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Stanley Kubrick.

26 July 1928 · 14:22 · The Bronx, New York

Stanley Kubrick's birth chart: Sun in Leo, Moon in Scorpio, Scorpio rising. Born July 26, 1928 in The Bronx, New York.

About this chart

What is Stanley Kubrick's sun sign?

Stanley Kubrick's sun is in Leo.

What is Stanley Kubrick's moon sign?

Stanley Kubrick's moon is in Scorpio.

What is Stanley Kubrick's rising sign?

Stanley Kubrick's Rising (Ascendant) is Scorpio.

When and where was Stanley Kubrick born?

Stanley Kubrick was born July 26, 1928 in The Bronx, 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 Scorpio 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 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 Generous, dramatic, magnetic when comfortable and withdrawn when unseen.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.

MoonScorpio · 1st house

Feeling runs intense, private and all the way down. Strong instincts, fierce loyalty, slow to trust. The shadow is the iron grip on what cannot be controlled. Soothing needs absolute privacy and the right person. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

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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 Taurus in the 7th 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 NodeGemini · 7th 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 · 1st house

The South Node in Sagittarius (1st 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

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 rulerTaurus · 7th house

The drive is slow, persistent and deliberate, and once it is moving it is hard to stop. Anger is slow to ignite and slow to let go. The shadow is stubbornness in the face of evidence.

Where it drives. The drive plays out in partnership. The partner is often forceful or competitive, conflict can be drawn into relationships, and the work is learning to argue cleanly with intimates.

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
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 (Neptune) 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 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.

UranusAries · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aries

A generation that rebels in the first person, rewriting what selfhood means.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 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 Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 · 6th 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 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowScorpio · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that sees under the mask and will not pretend you did not. It is depth that was called inappropriate. The medicine is a life where that depth is the point, not the problem. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): 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 depth, loyalty, and emotional truth without theater.
  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 fire, fixed 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 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 Leo, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Leo key.

The spine, your Big Three

Leo Sun · Scorpio Moon · Scorpio rising Your Sun in Leo is the core self, your Moon in Scorpio 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 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
41%
Earth
18%
Air
0%
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 Leocommon
three or more planets clustered in Leo: Neptune, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Neptune, Sun, Venus 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.

Grand Trine in Firecommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Saturn, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Saturn, Uranus, Venus form a grand trine. Yours runs on fire: a closed circuit of heat, faith, and will. Talent shows as courage and the ability to start without waiting for the room to approve.

gift

Natural fire talent that protects and stabilizes you: ability that has always been easier for you than for most people.

difficulty

Because it is a closed circuit that asks nothing, a grand trine can become complacency, a gift never developed because it never had to be. The ease itself is the trap.

release point

A grand trine wants a square or opposition from outside to activate it, a planet that challenges the closed triangle and forces the talent into use. Without that pressure, the work is self-imposed: deliberately spending the gift rather than coasting on it.

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 square Neptuneorb 1.01°

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

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.91°

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.

Venus trine Saturnorb 2.43°

In you, Venus flows together with Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. 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.

Mercury conjunction Plutoorb 2.53°

In you, Mercury is fused with Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus trine Uranusorb 3.11°

In you, Venus flows together with Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Grand Trinepattern

A built-in channel of ease: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Uranus sextile North Nodeorb 0.8°

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

Jupiter sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.1°

An easy, available link: Jupiter 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 Vertexorb 1.8°

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

Venus sextile North Nodeorb 2.3°

An easy, available link: Venus 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 in fall in Scorpiostrained

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

Venus square Chironorb 0.4°

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

North Node square Part of Fortuneorb 0.7°

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

Moon square Neptuneorb 1.0°

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

Neptune square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Neptune and Black Moon Lilith 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.

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Chart data for Stanley Kubrick
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°28' Leo9th houserulership
Moon26°56' Scorpio1st housefall
Mercury14°36' Cancer8th house·
Venus10°25' Leo9th house·
Mars21°11' Taurus7th housedetriment, chart ruler
Jupiter8°31' Taurus6th house·
Saturn12°51' Sagittarius1st houseretrograde
Uranus7°19' Aries5th houseretrograde
Neptune27°57' Leo10th house·
Pluto17°07' Cancer8th house·
Chiron10°01' Taurus6th house·
North Node8°06' Gemini7th house·
South Node8°06' Sagittarius1st house·
Black Moon Lilith26°47' Scorpio1st house·
Part of Fortune7°22' Pisces4th house·
Vertex26°11' Gemini8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonconjunctionlilith0.16°separating
venussquarechiron0.41°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune0.73°separating
uranussextilenorth-node0.79°separating
moonsquareneptune1.01°applying
jupitersextilepart-of-fortune1.13°separating
neptunesquarelilith1.17°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron1.50°applying
neptunesextilevertex1.76°separating
venussquarejupiter1.91°separating
venussextilenorth-node2.32°separating
venustrinesaturn2.43°applying
mercuryconjunctionpluto2.53°applying
chironsextilepart-of-fortune2.63°separating
venustrineuranus3.11°separating
suntrineuranus3.84°applying
sunsextilenorth-node4.63°applying
saturnoppositionnorth-node4.75°applying
sunsquarejupiter5.04°applying
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune5.47°applying
saturntrineuranus5.54°applying
marsoppositionlilith5.58°applying
moonoppositionmars5.75°separating
suntrinemoon6.53°applying
sunsquarechiron6.54°applying
suntrinelilith6.69°separating
sunconjunctionvenus6.95°separating
uranussemisextilepart-of-fortune0.07°separating
sunquintilemars0.28°separating
jupitersemisextilenorth-node0.41°separating
lilithquincunxvertex0.59°separating
moonquincunxvertex0.75°separating
venussemisquarevertex0.77°applying
marssemisquareuranus1.12°applying
chironsemisquarevertex1.18°applying
jupitersemisextileuranus1.20°separating
mercurysemisquareneptune1.65°separating
mercuryquincunxsaturn1.75°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node1.91°separating