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Rachel McAdams.

17 November 1978 · 05:20 · London, Ontario, Canada

Rachel McAdams's birth chart: Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Gemini, Scorpio rising. Born November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada.

About this chart

What is Rachel McAdams's sun sign?

Rachel McAdams's sun is in Scorpio.

What is Rachel McAdams's moon sign?

Rachel McAdams's moon is in Gemini.

What is Rachel McAdams's rising sign?

Rachel McAdams's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Rachel McAdams born?

Rachel McAdams was born November 17, 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada.

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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 Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 air 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.

SunScorpio · 1st house

Depth and transformation are the spine of the self. Intense, magnetic, drawn to what others avoid, refusing to live on the surface. The death-and-rebirth cycle is built into the personality. Lesson: the way through is through. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonGemini · 8th house

Feeling is processed through language. Comfort comes from talking it out, from reading and conversation. You often need to express an emotion before you know what it is. The shadow is staying in the head to dodge the feeling. Feeling runs intense, private and underground. Strong psychic sensitivity here, often an inheritance of family emotional patterns, and the depths are where you are at home.

ASC
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 Sagittarius in the 2nd 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 NodeVirgo · 11th 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 · 5th house

The South Node in Pisces (5th 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

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 rulerSagittarius · 2nd house

The drive is enthusiastic, expansive and principled. Anger flares dramatically but burns out fast. The shadow is the moral high ground used as a weapon.

Where it drives. Energy goes into building resources. You work hard for money and hold what you earn, sometimes tightly, and the appetites are strong.

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 (Saturn) 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 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 · 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 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 · 2nd house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 9th 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 9th house (belief, travel, meaning): 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 go deep, strip the false layer, and keep what is real.
  4. You need conversation, variety, and a mind that is not caged.
  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 a water, fixed chart led by the Sun in Scorpio. 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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Scorpio Sun · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Scorpio is the core self, your Moon in Gemini is the inner emotional life, and your Scorpio 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 air 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
36%
Earth
8%
Air
15%
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: Sun, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Sun, Uranus, Venus 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.

Stellium in Sagittariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Sagittarius: Mars, Mercury, Neptune

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Neptune 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.

Mercury conjunction Neptuneorb 0.27°

In you, Mercury is fused with Neptune, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.85°

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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.01°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 1.12°

In you, Mercury works easily with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Mars square Saturnorb 1.67°

In you, Mars grinds against Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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 sextile North Nodeorb 0.3°

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

Black Moon Lilith trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.4°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 0.8°

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.

Mercury sextile Plutoorb 1.1°

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

Part of Fortune sextile Vertexorb 1.4°

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

Black Moon Lilith sextile Vertexorb 1.8°

An easy, available link: Black Moon Lilith 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 square Jupiterorb 1.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Jupiter 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.

Mars square Saturnorb 1.7°

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

Jupiter square Chironorb 2.4°

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

Moon square North Nodeorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for Rachel McAdams
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°30' Scorpio1st house·
Moon22°20' Gemini8th house·
Mercury16°53' Sagittarius2nd housedetriment
Venus9°57' Scorpio1st houseretrograde, detriment
Mars11°00' Sagittarius2nd housechart ruler
Jupiter8°56' Leo9th house·
Saturn12°39' Virgo10th house·
Uranus17°12' Scorpio1st house·
Neptune17°10' Sagittarius2nd house·
Pluto18°01' Libra12th house·
Chiron6°34' Taurus7th houseretrograde
North Node24°50' Virgo11th houseretrograde
South Node24°50' Pisces5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith3°57' Leo9th house·
Part of Fortune4°19' Aries5th house·
Vertex5°42' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionneptune0.27°applying
sunsextilenorth-node0.34°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune0.37°applying
neptunesextilepluto0.85°applying
venussquarejupiter1.01°applying
mercurysextilepluto1.12°applying
part-of-fortunesextilevertex1.39°separating
marssquaresaturn1.67°applying
lilithsextilevertex1.76°applying
marstrinejupiter2.06°separating
jupitersquarechiron2.36°separating
moonsquarenorth-node2.50°applying
chironsquarelilith2.62°applying
venussextilesaturn2.72°separating
jupitersextilevertex3.22°separating
venusoppositionchiron3.37°applying
mercurysquaresaturn4.23°separating
moontrinepluto4.32°separating
saturnsquareneptune4.51°applying
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune4.61°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith4.98°applying
moonoppositionneptune5.17°separating
marsoppositionvertex5.29°separating
moonoppositionmercury5.44°separating
mercuryconjunctionmars5.90°separating
venussquarelilith5.99°applying
sunconjunctionuranus7.30°separating
uranussemisextileneptune0.03°separating
venussemisquarenorth-node0.11°applying
sunquintilesaturn0.16°applying
mercurysemisextileuranus0.30°applying
venusbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.37°separating
moonsemisquarechiron0.76°separating
uranussemisextilepluto0.82°applying
moonbiquintileuranus0.86°applying
chironsemisextilevertex0.87°applying
jupitersemisquarenorth-node0.90°applying
venussemisextilemars1.05°separating
moonsemisquarejupiter1.60°applying
neptunesesquiquadratelilith1.78°separating
sunquincunxmoon2.16°applying