Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Sean Penn.

17 August 1960 · 15:17 · Burbank, Los Angeles County, United States

Sean Penn's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Cancer, Sagittarius rising. Born August 17, 1960 in Burbank, Los Angeles County, United States.

About this chart

What is Sean Penn's sun sign?

Sean Penn's sun is in Leo.

What is Sean Penn's moon sign?

Sean Penn's moon is in Cancer.

What is Sean Penn's rising sign?

Sean Penn's Rising (Ascendant) is Sagittarius.

When and where was Sean Penn born?

Sean Penn was born August 17, 1960 in Burbank, Los Angeles 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 Leo is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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 · 8th 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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. 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.

MoonCancer · 7th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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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 Sagittarius in the 1st 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 NodeVirgo · 9th 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 · 3rd house

The South Node in Pisces (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 earth territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Capricorn; 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 rulerSagittarius · 1st house

Jupiter is at home here. Growth comes through philosophy, travel and meaning, carried by faith in the larger pattern. The shadow is dodging the particular by way of the universal.

Where it drives. Growth comes through the self. A generous, confident presence, often physically large or expansive, and a person tends to be lucky simply in how they arrive.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 fixed 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.

UranusLeo · 8th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), 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 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), 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 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, 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 · 3rd 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 3rd house (mind, words, siblings). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 7th 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 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to be seen without shrinking, and to warm the room on purpose.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  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 Moon. 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.

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 Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Cancer Moon · Sagittarius rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Cancer 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
49%
Earth
18%
Air
18%
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: Mercury, Sun, Uranus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Uranus 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.

Yod · apex Saturnuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Saturn (Mars, Mercury, Saturn)

In your chart, Mars, Mercury, Saturn form a yod pointing at Saturn in Capricorn. 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.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 0.22°

In you, the Moon works easily with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts 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 Marsorb 0.24°

In you, Venus grinds against Mars, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.90°

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

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 1.12°

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.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.18°

In you, the Sun flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

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.

Moon rules Cancerat home

Moon sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Jupiter rules Sagittariusat home

Jupiter sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Saturn rules Capricornat home

Saturn sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Moon sextile Plutoorb 0.2°

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

Moon trine Neptuneorb 0.9°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Neptune 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.

Yodpattern

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

Venus square Marsorb 0.2°

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

Saturn opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.1°

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

Part of Fortune square Vertexorb 4.3°

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

Mars square Plutoorb 4.7°

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

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Chart data for Sean Penn
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun24°58' Leo8th houserulership
Moon5°42' Cancer7th houserulership
Mercury11°55' Leo8th house·
Venus10°26' Virgo9th housefall
Mars10°11' Gemini6th house·
Jupiter23°47' Sagittarius1st houseretrograde, rulership, chart ruler
Saturn12°28' Capricorn1st houseretrograde, rulership
Uranus21°38' Leo8th house·
Neptune6°36' Scorpio11th house·
Pluto5°29' Virgo9th house·
Chiron0°03' Pisces3rd houseretrograde
North Node15°39' Virgo9th houseretrograde
South Node15°39' Pisces3rd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith11°23' Cancer7th house·
Part of Fortune27°32' Libra10th house·
Vertex1°52' Leo8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsextilepluto0.22°separating
venussquaremars0.24°separating
moontrineneptune0.90°applying
venussextilelilith0.95°applying
saturnoppositionlilith1.09°applying
neptunesextilepluto1.12°applying
suntrinejupiter1.18°separating
mercurysextilemars1.73°separating
venustrinesaturn2.04°applying
jupitertrineuranus2.15°applying
chirontrinepart-of-fortune2.53°applying
sunsextilepart-of-fortune2.57°applying
saturntrinenorth-node3.18°applying
sunconjunctionuranus3.33°separating
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune3.75°separating
venussextileneptune3.82°separating
part-of-fortunesquarevertex4.34°separating
marssquarepluto4.70°separating
moonsextilevenus4.72°applying
neptunesquarevertex4.74°separating
neptunetrinelilith4.78°separating
venusconjunctionpluto4.94°separating
sunoppositionchiron5.09°applying
venusconjunctionnorth-node5.22°applying
mercurysquareneptune5.31°separating
plutooppositionchiron5.43°separating
marssquarenorth-node5.46°applying
moontrinechiron5.65°separating
moonconjunctionlilith5.68°applying
moonoppositionsaturn6.77°applying
sunquintileneptune0.36°separating
mercurysemisextilelilith0.53°separating
mercuryquincunxsaturn0.56°applying
marsquintileuranus0.56°separating
moonsemisquareuranus0.93°applying
marssemisextilelilith1.19°applying
north-nodesemisquarevertex1.22°separating
sunsemisquarelilith1.42°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus1.49°separating
chironquincunxvertex1.81°separating
marsquincunxsaturn2.28°applying