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Katie Holmes.

18 December 1978 · 21:32 · Toledo, Lucas County, United States

Katie Holmes's birth chart: Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Leo, Virgo rising. Born December 18, 1978 in Toledo, Lucas County, United States.

About this chart

What is Katie Holmes's sun sign?

Katie Holmes's sun is in Sagittarius.

What is Katie Holmes's moon sign?

Katie Holmes's moon is in Leo.

What is Katie Holmes's rising sign?

Katie Holmes's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Katie Holmes born?

Katie Holmes was born December 18, 1978 in Toledo, Lucas 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 Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 earth 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.

SunSagittarius · 4th house

The self is built toward meaning and the horizon. Optimistic, philosophical, hungry for what lies beyond the known, the arrow always pointing forward. Lesson: the truth you seek is in the specific life you are running from. 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.

MoonLeo · 12th 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 runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Sagittarius in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 · 1st 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 · 7th house

The South Node in Pisces (7th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Taurus, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerSagittarius · 4th house

Thought reaches for the bigger picture. The mind works philosophically, in large frameworks, and the speech is enthusiastic, sometimes preachy. The shadow is impatience with detail and the assumption that the framework is the answer.

Where it drives. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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 mutable 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 · 3rd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, 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 · 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 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 · 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 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 · 9th 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 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 12th 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 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to seek truth, expand the map, and say the honest thing.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Sagittarius. 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Sagittarius Sun · Leo Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Sagittarius is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 earth 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
49%
Earth
41%
Air
0%
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 Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mercury, Neptune, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Sun gather in Sagittarius. A stellium in Sagittarius concentrates the chart on truth, travel, and the big map. You seek and preach at high volume: meaning, horizon, and honest belief are where the life packs its fire.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Sagittarius 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 Sagittarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Sagittarius 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 0.53°

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.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.66°

In you, the Moon flows together with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 sextile Saturnorb 0.74°

In you, Venus works easily with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 1.19°

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

Moon square Uranusorb 1.37°

In you, the Moon grinds against Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 0.5°

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.

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.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.7°

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

Saturn trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Venus sextile Saturnorb 0.7°

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

Mars exalted in Capricornlifted

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

Where it works
Moon square Uranusorb 1.4°

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

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

Venus in detriment in Scorpiouphill

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

Chiron square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.1°

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

Jupiter square Chironorb 2.8°

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

Neptune square North Nodeorb 2.9°

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

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Chart data for Katie Holmes
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun26°52' Sagittarius4th house·
Moon17°41' Leo12th house·
Mercury6°16' Sagittarius4th housedetriment, chart ruler
Venus14°39' Scorpio3rd housedetriment
Mars4°51' Capricorn5th houseexaltation
Jupiter8°10' Leo12th houseretrograde
Saturn13°54' Virgo1st house·
Uranus19°04' Scorpio3rd house·
Neptune18°21' Sagittarius4th house·
Pluto18°53' Libra2nd house·
Chiron5°23' Taurus9th houseretrograde
North Node21°16' Virgo1st houseretrograde
South Node21°16' Pisces7th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith7°30' Leo12th house·
Part of Fortune13°11' Capricorn5th house·
Vertex0°24' Aquarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilepluto0.53°applying
marstrinechiron0.54°applying
jupiterconjunctionlilith0.66°applying
moontrineneptune0.66°applying
saturntrinepart-of-fortune0.72°separating
venussextilesaturn0.74°separating
moonsextilepluto1.19°applying
mercurytrinelilith1.23°applying
moonsquareuranus1.37°applying
venussextilepart-of-fortune1.47°separating
mercurytrinejupiter1.89°applying
chironsquarelilith2.12°separating
uranussextilenorth-node2.21°applying
jupitersquarechiron2.78°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node2.92°applying
moonsquarevenus3.04°separating
venusconjunctionuranus4.41°applying
saturnsquareneptune4.45°separating
chironsquarevertex4.99°applying
sunsquarenorth-node5.59°separating
plutosquarepart-of-fortune5.70°separating
sunconjunctionmars7.99°applying
uranussemisextilepluto0.18°separating
plutoquintilelilith0.63°separating
uranusquintilevertex0.66°separating
uranussemisextileneptune0.71°separating
marssemisquareuranus0.80°separating
chironsesquiquadratenorth-node0.88°applying
mercuryquincunxchiron0.88°separating
north-nodesemisquarelilith1.24°separating
jupiterquintilepluto1.29°applying
mercurysemisextilemars1.42°applying
moonbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.49°applying
saturnsesquiquadratevertex1.50°applying
jupitersemisquarenorth-node1.90°separating