Born: September 15, 1984, 4:20 PM local time, Paddington, London, England. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating A.
Open Prince Harry's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
The A rating means this time comes from the person himself or someone close to him and is treated as reliable, even without a birth certificate attached to the record. That's enough for the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below to be read with confidence.
Three planets stack into the 8th house here: the Sun, Mercury and Venus. The Astrolas library ties that house to money that isn't entirely your own, shared resources, inheritance, and the kind of transformation that grows out of loss or crisis. For a man whose adult life has run through his late mother's estate, a marriage with its own separate income streams, and a widely reported decision to step back from royal duties, that's a fitting place for a third of the chart to sit.
Sun, Mercury and Venus in the 8th house
The Sun sits at 22ยฐ57' hVirgo, Mercury at 5ยฐ12' Virgo, and Venus at 17ยฐ42' jLibra. All three are in the 8th house.
The library reads a Virgo Sun as sharp, analytical and always improving, a perfectionist who treats themselves as a work in progress, and it gives Mercury the same sign a near-identical cast: logical, detail-driven, prone to overloading on tasks. Venus in Libra wants romance handled with tact and ritual, and does well in partnership and shared projects. Layered into the 8th house, the library's reading turns pointed: an 8th-house Sun and Venus both describe gaining status and assets through a spouse or close partner, and an 8th-house Mercury describes a private, discreet mind that keeps its own counsel and tends to hold onto old hurts rather than let them go.
A trust set up by his mother, Princess Diana, released funds to Harry when he turned 30, a detail that fits this house's theme of money arriving through inheritance rather than being earned outright. His marriage to Meghan Markle in 2018 added the partnership side: the two built joint ventures together under the Archewell name, including media deals with Netflix and Spotify, income streams that exist because of the relationship rather than apart from it.
Moon in Taurus in the 4th house
The Moon sits at 21ยฐ20' sTaurus, in the 4th house.
The library calls Taurus the Moon's strongest placement: steady, patient, slow to be moved once a decision is made, and deeply tied to physical and emotional security. In the 4th house, that need for stability centers on home and family specifically. The library describes someone for whom family carries the single strongest influence on daily life, who works hard to make a home feel warm and welcoming, and who sometimes relocates more than once while chasing that feeling of settledness.
Harry and Meghan moved to Montecito, California in 2020, building a home there with their children, Archie and Lilibet, after leaving the UK. A Taurus Moon in the 4th house reads less like an uprooting and more like a search for exactly the kind of settled, private family base the library describes.
Mars and Uranus together in Sagittarius, in the 11th house
Mars sits at 16ยฐ57' lSagittarius and Uranus at 9ยฐ53' Sagittarius, both in the 11th house.
The library reads Mars in Sagittarius as bold, adventurous and quick to act, someone who takes on physical or intellectual challenges without much hesitation, though not always the type to see a project through to the end. Uranus in Sagittarius is generational, shared by everyone born in the same several years, and the library ties it to a pioneering streak expressed through education, belief and travel. Inside the 11th house, both planets turn toward groups: the library describes an 11th-house Mars pouring energy into friendships and quickly taking a leading role in collective or humanitarian causes, and an 11th-house Uranus drawing in distinctive friends while sparking change through community-facing or innovative projects.
Harry served in the British Army for ten years, including two tours in Afghanistan. He later founded the Invictus Games in 2014, an international sporting event for wounded and injured servicemen and women, and co-founded the charity Sentebale in 2006 to support children affected by HIV in Lesotho. Both are exactly the kind of group-based, cause-driven work this Mars-Uranus pair in the 11th house points toward.
Saturn in Scorpio conjunct the Midheaven, with Pluto in the same house
Saturn sits at 12ยฐ51' kScorpio and Pluto at 0ยฐ33' Scorpio, both in the 9th house. Saturn is also conjunct the Midheaven, with an orb of 4ยฐ11', the tightest aspect in the chart that comes with library text attached.
The library reads a Saturn-MC conjunction as one of the most ambitious placements there is: relentless drive toward recognition and achievement, paired with a built-in test of integrity, since anything done improperly shows up fast. It adds that family life can suffer if career takes over completely, and that this pairing eventually forces a choice about what actually comes first. Saturn in Scorpio itself reads as capable of real authority, drawn to understanding what motivates other people, and able to rebuild after a crisis or loss stronger than before. Pluto in the 9th house, in the library's reading, describes someone driven to question inherited beliefs and rebuild their own worldview from the ground up, often through a prolonged or winding path toward that understanding.
In January 2020, Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping back from their roles as working members of the royal family. Read against the Saturn-MC text about career pressure forcing a choice about priorities, that decision lines up with the placement almost exactly.
Jupiter conjunct Neptune, both in the 12th house
Jupiter sits at 3ยฐ34' Capricorn and Neptune at 28ยฐ40' Sagittarius, conjunct with an orb of 4ยฐ54'. Both planets are in the 12th house.
The library reads this conjunction as a gift for imagination and idealism, with real luck running through spiritual life and finances, alongside a caution: don't let compassion blur judgment, and don't promise more than can be delivered. In the 12th house, Jupiter's reading leans toward quiet compassion, finding peace through helping others rather than through public reward, and Neptune's leans toward an artistic, intuitive inner life, one that empathizes easily with other people's pain but needs boundaries to avoid being taken advantage of.
Harry has spent years working on African wildlife conservation, including six years as president of African Parks, and has spoken often about the country's place in his own life, including an early trip there with Meghan before their engagement. Quiet, cause-driven work set apart from the spotlight is close to what this Jupiter-Neptune pairing in the 12th house describes.
Capricorn rising
The Ascendant sits at 11ยฐ21' vCapricorn. The Astrolas library doesn't yet have a standalone entry for a Capricorn rising, so this article won't build a reading on the sign by itself. What the chart does confirm at this degree is the angle itself: a fixed point the rest of this read, including the Saturn-Midheaven conjunction above, is measured against.
What the chart adds up to
The clearest throughline here is money and transformation that move through other people rather than staying self-contained: a Sun, Mercury and Venus bundled into the 8th house, with an inheritance and a shared marital income both on record. Saturn conjunct the Midheaven adds the pressure of public ambition and the question of what gets sacrificed for it, while Mars and Uranus in the 11th house, and Jupiter and Neptune in the 12th, both point outward toward causes and communities rather than inward.
None of this explains any specific choice Harry has made. What it does show is a chart where very little sits quietly in one person's own hands, which tracks with a life spent, by birth, inside an institution bigger than any one member of it.
Open Prince Harry's chart on Astrolas, look at the 8th-house stack on the wheel, then compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What is Prince Harry's rising sign?
Capricorn, at 11ยฐ21'. The birth time carries Astro-Databank's A rating, so the rising sign can be read with confidence.
What are Prince Harry's Sun and Moon signs?
His Sun is at 22ยฐ57' Virgo, in the 8th house. His Moon is at 21ยฐ20' Taurus, in the 4th house.
What is the strongest feature of his chart?
Three planets in the 8th house: the Sun, Mercury and Venus. The Astrolas library ties that house to inheritance, shared resources and transformation through loss or crisis, themes that run through his adult life via his mother's estate and his marriage.