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Gad Elmaleh.

19 April 1971 · 11:15 · Casablanca, Pachalik de Casablanca باشوية الدار البيضاء, Morocco

Gad Elmaleh's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Aquarius, Cancer rising. Born April 19, 1971 in Casablanca, Pachalik de Casablanca باشوية الدار البيضاء, Morocco.

About this chart

What is Gad Elmaleh's sun sign?

Gad Elmaleh's sun is in Aries.

What is Gad Elmaleh's moon sign?

Gad Elmaleh's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Gad Elmaleh's rising sign?

Gad Elmaleh's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Gad Elmaleh born?

Gad Elmaleh was born April 19, 1971 in Casablanca, Pachalik de Casablanca باشوية الدار البيضاء, Morocco.

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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 Aquarius 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.

SunAries · 11th 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 emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonAquarius · 8th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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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 Aquarius in the 8th 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 NodeAquarius · 8th house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 2nd house

The South Node in Leo (2nd 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Libra, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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

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 rulerAquarius · 8th house

Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

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. Planets in the 10th (Venus) amplify that signal.

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 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 · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 4th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundAries · 10th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 4th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family): 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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  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 fire, cardinal chart led by Venus. 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.

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

Venus is the loudest force in your chart, which means love, beauty, and harmony lead. You are Venusian, drawn to connection, pleasure, and the aesthetic, relating and attracting as your primary mode of moving through the world.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Aquarius Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius 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
33%
Earth
18%
Air
15%
Water
33%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

Grand Trine in Earthcommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Mars, Pluto, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Pluto, Saturn form a grand trine. Yours runs on earth: a closed circuit of craft, patience, and real results. Talent shows as the ability to build what lasts and make vision solid.

gift

Natural earth talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

Kite · outlet Venusuncommon
a grand trine in earth given direction by Venus (Mars, Pluto, Saturn, Venus)

In your chart, Mars, Pluto, Saturn, Venus form a kite with Venus as the outlet. The easy talent of the grand trine finally has somewhere to aim: Venus is where the gift becomes usable in the world.

gift

Talent plus drive: Venus turns ease into achievement instead of pure coasting.

difficulty

Venus carries pressure. The opposition can strain, but it is productive strain when you aim it.

release point

Lean into Venus. That is where the whole configuration discharges and the grand trine's gift becomes real.

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 trine Saturnorb 0.14°

In you, Mars flows together with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 Uranusorb 0.76°

In you, the Moon flows together with Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 0.93°

In you, the Sun is fused with Mercury, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Venus sextile Saturnorb 2.55°

In you, Venus works easily with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Venus opposition Plutoorb 2.66°

In you, Venus sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

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
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.

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.

Mars trine Saturnorb 0.1°

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

Venus trine Vertexorb 0.5°

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

Moon trine Uranusorb 0.8°

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

Where it works
Uranus opposition Chironorb 0.1°

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

Venus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 0.4°

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

Saturn square North Nodeorb 1.3°

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

Saturn opposition Vertexorb 2.0°

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.

Mars square Part of Fortuneorb 2.2°

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

Venus opposition Plutoorb 2.7°

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

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Chart data for Gad Elmaleh
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°42' Aries11th houseexaltation
Moon10°02' Aquarius8th housechart ruler
Mercury29°38' Aries11th houseretrograde
Venus24°55' Pisces10th houseexaltation
Mars22°13' Capricorn7th houseexaltation
Jupiter5°21' Sagittarius6th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn22°22' Taurus11th house·
Uranus10°47' Libra4th houseretrograde
Neptune2°33' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto27°34' Virgo4th houseretrograde
Chiron10°54' Aries10th house·
North Node21°05' Aquarius8th house·
South Node21°05' Leo2nd house·
Black Moon Lilith25°17' Virgo4th house·
Part of Fortune20°03' Aries10th house·
Vertex24°23' Scorpio5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
uranusoppositionchiron0.11°separating
marstrinesaturn0.14°applying
venusoppositionlilith0.37°applying
venustrinevertex0.53°separating
moontrineuranus0.76°applying
moonsextilechiron0.86°applying
lilithsextilevertex0.89°separating
sunconjunctionmercury0.93°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune1.04°separating
saturnsquarenorth-node1.27°separating
saturnoppositionvertex2.02°applying
marssextilevertex2.16°applying
marssquarepart-of-fortune2.17°separating
plutoconjunctionlilith2.30°applying
venussextilesaturn2.55°separating
venusoppositionpluto2.66°applying
venussextilemars2.69°separating
jupiterconjunctionneptune2.79°applying
saturntrinelilith2.92°applying
marstrinelilith3.06°applying
plutosextilevertex3.19°applying
north-nodesquarevertex3.30°applying
moonsextilejupiter4.69°separating
saturntrinepluto5.21°applying
marstrinepluto5.35°applying
jupitertrinechiron5.55°separating
sunsquaremars6.49°separating
moonsemisquarevenus0.12°separating
moonsesquiquadratelilith0.25°separating
mercurybiquintilejupiter0.29°applying
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.30°applying
plutobiquintilenorth-node0.49°applying
sunbiquintilejupiter0.64°applying
sunquincunxpluto1.13°separating
marssemisextilenorth-node1.13°separating
uranussemisquarevertex1.40°applying
chironsesquiquadratevertex1.51°separating
marssemisquarejupiter1.88°separating
mercuryquincunxpluto2.06°applying