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Dylan Sprouse
1992-08-04 at 07:50:00 · Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy
Sun at 12° Leo in the 10th house alongside Mercury at 10° Leo retrograde, Venus at 27° Leo, and Chiron at 13° Leo. You see... four Leo placements in the career peak of a chart belonging to one of the twin actors who carried The Suite Life of Zack & Cody across most of the 2000s and who has spent the years since rebuilding a career outside child stardom.
Arezzo, Italy. August 4, 1992. 7:50 in the morning, Libra Rising at 16° on the horizon, Sun rising toward the Midheaven. Dylan Sprouse and his twin brother Cole co-starred as Zack and Cody Martin on Disney's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005 to 2008) and the follow-up The Suite Life on Deck (2008 to 2011). After the show ended both brothers stepped away from acting to attend New York University. Dylan returned to film work with Dismissed (2017), After We Collided (2020), and has built a steady independent and mid-budget acting career through the 2020s.
Sun at 12° Leo in the 10th house alongside Mercury at 10° Leo retrograde in the same house. Now look at the conjunction. Sun and Mercury within two degrees, both in Leo, both in the career sector, with Mercury retrograde adds recursive inner communication to the Leo Sun's dramatic identity. The 10th house Leo Sun cannot disappear from the public role; the retrograde Mercury bends the communication inward even as the placement itself is at the career peak. For an actor who built a career as a child and then had to choose how to inhabit a public adult identity afterward, that placement reads as direct. The 10th house Leo Sun continued to want the visible role; the retrograde Mercury made the choices about which role recursive and inward.
Venus at 27° Leo in the 10th house at the late degree of the sign places aesthetic love and relating into the career peak in dramatic fire. Late-degree Leo Venus produces a relational register that's structurally about visible presentation. The work as an actor in romantic and ensemble roles, the willingness to play characters whose central material is the relational, all read through 10th house late-degree Leo Venus doing dramatic relational work at the career placement.
Chiron at 13° Leo in the 10th house joins the cluster. The 10th house Leo Chiron is the wound around dramatic visibility itself. For someone who became visibly famous at twelve years old and had to integrate the public-child-stardom material into the adult identity, the placement reads as load-bearing. The years away from acting at NYU specifically, the careful management of the post-Suite-Life chapter, all read through 10th house Leo Chiron doing the wound-and-integration work in the career sector.
Libra Rising at 16° presents the balanced and relationally tuned surface. The documented willingness to do interview register that's accommodating and considered, the careful management of public statements about the child-acting years, all read through Libra Rising holding the balanced public face for the Leo 10th house engine.
Moon at 29° Libra in the 1st house at the very last degree of the sign. The 1st house Libra Moon regulates through balance and aesthetic in the immediate self presentation. At 29° the placement is integrated late degree work, about to transition to Scorpio. The visible emotional register, the famous on-screen warmth that the Disney work depended on, all read through 1st house late-degree Libra Moon doing balanced-aesthetic emotional work at the surface.
Mars at 6° Gemini in the 8th house places drive into the deep shared resources sector in air. The 8th house Gemini Mars works through verbal-and-relational drive in the difficult material register. Sprouse's documented work in independent film projects after the Disney chapter, the willingness to take roles in films that handle adult material, all read through 8th house Gemini Mars doing verbal drive work in the deep sector.
Jupiter at 16° Virgo in the 11th house places expansion into the community and friendship sector in precision earth. The 11th house Virgo Jupiter produces an instinct toward growth through detailed community work. The documented relationships with collaborators across the indie film career, the long arc working relationships, all read through 11th house Virgo Jupiter doing patient community expansion work.
Saturn at 15° Aquarius retrograde in the 4th house places structural discipline into the home and roots sector in detached air. The 4th house Aquarius Saturn produces a structural foundation built through ideological-and-systematic discipline. The documented family discipline, the years of co-managing a public career with his twin, all read through 4th house Aquarius Saturn doing structural-systematic foundation work.
