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Jessica Chastain.

24 March 1977 · 22:44 · Carmichael, Sacramento County, United States

Jessica Chastain's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Gemini, Scorpio rising. Born March 24, 1977 in Carmichael, Sacramento County, United States.

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What is Jessica Chastain's sun sign?

Jessica Chastain's sun is in Aries.

What is Jessica Chastain's moon sign?

Jessica Chastain's moon is in Gemini.

What is Jessica Chastain's rising sign?

Jessica Chastain's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Jessica Chastain born?

Jessica Chastain was born March 24, 1977 in Carmichael, Sacramento County, 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 Gemini 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 · 4th 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 built privately, at the foundation. Home and the family of origin sit at the centre of who you become, and public expression often arrives late, because the inner work has to happen first.

MoonGemini · 7th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. 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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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 Pisces in the 3rd 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Gemini, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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 rulerPisces · 3rd house

The drive is fluid and indirect, sometimes hard to mobilise, and anger dissolves into sadness or escape. The shadow is avoiding direct conflict by dissolving away from it.

Where it drives. The drive is in the words. A sharp speaker with strong opinions, often restless and much on the move, and friction with siblings can show up early.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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.

UranusScorpio · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 woundAries · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowTaurus · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that knows what your time is worth and has stopped explaining the math. It is the refusal to be treated like a resource. The medicine is slow and bodily: keep what is yours without apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  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, cardinal 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.

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

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 · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Gemini 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
44%
Earth
15%
Air
15%
Water
26%
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 Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Mercury, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire 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 Plutouncommon
a grand trine in fire given direction by Pluto (Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn)

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

gift

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

difficulty

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

release point

Lean into Pluto. 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.

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 0.56°

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.

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.94°

In you, Saturn grinds against Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Sun sextile Moonorb 0.95°

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.

Moon square Marsorb 1.41°

In you, the Moon grinds against Mars, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Mercury trine Neptuneorb 2.51°

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.

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
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.

Black Moon Lilith trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.3°

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

Sun sextile Moonorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Sun and Moon 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 trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.2°

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

Where it works
Pluto square Vertexorb 0.1°

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

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 0.6°

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.

Mercury square Vertexorb 0.7°

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

Saturn square Uranusorb 0.9°

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

Moon square Marsorb 1.4°

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

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Chart data for Jessica Chastain
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°30' Aries4th houseexaltation
Moon5°27' Gemini7th house·
Mercury13°37' Aries5th house·
Venus22°50' Aries5th houseretrograde, detriment
Mars4°02' Pisces3rd housechart ruler
Jupiter28°13' Taurus7th house·
Saturn10°12' Leo9th houseretrograde, detriment
Uranus11°09' Scorpio12th houseretrograde
Neptune16°07' Sagittarius1st houseretrograde
Pluto13°03' Libra11th houseretrograde
Chiron29°47' Aries5th house·
North Node24°25' Libra11th house·
South Node24°25' Aries5th house·
Black Moon Lilith26°41' Taurus6th house·
Part of Fortune26°58' Virgo10th house·
Vertex12°56' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
plutosquarevertex0.12°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune0.30°applying
mercuryoppositionpluto0.56°separating
mercurysquarevertex0.68°separating
saturnsquareuranus0.94°applying
sunsextilemoon0.95°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune1.25°separating
moonsquaremars1.41°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith1.54°separating
venusoppositionnorth-node1.58°separating
uranustrinevertex1.78°separating
mercurytrineneptune2.51°applying
saturnsextilepluto2.85°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.08°separating
mercurytrinesaturn3.41°separating
moonsextilesaturn4.75°applying
chironoppositionnorth-node5.38°separating
suntrinesaturn5.70°applying
marssquarejupiter5.82°separating
saturntrineneptune5.92°separating
moonconjunctionjupiter7.23°separating
sunoppositionpart-of-fortune7.53°separating
moontrinepluto7.60°applying
jupiterquintilesaturn0.02°separating
jupitersesquiquadratepluto0.17°separating
jupitersemisquarevertex0.29°separating
mercurysemisquarejupiter0.39°separating
sunsemisextilemars0.46°separating
sunbiquintileuranus0.65°applying
uranussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.83°separating
chironquintilevertex1.14°applying
lilithsemisquarevertex1.25°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.33°applying
plutosesquiquadratelilith1.37°applying
jupitersemisextilechiron1.57°applying
saturnsemisquarepart-of-fortune1.77°separating
uranussemisextilepluto1.90°separating
mercurysemisquarelilith1.93°separating
north-nodequincunxlilith2.26°separating
mercuryquincunxuranus2.47°separating