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Gillian Anderson.

9 August 1968 · 06:00 · Chicago, Illinois

Gillian Anderson's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Aquarius, Leo rising. Born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Gillian Anderson's sun sign?

Gillian Anderson's sun is in Leo.

What is Gillian Anderson's moon sign?

Gillian Anderson's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Gillian Anderson's rising sign?

Gillian Anderson's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Gillian Anderson born?

Gillian Anderson was born August 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois.

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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 Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 air and fire 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.

SunLeo · 12th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonAquarius · 7th 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. 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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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Leo in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 NodeAries · 9th house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 3rd house

The South Node in Libra (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 fire territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun 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 Sun · chart rulerLeo · 12th house

Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

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
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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.

UranusVirgo · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 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 Scorpio

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

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 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 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 · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowGemini · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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 the Sun in Leo. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

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 · Aquarius Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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 air and fire 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
59%
Earth
26%
Air
15%
Water
0%
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: Mars, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, 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.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus, Venus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Yod · apex Saturnuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Saturn (Neptune, Saturn, Uranus)

In your chart, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus form a yod pointing at Saturn in Aries. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Saturn: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Saturn can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Saturn: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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.

Moon opposition Venusorb 1.11°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 2.14°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.38°

In you, Neptune works easily with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 3.24°

In you, Uranus works easily with Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 4.02°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

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.

Mars trine Chironorb 0.5°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.4°

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

Chiron sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 2.9°

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

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 3.2°

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

Mars sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 3.4°

An easy, available link: Mars 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
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.

Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

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

Yodpattern

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

Venus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.6°

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

Moon opposition Venusorb 1.1°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Virgouphill

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

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Chart data for Gillian Anderson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°53' Leo12th houserulership, chart ruler
Moon29°33' Aquarius7th house·
Mercury19°02' Leo1st house·
Venus0°40' Virgo1st housefall
Mars2°25' Leo12th house·
Jupiter9°51' Virgo2nd housedetriment
Saturn25°32' Aries9th houseretrograde, fall
Uranus27°00' Virgo2nd house·
Neptune23°45' Scorpio4th house·
Pluto21°22' Virgo2nd house·
Chiron2°52' Aries8th houseretrograde
North Node10°52' Aries9th houseretrograde
South Node10°52' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°46' Gemini10th house·
Part of Fortune0°06' Pisces7th house·
Vertex6°06' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
marstrinechiron0.45°applying
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune0.53°separating
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune0.58°separating
moonoppositionvenus1.11°applying
sunconjunctionmercury2.14°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.38°applying
chironsextilelilith2.90°separating
chironsquarevertex3.24°separating
uranussextileneptune3.24°separating
marssextilelilith3.35°applying
jupitertrinevertex3.75°separating
moonsextilesaturn4.02°separating
jupitersquarelilith4.09°separating
mercurysquareneptune4.72°applying
north-nodesquarevertex4.77°applying
venussquarelilith5.10°applying
venustrinesaturn5.13°separating
venustrinevertex5.43°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto5.62°separating
lilithsquarepart-of-fortune5.67°separating
moonsquareneptune5.80°separating
uranusoppositionchiron5.87°applying
suntrinenorth-node6.02°separating
moonsquarelilith6.21°applying
sunsquareneptune6.87°applying
lilithquincunxvertex0.34°applying
jupitersesquiquadratesaturn0.69°applying
sunquintilelilith0.87°applying
sunsesquiquadratechiron0.98°applying
jupiterquincunxnorth-node1.02°applying
mercurysesquiquadratechiron1.17°separating
mercuryquintilelilith1.27°separating
saturnquincunxuranus1.45°separating
venussemisextilemars1.74°applying
saturnquincunxneptune1.78°applying
venusquincunxchiron2.20°applying
marsquincunxpart-of-fortune2.32°separating