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Matthew Broderick
1962-03-21 · Manhattan· birth time unknown
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, WarGames, and a run of Broadway work that launched him while still a teenager all share a specific quality: characters who live without irony at a moment when film was starting to insist on it. Matthew Broderick's Sun sits conjunct Venus in Aries, and Aries is direct and courageous by nature, built for exactly that kind of unselfconscious confidence on screen.
His birth hour isn't part of the public record, which means the Ascendant and houses have no place in this reading. That same Venus explains the clearest partnership signature in the whole chart: Aries doesn't shop around once it's decided. The marriage to Sarah Jessica Parker has run nearly three decades, one of the more durable partnerships in modern Hollywood, which tracks directly against a Venus that picks once and commits fully.
Mercury conjuncts Mars in Pisces, and that's the chart's unusual layer — most Aries Sun charts carry an aggressive Mercury and a direct Mars, but his run the opposite way entirely. The speaking voice reads as gentle, the drive as intuitive rather than combative, which explains something critics have long noted: an interior that seems considerably softer than the confident Aries surface would suggest. Pisces Mercury keeps the verbal register dreamy; Pisces Mars works through atmosphere rather than force.
The Moon sits in Libra, near enough to the sign's edge that the exact placement can't be fully confirmed without a documented birth hour, though the general register still reads as relational and fairness minded — needing partnership to feel emotionally settled, which lines up neatly with the marriage the Aries Venus already built.
Jupiter conjuncts Saturn in Aquarius, giving the whole chart a structural, expansive intelligence — widely described as well read and politically engaged, and willing to take stage roles for considerably less money when the material actually justifies it. That's Aquarius operating through career choices made over an entire lifetime rather than a single lucrative run.
What the Chart Reveals
Interpretations drawn from Matthew's natal placements.
☉ Sun in Aries
Aries is Cardinal Fire, and the Sun is exalted here ... identity runs on initiative and the nerve to move first. Vitality climbs when there is a thing to start, a challenge to meet head on, a front to lead from. The presence is direct and genuinely magnetic in motion, hard to ignore and rarely trying to be. The shadow is impulse outrunning aim ... a self that burns bright and brief unless it learns to follow a thing past the thrill of beginning it.
☽ Moon in Libra
Libra is Cardinal Air, and the Moon feels through harmony ... emotional safety depends on the peace between people being intact, on no one in the room at odds. The instinct is gracious, accommodating, finely attuned to the mood of others. Comfort comes through partnership and beauty and fairness genuinely kept. The shadow is the self that vanishes into the keeping of peace ... a heart so set on avoiding conflict it can lose track of its own feeling, agreeing its way out of knowing what it actually wants.
☿ Mercury in Pisces
Pisces is Mutable Water, and Mercury sits in its detriment and fall here ... the mind works by image, intuition, and impression rather than straight lines, often knowing a thing without being able to say how. Speech is poetic, allusive, sometimes hard to pin. The gift is imaginative and genuinely original. The shadow is the lost thread ... a mind that can drift, blur, and doubt its own clarity, learning to trust the intuition while building enough structure to carry it back to the rest of the world.
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Planetary Positions
Rising: Cancer (est.) · Midheaven: Pisces (est.)Aries
0° · House 10 (est.)
Libra
4° · House 4 (est.)
Pisces
9° · House 9 (est.)
Aries
13° · House 10 (est.)
Pisces
7° · House 9 (est.)
Aquarius
29° · House 8 (est.)
Aquarius
8° · House 8 (est.)
Leo
27° · House 2 (est.)℞
Scorpio
13° · House 5 (est.)℞
Virgo
8° · House 3 (est.)℞
Leo
17° · House 2 (est.)℞
Pisces
7° · House 9 (est.)
Virgo
18° · House 3 (est.)
Chart Interpretations
Sun in AriesHouse 10 (est.)
Aries is Cardinal Fire, and the Sun is exalted here ... identity runs on initiative and the nerve to move first. Vitality climbs when there is a thing to start, a challenge to meet head on, a front to lead from. The presence is direct and genuinely magnetic in motion, hard to ignore and rarely trying to be. The shadow is impulse outrunning aim ... a self that burns bright and brief unless it learns to follow a thing past the thrill of beginning it.
Moon in LibraHouse 4 (est.)
Libra is Cardinal Air, and the Moon feels through harmony ... emotional safety depends on the peace between people being intact, on no one in the room at odds. The instinct is gracious, accommodating, finely attuned to the mood of others. Comfort comes through partnership and beauty and fairness genuinely kept. The shadow is the self that vanishes into the keeping of peace ... a heart so set on avoiding conflict it can lose track of its own feeling, agreeing its way out of knowing what it actually wants.
