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Patrick Swayze.

18 August 1952 · 08:10 · Houston, Texas

Patrick Swayze's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Leo, Virgo rising. Born August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas.

About this chart

What is Patrick Swayze's sun sign?

Patrick Swayze's sun is in Leo.

What is Patrick Swayze's moon sign?

Patrick Swayze's moon is in Leo.

What is Patrick Swayze's rising sign?

Patrick Swayze's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Patrick Swayze born?

Patrick Swayze was born August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas.

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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 Leo 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.

SunLeo · 11th house

Warmth and self-expression are how the self is known. The need to shine is structural, not vanity. Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen. The Sun is at home here. Lesson: shine without needing to be watched. 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.

MoonLeo · 11th 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 is shared in company. Comfort comes from the chosen family, the emotions move through groups, and there is a deep need to belong to something larger.

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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 Leo in the 11th 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 NodeAquarius · 5th house

The pull is toward Aquarius: contribution to something larger, objectivity, the good of the group. The familiar groove is Leo: needing to be the centre, applause as proof. Growth is worth measured by what you give, not how you are seen.

South NodeLeo · 11th house

The South Node in Leo (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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Libra, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

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

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 rulerLeo · 11th house

Thought is dramatic and expressive, built around the central idea. The mind works in stories and large themes, the speech has presence, and the conversation has to mean something. The shadow is impatience with detail.

Where it drives. Thinking is networked. A strategist who works in systems and possibilities, with an intellectually significant circle of friends and a mind set on the future.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 fixed 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.

UranusCancer · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Cancer

A generation that breaks the family open, redefining home and belonging.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 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 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 · 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 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 woundCapricorn · 4th house

The wound is achievement and authority: a father-or-authority wound that insists you are never accomplished enough, whatever the cost. Success can feel like a debt that never clears. It plays out most loudly in the 4th house (home, roots, family). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 11th 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 11th house (friends, community, future): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  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, fixed chart led by the Sun in Leo. 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 water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

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

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

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Leo Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Leo 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
41%
Earth
33%
Air
15%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Mercury, Moon, Pluto, Sun gather in Leo. A stellium in Leo concentrates the chart on being seen, creating, and leading from the heart. You carry a packed charge of pride and radiance: visibility is not vanity here, it is how the life wants to move.

gift

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

difficulty

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

T-Square · apex Suncommon
an opposition under pressure from Sun (Jupiter, Mars, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, 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, Aquarius, 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 Aquarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Plutocommon
an opposition under pressure from Pluto (Jupiter, Mars, Pluto)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Pluto 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 Aquarius, 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.

Sun square Marsorb 0.89°

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

Jupiter square Plutoorb 1.15°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.77°

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.

Uranus square Neptuneorb 2.88°

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.

Mars square Plutoorb 3.33°

In you, Mars grinds against Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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
Sun rules Leoat home

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

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.

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.8°

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.

Neptune trine North Nodeorb 2.0°

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

Chiron sextile Vertexorb 2.7°

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

Where it works
Venus in fall in Virgostrained

Venus works against the grain in Virgo. 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.

T-Squarepattern

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

Pluto opposition North Nodeorb 0.2°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Pluto and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Marsorb 0.9°

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

Jupiter square Plutoorb 1.1°

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

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Chart data for Patrick Swayze
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun25°32' Leo11th houserulership
Moon3°22' Leo11th house·
Mercury15°54' Leo11th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Venus10°35' Virgo12th housefall
Mars24°39' Scorpio3rd houserulership
Jupiter20°11' Taurus8th house·
Saturn11°50' Libra1st houseexaltation
Uranus16°40' Cancer10th house·
Neptune19°33' Libra1st house·
Pluto21°20' Leo11th house·
Chiron7°00' Capricorn4th houseretrograde
North Node21°33' Aquarius5th house·
South Node21°33' Leo11th house·
Black Moon Lilith15°52' Leo11th house·
Part of Fortune2°35' Virgo12th house·
Vertex4°16' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionlilith0.03°applying
plutooppositionnorth-node0.23°applying
sunsquaremars0.89°separating
jupitersquarepluto1.15°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node1.37°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex1.68°separating
neptunesextilepluto1.77°separating
neptunetrinenorth-node2.00°applying
chironsextilevertex2.73°applying
uranussquareneptune2.88°applying
marssquarenorth-node3.10°separating
marssquarepluto3.33°separating
jupitersextileuranus3.51°separating
venustrinechiron3.58°separating
mercurysextileneptune3.65°separating
neptunesextilelilith3.68°applying
sunoppositionnorth-node3.99°separating
sunconjunctionpluto4.21°separating
mercurysquarejupiter4.28°separating
jupitersquarelilith4.30°applying
chirontrinepart-of-fortune4.42°applying
marsoppositionjupiter4.48°separating
saturnsquarechiron4.83°separating
saturnsquareuranus4.84°applying
sunsquarejupiter5.36°separating
mercuryconjunctionpluto5.43°separating
plutoconjunctionlilith5.45°applying
mercuryoppositionnorth-node5.65°separating
north-nodeoppositionlilith5.68°applying
sunsextileneptune5.99°separating
sunconjunctionpart-of-fortune7.04°applying
neptunesesquiquadratevertex0.29°separating
chironsemisquarenorth-node0.45°applying
jupiterquincunxneptune0.63°separating
plutosesquiquadratechiron0.67°applying
mercurysemisextileuranus0.77°separating
moonsemisextilepart-of-fortune0.78°separating
uranussemisextilelilith0.80°applying
moonquincunxvertex0.91°applying
uranussemisquarepart-of-fortune0.91°applying
uranusbiquintilenorth-node1.12°separating
moonquintilejupiter1.18°separating
venussemisextilesaturn1.25°applying
sunsemisquaresaturn1.29°applying
jupitersesquiquadratechiron1.82°applying
neptunesemisquarepart-of-fortune1.97°separating