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Charlie Chaplin.

16 April 1889 · 20:00 · London, England

Charlie Chaplin's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Scorpio, Scorpio rising. Born April 16, 1889 in London, England.

About this chart

What is Charlie Chaplin's sun sign?

Charlie Chaplin's sun is in Aries.

What is Charlie Chaplin's moon sign?

Charlie Chaplin's moon is in Scorpio.

What is Charlie Chaplin's rising sign?

Charlie Chaplin's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Charlie Chaplin born?

Charlie Chaplin was born April 16, 1889 in London, England.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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.

SunAries · 6th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. 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.

MoonScorpio · 1st house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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RisingScorpio · the doorway

You arrive without explaining yourself. The room feels you before it sees you. People sense weight, something held back, and the gap becomes its own kind of gravity. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Taurus in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Scorpio 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 NodeCancer · 9th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (3rd 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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Scorpio; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Scorpio rising puts Mars in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mars · the chart rulerTaurus · 7th house

The drive is slow, persistent and deliberate, and once it is moving it is hard to stop. Anger is slow to ignite and slow to let go. The shadow is stubbornness in the face of evidence.

Where it drives. The drive plays out in partnership. The partner is often forceful or competitive, conflict can be drawn into relationships, and the work is learning to argue cleanly with intimates.

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.

MC
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 11th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneGemini · 7th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Gemini

An era that dreams of universal communication, the mystical word, the dissolving of intellectual borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language 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 woundCancer · 8th house

The wound is nurture and belonging: a mother-or-family wound that left you feeling unsafe, unheld, without a true home. You may mother everyone else while starving the child inside you. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 8th house

Lilith is the part of you that keeps the receipts: what was said, who said it, what it actually meant. It is the refusal to translate yourself into a version other people prefer. Your voice was never the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  5. People meet your intensity first: still waters, sharp perception, nothing shallow.

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 fire, fixed chart led by Mars. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

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 fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Mars is the loudest force in your chart, which means drive, desire, and assertion lead. You are martial, defined by energy and the will to pursue, a person of action who moves on want rather than waiting.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Scorpio Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 fire 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.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
41%
Earth
28%
Air
0%
Water
31%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Mars, Moon, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Moon, Saturn form a T-square with Saturn at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Aquarius, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Mars square Saturnorb 0.14°

In you, Mars grinds against Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 sextile Jupiterorb 1.23°

In you, the Moon works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury opposition Uranusorb 1.85°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Neptune conjunction Plutoorb 3.88°

In you, Neptune is fused with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse 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.

Moon square Saturnorb 4.03°

In you, the Moon grinds against Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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
Venus rules Taurusat home

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

Uranus trine Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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

Mercury sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.9°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Moon sextile Jupiterorb 1.2°

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

Mars sextile North Nodeorb 1.9°

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

Where it works
Moon in fall in Scorpiostrained

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

Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

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

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Mars square Saturnorb 0.1°

A productive friction: the pull between Mars and Saturn 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.

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

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Chart data for Charlie Chaplin
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°00' Aries6th houseexaltation
Moon9°24' Scorpio1st housefall
Mercury17°48' Aries5th house·
Venus18°06' Taurus7th houseretrograde, rulership
Mars13°34' Taurus7th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter8°10' Capricorn2nd housefall
Saturn13°25' Leo9th housedetriment
Uranus19°39' Libra11th houseretrograde
Neptune0°42' Gemini7th house·
Pluto4°35' Gemini7th house·
Chiron6°36' Cancer8th house·
North Node15°26' Cancer9th houseretrograde
South Node15°26' Capricorn3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith18°45' Gemini8th house·
Part of Fortune26°17' Aries6th house·
Vertex15°47' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marssquaresaturn0.14°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.72°separating
uranustrinelilith0.90°applying
mercurysextilelilith0.95°applying
moonsextilejupiter1.23°separating
jupiteroppositionchiron1.56°applying
mercuryoppositionuranus1.85°applying
marssextilenorth-node1.87°applying
mercurysextilevertex2.02°separating
saturnsextilevertex2.36°applying
mercurysquarenorth-node2.37°separating
venussextilenorth-node2.67°applying
moontrinechiron2.79°separating
lilithconjunctionvertex2.97°separating
uranustrinevertex3.87°applying
neptuneconjunctionpluto3.88°applying
moonsquaresaturn4.03°applying
moonoppositionmars4.17°applying
uranussquarenorth-node4.22°separating
mercurytrinesaturn4.38°separating
venusconjunctionmars4.54°applying
venussquaresaturn4.68°applying
marstrinejupiter5.40°separating
moontrinenorth-node6.04°applying
sunoppositionuranus7.35°separating
uranussesquiquadratepluto0.06°applying
neptunesemisquarenorth-node0.28°separating
mercurysemisextilevenus0.31°applying
north-nodesemisextilevertex0.35°separating
moonbiquintilevertex0.39°separating
venussemisextilelilith0.64°separating
saturnquintileneptune0.71°applying
jupiterbiquintilesaturn0.74°separating
jupiterbiquintileneptune1.45°applying
venusquincunxuranus1.54°separating
mercurysemisquarepluto1.79°applying