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Mel Gibson.

3 January 1956 · 16:45 · City of Peekskill, Westchester County, United States

Mel Gibson's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Libra, Cancer rising. Born January 3, 1956 in City of Peekskill, Westchester County, United States.

About this chart

What is Mel Gibson's sun sign?

Mel Gibson's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Mel Gibson's moon sign?

Mel Gibson's moon is in Libra.

What is Mel Gibson's rising sign?

Mel Gibson's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Mel Gibson born?

Mel Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in City of Peekskill, Westchester 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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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.

SunCapricorn · 6th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. 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.

MoonLibra · 4th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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RisingCancer · the doorway

You arrive feeling the room before committing to it. The body reads the emotional temperature first, the situation second. People feel a quiet attentiveness before you have said a word. Your chart ruler is Moon, in Libra in the 4th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Cancer 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 NodeSagittarius · 6th house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 12th house

The South Node in Gemini (12th 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 Aries; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Cancer rising puts the Moon in charge of the whole chart. Your ruler is also one of the lights: the vehicle you travel in is the same force at your core.

The Moon · chart rulerLibra · 4th house

The Moon is at home here. Emotional life is rooted in the household and the family of origin, the need for sanctuary runs deep, and the bond with the nurturing parent is central.

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
MidheavenPisces · the 10th house

With Pisces on the Midheaven, a room senses imagination: someone creative, compassionate, tuned to something the others miss.

IC
ICVirgo · the 4th house

With Virgo on the IC, home is where order soothes: craft, care of the ordinary, quiet competence as rest.

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 earth and fixed signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

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.

UranusLeo · 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 Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 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 Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Leo

An era that remakes self-expression, celebrity and the heart, putting authorship 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 woundAquarius · 7th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. 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 earth. 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

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

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 ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  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 authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your care first: protective, attuned, quietly assessing the room.

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 water, cardinal chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

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 Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Libra Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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
0%
Earth
33%
Air
26%
Water
41%
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 Scorpiocommon
three or more planets clustered in Scorpio: Mars, Neptune, Saturn

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Saturn gather in Scorpio. A stellium in Scorpio concentrates the chart on depth, power, and what will not stay surface. You transform at high volume: intimacy, secrets, and regeneration define the plot whether you invite them or not.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Mercury, Neptune, Uranus)

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, Uranus form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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 sextile Saturnorb 0.12°

In you, Mercury works easily with Saturn, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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 trine Mercuryorb 0.72°

In you, the Moon flows together with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.84°

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

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.84°

In you, Saturn grinds against Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Uranus square Neptuneorb 0.85°

In you, Uranus grinds against Neptune, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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
Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

Mercury sextile Saturnorb 0.1°

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

Uranus trine Vertexorb 0.7°

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

Moon trine Mercuryorb 0.7°

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

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.8°

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

Pluto sextile Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

An easy, available link: Pluto 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
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Jupiter square Vertexorb 0.7°

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

Saturn square Plutoorb 0.8°

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

Uranus square Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Mercury square Neptuneorb 0.9°

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

Jupiter in detriment in Virgouphill

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

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Chart data for Mel Gibson
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun12°30' Capricorn6th house·
Moon0°00' Libra4th housechart ruler
Mercury29°17' Capricorn7th house·
Venus13°08' Aquarius8th house·
Mars23°19' Scorpio5th houserulership
Jupiter1°03' Virgo3rd houseretrograde, detriment
Saturn29°10' Scorpio5th house·
Uranus1°02' Leo1st houseretrograde
Neptune0°11' Scorpio4th house·
Pluto28°20' Leo3rd houseretrograde
Chiron4°04' Aquarius7th house·
North Node17°04' Sagittarius6th houseretrograde
South Node17°04' Gemini12th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith3°11' Capricorn6th house·
Part of Fortune27°29' Libra4th house·
Vertex1°43' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurysextilesaturn0.12°separating
jupitersquarevertex0.67°separating
uranustrinevertex0.69°separating
moontrinemercury0.72°separating
moonsextilesaturn0.84°separating
saturnsquarepluto0.84°separating
uranussquareneptune0.85°applying
plutosextilepart-of-fortune0.85°applying
jupitersextileneptune0.86°applying
mercurysquareneptune0.90°applying
moonsextileuranus1.03°applying
moonsextilevertex1.71°applying
mercuryoppositionuranus1.74°applying
mercurysquarepart-of-fortune1.81°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.85°separating
saturntrineuranus1.86°applying
jupitersquaresaturn1.88°applying
jupitertrinelilith2.14°separating
chironsextilevertex2.35°separating
mercurysextilevertex2.43°applying
saturnconjunctionvertex2.55°applying
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.71°separating
jupiterconjunctionpluto2.72°applying
neptunesextilelilith3.00°separating
uranusoppositionchiron3.03°separating
moonsquarelilith3.18°applying
plutosquarevertex3.39°separating
uranussquarepart-of-fortune3.55°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune3.57°applying
neptunesquarechiron3.88°separating
venussextilenorth-node3.93°applying
moontrinechiron4.06°applying
mercuryconjunctionchiron4.78°applying
plutotrinelilith4.86°separating
marssquarepluto5.01°applying
marsconjunctionsaturn5.85°applying
jupitersemisextileuranus0.02°applying
moonsemisextileneptune0.18°separating
sunquintileneptune0.31°separating
venusquintilevertex0.58°applying
sunsemisextilevenus0.64°separating
sunsesquiquadratepluto0.83°applying
chironsemisextilelilith0.88°applying
mercuryquincunxpluto0.95°separating
saturnsemisextileneptune1.02°applying
uranussesquiquadratenorth-node1.03°separating
moonsemisextilejupiter1.04°applying
marsquintilechiron1.26°separating
lilithsemisextilevertex1.47°separating
neptunesemisextilevertex1.53°applying
sunsemisquaresaturn1.67°applying
moonsemisextilepluto1.67°separating
saturnsemisextilepart-of-fortune1.69°separating
mercuryquincunxjupiter1.76°applying
moonsesquiquadratevenus1.87°separating
neptunesemisquarenorth-node1.88°applying
chironsemisquarenorth-node2.00°separating
uranusquincunxlilith2.16°separating