house · fire element · 1st decan

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 4th house

The South Node in Aquarius (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.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

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

Venus · the chart rulerLeo · 10th house

Love is grand, generous and theatrical. There is a need to be seen loving and to be visibly loved, and loyalty is total once given. The shadow is the demand for constant adoration.

Where it drives. Charm is part of the public life. Often a recognised or aesthetically known figure, with a Venusian thread running through the career and the reputation.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Venus, Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn 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.

UranusLeo · 10th 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 Leo. But in your chart it lands in the 10th house, the house of career, reputation, calling. 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 10th house: career, reputation and your public path. 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 career, reputation, calling, 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 career, reputation, calling 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 Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

NeptuneScorpio · 1st 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 Scorpio. But in your chart it lands in the 1st house, the house of self, body, first impression. 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 1st house: your own self, your body and the way you show up. 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 self, body, first impression, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

PlutoVirgo · 11th 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 Virgo. But in your chart it lands in the 11th house, the house of friends, community, future. 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 11th house: friendship, community and the future you are building. 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 friends, community, future, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundPisces · 5th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. Healing comes from grounded spirituality: boundaries that let compassion be a gift rather than a flood, connection without dissolving. Lesson: feeling everything does not mean carrying everything. The wound meets self-expression, romance and play: the fear that the real you is not lovable when seen in joy or desire. Creativity can feel dangerous if visibility once brought pain. Healing comes through making anyway and letting pleasure be part of the medicine.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 11th house

She was the precise one, the careful one, the one who held the whole thing together. Then she realized that holding the whole thing together was draining her of the very precision she was using to do it. Her wound is the long history of being needed for her competence and overlooked as a person. Her medicine is the radical act of leaving the dishes and going to live her actual life. Lilith moves through friends, groups and chosen family. You tell the quiet part aloud; the people who can hear it stay, the ones who cannot fall away on schedule. The collective does not get to vote on who you are.

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 Venus steering and a Cancer 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 Cancer core be fed by a Leo heart and carried out through a Libra 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 Venus 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.

Mercury sextile Venusorb 0.46°

In you, Mercury works easily with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your capacity for love and pleasure. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 0.50°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.80°

In you, Saturn grinds against Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.37°

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.

Mars square Uranusorb 1.76°

In you, Mars grinds against Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

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
Mercury rules Geminiat 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 Piscesat home

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

Saturn rules Aquariusat home

Saturn 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.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Neptune trine Chironorb 0.1°

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

Where it works
Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Venus square Vertexorb 0.8°

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Saturn opposition North Nodeorb 1.0°

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Mars square Uranusorb 1.8°

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

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Chart data for Tom Cruise
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°19' Cancer9th house·
Moon2°13' Leo10th house·
Mercury19°50' Gemini8th houserulership
Venus19°23' Leo10th housechart ruler
Mars26°10' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter12°41' Pisces5th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn10°00' Aquarius4th houseretrograde, rulership
Uranus27°55' Leo10th house·
Neptune10°48' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Pluto8°01' Virgo11th house·
Chiron10°42' Pisces5th houseretrograde
North Node9°02' Leo10th houseretrograde
South Node9°02' Aquarius4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith27°28' Virgo11th house·
Part of Fortune12°17' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex20°10' Taurus8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunetrinechiron0.10°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune0.39°applying
mercurysextilevenus0.46°applying
suntrineneptune0.50°separating
suntrinechiron0.61°separating
venussquarevertex0.78°applying
saturnsquareneptune0.80°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node0.97°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune0.98°applying
marstrinelilith1.31°applying
suntrinejupiter1.37°applying
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.48°separating
chirontrinepart-of-fortune1.59°separating
marssquareuranus1.76°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node1.77°separating
jupitertrineneptune1.87°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron1.98°separating
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune2.28°separating
plutooppositionchiron2.69°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.79°applying
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune3.25°separating
sunsextilepluto3.29°separating
jupiteroppositionpluto4.66°applying
moonsextilelilith4.75°separating
marsconjunctionvertex6.00°separating
moonconjunctionnorth-node6.82°applying
moonoppositionsaturn7.79°applying
moonquintilevertex0.06°separating
sunsemisquaremars0.15°separating
lilithsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.18°separating
mercurysemisextilevertex0.32°applying
uranussemisextilelilith0.45°applying
saturnsemisextilechiron0.70°separating
marsquintilenorth-node0.88°applying
uranusquintileneptune0.89°applying
plutosemisextilenorth-node1.02°applying
sunquincunxsaturn1.30°separating
marsquintilejupiter1.48°separating
sunsemisquareuranus1.61°applying
neptunesemisquarelilith1.66°separating
chironquincunxnorth-node1.67°applying
saturnquincunxpluto1.99°applying