Jake Gyllenhaal
Born 1980-12-19 at 17:08:00 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Jake Gyllenhaal's chart reveals an expansive, philosophical spirit... someone driven by meaning, adventure, and the belief that life is an ongoing discovery. With a Sagittarius Sun in the 6th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of work and daily life... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Gemini Moon speaks to what Jake needs emotionally... conversation, mental stimulation, and variety to process feelings. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets Jake through Cancer rising... warm, approachable, and quietly protective... someone who feels like home to others. This is the lens through which all of their chart's energy is filtered, the first thing people sense before they know the full story.
Their drive is disciplined and strategic... they build toward goals with the patience of someone who knows time is on their side. A concentration of planets in Sagittarius gives Jake's chart a strong Sagittarius emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.
Planetary Positions
Rising: Cancer · Midheaven: Pisces♐ Sagittarius
28° · House 6
♊ Gemini
5° · House 12
♐ Sagittarius
21° · House 6
♐ Sagittarius
2° · House 6
♑ Capricorn
21° · House 7
♎ Libra
8° · House 4
♎ Libra
9° · House 4
♏ Scorpio
27° · House 5
♐ Sagittarius
22° · House 6
♎ Libra
23° · House 5
♌ Leo
11° · House 2℞
♉ Taurus
13° · House 11℞
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Sagittarius in House 6
Your Sun in Sagittarius in the sixth house channels your adventurous, Jupiter-ruled expansiveness into the domain of daily work, health practices, and service ... and the challenge is making the mundane genuinely meaningful rather than tolerating it as the price of freedom. Sagittarius is mutable fire, and in the 6th house that quality invites someone most fulfilled in work that involves teaching, travel, cross-cultural exchange, publishing, law, philosophy, or any field that keeps the mind genuinely engaged with ideas larger than the immediate task. Repetitive or intellectually confined work environments drain your vitality quickly ... you need work that feels like it matters, that connects daily effort to a larger purpose. Your approach to health tends to be enthusiastic about the big principles and impatient with the small consistent practices, which means health benefits most from finding the approach that is genuinely enjoyable rather than merely correct. To work with this energy consciously, design daily routines that include movement, intellectual stimulation, and genuine variety ... a routine that contains at least one element of discovery keeps your vitality high and transforms ordinary work into an expression of your larger purpose. The honest challenge is the philosophical contempt for detail: Sagittarius in the 6th can resist the necessary granularity of daily craft maintenance, and the growth is discovering that the most enduring wisdom is built through consistent daily practice as much as through expansive insight.
Moon in Gemini in House 12
Your Moon in Gemini in the twelfth house places your mutable air emotional nature and Mercury's constant inner dialogue in the most hidden, spiritually resonant, and psychologically private sector of the chart ... creating an interior life that is considerably more intellectually active, verbally rich, and emotionally complex than the outer social presentation typically suggests, and where the ongoing inner conversation of a Gemini Moon runs beneath the social surface largely invisible to others. The 12th house governs the unconscious, retreat, spiritual preparation, and the dimensions of experience that operate below ordinary awareness; Gemini here means that your subconscious mental activity is remarkably rich, often surfacing in dreams that are narrative and communicative, in private intellectual insights that arrive in solitude, and in the particular kind of creative thinking that happens when the outer world's demands fall away and the inner world's natural intelligence comes forward. You may think and feel most clearly when genuinely alone, and your best insights often arrive in the quieter hours when external stimulation has subsided ... the busy Gemini mind, freed from its social context, accesses dimensions of its own intelligence that ordinary daily engagement does not. There can be a quality of hidden anxiety or mental restlessness that operates below the social surface, a background inner chatter that others don't see but that requires deliberate attention. To work with this energy consciously, develop a practice ... meditative writing, contemplative reading, or extended quiet time in nature ... that allows the inner chatter to slow enough to access the genuinely deeper and less verbal intelligence that lives beneath it. The honest growth challenge is that the 12th house's natural tendency toward diffuseness combined with Gemini's restless mental activity can make it difficult to access the still, wordless center where this placement's genuinely profound intuitive wisdom lives, and the growth is developing the patience to be quiet long enough to hear what is below the words.