Uranus at 15° Capricorn retrograde alongside Neptune at 17° Capricorn retrograde in the 3rd house. The 3rd house Capricorn Uranus-Neptune pair places sudden disruption and dreamy idealism into immediate communication in structured earth. The willingness to communicate publicly about the unusual structural circumstances of his upbringing (the early child-acting career, the choice to step back, the NYU chapter), all read through 3rd house Capricorn Uranus-Neptune doing structural-disruptive verbal work.
Pluto at 20° Scorpio in the 2nd house places deep transformation into the values and resource sector in deep water. The 2nd house Scorpio Pluto produces structural transformation work in what one has and earns. The documented management of the post-Disney financial and career resources, the careful slow building of an adult independent career, all read through 2nd house Scorpio Pluto doing depth-transformative work in the resource sector.
Here is what the chart shows. The 10th house Leo Sun-Mercury-Venus-Chiron cluster is what decided this chart. Acting as the placement's literal expression, with the Chiron wound around visibility itself as the load-bearing element. Sprouse is 33 today and the chart's 10th house Leo work continues, now in adult roles that the early career didn't allow.
What the Chart Reveals
Interpretations drawn from Dylan's natal placements.
☉ Sun in Leo
Sun in Leo runs in domicile, Fixed Fire holding the planet at its native register. The 10th house is the chart's outermost public sector, the career, the reputation, the version of the chart that ends up on the obituary. Capricorn rules the 10th, so the configuration is the warm Sun working in earth's most structured house. Fire in the slowest house of the chart.
The chart owner ends up with the kind of career people remember ... not necessarily the biggest one, just the one that landed with a recognizable signature on it. The career carries the chart's name in a way the chart owner sometimes notices and sometimes doesn't. It's not just that the chart works hard at the career; it's that the career and the identity end up the same thing.
What matures in this placement is the discovery that the recognition will arrive on its own schedule. The earlier years can lean hard on engineering the moment, the breakthrough, the announcement. What the placement learns is that the career builds itself once the chart owner stops trying to control the timing of its visibility.
The career writes the chart's biography.
☽ Moon in Libra
Libra is a Cardinal Air sign and the Moon here runs through Venus's balance register. The first house is the body, the arrival, the chart's primary point of self-projection. In the 1st, the placement puts the relational emotional register directly on personal presentation. The chart owner's feelings adjust to whoever's in the room.
Lives with this placement come across as gracious, agreeable, attuned to others' emotional states. It's not just niceness; it's structural identity expressed through running the chart's emotional life through the constant calibration to whoever's present. The shadow is the placement that adjusts so smoothly to the room's emotional weather that the chart owner forgets what the placement was actually feeling underneath.
What gets practiced across years is holding the placement's own emotional position even when the room would prefer it to adjust.
The placement adjusts. The placement also has to hold its own ground.
☿ Mercury in Leo
Mercury in Leo runs Fixed Fire through the chart's house of career and public name. The tenth house is reputation, the public role, the version of a person the world keeps on file. In the 10th, the placement runs the performing mind through the work of being known.
Lives with this placement build careers out of the way they say things ... they front the project, give the talk, become the name and the face, because a mind that speaks to be admired finds its natural climate at the top of the chart. Ambition is the easy read. The structural one is wanting the public self to be impressive. The shadow is the placement that confuses the reputation with the work, that polishes the image until being admired becomes the actual job, and won't hear that the audience can tell.
The slow lesson is a public self with something real behind it. The shine stays. It just stops being the whole structure.
The world admires the performance first. It keeps the people whose performance turned out to be true.
