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James McAvoy.

21 April 1979 · 17:25 · Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom

James McAvoy's birth chart: Sun in Taurus, Moon in Aquarius, Libra rising. Born April 21, 1979 in Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom.

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What is James McAvoy's sun sign?

James McAvoy's sun is in Taurus.

What is James McAvoy's moon sign?

James McAvoy's moon is in Aquarius.

What is James McAvoy's rising sign?

James McAvoy's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was James McAvoy born?

James McAvoy was born April 21, 1979 in Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom.

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Plate inativity of James McAvoy21 April 1979 · 17:25
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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 Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 earth 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.

SunTaurus · 8th house

Built from what endures. Steady, sensual, slow to anger and slow to change. The body is the temple, and the temple is not a metaphor. Values are bedrock; stubbornness is the shadow side of staying power. Lesson: holding too tightly is not the same as holding. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.

MoonAquarius · 5th 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 needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Pisces in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 NodeVirgo · 12th house

The pull is toward Virgo: order, useful work, discernment, the craft of the ordinary day. The familiar groove is Pisces: drift, escape, waiting to be rescued. Growth is meeting life through small, concrete, competent acts.

South NodePisces · 6th house

The South Node in Pisces (6th 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 earth territory.

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

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerPisces · 6th house

Venus is exalted here. Love is unconditional, romantic and transcendent, with an enormous capacity for compassion. The shadow is losing the self in the merger.

Where it drives. Affection runs through the everyday. The working environment tends to be pleasant, the body is well-tended, and love can arrive through the workplace.

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.

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MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Jupiter) amplify that signal.

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ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 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 · 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 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 · 3rd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 1st house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): 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 build value that lasts in the body and the bank.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 an air, cardinal chart led by Venus. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

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

Taurus Sun · Aquarius Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Taurus is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Libra 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 earth 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
28%
Earth
23%
Air
31%
Water
18%
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.

Sun square Jupiterorb 0.87°

In you, the Sun grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Venus trine Jupiterorb 1.89°

In you, Venus flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.79°

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.

Mercury trine Jupiterorb 3.57°

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.

Sun sextile Moonorb 4.70°

In you, the Sun works easily with the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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
Mars rules Ariesat home

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

Neptune trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

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

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Saturn trine Chironorb 1.5°

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

Jupiter trine Vertexorb 1.7°

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

Venus trine Jupiterorb 1.9°

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

Where it works
Sun square Jupiterorb 0.9°

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

Uranus square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.5°

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

Neptune square North Nodeorb 3.6°

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

Sun square Part of Fortuneorb 4.9°

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

Moon opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 5.0°

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

Moon square Uranusorb 6.5°

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

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Chart data for James McAvoy
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun0°58' Taurus8th house·
Moon26°15' Aquarius5th house·
Mercury3°40' Aries7th house·
Venus28°12' Pisces6th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Mars11°20' Aries7th houserulership
Jupiter0°06' Leo10th house·
Saturn7°21' Virgo11th houseretrograde
Uranus19°44' Scorpio2nd houseretrograde
Neptune20°16' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
Pluto17°28' Libra1st houseretrograde
Chiron8°49' Taurus8th house·
North Node16°40' Virgo12th house·
South Node16°40' Pisces6th house·
Black Moon Lilith21°14' Leo11th house·
Part of Fortune26°03' Cancer10th house·
Vertex1°46' Aries7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsquarejupiter0.87°separating
neptunetrinelilith0.98°separating
saturntrinechiron1.47°separating
uranussquarelilith1.50°separating
jupitertrinevertex1.67°applying
venustrinejupiter1.89°applying
mercuryconjunctionvertex1.90°separating
venustrinepart-of-fortune2.16°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.79°separating
uranussextilenorth-node3.08°applying
venusconjunctionvertex3.56°applying
mercurytrinejupiter3.57°separating
neptunesquarenorth-node3.60°applying
plutosextilelilith3.77°separating
jupiterconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.05°separating
sunsextilemoon4.70°applying
sunsquarepart-of-fortune4.91°separating
moonoppositionlilith5.02°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus5.46°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex5.71°separating
moonsextileneptune6.00°separating
suntrinesaturn6.39°applying
moonsquareuranus6.52°separating
sunconjunctionchiron7.86°applying
moonsemisquaremars0.07°separating
moonquincunxpart-of-fortune0.21°separating
neptunebiquintilepart-of-fortune0.21°applying
saturnquintileuranus0.39°applying
uranussemisextileneptune0.52°separating
moonquintilechiron0.56°separating
sunsesquiquadratenorth-node0.70°applying
sunsemisextilevertex0.80°applying
plutosemisextilenorth-node0.81°applying
venusbiquintilelilith0.97°separating
mercurysesquiquadrateuranus1.08°applying
jupitersemisquarenorth-node1.57°applying
moonsemisextilevenus1.95°applying