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Paul Rudd.

6 April 1969 · 11:40 · Passaic County, New Jersey, United States

Paul Rudd's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Sagittarius, Cancer rising. Born April 6, 1969 in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

About this chart

What is Paul Rudd's sun sign?

Paul Rudd's sun is in Aries.

What is Paul Rudd's moon sign?

Paul Rudd's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Paul Rudd's rising sign?

Paul Rudd's Rising (Ascendant) is Cancer.

When and where was Paul Rudd born?

Paul Rudd was born April 6, 1969 in Passaic County, New Jersey, 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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 fire and water 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.

SunAries · 10th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. The self is most fully expressed in public. Career, reputation and legacy carry your identity, and you tend to be known by what you do in the world. The climb is the path.

MoonSagittarius · 5th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. 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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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 Sagittarius in the 5th 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 NodeAries · 9th house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 3rd house

The South Node in Libra (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 fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. At 0° of a cardinal sign: a world point. This placement is wired to the wider world; it tends to play out publicly, visibly, on a larger stage than most.

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 rulerSagittarius · 5th house

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.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission. Planets in the 10th (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusLibra · 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 Libra

A generation that disrupts partnership, rewriting marriage, fairness and the relational contract.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, 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 →

PlutoVirgo · 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 Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour 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 woundAries · 9th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you that learned to be the family's weather system before you had a name for it. It is the one who absorbs what was never yours to carry, and is still learning to put it down. Medicine starts with mothering yourself first. 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  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 fire, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Aries. 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 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 Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Cancer rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Cancer 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 fire and water 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
77%
Earth
8%
Air
0%
Water
15%
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 Ariescommon
three or more planets clustered in Aries: Mercury, Saturn, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Saturn, Sun, Venus gather in Aries. A stellium in Aries concentrates the chart on starting, fighting for a self, and moving first. You carry a packed charge of will and impatience in the same place: identity is not a theory here, it is action.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Yod · apex Saturnuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Saturn (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn form a yod pointing at Saturn in Aries. That apex is where the life feels aimed: a specialized purpose that does not always fit the rest of the story cleanly, and that often clarifies with time.

gift

A finely tuned gift concentrated in Saturn: you are here to do something specific through that function.

difficulty

Saturn can feel like a recurring itch, a calling that is hard to name and harder to ignore.

release point

The release is opposite Saturn: put the mission into the world there. Feel the pull at the apex; spend it in the opposite room.

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 trine Marsorb 0.07°

In you, Mercury flows together with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.82°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter conjunction Uranusorb 2.17°

In you, Jupiter is fused with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 trine Marsorb 2.36°

In you, the Sun flows together with Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Sun conjunction Mercuryorb 2.43°

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.

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 trine Marsorb 0.1°

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

Mercury trine Vertexorb 0.7°

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

Jupiter sextile Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

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

Neptune trine North Nodeorb 1.8°

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.

Sun trine Marsorb 2.4°

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

Where it works
Saturn in fall in Ariesstrained

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

Yodpattern

A pointed, insistent adjustment: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Chiron square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

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 opposition North Nodeorb 1.0°

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

Uranus opposition North Nodeorb 1.1°

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

Uranus square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.3°

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

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Chart data for Paul Rudd
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun16°41' Aries10th houseexaltation
Moon8°12' Sagittarius5th housechart ruler
Mercury14°16' Aries10th house·
Venus19°49' Aries10th houseretrograde, detriment
Mars14°20' Sagittarius5th house·
Jupiter29°10' Virgo3rd houseretrograde, detriment
Saturn27°03' Aries10th housefall
Uranus1°20' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Neptune28°21' Scorpio5th houseretrograde
Pluto23°10' Virgo3rd houseretrograde
Chiron3°37' Aries9th house·
North Node0°11' Aries9th houseretrograde
South Node0°11' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith2°39' Cancer12th house·
Part of Fortune19°04' Pisces9th house·
Vertex13°33' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercurytrinemars0.07°separating
mercurytrinevertex0.71°separating
marsconjunctionvertex0.78°separating
jupitersextileneptune0.82°applying
chironsquarelilith0.96°applying
jupiteroppositionnorth-node1.02°separating
uranusoppositionnorth-node1.15°applying
uranussquarelilith1.32°separating
neptunetrinenorth-node1.84°applying
jupiterconjunctionuranus2.17°separating
uranusoppositionchiron2.28°separating
suntrinemars2.36°separating
sunconjunctionmercury2.43°applying
north-nodesquarelilith2.47°separating
uranussextileneptune2.98°applying
sunconjunctionvenus3.12°applying
suntrinevertex3.14°separating
chironconjunctionnorth-node3.43°separating
jupitersquarelilith3.49°separating
plutooppositionpart-of-fortune4.11°applying
jupiteroppositionchiron4.45°separating
moontrinechiron4.59°separating
marssquarepart-of-fortune4.73°applying
neptunetrinechiron5.27°separating
moonconjunctionvertex5.35°applying
venustrinemars5.49°applying
part-of-fortunesquarevertex5.51°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus5.55°applying
jupiterconjunctionpluto5.99°applying
moontrinemercury6.06°applying
moonconjunctionmars6.13°applying
uranusquintilevertex0.22°separating
venussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.75°applying
venusquintilelilith0.84°separating
mercurysesquiquadrateneptune0.92°separating
marsquintileuranus1.00°separating
saturnquincunxneptune1.30°applying
saturnsesquiquadratevertex1.51°applying
jupiterquincunxsaturn2.12°applying