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Planetary Positions
Rising: Libra · Midheaven: CancerLeo
12° · House 10
Libra
29° · House 1
Leo
9° · House 10℞
Leo
26° · House 10
Gemini
5° · House 8
Virgo
15° · House 11
Aquarius
15° · House 4℞
Capricorn
14° · House 3℞
Capricorn
16° · House 3℞
Scorpio
20° · House 2
Sagittarius
29° · House 3℞
Leo
13° · House 10
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Leo in House 10
Sun in Leo runs in domicile, Fixed Fire holding the planet at its native register. The 10th house is the chart's outermost public sector, the career, the reputation, the version of the chart that ends up on the obituary. Capricorn rules the 10th, so the configuration is the warm Sun working in earth's most structured house. Fire in the slowest house of the chart. The chart owner ends up with the kind of career people remember ... not necessarily the biggest one, just the one that landed with a recognizable signature on it. The career carries the chart's name in a way the chart owner sometimes notices and sometimes doesn't. It's not just that the chart works hard at the career; it's that the career and the identity end up the same thing. What matures in this placement is the discovery that the recognition will arrive on its own schedule. The earlier years can lean hard on engineering the moment, the breakthrough, the announcement. What the placement learns is that the career builds itself once the chart owner stops trying to control the timing of its visibility. The career writes the chart's biography.
Moon in Libra in House 1
Libra is a Cardinal Air sign and the Moon here runs through Venus's balance register. The first house is the body, the arrival, the chart's primary point of self-projection. In the 1st, the placement puts the relational emotional register directly on personal presentation. The chart owner's feelings adjust to whoever's in the room. Lives with this placement come across as gracious, agreeable, attuned to others' emotional states. It's not just niceness; it's structural identity expressed through running the chart's emotional life through the constant calibration to whoever's present. The shadow is the placement that adjusts so smoothly to the room's emotional weather that the chart owner forgets what the placement was actually feeling underneath. What gets practiced across years is holding the placement's own emotional position even when the room would prefer it to adjust. The placement adjusts. The placement also has to hold its own ground.
Mercury in Leo runs Fixed Fire through the chart's house of career and public name. The tenth house is reputation, the public role, the version of a person the world keeps on file. In the 10th, the placement runs the performing mind through the work of being known. Lives with this placement build careers out of the way they say things ... they front the project, give the talk, become the name and the face, because a mind that speaks to be admired finds its natural climate at the top of the chart. Ambition is the easy read. The structural one is wanting the public self to be impressive. The shadow is the placement that confuses the reputation with the work, that polishes the image until being admired becomes the actual job, and won't hear that the audience can tell. The slow lesson is a public self with something real behind it. The shine stays. It just stops being the whole structure. The world admires the performance first. It keeps the people whose performance turned out to be true.
Venus in Leo in House 10
Venus in Leo runs Fixed Fire into the chart's house of career and public standing. The tenth house is the work shown to the world, the reputation, the arc of what gets built in public. In the 10th, the placement runs the radiant, generous heart up into the career itself. Lives with this placement charm the public and shine in the role ... a warm, magnetic public presence, a reputation built on charisma and generosity and a certain golden visibility, careers in performance, leadership, beauty, and the arts where being adored is part of the job. It was made for the stage. Being charismatic at work is the easy read. The structural one is a public self that draws warmth and admiration. The shadow is the placement that needs the public love so much it confuses applause with achievement, and chases the visibility long after the work that earned it has gone hollow. The charisma wins the audience. The substance underneath is what keeps the applause from being all there is.
Mars in Gemini runs Mutable Air into the chart's deepest water. The eighth house is intimacy, shared resources, death, sexuality, the material most people manage by never naming it. In the 8th, the quick verbal drive meets the house that runs on the wordless. Lives with this placement probe the depths with a restless curious mind ... the drive in intimacy mental and exploratory, a hunger to understand the taboo and the hidden, a sexuality that runs partly on the mind and the talk, an energy that investigates the dark rather than sinking into it. It thinks its way toward the depths. This isn't being curious about intimacy so much as a drive that approaches the deep places through the restless mind, working at the level of identity, not habit. The trouble is the placement that uses its quick mind to stay one step out of the merging, that talks and analyzes where it is being asked to surrender, and scatters its intensity across mental exploration to avoid the wordless depth that would actually hold it. What gets earned slowly is the stillness to stop investigating and go under, to let the depth be entered rather than analyzed. Whether this reads as depth or as evasion depends on the rest of the chart. The 8th hands the restless mind the one merging it cannot think its way into.
