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Zoe Saldana.

19 June 1978 · 08:49 · Passaic County, New Jersey, United States

Zoe Saldana's birth chart: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Sagittarius, Leo rising. Born June 19, 1978 in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

About this chart

What is Zoe Saldana's sun sign?

Zoe Saldana's sun is in Gemini.

What is Zoe Saldana's moon sign?

Zoe Saldana's moon is in Sagittarius.

What is Zoe Saldana's rising sign?

Zoe Saldana's Rising (Ascendant) is Leo.

When and where was Zoe Saldana born?

Zoe Saldana was born June 19, 1978 in Passaic County, New Jersey, 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 Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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 air 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.

SunGemini · 11th house

Curiosity is the engine of the self. A quick mind and plural interests, allergic to being pinned to a single version of who you are. The translator, the eternal student, restless because rest feels like dying. Lesson: depth is not the enemy of range. The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

MoonSagittarius · 5th house

Feeling needs space, movement and a horizon. Comfort comes from travel, philosophy, the larger view. The shadow is using expansion to escape the smaller, closer feelings. You need freedom inside intimacy. Feeling needs to be made into something. The heart settles through creativity, play and romance, children are often central, and what you make carries what you feel.

ASC
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 Gemini in the 11th 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 NodeLibra · 3rd house

The pull is toward Libra: partnership, balance, genuinely taking the other person into account. The familiar groove is Aries: self-interest first, the solo charge. Growth is discovering you become more, not less, in real relationship.

South NodeAries · 9th house

The South Node in Aries (9th 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

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 rulerGemini · 11th house

The self emerges in the group. Friendship, community and a shared vision are where you become whole, and contribution to a larger cause shapes who you are.

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
MidheavenAries · the 10th house

With Aries on the Midheaven, a room senses drive: someone who moves first and is not waiting for permission.

IC
ICLibra · the 4th house

With Libra on the IC, home is where beauty keeps the peace: partnership tone, balance in the private rooms.

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 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.

UranusScorpio · 4th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 4th house (home, family, and your foundations), 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 4th houseIn home, roots, family, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneSagittarius · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Sagittarius

An era that dreams of universal truth, a philosophical mysticism, the dissolving of religious borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoLibra · 3rd house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 3rd house (how you think, speak, and learn), 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 3rd houseIn mind, words, siblings, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Libra

An era that remakes partnership, fairness and beauty, putting relationship 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 · 10th 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 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowCancer · 12th 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 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): 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 think out loud and move information where it needs to go.
  4. You need meaning, air, and a horizon that is not shrinking.
  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, mutable chart led by the Sun in Gemini. 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 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 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 Gemini, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Gemini key.

The spine, your Big Three

Gemini Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Leo rising Your Sun in Gemini is the core self, your Moon in Sagittarius 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 air 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
56%
Earth
10%
Air
15%
Water
18%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

No major aspect patterns sit tight enough to qualify here. The chart reads as a network of pair contacts rather than a defining geometry.

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.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.40°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Jupiter square Plutoorb 0.77°

In you, Jupiter grinds against Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Mercury sextile Marsorb 1.05°

In you, Mercury works easily with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun sextile Saturnorb 1.71°

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.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 2.74°

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.

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
Saturn trine Vertexorb 0.2°

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

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.4°

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

Jupiter exalted in Cancerlifted

Jupiter is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Mercury sextile Marsorb 1.1°

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

Sun sextile Saturnorb 1.7°

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.

Venus sextile North Nodeorb 2.0°

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
Jupiter square Plutoorb 0.8°

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

Sun opposition Vertexorb 2.0°

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

Mercury square North Nodeorb 2.2°

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

Pluto square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.2°

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

Black Moon Lilith opposition Part of Fortuneorb 3.4°

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

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Chart data for Zoe Saldana
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun27°52' Gemini11th housechart ruler
Moon9°09' Sagittarius5th house·
Mercury4°02' Cancer11th house·
Venus3°50' Leo12th house·
Mars2°59' Virgo2nd house·
Jupiter13°08' Cancer12th houseexaltation
Saturn26°10' Leo1st housedetriment
Uranus12°44' Scorpio4th houseretrograde
Neptune16°38' Sagittarius5th houseretrograde
Pluto13°54' Libra3rd houseretrograde
Chiron8°26' Taurus10th house·
North Node1°48' Libra3rd houseretrograde
South Node1°48' Aries9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith17°06' Cancer12th house·
Part of Fortune20°32' Capricorn6th house·
Vertex25°55' Sagittarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturntrinevertex0.24°separating
jupitertrineuranus0.40°separating
jupitersquarepluto0.77°applying
mercurysextilemars1.05°separating
sunsextilesaturn1.71°separating
sunoppositionvertex1.96°separating
venussextilenorth-node2.04°separating
mercurysquarenorth-node2.24°separating
neptunesextilepluto2.74°applying
plutosquarelilith3.21°separating
lilithoppositionpart-of-fortune3.42°applying
sunsquarenorth-node3.93°applying
jupiterconjunctionlilith3.98°applying
uranusoppositionchiron4.30°applying
uranustrinelilith4.38°separating
venussquarechiron4.59°applying
moonsextilepluto4.75°applying
sunsextilemars5.11°applying
moontrinevenus5.31°separating
marstrinechiron5.44°applying
north-nodesquarevertex5.88°applying
moonsquaremars6.16°separating
sunconjunctionmercury6.16°separating
moonconjunctionneptune7.48°applying
plutoquintilevertex0.02°separating
sunsesquiquadrateuranus0.14°separating
mercurysemisextilevenus0.19°separating
saturnbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.37°applying
neptunequincunxlilith0.48°separating
chironbiquintilenorth-node0.63°separating
moonquincunxchiron0.72°separating
venussemisextilemars0.86°separating
marssemisquarelilith0.88°separating
uranussemisextilepluto1.17°separating
marssemisextilenorth-node1.19°separating
uranussemisquarevertex1.81°applying
jupitersemisquaresaturn1.97°separating