Emma Stone

At fifteen, Emma Stone gave her parents a PowerPoint presentation called "Project Hollywood," laying out why she should move to Los Angeles to become an actress. It worked. She and her mother moved in January 2004, and after years of auditions she broke through in Superbad in 2007. By 2017 she had an Oscar for La La Land, and in 2024 she collected a second for Poor Things.

She was born Emily Jean Stone on November 6, 1988, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Stone has said on camera that her rising sign is 17 degrees Sagittarius, which matches a birth time of 9:32 in the morning. That puts her Moon and Venus, both in Libra, in the tenth house, where a public image takes shape, and her Sun in the eleventh, among friends and collaborators. Her Sun is in Scorpio, with Mercury, just inside Scorpio, and Pluto also there. Scorpio is intense, perceptive and drawn to the hidden and the dark, and Pluto is its ruler. A Scorpio emphasis with Pluto suggests someone with great emotional depth and a hidden intensity behind a light surface.

That intensity showed itself early. As a child Stone suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks, and she has said that therapy, and later acting, especially improvised comedy, helped her manage it. She has described acting as a way of channeling feelings that were otherwise overwhelming.

Her Moon and Venus are both in Libra. Libra is charming, sociable and attuned to rhythm and balance, and a Libra Moon finds emotional security in harmony with others. Stone's screen persona, warm, quick and self-deprecating, made her a natural comedian, first in Superbad and Zombieland and then as the lead of Easy A, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

Mars at the very start of Aries brings boldness and a willingness to take risks. Stone has repeatedly chosen daring roles, especially in her collaborations with the director Yorgos Lanthimos: the scheming Abigail in The Favourite, the childlike, uninhibited Bella Baxter in Poor Things and, in Bugonia, a pharmaceutical executive kidnapped by conspiracy theorists, a role for which she shaved her head.

Saturn and Uranus, in the last degrees of Sagittarius, and Neptune in Capricorn describe a seriousness about long-term goals combined with a restless desire to break conventions. Stone has produced films through her company, Fruit Tree, and she has balanced mainstream projects like The Amazing Spider-Man and Cruella with smaller, stranger ones.

Jupiter, retrograde in Gemini, adds versatility and a love of words. She earned Oscar nominations for Birdman and The Favourite before her second win, becoming one of the most decorated actresses of her generation.

In 2020 she married the comedy writer and director Dave McCary, whom she met on Saturday Night Live, and they have a daughter. The Scorpio Sun gave her depth and nerve; the Libra Moon gave her the lightness that makes audiences love her.