James Corden
Born 1978-08-22 · Hillingdon, England, UK · birth time unverified
James Corden's chart reveals a radiant, creative force... someone who needs to express, to be seen, and finds identity through the courage to shine. With a Leo Sun in the 10th house, their sense of purpose is expressed through the domain of career and public life... a placement that shapes how they show up in the world and what they're here to do.
Beneath the surface, a Aries Moon speaks to what James needs emotionally... action and independence when emotions run high. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.
The world meets James through Scorpio rising... intense, mysterious, and deeply perceptive... someone whose presence is felt before they speak. 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 energy is channeled through partnership and diplomacy... they prefer strategy to force. With 3 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of James's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression. A concentration of planets in Libra gives James's chart a strong Libra emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.
Planetary Positions
Rising: Scorpio · Midheaven: Leo♌ Leo
28° · House 10
♈ Aries
22° · House 6
♌ Leo
22° · House 10℞
♎ Libra
14° · House 12
♎ Libra
11° · House 11
♋ Cancer
27° · House 9
♍ Virgo
3° · House 10
♏ Scorpio
12° · House 1
♐ Sagittarius
15° · House 2℞
♎ Libra
14° · House 12
♍ Virgo
26° · House 11
♉ Taurus
9° · House 7℞
Chart Interpretations
Sun in Leo in House 10
Your Sun in Leo in the tenth house is one of the most publicly visible and professionally commanding positions in the entire chart ... the Sun, which rules Leo and governs identity and self-expression, placed at the Midheaven in the fixed fire sign it rules, in the Angular house most associated with public recognition and lasting legacy. Your professional identity is characterized by genuine warmth, creative confidence, and an authority that people feel before they've fully assessed your credentials. You radiate the Sun-ruled quality of making others feel genuinely seen and valued in your professional presence, and that quality is itself a significant professional asset. Fixed modality gives your public identity a consistency and staying power that more variable professional presences lack ... your professional brand is clear, personally felt, and unmistakably yours. To work with this energy consciously, direct your considerable public warmth and creative confidence toward building something with genuinely lasting value ... the most satisfying professional path for this placement is one that allows the gifts to be expressed fully and the legacy to be genuinely worth leaving. The growth edge is professional ego: fixed fire in the house of public identity can resist the collaborative humility that sustained achievement usually requires, and learning to celebrate the team's success with the same enthusiasm as your own is a genuine professional virtue worth cultivating.
Moon in Aries in House 6
Your Moon in Aries in the sixth house ties your emotional wellbeing directly to active, purposeful daily work and the physical vitality that is maintained through regular, vigorous bodily engagement ... you are someone who genuinely cannot feel emotionally stable in a life that lacks both meaningful challenge and physical movement. The Moon in the 6th house means your feelings are substantially processed through the body and through the quality of daily routine, and Aries's cardinal fire ruled by Mars amplifies that body-emotion link to a high degree: your mood is one of the most reliable measures of whether your physical condition and daily work are serving you or not. You thrive in environments where initiative is valued, where problems require active solutions rather than patient waiting, and where your effort is visibly moving something forward; stagnant work environments or passive daily rhythms genuinely erode your inner stability in ways that more sedentary temperaments may not understand. Physical exercise is not a health recommendation for you ... it is one of your most effective emotional regulation tools, and days without vigorous movement tend to accumulate as emotional charge that eventually requires release through some less productive outlet. To work with this energy consciously, design daily routines that include both vigorous physical activity and work that presents genuine intellectual or logistical challenges ... your Moon needs engagement, not ease. The honest growth challenge is that Aries in the 6th can treat rest as a personal failure rather than an essential component of sustained performance, and the growth is developing the strategic discipline to include recovery as deliberately as you include effort.