Mercury in Sagittarius in House 6
Your Mercury in Sagittarius in the sixth house brings a big-picture, philosophically motivated, and genuinely purpose-driven intelligence to your daily work, health practices, and the routines that constitute the practical fabric of your life ... you are most productive and most engaged when you understand how your daily efforts connect to something that actually matters, and meaningless tasks drain you in a way that more pragmatic minds find puzzling. Mercury is in its detriment in Sagittarius, and in the sixth house of routine and practical detail, that quality creates a genuine tension ... your mind wants to see the forest, while the sixth house often requires sustained attention to individual trees. To work with this energy consciously, build reliable systems for the routine analytical dimensions of your work that require less conscious attention once established ... the goal is to free your natural big-picture thinking to operate where it is most valuable by reducing the cognitive load of necessary detail management. The growth edge is that Mercury in detriment in the sixth house can produce a professional pattern of inspiring ideas that are consistently undermined by insufficient follow-through on practical details; the growth work is developing genuine respect for the detail-level discipline that makes visionary thinking actually land.
Venus in Sagittarius in House 6
Your Venus in Sagittarius in the sixth house brings optimism, philosophical perspective, and a love of freedom to your daily work and health routines. You thrive in work environments that offer variety, intellectual stimulation, and a sense of larger purpose ... routine, detail-heavy work without meaning drains you quickly. Careers in education, publishing, travel, international organizations, or any field that connects daily effort to bigger goals suit you well. Your approach to health is enthusiastic and exploratory ... you enjoy trying different fitness approaches and may be drawn to outdoor, adventure-based exercise. Coworkers appreciate your positivity and big-picture thinking. The challenge is inconsistency in routines and a tendency to overpromise, as your enthusiasm writes checks your follow-through cannot always cash. Consciously build sustainable daily habits that honor your need for variety while providing the structure that supports your ambitious vision.
Mars in Capricorn in House 7
Your Mars in Capricorn in the seventh house channels exalted Mars energy into partnerships and close relationships with a serious, committed, and strategically patient quality. You approach relationships with the same long-term perspective you bring to your ambitions ... you are not interested in what is exciting right now but in what will endure. You are a genuinely loyal and reliable partner who takes commitments seriously and follows through. The challenge is that pragmatic seriousness can sometimes crowd out the romance and spontaneity your partner needs. The insight: bringing the same deliberate intentionality that makes you so effective professionally into creating genuine warmth and play in your relationships enriches your partnerships immeasurably.
Jupiter in Libra in House 4
Your Jupiter in Libra in the fourth house brings a love of beauty, harmony, and balanced relationships to your home life, family dynamics, and emotional foundation. Your home is likely aesthetically pleasing, well-designed, and maintained as a space of peace and social gathering. Family relationships are characterized by a strong sense of fairness and mutual respect, and you work hard to maintain harmony among the people you love. Entertaining at home ... creating beautiful, welcoming environments for others ... is a natural expression of this placement. Emotional security for you comes from harmonious relationships and a beautiful living environment. The challenge is avoiding conflict within your family at the cost of honest communication. Allow healthy disagreement to surface within your domestic relationships, and the peace you maintain becomes genuine rather than performative, creating a home life that is both truly beautiful and emotionally authentic.
Saturn in Libra in House 4
Your Saturn in Libra in the fourth house, with Saturn in exaltation, brings a strong sense of justice, balance, and aesthetic order to your home life and emotional foundation. Your upbringing may have emphasized fairness and proper social conduct, or your family placed great value on appearances and relational harmony. As an adult, you work to create a home that is both beautiful and equitable ... a place where everyone's contribution is acknowledged. Partnerships and marriage feature prominently in shaping your sense of home; the domestic environment is most nourishing for you when it is a genuine partnership. Long-term, you build a private life of real grace and stability.
