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Arnold Schwarzenegger.

30 July 1947 · 04:10 · Graz, Styria, Austria

Arnold Schwarzenegger's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Capricorn, Cancer rising. Born July 30, 1947 in Graz, Styria, Austria.

About this chart

What is Arnold Schwarzenegger's sun sign?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's sun is in Leo.

What is Arnold Schwarzenegger's moon sign?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Arnold Schwarzenegger's rising sign?

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Arnold Schwarzenegger born?

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947 in Graz, Styria, Austria.

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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 Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 · 1st 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonCapricorn · 6th house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Capricorn in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeGemini · 11th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 5th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (5th 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: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in air territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerCapricorn · 6th house

Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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 fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

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.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusGemini · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

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

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 2nd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

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

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundScorpio · 5th house

The wound is trust and power: betrayal, loss, or a brush with the taboo that left the heart guarded and braced for the worst. Intensity can become armor that keeps real contact out. It plays out most loudly in the 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. 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

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a water, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Leo. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

Missing: Little or no air can mean objectivity and detachment are hard, that you feel your way through where others think theirs, and stepping back to see clearly takes deliberate effort. You may seek out airy people for the perspective they bring.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Capricorn Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
23%
Earth
15%
Air
10%
Water
51%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Pluto, Saturn, Sun

In your chart, Pluto, Saturn, Sun gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

Tremendous focus through Leo: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Leo energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Leo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Leo is also a discharge valve.

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 trine Jupiterorb 0.05°

In you, Mercury flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Saturn conjunction Plutoorb 1.18°

In you, Saturn is fused with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. 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 sextile Neptuneorb 2.37°

In you, the Sun works easily with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Saturn sextile Neptuneorb 3.13°

In you, Saturn works easily with Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mars conjunction Uranusorb 4.39°

In you, Mars is fused with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 trine Jupiterorb 0.1°

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

Moon sextile Chironorb 0.5°

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

Sun trine Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Mars trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Jupiter sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.0°

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

Where it works
Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Mercury opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.0°

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

Sun square Chironorb 3.1°

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

Jupiter square Part of Fortuneorb 3.7°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 4.9°

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

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Chart data for Arnold Schwarzenegger
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun6°05' Leo1st houserulership
Moon3°31' Capricorn6th housedetriment, chart ruler
Mercury18°02' Cancer12th house·
Venus26°22' Cancer1st house·
Mars20°06' Gemini12th house·
Jupiter17°59' Scorpio5th house·
Saturn11°34' Leo2nd housedetriment
Uranus24°29' Gemini12th house·
Neptune8°27' Libra4th house·
Pluto12°45' Leo2nd house·
Chiron3°01' Scorpio5th house·
North Node0°32' Gemini11th houseretrograde
South Node0°32' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith20°02' Capricorn7th house·
Part of Fortune21°40' Aquarius8th house·
Vertex5°32' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrinejupiter0.05°separating
moonsextilechiron0.50°separating
suntrinevertex0.55°separating
saturnconjunctionpluto1.18°applying
marstrinepart-of-fortune1.56°applying
mercuryoppositionlilith1.99°applying
jupitersextilelilith2.04°separating
sunsextileneptune2.37°applying
uranustrinepart-of-fortune2.82°separating
neptunesextilevertex2.91°separating
sunsquarechiron3.07°separating
saturnsextileneptune3.13°separating
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune3.67°applying
marsconjunctionuranus4.39°applying
moonsquareneptune4.93°applying
north-nodeoppositionvertex4.99°separating
jupitersquarepluto5.23°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn5.50°applying
sunsextilenorth-node5.54°separating
sunconjunctionpluto6.67°applying
marsquincunxlilith0.07°separating
venusquintileneptune0.09°applying
plutoquintilenorth-node0.22°separating
jupiterbiquintileuranus0.50°separating
lilithsemisquarevertex0.51°applying
moonsemisquarejupiter0.53°separating
saturnquintilenorth-node0.96°applying
sunsemisquaremars0.98°separating
lilithsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.63°applying
neptunesesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.79°separating
venussemisextileuranus1.87°separating
marsquincunxjupiter2.11°separating
chironquincunxnorth-node2.48°separating