Jupiter in Virgo runs Mutable Earth into the chart's house of community. The eleventh house is friendship, networks, the groups a person moves through, the wider circle. In the 11th, the placement runs the useful, modest expansion through the people it gathers. Lives with this placement grow their circle through usefulness and quiet service ... a gift for being the genuinely helpful friend, the one who shows up and does the practical thing, who grows a community through reliability and care rather than charisma, a faith in the small useful acts that hold a group together. It grows its circle by being useful to it. This isn't being a helpful friend so much as a community that grows through humble, useful service, working at the level of identity, not habit. The trouble is the placement that becomes the perpetual workhorse of the group, that gets critical about how others fall short, that undersells its own place in the circle out of modesty, and cannot quite believe it would be wanted for itself rather than its usefulness. What the placement learns is that a circle wants its company, not only its competence, and that being a little useless and still welcome is the proof it was never the service they valued. The useful modest service was always real. Believing the circle would keep it even useless is what turns the help into friendship.
Saturn in Aquarius carries traditional dignity. Fixed Air is the placement's home register, structure applied to ideals and innovation. The fourth house is home, family, the foundation of the private life. Saturn here in the 4th brings an unconventional intellectually structured approach to home life and family. Lives with this placement often grew up with unusual family structures, strong collective or community values, or a parent who modeled principled independence rather than conventional domesticity. It's not just nonconformity; it's the structural sense that home gets built on integrity and intellectual freedom rather than inherited convention. The maturation arrives in a home that reflects the chart owner's values rather than social expectation. It may be communal, technologically innovative, or organized around collective principles. The emotional foundation is built on integrity, the home a laboratory as much as a sanctuary. What was unconventional becomes deliberately constructed.
Uranus in Capricorn runs Cardinal Earth into the chart's communication house, where the generational disruption meets a single person's everyday mind. The third house is speech, the daily mind, the immediate exchange. In the 3rd, the placement runs the reforming, structural force through everyday talk. Lives with this placement think and speak with original but disciplined authority ... a mind that questions the established framework and proposes a better structure, a voice serious and strategic and unafraid to challenge the way things are run, the everyday talk practical, reforming, and aimed at how systems actually work. It argues for a smarter structure. It's not just being strategic; it's structural identity expressed through a mind that grows through disciplined, reforming thought. Turned shadow, it's the placement whose questioning of authority becomes a fixed skepticism, that distrusts every established idea on principle, that dismantles a sound framework without offering a workable replacement, and mistakes tearing down the structure for thinking clearly about it. What the placement learns, over time, is that not every established framework deserves dismantling, and that a reforming mind still has to build the better structure it demands. Whether this reads as incisive reform or as reflexive cynicism depends on the rest of the chart. The 3rd gives the mind its disciplined questioning voice; the chart decides whether it can also build, not just doubt.
Neptune in Capricorn runs Cardinal Earth into the chart's communication house, where the generational dream meets a single person's everyday mind. The third house is speech, the daily mind, the immediate exchange. In the 3rd, the placement runs the dissolving, idealizing force through everyday talk. Lives with this placement think and speak with serious, structured, quietly visionary care ... a mind that wants to build a practical idea toward a meaningful end, a voice measured and grounded yet reaching for something larger, the everyday talk realistic but threaded with a quiet ideal. It speaks the grounded vision. It's not just being practical; it's structural identity expressed through a mind that grows through structured, idealizing thought. Turned shadow, it's the placement whose practical clarity dissolves into doubt and confusion, that cannot quite trust its own structured thought, that fogs a sound plan with a vague pessimism or an undermining uncertainty, and mistakes its disillusioned haze for realism. What the placement learns, over time, is that doubt is not the same as clear sight, and that the grounded mind has to trust a sound thought rather than dissolve it in uncertainty. Whether this reads as grounded vision or as foggy doubt depends on the rest of the chart. The 3rd gives the mind its structured voice; the chart decides whether it can also trust its own clear thinking.