Mercury in Leo in House 10
℞Your Mercury in Leo in the tenth house builds your professional reputation on the quality and presence of your voice ... the particular combination of confidence, warmth, and genuine personal investment in what you are communicating that makes people in your field pay attention to what you say and remember it. Mercury governs communication and professional intelligence; Leo is fixed fire ruled by the Sun, and in the tenth house of career and public standing, that quality means your professional authority is built on an expressive presence that is genuinely distinctive. You are known in your field as someone who communicates with conviction, who takes genuine pride in their work and its quality, and who brings a quality of personal investment to professional communication that more impersonal competitors cannot match. To work with this energy consciously, ensure your professional voice develops genuine depth of expertise alongside its natural presence ... the reputation that endures is built on substance as well as style. The growth edge is that Leo's fixed fire in the public tenth house can make professional reputation feel personally consequential in ways that make public criticism or professional setbacks unusually difficult to absorb; the growth work is developing enough professional self-security that your identity is not entirely dependent on public reception.
Venus in Libra in House 12
Your Venus in Libra in the twelfth house places the planet of love and beauty in its ruling sign within the most private and spiritual house of the chart. This creates a deep, hidden capacity for love, beauty, and connection that may not be fully visible to the outside world. You may experience love most profoundly in private, spiritual, or transcendent contexts ... through meditation, art created in solitude, or secret acts of kindness and beauty. Your aesthetic sense is refined and intuitive, drawing on sources you may not be able to articulate consciously. Relationships may involve hidden dimensions or connections that exist primarily on a spiritual or imaginative level. The growth opportunity is finding appropriate ways to express your hidden gifts for beauty and connection. Consciously create bridges between your private inner world of love and your visible life, allowing the beauty you experience in solitude to enrich your relationships and your creative contributions to the world.
Mars in Libra in House 11
Your Mars in Libra in the eleventh house brings cooperative, justice-oriented, and relationship-focused energy to friendships, groups, and collective causes. You are drawn to social justice, civil rights, and causes that work to create fairer systems for everyone. Within groups, you are a skilled mediator and consensus-builder ... you ensure that different voices are heard and that decisions feel fair to the collective. The risk of Mars in detriment here is that you may prioritize group harmony over necessary conflict that could push the group forward. The insight: raising difficult but important questions within your communities, with your characteristic grace, is one of the most valuable contributions you can make.
Jupiter in Cancer in House 9
Your Jupiter in Cancer in the ninth house brings exalted Jupiter energy to your pursuit of wisdom, higher learning, philosophy, and expanded horizons. Your search for meaning is guided by emotional intelligence and intuition as much as by intellectual analysis, and you are drawn to spiritual traditions and philosophies that honor the wisdom of feeling, family, and ancestral connection. Travel that connects you to your heritage or to cultures that resonate emotionally leaves the deepest impression. Higher education may focus on psychology, history, anthropology, or any field that explores the human emotional experience across cultures. Teaching comes naturally to you, and your nurturing approach creates a safe space for others to learn and grow. The challenge is projecting your emotional needs onto your belief system. Maintain intellectual rigor alongside your emotional wisdom, and your philosophical perspective becomes both deeply felt and genuinely expansive.
Saturn in Virgo in House 10
Your Saturn in Virgo in the tenth house directs your professional ambitions toward careers requiring mastery of detail, systematic process, or practical service. You are a supremely capable professional who does not cut corners, maintains high standards even under pressure, and earns authority through demonstrated competence rather than self-promotion. Career success may come more slowly than you believe you deserve ... Virgo's modesty can work against visibility ... but the reputation you build for quality and reliability is exceptionally durable. Practical insight: learn to advocate for your own accomplishments as clearly as you analyze problems; your work is excellent and deserves to be known.
Uranus in Scorpio in House 1
Your Uranus in Scorpio in the first house places the planet of revolution in the most intense and transformative sign, creating a personal presence that is magnetic, penetrating, and impossible to ignore. Scorpio is a fixed water sign, so your identity carries emotional depth, psychological intensity, and a natural resistance to superficiality, and Uranus amplifies this into something genuinely powerful. As a generational placement, Uranus in Scorpio marks a cohort that transforms society's relationship with power, sexuality, death, and hidden systems, and with it in your first house, you personally embody that transformation. People sense something powerful beneath your surface, and you may provoke strong reactions ... fascination or unease ... simply by being present. Your appearance may reflect your intensity through deliberate style choices that signal your refusal to be ordinary. The challenge is managing the intensity of your own presence, since the combination of Scorpionic depth and Uranian electricity can overwhelm both you and those around you. When you channel your power with conscious intention rather than letting it operate unconsciously, you become a transformative force that inspires genuine change.
