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Eriq La Salle
1962-07-23 · Hartford, Connecticut, USA· birth time unknown
Note: Eriq La Salle's exact birth time isn't on record. Planetary signs are calculated for noon on their birth date and are likely accurate, but the rising sign and house placements are unknown... and the Moon sign should be treated as approximate if they were born near a sign change.
American actor and director known for playing Dr. Peter Benton on ER... also a published author and accomplished director in television.
The birth chart of Eriq La Salle is a portrait of the person behind the performance — revealing the drives, gifts, and inner world behind their art and creative life...
Eriq La Salle's solar signature falls in Leo — a nature that, when fully engaged, brings an almost unlimited intensity to the task. The languid surface of Leo is real, but so is the ferocity underneath it. When the thing decided on matters, the effort is extraordinary and rarely visible as effort at all.
On the emotional side, an Aries Moon shapes Anger is the most honest emotion in this placement — not the only one, but the one that comes fastest and clearest. The challenge isn't feeling it. It's knowing what to do with it before it arrives.
Away from the spotlight, Eriq's Venus in Virgo needs to be useful to the people it loves — not in a servile way, but in the specific way of a nature that finds meaning in contribution. Being needed is affirmation; being redundant is uncomfortable.
The way Eriq processes ideas and communicates carries the signature of Mercury in Cancer. The mind thinks in feeling first and logic second — Cancer Mercury receives information through the emotional layer before the rational one, and the first impression is almost always correct. The intellectual argument is built after the intuition has already arrived.
On the question of drive, Eriq is most effective in fast-changing environments where the advantage goes to whoever is most mentally agile — slow, stable situations drain the energy. Give it a room where nothing stays the same for long, and everything changes.
With 3 retrograde planets natally, much of Eriq's energy turns inward... a rich interior life that quietly shapes everything they put into the world.
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Planetary Positions
Rising: Libra (est.) · Midheaven: Cancer (est.)Leo
0° · House 10 (est.)
Aries
23° · House 7 (est.)
Cancer
23° · House 10 (est.)
Virgo
12° · House 11 (est.)
Gemini
10° · House 8 (est.)
Pisces
11° · House 5 (est.)℞
Aquarius
8° · House 4 (est.)℞
Leo
28° · House 11 (est.)
Scorpio
10° · House 1 (est.)
Virgo
8° · House 11 (est.)
Leo
8° · House 10 (est.)
Pisces
10° · House 5 (est.)℞
Chart Interpretations
Sun in LeoHouse 10 (est.)
Leo is a Fixed Fire sign, and the Sun is in its domicile here ... at full power, fully at home, expressing itself with natural warmth and creative authority. Fire makes your need to shine vivid and generative; Fixed modality gives that radiance staying power and genuine loyalty rather than mere performance. You feel most yourself when you are creating, leading, or celebrating others' gifts alongside your own. The productive tension is between generosity and the hunger for recognition: Leo's solar strength is real, but it deepens when the light you radiate is genuinely offered rather than traded for applause.
Moon in AriesHouse 7 (est.)
Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, and the Moon here processes emotion quickly, directly, and with an urgency that demands expression. Fire makes feelings eruptive and short-lived rather than brooding; Cardinal modality means your instinct is to act on what you feel rather than sit with it. You feel emotionally safe when you are in motion ... asserting yourself, protecting what matters, pursuing what you want. A concrete tendency is a short emotional fuse that recovers quickly: you flare, say what you feel, and genuinely move on, which can confuse those whose emotional pace is slower than yours.
Mercury in CancerHouse 10 (est.)
Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and Mercury here thinks through feeling, memory, and emotional association more than through logical sequence. Water gives the mind an intuitive, imagistic quality ... you often know something before you can explain why, and your ideas arrive as impressions as much as arguments. Cardinal modality means your thinking naturally orients toward care, protection, and the people who matter to you. A concrete tendency is a long and vivid emotional memory: you retain the feeling of experiences with unusual clarity, which makes you a perceptive reader of people but can also make it difficult to separate what you remember from what is actually in front of you now.
Venus in VirgoHouse 11 (est.)
Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and Venus is in its fall here ... the planet of love in the sign of critical discernment, creating a placement that loves sincerely but often struggles to let love be imperfect. Earth makes your affections practical and demonstrated through service ... you show you care by doing, remembering, and attending to the details that make life better for the person you love. Mutable modality gives you flexibility and genuine attentiveness. A concrete tendency is the internal list of what is not quite right: the discernment that produces your devotion can also produce an ongoing assessment of the relationship's flaws, and the most meaningful relational work is learning to rest in appreciation rather than improvement.
Mars in GeminiHouse 8 (est.)
Gemini is a Mutable Air sign, and Mars here directs its drive through the mind ... through argument, debate, and the swift deployment of ideas. Air gives your motivation an intellectual edge; you are most formidable in a verbal exchange and most frustrated by situations that cannot be thought or talked through. Mutable modality keeps your energy scattered across multiple fronts simultaneously. A concrete tendency is the half-completed project: this placement generates more initiatives than it finishes, and the most productive discipline is deliberately narrowing the number of things you are pursuing at any given time so that the considerable energy available actually lands somewhere.
Jupiter in PiscesHouse 5 (est.)
