Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

17 February 1981 · 08:08 · Los Angeles, California

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Leo, Aries rising. Born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California.

About this chart

What is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's sun sign?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's moon sign?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's moon is in Leo.

What is Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rising sign?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Rising (Ascendant) is Aries.

When and where was Joseph Gordon-Levitt born?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California.

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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 Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Aries 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.

SunAquarius · 12th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. 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.

MoonLeo · 5th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. 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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RisingAries · the doorway

You arrive forward. Body before consideration, momentum before plan. People feel something is about to begin the moment you walk in, and they are usually right. Your chart ruler is Mars, in Pisces in the 12th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aries 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 NodeLeo · 5th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 11th house

The South Node in Aquarius (11th 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 Sagittarius; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Aries 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 · 12th 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. Anger goes hidden. The fight happens invisibly, sometimes turned against the self without notice, and the work suits hospitals, prisons and behind-the-scenes roles.

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
MidheavenCapricorn · the 10th house

With Capricorn on the Midheaven, a room senses gravity: someone serious, capable, clearly built to be in charge.

IC
ICCancer · the 4th house

With Cancer on the IC, home is the original tide: feeling first, belonging as the ground under everything.

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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusSagittarius · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Sagittarius

A generation that upends belief, reinventing meaning, religion and the search for truth.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 · 2nd 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 2nd house (money, values, worth). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your edge first: direct, fast, already in motion.

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, fixed chart led by Saturn. 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.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

Saturn is the loudest force in your chart, which means structure, discipline, and the serious build lead. You are saturnine, defined by responsibility and the long climb, mature beyond your years and built for what lasts.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Leo Moon · Aries rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Aries 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
31%
Earth
8%
Air
51%
Water
10%
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 Aquariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Aquarius: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Aquarius. A stellium in Aquarius concentrates the chart on difference, community, and the future that does not fit old rules. You innovate and detach at high volume: originality and the collective are where the energy stacks.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Stellium in Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn

In your chart, Jupiter, Pluto, Saturn gather in Libra. A stellium in Libra concentrates the chart on partnership, beauty, and fairness. You relate and balance at high volume: the one-to-one bond and the need for elegance are where the chart keeps stacking its energy.

gift

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

difficulty

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

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.27°

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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 0.41°

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.

Jupiter conjunction Saturnorb 0.49°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Saturn, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Sun square Uranusorb 1.09°

In you, the Sun grinds against Uranus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Mercury square Uranusorb 1.50°

In you, Mercury grinds against Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

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
Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.3°

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.

Uranus sextile Vertexorb 0.9°

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

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

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

Jupiter sextile North Nodeorb 1.4°

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

Saturn sextile North Nodeorb 1.9°

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

Mars trine Black Moon Lilithorb 2.9°

A natural, flowing ease: 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
Moon square Chironorb 0.1°

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

Sun square Uranusorb 1.1°

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

Mercury square Uranusorb 1.5°

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

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

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

Chiron square North Nodeorb 2.8°

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

Venus square Chironorb 3.0°

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

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Chart data for Joseph Gordon-Levitt
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun28°55' Aquarius12th housedetriment
Moon13°39' Leo5th house·
Mercury28°30' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
Venus16°46' Aquarius11th house·
Mars8°28' Pisces12th housechart ruler
Jupiter9°29' Libra7th houseretrograde
Saturn9°00' Libra7th houseretrograde, exaltation
Uranus0°00' Sagittarius8th house·
Neptune24°28' Sagittarius9th house·
Pluto24°12' Libra7th houseretrograde
Chiron13°45' Taurus2nd house·
North Node10°55' Leo5th houseretrograde
South Node10°55' Aquarius11th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°33' Scorpio7th house·
Part of Fortune16°44' Virgo6th house·
Vertex0°51' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsquarechiron0.09°separating
neptunesextilepluto0.27°separating
sunconjunctionmercury0.41°separating
jupiterconjunctionsaturn0.49°applying
uranussextilevertex0.86°applying
sunsquareuranus1.09°applying
jupitersextilenorth-node1.43°separating
mercurysquareuranus1.50°separating
saturnsextilenorth-node1.92°separating
moonconjunctionnorth-node2.74°separating
chironsquarenorth-node2.83°separating
marstrinelilith2.92°separating
chirontrinepart-of-fortune3.00°applying
venussquarechiron3.03°separating
moonoppositionvenus3.12°applying
moonsextilejupiter4.17°separating
mercurytrinepluto4.30°applying
sunsextileneptune4.45°separating
moonsextilesaturn4.66°separating
suntrinepluto4.72°separating
north-nodesquarelilith5.36°applying
venusoppositionnorth-node5.86°separating
suntrinelilith6.64°applying
venusquincunxpart-of-fortune0.03°separating
marsquincunxsaturn0.53°applying
marssesquiquadratepluto0.73°applying
venussesquiquadratevertex0.92°separating
marsquincunxjupiter1.02°applying
saturnbiquintilechiron1.25°applying
uranusquintilepart-of-fortune1.25°separating
plutoquintilenorth-node1.28°applying
neptunesesquiquadratenorth-node1.45°applying
moonquintilepluto1.46°separating
sunquincunxvertex1.95°applying
mercuryquincunxvertex2.36°separating
marsquincunxnorth-node2.45°applying