Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

James Franco.

19 April 1978 · 19:04 · Stanford, Palo Alto, United States

James Franco's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Virgo, Scorpio rising. Born April 19, 1978 in Stanford, Palo Alto, United States.

About this chart

What is James Franco's sun sign?

James Franco's sun is in Aries.

What is James Franco's moon sign?

James Franco's moon is in Virgo.

What is James Franco's rising sign?

James Franco's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was James Franco born?

James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Stanford, Palo Alto, United States.

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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 Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 · 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.

MoonVirgo · 11th house

Feeling is processed through analysis and service. Comfort comes from order, from being useful, from systems that work. The shadow is the inner critic that picks the feelings apart before they can be felt. Feeling is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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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 Leo in the 9th 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 NodeLibra · 11th house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 5th house

The South Node in Aries (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

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 rulerLeo · 9th house

The drive is dramatic, confident and built to be witnessed, and the anger is theatrical. The shadow is needing an audience to validate the effort.

Where it drives. The drive is for the wider world. An active traveller with strong convictions, often a teacher with fire, and the occasional clash with foreign cultures or in-laws.

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

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 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.

UranusScorpio · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 →

PlutoLibra · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 woundTaurus · 7th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 9th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): 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 order that soothes the nervous system, not perfection as punishment.
  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 the Sun in Aries. 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

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 Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Virgo Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Virgo is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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
51%
Earth
26%
Air
0%
Water
23%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

No major aspect patterns sit tight enough to qualify here. The chart reads as a network of pair contacts rather than a defining geometry.

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 trine Venusorb 0.16°

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

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.04°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Sun sextile Jupiterorb 1.54°

In you, the Sun works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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 trine Neptuneorb 2.12°

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

Venus square Saturnorb 2.48°

In you, Venus grinds against Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Mercury sextile Vertexorb 0.1°

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

Moon trine Venusorb 0.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Venus 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.

Jupiter exalted in Cancerlifted

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

Pluto trine Vertexorb 1.1°

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

Where it works
Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.0°

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Mars square Chironorb 1.5°

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

Neptune opposition Vertexorb 2.0°

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

Venus square Saturnorb 2.5°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 3.3°

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 James Franco
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun29°41' Aries6th houseexaltation
Moon21°21' Virgo11th house·
Mercury15°57' Aries6th houseretrograde
Venus21°12' Taurus7th houserulership
Mars3°27' Leo9th housechart ruler
Jupiter1°13' Cancer8th houseexaltation
Saturn23°40' Leo10th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus15°01' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Neptune18°04' Sagittarius2nd houseretrograde
Pluto14°55' Libra12th houseretrograde
Chiron4°58' Taurus7th house·
North Node5°48' Libra11th house·
South Node5°48' Aries5th house·
Black Moon Lilith10°20' Cancer9th house·
Part of Fortune12°13' Gemini8th house·
Vertex16°01' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysextilevertex0.07°separating
moontrinevenus0.16°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto1.04°applying
plutotrinevertex1.11°separating
marssquarechiron1.51°applying
sunsextilejupiter1.54°applying
neptuneoppositionvertex2.05°applying
mercurytrineneptune2.12°separating
marssextilenorth-node2.34°applying
venussquaresaturn2.48°applying
plutotrinepart-of-fortune2.69°applying
neptunesextilepluto3.16°separating
moonsquareneptune3.28°separating
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune3.73°applying
jupitersextilechiron3.75°applying
sunsquaremars3.78°applying
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex3.80°separating
north-nodesquarelilith4.54°separating
plutosquarelilith4.57°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node4.58°applying
uranustrinelilith4.67°applying
sunconjunctionchiron5.29°applying
moonsquarevertex5.33°separating
saturntrineneptune5.60°separating
mercurysquarelilith5.61°applying
neptuneoppositionpart-of-fortune5.85°applying
suntrinesaturn6.01°separating
uranussemisextilepluto0.10°applying
venusquintilemars0.26°applying
neptunequintilenorth-node0.27°applying
venusbiquintilepluto0.28°separating
marssesquiquadrateneptune0.39°separating
venussesquiquadratenorth-node0.39°separating
marsquintilepluto0.55°separating
saturnquintilepart-of-fortune0.55°separating
chironquincunxnorth-node0.83°applying
mercuryquincunxuranus0.94°applying
moonquintilelilith0.99°applying
uranusquincunxvertex1.01°separating
jupitersesquiquadrateuranus1.21°separating
sunquintilelilith1.33°separating
sunsemisquarevertex1.35°applying
moonsesquiquadratechiron1.38°separating
saturnsemisquarelilith1.67°separating
lilithsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.88°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.90°separating