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Robert De Niro.

17 August 1943 · 15:05 · New York, New York

Robert De Niro's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Pisces, Sagittarius rising. Born August 17, 1943 in New York, New York.

About this chart

What is Robert De Niro's sun sign?

Robert De Niro's sun is in Leo.

What is Robert De Niro's moon sign?

Robert De Niro's moon is in Pisces.

What is Robert De Niro's rising sign?

Robert De Niro's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Robert De Niro born?

Robert De Niro was born August 17, 1943 in New York, New York.

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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 Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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.

SunLeo · 9th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. You come alive at the horizon. Meaning, philosophy, travel and the wider world are where identity is found, and the search itself is central to the work.

MoonPisces · 3rd house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling is processed out loud. You need to talk things through to settle them, and there is a strong emotional thread to siblings and the neighbourhood. The voice carries the mood.

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RisingSagittarius · the doorway

You arrive wide. Enthusiasm enters the room ahead of you, the body bigger than the doorway it just passed through. People feel the horizon expand when you show up. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Leo in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Sagittarius 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 NodeLeo · 8th house

The pull is toward Leo: the heart, individual creative expression, being warmly and personally seen. The familiar groove is Aquarius: hiding in the group, cool detachment. Growth is letting yourself want the light and stand in it.

South NodeAquarius · 2nd house

The South Node in Aquarius (2nd 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 Sagittarius; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Sagittarius rising puts Jupiter 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.

Jupiter · the chart rulerLeo · 8th house

Growth comes through creative expression, generosity and visibility, carried by faith in the self. The shadow is grandiosity outrunning the substance.

Where it drives. Increase comes through what is shared. Often money received through others, profound transformations, and strong intuition. The underworld is a teacher here.

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
MidheavenVirgo · the 10th house

With Virgo on the Midheaven, a room senses competence: someone precise, useful, who can actually be relied on to deliver. Planets in the 10th (Neptune) amplify that signal.

IC
ICPisces · the 4th house

With Pisces on the IC, home is porous and restorative: dream-space, compassion, a root that dissolves hard edges.

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.

UranusGemini · 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 Gemini

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

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLibra · 10th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 8th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, 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 · 9th 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 9th house (belief, travel, meaning). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 8th 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 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared): 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 be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your horizon first: open, frank, pointed past small talk.

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, mutable 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 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

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 · Pisces Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Sagittarius 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
38%
Earth
38%
Air
8%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Jupiter, Pluto, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, 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 Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Mercury, Moon, Saturn)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Saturn 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 Sagittarius, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Moon, Saturn, Venus)

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

gift

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

difficulty

Saturn 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 Sagittarius, 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 sextile Saturnorb 0.22°

In you, the Sun works easily with Saturn, bringing together your core identity and will and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Uranus sextile Plutoorb 1.16°

In you, Uranus works easily with Pluto, bringing together your need for freedom and the urge to break form 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.

Moon opposition Venusorb 1.32°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Mercury conjunction Venusorb 1.63°

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

Jupiter sextile Uranusorb 1.99°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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
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.

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.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 0.2°

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

Uranus sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 1.0°

An easy, available link: Uranus 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 1.1°

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.

Uranus sextile Plutoorb 1.2°

An easy, available link: Uranus and Pluto 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.

Moon opposition Venusorb 1.3°

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

Mars in detriment in Taurusuphill

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

Moon square Saturnorb 2.4°

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

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Chart data for Robert De Niro
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun23°59' Leo9th houserulership
Moon21°47' Pisces3rd house·
Mercury18°49' Virgo9th houserulership
Venus20°27' Virgo9th houseretrograde, fall
Mars26°25' Taurus6th housedetriment
Jupiter10°30' Leo8th housechart ruler
Saturn24°12' Gemini7th house·
Uranus8°30' Gemini6th house·
Neptune0°25' Libra10th house·
Pluto7°21' Leo8th house·
Chiron2°54' Virgo9th house·
North Node15°55' Leo8th houseretrograde
South Node15°55' Aquarius2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith9°29' Leo8th house·
Part of Fortune6°52' Cancer7th house·
Vertex22°56' Cancer8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
sunsextilesaturn0.22°applying
uranussextilelilith0.98°separating
jupiterconjunctionlilith1.01°separating
moontrinevertex1.15°applying
uranussextilepluto1.16°applying
moonoppositionvenus1.32°separating
mercuryconjunctionvenus1.63°applying
jupitersextileuranus1.99°separating
plutoconjunctionlilith2.14°separating
moonsquaresaturn2.41°applying
sunsquaremars2.44°applying
venussextilevertex2.47°separating
moonoppositionmercury2.96°separating
jupiterconjunctionpluto3.15°separating
marssextilevertex3.49°separating
venussquaresaturn3.74°separating
chironsextilepart-of-fortune3.98°applying
marstrineneptune4.00°applying
moonsextilemars4.63°applying
mercurysquaresaturn5.37°applying
jupiterconjunctionnorth-node5.43°applying
uranussquarechiron5.61°applying
venustrinemars5.96°separating
mercuryquintilepart-of-fortune0.05°separating
moonbiquintilenorth-node0.14°separating
saturnsemisquarelilith0.29°separating
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune0.47°separating
neptunesemisquarenorth-node0.50°applying
moonsesquiquadratepluto0.56°separating
uranussemisquarevertex0.58°separating
sunsemisextilevertex1.05°separating
marsquintilelilith1.07°applying
marsquintilepluto1.07°separating
saturnsemisextilevertex1.27°separating
jupitersemisquaresaturn1.30°separating
uranussemisextilepart-of-fortune1.63°separating
saturnsemisquarepluto1.85°separating
venussemisquarepluto1.89°separating
sunquincunxmoon2.20°applying