Born: June 4, 1975, 9:09 AM local time, Los Angeles, California, USA. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the birth time comes from a reliable record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be read with confidence. Open Angelina Jolie's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
Three planets sit together in aAries, in the 9th house, the part of the chart the Astrolas library ties to belief, higher learning and travel: the Moon, Mars and YJupiter. That Jupiter also sits almost exactly on the Midheaven, so the drive to explore turns directly into public recognition rather than staying private.
Jolie grew up around the film industry, the daughter of actor Jon Voight, and built an early reputation on roles that leaned into intensity rather than comfort. The chart below reads like someone whose idealism, aimed outward from the start, became both a career and a second, more private vocation.
Moon, Mars and Jupiter in Aries, in the 9th house
The Moon sits at 13ยฐ05' Aries, Mars at 10ยฐ42' Aries, and Jupiter at 17ยฐ25' Aries, all three in the 9th house. The Astrolas library reads the Aries Moon as bold and quick to react, full of energy and ambition, craving intense connection and resisting any sense of being controlled, with a life that tends to turn on sudden shifts rather than a steady climb. Mars in its own sign is the planet at its strongest: determined, courageous, straightforward, impatient, with a real risk of starting strong and finishing weak unless that energy gets paired with patience. Jupiter in Aries adds confidence, enthusiasm and a taste for leading rather than following, with the usual Jupiter caution about overreaching when optimism runs ahead of planning.
The 9th house turns all three outward, toward belief, travel and foreign connection. The library's Moon here describes a life built around the pursuit of knowledge and experience, often through living abroad, with strong ethical standards and a real pull toward spiritual or humanitarian life. Its Mars fights hard to defend its ideals and finds real honors through higher education and travel that broadens its horizons. Its Jupiter adds moral conviction, a gift for languages, and advancement through education and exposure to other cultures.
The Moon and Mars are also tightly linked on their own, conjunct with an orb of 2ยฐ23'. The library reads this pairing as emotional intensity with little concealment: passionate but quick-tempered, decisive but prone to combativeness, loving hard and capable of real anger, with the lesson being patience and measured words rather than suppressing the feeling itself.
Jolie's public record reads like a direct match. She worked as a Goodwill Ambassador and later Special Envoy for the UN refugee agency from 2001 to 2022, traveling to crisis zones on multiple continents, and in 2014 the UK made her an honorary dame for that work. She has also directed films set far from home, including First They Killed My Father, made in Cambodia.
Jupiter conjunct the Midheaven
Jupiter sits at 17ยฐ25' Aries, almost exactly on the Midheaven at 17ยฐ49' Aries, with an orb of 0ยฐ24'. The library has an entry for this exact contact, and it reads as a highly favorable aspect for public life: career success, a strong home, and wide respect at once, provided luck is matched with real effort. Its one caution is balance, since ambition can crowd out family if it takes up all the available time.
Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted in 2000, built a second career as a director, and has spent two decades as one of the most recognized actresses in film alongside her UN work. The library's caution about balancing ambition and family is one she has spoken about directly, raising a large family while keeping up a demanding career.
Venus and Saturn in Cancer, with Venus on the Ascendant
Venus sits at 28ยฐ09' and Saturn at 17ยฐ23', both in fCancer, both in the 12th house. Venus here is also conjunct the Ascendant at 28ยฐ52' Cancer, with an orb of 0ยฐ43', a contact the library has its own entry for. It reads as charm that works instantly: warm, sociable, able to put people at ease right away, widely liked, with an attractive and well put-together appearance, and the matching risk of avoiding conflict just to keep the peace.
The library's Venus in Cancer wants emotional and material security above almost anything else, pours devotion into home and family, and can tip into over-caring if it isn't checked. Saturn in Cancer carries a harder edge: a deep need for security built out of a demanding early family life, discipline earned the hard way, and a pull toward partners who feel older or more settled. In the 12th house, both planets turn private. The library ties Venus here to a rich, often hidden emotional and creative life, generous but guarded about where it places its trust, and Saturn here to quiet, behind-the-scenes devotion where recognition tends to arrive late.
That split between a warm, instantly likable public face and a far more private emotional life matches how her two careers have run side by side: the acting side made her one of the most photographed people in film for two decades, while the quieter UN work has taken her to refugee camps on several continents since 2001.
Sun and Mercury in Gemini, in the 11th house
The Sun sits at 13ยฐ25' dGemini and Mercury at 22ยฐ20' Gemini, both in the 11th house. The library's Gemini Sun is quick, curious and adaptable, governed by Mercury, with a pull toward journalism, media, travel or teaching, and a matching risk of taking on too much and finishing too little. Mercury in Gemini sharpens that further into a fast, wide-ranging intellect, good at communication across many subjects, best suited to writing, speaking or working in media, with focus as its main challenge rather than ability.
In the 11th house, both planets point toward groups and causes rather than solo projects. The library's Sun here values friendship and connection, builds its sense of purpose through organizations and charitable work, and tends to care more about the goal than about personal credit. Mercury here, slowed by retrograde motion, is still drawn to social networks and shared causes but more selective about them, preferring a few deep, intellectually serious connections and quiet conversation over wide socializing.
That fits a long record of writing and speaking for humanitarian causes rather than lending a famous name to them. She has written opinion pieces for major newspapers on refugee policy, and her UN role ran for more than two decades through a single organization.
Neptune in Sagittarius, in the 5th house
Neptune sits at 10ยฐ20' lSagittarius, in the 5th house. The library reads this placement as a pull toward truth, meaning and a wide view of the world, often carried out through learning, travel and contact with other cultures and belief systems, generational for her whole birth cohort but personal in how directly it shows up here. In the 5th house of creativity and performance, the same placement reads as a rich imagination and an artistic, romantic view of love, with real strength in acting or design and a caution about losing track of what's real when the imagination runs ahead of it.
That combination describes a career built on performance with a steady pull toward stories set far from home.
Pluto and Uranus in Libra, in the 3rd and 4th houses
Pluto sits at 6ยฐ31' jLibra, in the 3rd house, and Uranus at 28ยฐ48' Libra, in the 4th house, with the IC at 17ยฐ49' Libra in the same house as Uranus. Both planets are generational, Pluto in Libra for anyone born between 1971 and 1984, a stretch the library ties to shifting ideas about equality, cooperation and justice, Uranus in Libra for a cohort marked by changing views on marriage and partnership. Personally, Pluto in the 3rd house becomes authoritative communication: someone who speaks and writes with real influence once they've gathered enough evidence to be certain, well suited to research or any position of real authority. Uranus in the 4th resists a conventional household, reshaping home around its own rhythm and often moving or traveling when it needs to recalibrate.
That tracks with someone who has addressed the UN Security Council on behalf of refugees, written for major papers under her own name, and built a family life that has rarely matched a single, conventional pattern.
What the chart adds up to
Nothing here explains acting talent, and a chart can't account for timing or luck. What it shows is where the energy concentrates: three planets in Aries pushing outward into belief and travel, a Jupiter almost exactly on the career point, and a private, guarded emotional life running underneath a carefully maintained public face.
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Questions people ask
What is Angelina Jolie's rising sign?
Cancer, at 28ยฐ52', based on her AA-rated birth time of 9:09 AM.
What are Angelina Jolie's Sun and Moon signs?
Her Sun is at 13ยฐ25' Gemini in the 11th house. Her Moon is at 13ยฐ05' Aries in the 9th house.
What is the strongest feature of her chart?
Three planets in Aries, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter, all in the 9th house, with Jupiter almost exactly conjunct the Midheaven. It's the clearest throughline in the chart.