Born: November 11, 1974, 2:47 AM local time, Los Angeles, California, USA. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the time comes from a birth certificate or similarly solid record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below hold up without qualification. Open Leonardo DiCaprio's chart on Astrolas to follow the read.
One split runs the whole chart. Four planets sit in jLibra, in the same house as the rising sign itself. Three more sit in kScorpio, one house over, in the part of the chart tied to personal money and resources. Seven of his ten planets fall into two neighboring signs and two neighboring houses. His career reads the same way: a public, agreeable face built over one of the most private, driven actors of his generation.
Four planets in Libra, on the rising sign
Moon at 15ยฐ44', Mercury at 29ยฐ45', Uranus at 29ยฐ25' and Pluto at 8ยฐ13' all sit in Libra, all in the 1st house. The Ascendant itself lands at 3ยฐ07' Libra too, so five points in this chart share the same sign.
The library reads Libra's Moon as needing harmony and fair treatment to feel steady, doing its best work in partnership rather than alone. EMercury in Libra weighs every side of a question before settling on one, and works best alongside someone more decisive. IUranus in Libra brings a changeable, independent streak to relationships and collaboration. Pluto in Libra wants deep, sometimes forceful transformation to happen through connection with other people.
In the 1st house, that same cluster turns outward into identity. The Astrolas library describes a Moon here as emotionally transparent and quick to read a room, a Mercury here as introspective and careful with what gets said out loud, an Uranus here as a quiet, controlled kind of different, and a Pluto here as someone who holds real inner intensity while rarely showing it. Four planets, one instruction: keep an agreeable, composed surface, and keep the real material underneath.
Moon and Pluto are also in a wide conjunction, with an orb of 7ยฐ31'. The library reads it as deep control paired with intense feeling, a personality that resists small adjustments but can accept total reinvention once the moment calls for it. DiCaprio's roles have leaned the same way for three decades: long gaps between choices, each one a full transformation rather than a variation on the last.
The Descendant falls at 3ยฐ07' Aries, opposite the Ascendant, and the Midheaven sits at 3ยฐ24' Cancer, with the IC at 3ยฐ24' Capricorn. Astrolas doesn't yet have library entries for an Aries Descendant or a Cancer Midheaven, so this piece doesn't build a reading on those two points directly. What the chart does confirm is that the same axis carrying the Libra cluster, self versus other, also carries his Saturn and his Midheaven in Cancer, which the career section below reads in full.
Mercury conjunct Uranus: the chart's tightest link
The tightest aspect in the whole chart sits inside that Libra group. Mercury and Uranus are conjunct with an orb of 0ยฐ20', both near the very end of Libra.
Astrolas reads this pairing as a progressive, original mind, one that produces ideas that look like flashes of genius and that doesn't accept anything at face value without evidence. The flip side is a hard time holding focus, since the mind this aspect describes is restless by nature. DiCaprio has used that restlessness in a different direction publicly: since the late 1990s he has put his visibility behind climate and conservation work, backing documentaries and scientific projects rather than only promoting his own films.
Three planets in Scorpio, in the house of money
Sun at 18ยฐ40', Venus at 19ยฐ54' and Mars at 9ยฐ36' all sit in Scorpio, in the 2nd house.
The library's Scorpio Sun is intense and private, drawn to transformation and more interested in depth than in being liked. Scorpio Venus loves completely or not at all, with real magnetism and a strong pull toward privacy in relationships. Scorpio Mars is relentless once it commits to a goal, with a gift for sustained focus other people can't match.
In the 2nd house, the library ties the Sun here to self-worth built through financial independence, Venus here to money drawn in through art and a good eye for value, and Mars here to real drive toward income paired with careful thought before acting on it. Three planets, one message: security comes from controlling his own resources directly. DiCaprio built Appian Way, his production company, in 2001, and has produced several of his own films through it rather than relying only on acting income.
Sun and Venus are themselves conjunct, with an orb of 1ยฐ14'. The library reads this as a magnetic, creative personality, one that struggles to feel whole without a partner and that attracts opportunity through charm as much as through effort. It also warns of a tendency to overspend on people this placement cares about.
Saturn retrograde in Cancer, in the 10th house
Saturn sits at 18ยฐ48' Cancer, retrograde, in the 10th house of career and public standing.
The Astrolas library reads Cancer's USaturn as a need for both emotional and financial security, often built after a demanding start and a complicated relationship with a parent. Retrograde, that career drive doesn't move in a straight line. The library describes cycles of self-doubt, reassessment and quiet rebuilding rather than a clean, visible climb, with success usually arriving late and holding once it does.
DiCaprio's career traces that shape closely. He started as a child actor in the late 1980s, broke out in This Boy's Life and What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993, and became a global star with Titanic in 1997. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor several times across two decades before finally winning, for The Revenant, at the 2016 ceremony. The library names this pattern directly: success after thirty, solid once it lands.
Jupiter in Pisces, in the 6th house
Jupiter sits at 8ยฐ06' Pisces, in the 6th house of daily work.
The library reads Pisces' YJupiter as compassionate and drawn to work that serves people or causes beyond the self, with good fortune following from kindness rather than calculation. In the 6th house, that same generosity shows up as an abundance of work opportunities, sometimes more than one person can reasonably take on, plus a natural instinct to support colleagues quietly.
DiCaprio founded his environmental foundation in 1998 and has spent much of the time since funding conservation and climate projects alongside his acting work, a second career built on the exact house this Jupiter sits in.
What the chart adds up to
Nothing in the chart explains talent, and nothing in it explains why one actor becomes a movie star and another doesn't. What it shows is the shape of the effort: a Libra identity built for diplomacy and partnership, holding a Scorpio drive toward private, total control of his own resources, with a career that took its time and a cause that runs alongside it rather than behind it.
Open Leonardo DiCaprio's chart on Astrolas, find the Libra cluster around the rising sign, then compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What is Leonardo DiCaprio's rising sign?
Libra, at 3ยฐ07', based on his AA-rated birth time of 2:47 AM. Four of his ten planets, Moon, Mercury, Uranus and Pluto, share that same sign and house.
What are Leonardo DiCaprio's Sun and Moon signs?
His Sun is at 18ยฐ40' Scorpio in the 2nd house. His Moon is at 15ยฐ44' Libra in the 1st house, in a wide conjunction with Pluto.
What is the strongest feature of his chart?
The four-planet Libra cluster on the Ascendant, paired with a three-planet Scorpio cluster one house over. Seven of ten planets sit in two neighboring signs and houses.