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Richard Gere.

31 August 1949 · 16:36 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Richard Gere's birth chart: Sun in Virgo, Moon in Sagittarius, Capricorn rising. Born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

About this chart

What is Richard Gere's sun sign?

Richard Gere's sun is in Virgo.

What is Richard Gere's moon sign?

Richard Gere's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Richard Gere's rising sign?

Richard Gere's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Richard Gere born?

Richard Gere was born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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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 Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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.

SunVirgo · 8th house

The self is proven through usefulness and refinement. The eye for detail is the gift; the inner critic is the shadow. You want work that matters, and you want to do it well. Lesson: serve the work, not the perfectionism. The self is forged in the depths. Encounters with intimacy, power, loss and the hidden remake you, and the descent and return becomes the pattern of a lifetime.

MoonSagittarius · 12th 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 runs hidden and oceanic. Strong unconscious processing here, often carrying emotion that was never consciously yours. The interior is vast, and sometimes overwhelming.

ASC
RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Virgo in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 · 3rd 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 · 9th house

The South Node in Libra (9th 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 Leo; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerVirgo · 8th house

The work is on labour, health and daily practice: lessons in excellence without obsession. The shadow is an inner critic with no mercy.

Where it drives. The deep places ask for discipline. Often complex dynamics around shared resources or sexuality, with the work being to handle power well and earn mastery of the underworld.

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
MidheavenScorpio · the 10th house

With Scorpio on the Midheaven, a room senses depth and intensity: someone not to be underestimated, who sees through the surface.

IC
ICTaurus · the 4th house

With Taurus on the IC, home is where the body settles: slow comfort, tangible safety, roots you can touch.

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 cardinal 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.

UranusCancer · 6th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, 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 · 9th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 7th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, 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 woundSagittarius · 11th house

The wound is meaning: a crisis of faith from beliefs that were imposed, ridiculed, or simply stopped holding, leaving you lost or purposeless. You may preach what you do not yet live, or wander to outrun the emptiness. It plays out most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAries · 3rd house

Lilith is the part of you that will not wait for permission. It is the edge that walks in and lets the room adjust, not the other way around. The work is aim: force without a target burns the nearest people; force with a target builds new ground. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 3rd house (mind, words, siblings): 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to refine, serve, and make the details honest.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 earth, cardinal chart led by the Sun in Virgo. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Virgo is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn 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
15%
Earth
46%
Air
20%
Water
18%
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: Mercury, Neptune, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Neptune, 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.

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.

Venus conjunction Neptuneorb 0.03°

In you, Venus is fused with Neptune, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure 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 square Uranusorb 0.26°

In you, Mercury grinds against Uranus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate 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.

Sun conjunction Saturnorb 1.29°

In you, the Sun is fused with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars opposition Jupiterorb 3.13°

In you, Mars sits opposite Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 3.28°

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.

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
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.

Pluto trine North Nodeorb 0.6°

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

Mercury sextile Chironorb 0.6°

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

Pluto trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.6°

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

Moon trine Vertexorb 1.7°

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

North Node trine Vertexorb 2.2°

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

Where it works
Mars in fall in Cancerstrained

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

Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

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

Mercury square Uranusorb 0.3°

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

Mars square Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Neptune opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.7°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Neptune and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Venus opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.7°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Venus 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 Richard Gere
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun8°04' Virgo8th house·
Moon21°23' Sagittarius12th house·
Mercury4°03' Libra8th house·
Venus13°33' Libra9th houserulership
Mars25°58' Cancer7th housefall
Jupiter22°50' Capricorn1st houseretrograde, fall
Saturn9°22' Virgo8th housechart ruler
Uranus4°19' Cancer6th house·
Neptune13°34' Libra9th house·
Pluto16°51' Leo7th house·
Chiron3°29' Sagittarius11th house·
North Node17°25' Aries3rd houseretrograde
South Node17°25' Libra9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith15°14' Aries3rd house·
Part of Fortune25°03' Aries3rd house·
Vertex19°39' Leo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venusconjunctionneptune0.03°separating
mercurysquareuranus0.26°applying
plutotrinenorth-node0.55°applying
mercurysextilechiron0.57°separating
marssquarepart-of-fortune0.92°separating
sunconjunctionsaturn1.29°applying
plutotrinelilith1.62°applying
neptuneoppositionlilith1.67°separating
venusoppositionlilith1.69°applying
moontrinevertex1.74°separating
north-nodeconjunctionlilith2.17°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune2.21°separating
north-nodetrinevertex2.24°separating
plutoconjunctionvertex2.79°applying
marsoppositionjupiter3.13°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.28°applying
venussextilepluto3.31°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune3.66°applying
sunsextileuranus3.76°separating
neptuneoppositionnorth-node3.84°applying
venusoppositionnorth-node3.86°applying
moontrinenorth-node3.98°separating
lilithtrinevertex4.41°applying
moontrinepluto4.53°separating
sunsquarechiron4.60°separating
part-of-fortunetrinevertex5.40°separating
jupitersquarenorth-node5.43°applying
saturnsquarechiron5.89°separating
moontrinelilith6.15°separating
saturnbiquintilelilith0.13°separating
sunsesquiquadratejupiter0.23°separating
uranussemisquarevertex0.34°applying
mercurysemisquarevertex0.61°applying
saturnsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.68°applying
uranusquincunxchiron0.83°applying
chironsesquiquadratenorth-node1.07°separating
sunbiquintilelilith1.17°applying
moonbiquintilemars1.42°separating
moonsemisextilejupiter1.45°applying
jupitersesquiquadratesaturn1.53°separating
marssemisquaresaturn1.60°separating
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.97°applying