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Michael Douglas.

25 September 1944 · 10:30 · New Brunswick, Middlesex County, United States

Michael Douglas's birth chart: Sun in Libra, Moon in Capricorn, Scorpio rising. Born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, Middlesex County, United States.

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What is Michael Douglas's sun sign?

Michael Douglas's sun is in Libra.

What is Michael Douglas's moon sign?

Michael Douglas's moon is in Capricorn.

What is Michael Douglas's rising sign?

Michael Douglas's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Michael Douglas born?

Michael Douglas was born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, Middlesex 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 Libra is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn 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.

SunLibra · 11th house

The self becomes visible in the mirror of the other. Diplomatic, aesthetic, drawn to partnership and beauty, and prone to losing the self in keeping the peace. Lesson: choosing is not a betrayal of fairness. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonCapricorn · 2nd house

Feeling is contained and structured, often inherited as duty. Comfort comes from accomplishment, from competence, from the structures that hold. The shadow is suppressing feeling in order to get things done. Security is tied to what you have. The body needs to feel held by tangible things, and the relationship with money runs deep and emotional. Comfort and worth are the same instinct.

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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 Libra in the 11th 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 NodeCancer · 9th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 3rd house

The South Node in Capricorn (3rd 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 water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Pisces, 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 rulerLibra · 11th house

The drive is considered and diplomatic, expressed through negotiation, uneasy with overt aggression. The shadow is suppressing anger in the name of harmony.

Where it drives. Energy is spent on the cause. You drive a group forward, the friend circle can be contentious, and the future is something to be fought for.

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
MidheavenLeo · the 10th house

With Leo on the Midheaven, a room senses warmth and authority: someone with presence, made to be at the centre of things. Planets in the 10th (Mercury, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAquarius · the 4th house

With Aquarius on the IC, home is slightly off-grid: chosen family, ideas as hearth, independence indoors.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusGemini · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Gemini

A generation that rewires how information moves, and remakes the future of language.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Libra

An era that dreams of universal love and harmony as a spiritual practice, the dissolving of relational borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLeo · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 woundVirgo · 10th house

The wound is never good enough: a sharp eye for flaws that turns inward as self-criticism, overwork, and worth measured only in usefulness. You may fix everyone else's life while neglecting your own body. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 10th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to relate, balance, and make beauty that includes other people.
  4. You need respect, structure, and feelings that can become competence.
  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 an air, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Libra. 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 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 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 Libra, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Libra key.

The spine, your Big Three

Libra Sun · Capricorn Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Libra is the core self, your Moon in Capricorn 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
8%
Earth
33%
Air
36%
Water
23%
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 Libracommon
three or more planets clustered in Libra: Mars, Neptune, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mars, Neptune, Sun, Venus 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.

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Moon, Saturn, Sun)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Sun 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 Aries, 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.

Jupiter square Uranusorb 0.04°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.33°

In you, the Moon grinds against Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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.

Sun square Moonorb 1.21°

In you, the Sun grinds against the Moon, bringing together your core identity and will and your emotional needs and instincts. 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 conjunction Neptuneorb 1.54°

In you, the Sun is fused with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mercury conjunction Jupiterorb 1.82°

In you, Mercury is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Mercury rules Virgoat home

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

Venus rules Libraat home

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

North Node sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.6°

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

Venus trine Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Mars trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Chiron sextile North Nodeorb 2.0°

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

Where it works
Sun in fall in Librastrained

Sun works against the grain in Libra. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

T-Squarepattern

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

Jupiter square Uranusorb 0.0°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 0.3°

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

Sun square Moonorb 1.2°

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

Moon in detriment in Capricornuphill

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

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Chart data for Michael Douglas
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun2°23' Libra11th housefall
Moon3°35' Capricorn2nd housedetriment
Mercury14°58' Virgo10th houserulership
Venus26°44' Libra12th houserulership
Mars18°00' Libra11th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter13°09' Virgo10th housedetriment
Saturn10°05' Cancer8th housedetriment
Uranus13°06' Gemini7th houseretrograde
Neptune3°55' Libra11th house·
Pluto9°47' Leo9th house·
Chiron23°06' Virgo10th house·
North Node25°04' Cancer9th house·
South Node25°04' Capricorn3rd house·
Black Moon Lilith24°28' Virgo10th house·
Part of Fortune16°26' Aquarius3rd house·
Vertex28°00' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupitersquareuranus0.04°separating
moonsquareneptune0.33°separating
north-nodesextilelilith0.61°applying
sunsquaremoon1.21°separating
venustrinevertex1.28°applying
chironconjunctionlilith1.36°applying
sunconjunctionneptune1.54°applying
marstrinepart-of-fortune1.56°separating
venussquarenorth-node1.66°separating
mercuryconjunctionjupiter1.82°separating
mercurysquareuranus1.86°separating
chironsextilenorth-node1.97°applying
jupitersextilesaturn3.07°separating
uranussextilepluto3.33°applying
uranustrinepart-of-fortune3.33°separating
lilithsquarevertex3.55°applying
sunsquarevertex4.37°separating
marstrineuranus4.89°separating
chironsquarevertex4.91°applying
moonoppositionvertex5.58°separating
neptunesquarevertex5.91°separating
moonoppositionsaturn6.49°applying
sunsquaresaturn7.70°applying
sunconjunctionlilith7.92°separating
moonbiquintilepluto0.19°separating
saturnsemisextilepluto0.30°separating
plutosemisquarelilith0.32°applying
saturnbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.36°applying
chironbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.66°separating
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.94°separating
saturnquintilechiron1.01°separating
venussesquiquadrateuranus1.38°applying
venussemisquarejupiter1.42°applying
mercuryquincunxpart-of-fortune1.47°applying
plutosemisquarechiron1.69°applying