Asteria · the ultimate birth chart

Tom Cruise.

3 July 1962 · 14:10 · Syracuse, New York

Tom Cruise's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo, Libra rising. Born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York.

About this chart

What is Tom Cruise's sun sign?

Tom Cruise's sun is in Cancer.

What is Tom Cruise's moon sign?

Tom Cruise's moon is in Leo.

What is Tom Cruise's rising sign?

Tom Cruise's Rising (Ascendant) is Libra.

When and where was Tom Cruise born?

Tom Cruise was born July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, 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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCancer · 9th house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. 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.

MoonLeo · 10th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. 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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RisingLibra · the doorway

You arrive graciously. The body knows the choreography of welcome before the mind has thought about it. People feel a sudden softening when you enter, and rarely know why. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Leo in the 10th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Libra 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Aquarius (4th 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 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

The degree. On a critical degree: a sensitised point in the zodiac. This placement runs hot: it is emphasised, fated-feeling, and rarely quiet.

Chart Ruler

Libra rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerLeo · 10th house

Love is grand, generous and theatrical. There is a need to be seen loving and to be visibly loved, and loyalty is total once given. The shadow is the demand for constant adoration.

Where it drives. Charm is part of the public life. Often a recognised or aesthetically known figure, with a Venusian thread running through the career and the reputation.

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
MidheavenCancer · the 10th house

With Cancer on the Midheaven, a room senses care: someone protective, attuned, who makes others feel looked after. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Venus, Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICCapricorn · the 4th house

With Capricorn on the IC, home is where duty softens: structure as care, the private architecture of ambition.

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 water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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 · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 · 1st house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, 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 · 11th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, 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 · 5th 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 5th house (creativity, romance, play). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  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 protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your grace first: composed, fair, reading the social field.

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 air, fixed chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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 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

Cancer Sun · Leo Moon · Libra rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Libra Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
26%
Earth
10%
Air
33%
Water
31%
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: Moon, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Moon, Uranus, 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 Watercommon
three planets in a triangle of trines (Jupiter, Neptune, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Sun form a grand trine. Yours runs on water: a closed circuit of feeling, intuition, and care. Talent shows as emotional accuracy and the ability to hold what others miss.

gift

Natural water 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.

Yod · apex Saturnuncommon
two planets in sextile, both quincunx Saturn (Pluto, Saturn, Sun)

In your chart, Pluto, Saturn, Sun form a yod pointing at Saturn in Aquarius. 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.

Kite · outlet Plutouncommon
a grand trine in water given direction by Pluto (Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Sun)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Sun form a kite with Pluto as the outlet. The easy talent of the grand trine finally has somewhere to aim: Pluto is where the gift becomes usable in the world.

gift

Talent plus drive: Pluto turns ease into achievement instead of pure coasting.

difficulty

Pluto carries pressure. The opposition can strain, but it is productive strain when you aim it.

release point

Lean into Pluto. That is where the whole configuration discharges and the grand trine's gift becomes real.

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.

Mercury sextile Venusorb 0.46°

In you, Mercury works easily with Venus, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your capacity for love and pleasure. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 0.50°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.80°

In you, Saturn grinds against Neptune, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits 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.

Sun trine Jupiterorb 1.37°

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.

Mars square Uranusorb 1.76°

In you, Mars grinds against Uranus, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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
Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

Jupiter rules Piscesat 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 Aquariusat home

Saturn 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.

Kitepattern

Flowing ease with a point of release: a whole-chart configuration working in your favour.

Neptune trine Chironorb 0.1°

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.

Where it works
Yodpattern

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

Venus square Vertexorb 0.8°

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

Saturn square Neptuneorb 0.8°

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

Saturn opposition North Nodeorb 1.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Saturn and North Node 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.

Mars square Uranusorb 1.8°

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

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Chart data for Tom Cruise
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°19' Cancer9th house·
Moon2°13' Leo10th house·
Mercury19°50' Gemini8th houserulership
Venus19°23' Leo10th housechart ruler
Mars26°10' Taurus8th housedetriment
Jupiter12°41' Pisces5th houseretrograde, rulership
Saturn10°00' Aquarius4th houseretrograde, rulership
Uranus27°55' Leo10th house·
Neptune10°48' Scorpio1st houseretrograde
Pluto8°01' Virgo11th house·
Chiron10°42' Pisces5th houseretrograde
North Node9°02' Leo10th houseretrograde
South Node9°02' Aquarius4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith27°28' Virgo11th house·
Part of Fortune12°17' Scorpio1st house·
Vertex20°10' Taurus8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
neptunetrinechiron0.10°separating
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune0.39°applying
mercurysextilevenus0.46°applying
suntrineneptune0.50°separating
suntrinechiron0.61°separating
venussquarevertex0.78°applying
saturnsquareneptune0.80°separating
saturnoppositionnorth-node0.97°applying
suntrinepart-of-fortune0.98°applying
marstrinelilith1.31°applying
suntrinejupiter1.37°applying
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.48°separating
chirontrinepart-of-fortune1.59°separating
marssquareuranus1.76°applying
neptunesquarenorth-node1.77°separating
jupitertrineneptune1.87°separating
jupiterconjunctionchiron1.98°separating
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune2.28°separating
plutooppositionchiron2.69°applying
neptunesextilepluto2.79°applying
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune3.25°separating
sunsextilepluto3.29°separating
jupiteroppositionpluto4.66°applying
moonsextilelilith4.75°separating
marsconjunctionvertex6.00°separating
moonconjunctionnorth-node6.82°applying
moonoppositionsaturn7.79°applying
moonquintilevertex0.06°separating
sunsemisquaremars0.15°separating
lilithsemisquarepart-of-fortune0.18°separating
mercurysemisextilevertex0.32°applying
uranussemisextilelilith0.45°applying
saturnsemisextilechiron0.70°separating
marsquintilenorth-node0.88°applying
uranusquintileneptune0.89°applying
plutosemisextilenorth-node1.02°applying
sunquincunxsaturn1.30°separating
marsquintilejupiter1.48°separating
sunsemisquareuranus1.61°applying
neptunesemisquarelilith1.66°separating
chironquincunxnorth-node1.67°applying
saturnquincunxpluto1.99°applying