Uranus in Scorpio in House 5
Your Uranus in Scorpio in the fifth house channels intense, transformative energy through creativity, romance, and self-expression. Scorpio is fixed water, so your creative impulses arise from psychological depth and emotional intensity, and Uranus ensures your art, love life, and play carry a revolutionary charge. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms creative expression around themes of power, sexuality, and psychological truth, and with Uranus in your fifth house, you are personally compelled to create work that explores what others consider too intense or taboo. Romance for you is never casual ... you are drawn to connections that transform you, and shallow attractions hold no interest. If you have children, your parenting engages with their full emotional complexity rather than sanitizing their experience. The challenge is that intensity can become exhausting for both you and those you love, and not every creative or romantic experience needs to be a journey to the underworld. When you learn to balance depth with lightness, your creative work and love life achieve a richness that honors both the darkness and the joy of being alive.
Neptune in Sagittarius in House 6
Your Neptune in Sagittarius in the sixth house places the planet of inspiration and dissolution in the house of work, health, and daily routines, animated by Sagittarius' restless, freedom-loving, and philosophically oriented energy. Neptune in Sagittarius is generational, but the sixth house makes it personally relevant to your everyday life and habits. You are drawn to work that involves teaching, travel, philosophy, publishing, or any activity where your expansive vision serves a practical purpose. Daily routine that feels meaningful and purposeful is deeply important to your health and wellbeing. The practical insight is to find ways to infuse your daily habits with the meaning and adventure that Neptune in Sagittarius craves, recognizing that even small, consistent routines can serve a grand and worthwhile purpose.
Pluto in Libra in House 5
Your Pluto in Libra in the fifth house channels transformative energy into creativity, romance, and self-expression through Libra's cardinal air lens of beauty, partnership, and social awareness. Your creative work is likely driven by a fascination with relationship dynamics, human connection, and the interplay between individuals. In romance, you experience attraction with profound intensity, and your love life may serve as the primary arena for your deepest personal transformation. You are drawn to partners who are beautiful, socially skilled, and psychologically complex, and relationships can become all-consuming in ways that are both intoxicating and potentially destructive. Your creative output carries an elegance and emotional sophistication that reflects Libra's aesthetic sensibility deepened by Pluto's psychological insight. The challenge is maintaining your individual identity within romantic and creative partnerships rather than losing yourself in the dynamic. When you create and love with both passion and healthy boundaries, your artistic and romantic life achieves a transformative beauty that is uniquely compelling.
North Node in Leo in House 2
℞Your North Node in Leo in the second house calls you to build financial self-worth through your unique creative gifts, personal charisma, and the courage to earn on your own terms. You are here to discover that your authentic self-expression is genuinely valuable in the marketplace ... that your creativity, warmth, and personal style are assets worth investing in. The second house grounds this Leo energy in practical money matters and self-worth. Build income through creative, visible work; invest in your personal brand with pride; and resist the pull toward undervaluing your gifts to preserve group harmony. Your worth is not defined by consensus ... it is defined by the unique light you bring.
Chiron in Taurus in House 11
℞Chiron in Taurus in the eleventh house brings the Wounded Healer into the life area governing friendships, communities, and the collective dimension of your life ... filtered through fixed earth's loyal, patient energy and Venus's instinct for creating genuine beauty and comfort within social bonds. The eleventh house concerns your place in the collective: the friendships you build, the communities you belong to, the social causes you invest in, and the long-range vision you hold for the future, and with Chiron in Taurus here the wound touches your sense of material and practical belonging within groups. You may have experienced exclusion from communities that felt materially privileged relative to you, or the persistent sense that your practical, grounded contributions to collective life were undervalued compared to more intellectually or ideologically dramatic offerings. Taurus' fixed quality in the eleventh house can produce either a deeply loyal, stabilizing presence in social groups or a reluctance to commit to communities until the material conditions feel certain enough ... Chiron here means that threshold of felt security in collective life is marked by old injury. Your gift is a practical understanding of what communities actually need to be genuinely nourishing and sustainable ... not just inspiring, but grounded and materially supported ... which makes you an unusually effective builder of lasting social bonds and institutional structures. To work with this energy consciously, allow yourself to contribute your steady, stabilizing presence to communities before you feel entirely certain of your welcome: your reliability is itself the gift. The growth edge is that fixed earth in the eleventh house can produce a social wariness ... waiting for material conditions to be right before investing ... that keeps you perpetually at the edge of belonging, and the growth is trusting that your consistent, generous presence is precisely what the communities that need you most are waiting for.