℞Pisces is a Mutable Water sign, and Jupiter is in its traditional domicile here ... the planet of abundance in the sign of boundless compassion and spiritual depth. Water expands your capacity for empathy, intuition, and the experience of grace; Mutable modality keeps your growth fluid and responsive to the deeper currents of life. Your fortune flows most readily when you act from compassion rather than strategy. A concrete tendency is the dissolution of discernment: Jupiter amplifies Pisces' permeability, and the essential practice is maintaining enough clarity about where your energy flows to ensure that the generosity and openness of this placement nourishes rather than depletes.
Saturn in AquariusHouse 4 (est.)
℞Aquarius is a Fixed Air sign, and Saturn is in its traditional domicile here ... the planet of structure in the sign of systems, collective ideals, and social reform. Air directs Saturn's discipline toward the realm of ideas and institutions; Fixed modality means the structures you build are intended to last, grounded in principles rather than convenience. Your capacity to build frameworks that serve genuine collective function is one of this placement's greatest gifts. A concrete tendency is the relationship between freedom and structure held as a permanent tension rather than a productive polarity: this placement is working out ... across a lifetime ... how to build systems that serve liberation rather than constraining it, and every structure it builds is a step in that ongoing negotiation.
Uranus in LeoHouse 11 (est.)
Leo is a Fixed Fire sign, and Uranus is in its detriment here (1955–1962) ... the planet of collective disruption in the sign of individual self-expression. Fire makes Uranus's energy vivid, theatrical, and broadcast widely; Fixed modality means the disruption, once it arrives, reshapes the cultural baseline with unusual permanence. Your generation electrified the concept of personal charisma as a vehicle for social change ... rock and roll, countercultural performance, the individual as revolutionary. A concrete tendency is an intense personal investment in creative identity alongside a deep resistance to any system that asks you to subordinate that identity to a collective norm.
Neptune in ScorpioHouse 1 (est.)
Scorpio is a Fixed Water sign, and Neptune here (1956–1970) dissolves boundaries around power, sexuality, death, and the psychological underworld. Water amplifies Neptune's permeability and emotional depth; Fixed modality means what is dissolved tends to stay dissolved ... the transformations of this era are genuinely permanent. This generation has been shaped by psychedelic exploration, spiritual seeking, the AIDS crisis, and a profound confrontation with the shadow aspects of human nature. The shadow is an addiction to intensity and the glamorization of darkness ... the confusion of depth with difficulty and transcendence with dissolution.
Pluto in VirgoHouse 11 (est.)
Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and Pluto here (1958–1971) brought transformative energy to health, work, ecology, and the systems that maintain daily life. Earth makes Pluto's transformation practical and concrete; Mutable modality means it spreads through systems analytically, restructuring processes rather than overthrowing them. This generation drove environmental movements, healthcare reform, and the digital restructuring of the workplace. The shadow is a compulsive perfectionism and an identification with critique so deep that healing is perpetually deferred ... the transformation available is a genuine regeneration of the relationship between work, health, and service, not merely a more thorough analysis of their failures.
North Node in LeoHouse 10 (est.)
Your North Node in Leo calls you toward the full, unapologetic expression of your creative self and the courage to be a particular, irreplaceable individual rather than a principled representative of a group. Leo is a Fixed Fire sign ... the evolutionary direction here is toward warmth, genuine self-expression, and the specific rather than the universal. The corresponding South Node in Aquarius suggests an ingrained ease with the collective, the conceptual, and the detached. A concrete tendency from the South Node is the retreat into abstraction when personal self-expression feels too exposing. The medicine is choosing the specific and personal over the safely universal ... not because the collective doesn't matter, but because it needs genuinely present individuals to build it.
Chiron in PiscesHouse 5 (est.)
℞Your Chiron in Pisces places your core wound in the realm of spirituality, boundlessness, and the experience of being so permeable to the world's pain that finding a stable self inside it has been genuinely difficult. Pisces is a Mutable Water sign ... the wound is fluid, formless, and often experienced as a pervasive sensitivity without clear origin. You may feel the world's suffering as your own, carry a grief you cannot always trace to a specific source, or feel chronically adrift without a clear sense of where you end and the world begins. A concrete tendency is the avoidance of spiritual practice because the absence of boundaries that meditation or prayer requires feels too much like the wound itself. The gift is a boundless compassion ... the capacity to hold others in their suffering with a tenderness that can genuinely heal, because you know that terrain from the inside.
Ascendant (Rising) in Libra(est.)
With Libra rising, you project grace, diplomacy, and social intelligence. People experience you as balanced and fair... the person who sees both sides naturally. There's an aesthetic sensibility to how you present yourself, and your ability to create harmony in any situation is your defining trait.
Descendant in Aries(est.)
With your Descendant in Aries, you're drawn to partners who are bold, direct, and action-oriented. You seek relationships that challenge you to be more assertive and independent... even if that energy feels uncomfortable at first.
Midheaven in Cancer(est.)
With your Midheaven in Cancer, your career is deeply connected to nurturing, protecting, and creating emotional safety. You're drawn to work that feels like home... where you can care for others or build something that provides comfort and belonging.
Imum Coeli in Capricorn(est.)
With your IC in Capricorn, your roots are shaped by responsibility, discipline, and emotional reserve. Your private life is more structured than people realize. You recharge through quiet achievement and building something lasting in your personal world.
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