Neptune in Sagittarius in House 2
℞Your Neptune in Sagittarius in the second house blends the planet of idealism and dissolution with Sagittarius' expansive, freedom-loving energy, directing it into the house of money, possessions, and personal values. Neptune in Sagittarius is generational, but the second house makes financial and self-worth themes personally significant. You may be drawn to earn through work in education, publishing, travel, philosophy, or any field where your visionary expansiveness is a genuine asset. Your values are philosophical and freedom-oriented ... you are not easily enslaved by material possessions, which is a genuine strength. The risk is an overly optimistic approach to finances that underestimates practical needs. Your practical insight is to combine your philosophical generosity with enough practical planning to ensure that your freedom is genuinely sustainable.
Pluto in Libra in House 12
Your Pluto in Libra in the twelfth house tucks transformative relational power into the most hidden sector of your chart. Libra's cardinal air energy in this realm of the unconscious, spirituality, and solitude means your deepest patterns around relationships, fairness, and the balance of power operate largely below conscious awareness. You may carry hidden resentments about past relationship injustices, unconscious patterns of people-pleasing that sacrifice your own needs, or buried anger about situations where harmony was maintained at the cost of truth. Dreams and solitary reflection may reveal the relational dynamics you suppress in waking life. Spiritual practices involving partnership, beauty, or the restoration of balance can be profoundly healing. The challenge is bringing your hidden relational patterns into awareness rather than projecting them onto others or numbing yourself through surface-level social pleasantries. When you do this deep inner work, you develop a quiet wisdom about human connection that makes you an extraordinarily perceptive and compassionate partner, friend, and counselor.
North Node in Virgo in House 11
Your North Node in Virgo in the eleventh house leads your growth through contributing practical skills, analytical intelligence, and humble service to communities, social causes, and group endeavors. You are here to learn that your greatest gift to the collective is not visionary grandeur but the careful, practical work that makes meaningful change actually happen. The eleventh house focuses this growth on friendships, organizations, and collective visions. Contribute your analytical and practical gifts to the organizations you care about, be the friend who offers genuinely useful support rather than empty enthusiasm, and help communities build real, workable solutions. Your careful work is the engine of collective progress.
Chiron in Taurus in House 7
℞Chiron in Taurus in the seventh house places the Wounded Healer in the domain of committed partnerships and significant one-on-one relationships ... filtered through fixed earth's loyalty, patience, and need for material and physical security, and Venus's rulership of both the sign and this house. Venus rules both Taurus and the seventh house, making this a doubly Venusian placement ... and Chiron here means the wound lives at the heart of relating: in the question of whether lasting, materially grounded, sensually satisfying partnership is genuinely available to you. The seventh house is the mirror, and what gets mirrored with Chiron in Taurus here often involves material security and physical comfort in relationship: you may attract partners who are financially unreliable, recreating an early wound around whether the ground in intimate partnership can be trusted; or you may stay in relationships primarily because they provide material comfort, even when the deeper bond is absent. Fixed earth's loyalty makes this wound durable ... Taurus does not leave easily, and Chiron here can produce a pattern of staying in relationships past the point of genuine nourishment out of a fear that something more stable is not actually possible. Your gift is a genuinely embodied understanding of what secure, pleasurable, materially grounded partnership looks like ... you have felt its absence clearly enough to recognize it and help others toward it. To work with this energy consciously, examine what you actually require in a partner versus what you've settled for, and practice stating those requirements before the relationship is established rather than hoping they'll resolve themselves. The growth edge is that fixed earth in the seventh house can confuse material stability with genuine security, and the growth is learning that the deepest security in partnership is built from honest presence, not just reliable comfort.