Pluto in Scorpio runs Fixed Water through the chart's resource sector, the planet in its own rulership meeting a single person's money and values. The second house is money, possessions, the sense of what is worth having. In the 2nd, the undiluted transformative force runs through value and security. Lives with this placement transform completely through their relationship to resources and worth ... an intense, powerful drive to build, lose, and rebuild material security, a capacity for total financial regeneration after ruin, a deep instinct for the hidden power in money and shared resources. It rebuilds its worth from total loss. It's not just being intense with money; it's structural identity expressed through resources transformed by deep power. Turned shadow, it's the placement whose drive for material power turns obsessive and ruthless, that ties its whole sense of worth and survival to control over resources, that can be consumed by the will to acquire and possess, and mistakes the power of wealth for genuine worth. What the placement learns, over time, is that real worth survives the loss of everything material, and that the power it sought through resources was never the source of its value. As the fortunes destroyed and regenerated accumulate, the placement keeps learning that controlling resources and being worthy were never the same thing.
The North Node in Sagittarius calls toward faith, the big picture, and the courage to trust intuition over endless data, while the South Node in Gemini holds the comfort of cleverness, second guessing, and drowning in scattered detail. The third house is the daily mind, speech, and the immediate world, and this is Gemini's own ground, the house of information where the old scatter is most at home. Here the call to think big lands squarely in the realm of restless mental chatter, which makes the growth both harder and more pointed. Lives with this placement are here to grow toward a mind that seeks meaning, not just data ... toward connecting the dots into a larger truth, speaking with conviction, and trusting understanding over mere cleverness. The pull is real but unfamiliar, because this is the very house where collecting facts feels like home. Learning to think big is the easy read. The structural one is a mind that grows by reaching for meaning. The shadow is the placement that retreats into the Gemini comfort of trivia and clever chatter, that knows a little about everything and avoids the riskier work of understanding something deeply. A mind long lost in scattered facts becomes, in time, a mind that reaches for real meaning.
Chiron in Leo carries the wound around being seen, feeling special, and the right to shine, and the tenth house brings it into career, reputation, and the public role. In the 10th, the wound around being seen shapes a person's relationship to recognition and acclaim. Lives with this placement carry a wound around being recognized and admired publicly ... a buried sense that they do not deserve the spotlight or that public acclaim will always go to someone more special, a tender ache to be seen and celebrated for their gifts. And from tending that wound grows a gift for helping others step into the spotlight and be recognized for their talents. It draws others into the acclaim it longed for. Carrying a wound is the easy read. The structural one is a wound that becomes the source of a healing gift. The shadow is the placement whose untended wound either avoids the public eye as undeserved or chases fame to finally feel special, and never tends the doubt about deserving recognition beneath. What heals slowly is the knowledge that recognition was never reserved for others, and that its gifts always deserved to be seen. The wound around public recognition becomes a gift for others. Helping them be seen while finally claiming its own spotlight is the healing it slowly grows into.
Ascendant (Rising) in Libra
Libra is a Cardinal Air sign, and on the Ascendant it leads with grace ... the world meets your charm and your fairness before anything else. You come across as poised, diplomatic, easy to be around, someone who instinctively smooths a room and makes everyone in it feel met. There is real aesthetic care in how you present, a sense that harmony is something you actually offer. The surface is genuinely pleasant ... so pleasant that your trouble is the opposite of most rising signs. The work is letting people see the one who disagrees, who wants something, who has edges the diplomacy has been carefully sanding down.
Descendant in Aries
Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, and on the Descendant it draws you toward partners with fire ... bold, direct, alive, people who move first and say the thing. You seek a relationship with some heat and some friction in it, someone who challenges you to be more assertive than you are on your own. What you are looking for in another is often the directness you have not fully claimed in yourself.
Midheaven in Cancer
Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and on the Midheaven it ties the career to care ... you are drawn to work that protects, nurtures, or makes people feel safe, work that builds a kind of home for others. The reputation grows on warmth and the sense that you genuinely look after the people in your charge. You are known for holding things together. The risk is taking the whole weight personally ... the work is caring without carrying all of it alone.
Imum Coeli in Capricorn
Capricorn is a Cardinal Earth sign, and at the IC it shapes roots of responsibility and reserve ... the early home likely asked you to grow up a little early, to be steady, to manage. The private life is more structured than people guess. You recharge through quiet accomplishment, through building something lasting in your own small world.
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