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Robert Downey Jr..

4 April 1965 · 13:10 · Manhattan, New York County, United States

Robert Downey Jr.'s birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Taurus, Leo rising. Born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York County, United States.

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What is Robert Downey Jr.'s sun sign?

Robert Downey Jr.'s sun is in Aries.

What is Robert Downey Jr.'s moon sign?

Robert Downey Jr.'s moon is in Taurus.

What is Robert Downey Jr.'s rising sign?

Robert Downey Jr.'s Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Robert Downey Jr. born?

Robert Downey Jr. was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York County, 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 Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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.

SunAries · 9th 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. 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.

MoonTaurus · 10th house

Feeling is steady, sensual and slow. Comfort comes from the body, from familiar textures, from food and routine. Once attached, the attachment is permanent. The shadow is stuckness dressed up as loyalty to the past. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingLeo · the doorway

You arrive into the light. The temperature of a space changes when you cross the threshold, whether you intended it or not. People reorganise themselves around your presence. Your chart ruler is Sun, in Aries in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Leo 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 NodeGemini · 11th house

The pull is toward Gemini: curiosity, the local and specific, listening, the question rather than the verdict. The familiar groove is Sagittarius: the sweeping answer, the belief already held. Growth is staying genuinely interested in what you do not yet know.

South NodeSagittarius · 5th house

The South Node in Sagittarius (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 air territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Libra; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Leo rising puts the Sun 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 Sun · chart rulerAries · 9th house

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.

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
MidheavenTaurus · the 10th house

With Taurus on the Midheaven, a room senses steadiness: someone solid, unhurried, trustworthy with what matters. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Jupiter) amplify that signal.

IC
ICScorpio · the 4th house

With Scorpio on the IC, home is where depth is allowed: loyalty, secrets, and roots that remake themselves.

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 mutable 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.

UranusVirgo · 2nd house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 4th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, 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 · 2nd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 2nd house (money, self-worth, and what you build security on), 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 2nd houseIn money, values, worth, 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 woundPisces · 8th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCapricorn · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that built authority because the existing one did not make room. It is competence that will not downplay itself to soothe a threatened room. The medicine is owning what you are in fact good at. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): 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 adapt. Your gift shows when you let the work change shape without losing the thread.
  3. At core you are here to act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need steadiness, touch, and proof that comfort is allowed.
  5. People meet your warmth first: present, visible, hard to ignore.

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

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Taurus Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Taurus is the inner emotional life, and your Leo 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
51%
Earth
41%
Air
0%
Water
8%
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, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, 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.

Stellium in Virgocommon
three or more planets clustered in Virgo: Mars, Pluto, Uranus

In your chart, Mars, Pluto, Uranus gather in Virgo. A stellium in Virgo concentrates the chart on craft, service, and getting the details honest. You refine and fix at high volume: usefulness, skill, and the body as instrument sit at the center of the plot.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Virgo 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 Virgo stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Virgo 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.

Moon opposition Neptuneorb 0.32°

In you, the Moon sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 0.49°

In you, Saturn sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Mars conjunction Uranusorb 1.31°

In you, Mars is fused with Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

Mars opposition Saturnorb 1.80°

In you, Mars sits opposite Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 1.91°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

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
Neptune sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.0°

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

Chiron sextile Black Moon Lilithorb 0.3°

An easy, available link: Chiron 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 Black Moon Lilithorb 0.4°

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

Neptune trine Chironorb 0.4°

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

Moon sextile Chironorb 0.7°

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

Sun sextile North Nodeorb 0.7°

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.

Where it works
Moon opposition Neptuneorb 0.3°

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

Saturn opposition Uranusorb 0.5°

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

Pluto square North Nodeorb 1.2°

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

Venus in detriment in Ariesuphill

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

Chiron opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Mercury square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Mercury 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 Robert Downey Jr.
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun14°45' Aries9th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Moon19°11' Taurus10th houseexaltation
Mercury21°12' Aries9th houseretrograde
Venus12°50' Aries9th housedetriment
Mars10°11' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Jupiter26°11' Taurus10th house·
Saturn11°59' Pisces8th house·
Uranus11°29' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Neptune19°30' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Pluto14°16' Virgo2nd houseretrograde
Chiron19°54' Pisces8th house·
North Node15°28' Gemini11th houseretrograde
South Node15°28' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith19°33' Capricorn6th house·
Part of Fortune18°17' Virgo2nd house·
Vertex1°03' Capricorn5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunesextilelilith0.05°separating
moonoppositionneptune0.32°separating
chironsextilelilith0.35°applying
moontrinelilith0.36°separating
neptunetrinechiron0.39°separating
saturnoppositionuranus0.49°separating
moonsextilechiron0.71°applying
sunsextilenorth-node0.72°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune0.90°separating
plutosquarenorth-node1.20°applying
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune1.22°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune1.27°separating
marsconjunctionuranus1.31°separating
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune1.61°separating
mercurysquarelilith1.64°applying
marsoppositionsaturn1.80°separating
sunconjunctionvenus1.91°applying
saturnoppositionpluto2.29°applying
venussextilenorth-node2.63°applying
uranusconjunctionpluto2.78°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune2.81°separating
saturnsquarenorth-node3.49°applying
uranussquarenorth-node3.98°applying
plutoconjunctionpart-of-fortune4.01°separating
marsconjunctionpluto4.09°separating
chironsquarenorth-node4.42°separating
sunsquarelilith4.80°applying
moontrinepluto4.91°separating
plutotrinelilith5.28°separating
marssquarenorth-node5.29°separating
plutooppositionchiron5.62°separating
sunconjunctionmercury6.44°applying
moonconjunctionjupiter7.00°applying
moontrineuranus7.70°separating
sunquincunxpluto0.47°separating
venusbiquintileneptune0.67°applying
venussemisextilesaturn0.86°separating
mercurybiquintilepluto0.92°applying
saturnquintilevertex1.07°applying
jupiterbiquintilevertex1.13°separating
sunbiquintileneptune1.24°separating
mercurysemisextilechiron1.30°applying
venusquincunxuranus1.35°separating
venusquincunxpluto1.43°applying
sunbiquintilemars1.44°applying
venussemisquarejupiter1.65°separating
mercuryquincunxneptune1.69°applying