Mercury in PiscesHouse 9 (est.)
Pisces is Mutable Water, and Mercury sits in its detriment and fall here ... the mind works by image, intuition, and impression rather than straight lines, often knowing a thing without being able to say how. Speech is poetic, allusive, sometimes hard to pin. The gift is imaginative and genuinely original. The shadow is the lost thread ... a mind that can drift, blur, and doubt its own clarity, learning to trust the intuition while building enough structure to carry it back to the rest of the world.
Venus in AriesHouse 10 (est.)
Aries is Cardinal Fire, and Venus sits in its detriment here ... love arrives as pursuit, fast and direct, more thrilled by the chase than the settling. Attraction is immediate and a little impatient, drawn to nerve and heat. Affection is honest, unsubtle, generous in the moment. The shadow is the spark that fades once won ... a way of loving that can lose interest the instant a thing stops being a conquest, and grows by learning that the deeper pleasure starts after the chase is over.
Mars in PiscesHouse 9 (est.)
Pisces is Mutable Water, and Mars acts indirectly ... drive is diffuse and intuitive, hard to aim in a straight line, moving by feeling and current rather than force. Desire is gentle, easily redirected, sometimes unsure of what it wants. The fight is evasive. The shadow is the energy that drains away unspent ... a force that can dissolve into avoidance or martyrdom rather than act, and grows by giving the formless drive a channel real enough to carry it somewhere.
Jupiter in AquariusHouse 8 (est.)
Aquarius is Fixed Air, and Jupiter expands through the collective ... growth comes through ideals, community, and a vision aimed at the wider future. Faith rests in progress and the good of the many. Luck flows through networks and causes. The shadow is the abstraction that forgets the person ... a generosity toward humanity that can stay cool toward the individual in front of it, and grows by letting the grand vision reach the people actually nearby.
Saturn in AquariusHouse 8 (est.)
Aquarius is Fixed Air, and Saturn rules its traditional home ... discipline expresses through systems, principles, and a serious commitment to the collective and the long future. Mastery comes through structures that serve the many. The shadow is the detachment that turns rigid ... a mind that can hold its ideals so coldly it loses the human warmth they were meant to serve, and grows by letting the principle stay close to the people it is for.
Uranus moves through Leo slowly, and sits in its detriment ... the free, collective impulse collides with the sign of the individual ego, producing a generation that rebels in the name of personal expression. Creativity turns defiant. The shadow is the freedom that curdles into willful display ... a cohort that can mistake breaking the rules for being itself, and finds its edge when the originality serves more than the spotlight.
Neptune moves through Scorpio slowly, marking a generation ... the dissolving current dives into sex, power, and the hidden, fascinated by the taboo and the transformative. This cohort dreams in the depths. The shadow is the allure of the abyss ... a generational pull toward intensity and escape through the forbidden, finding its edge when the depth becomes genuine transformation rather than only fascination.
Pluto crosses Virgo over a generation ... the transformative power reaches work, health, and the systems that order daily life, remaking labor and the body. This cohort overhauls how things function. The shadow is control disguised as improvement ... a generational pull toward perfecting and policing the practical, finding its redemption when the drive to fix becomes genuine, humane repair.
The growth here runs toward the heart ... toward creative courage, warmth, and the nerve to be a particular, visible individual rather than hiding in the group. The South Node in Aquarius holds the old ease of detachment and the safety of the crowd. The pull is toward being seen, which can feel dangerously exposed. The work is daring to shine as oneself, letting the warmth show instead of dissolving into the collective cool.
Chiron in PiscesHouse 9 (est.)
The wound here gathers around boundaries and faith ... an early experience of disillusion, of suffering with no clear cause, the self too porous to the pain of the world. It can show as escapism or a sense of being lost. The gift is the compassion the wound refined ... a profound empathy and a capacity for spiritual healing, having felt so deeply what it is to suffer and to long for grace.
Ascendant (Rising) in Cancer(est.)
Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and on the Ascendant it leads with feeling ... the world meets your care before it meets your edges. You come across as warm, sensitive, quietly protective, someone who makes others feel looked after without seeming to try. There is a shell, though, and it takes time to open ... the softness on the surface guards something softer underneath. People sense the depth before they are let into it. The work is learning that the shell was meant to protect the feeling, not replace the contact, and that being read as gentle is not the same as being known.
Descendant in Capricorn(est.)
Capricorn is a Cardinal Earth sign, and on the Descendant it draws you toward partners who are serious ... ambitious, disciplined, emotionally grown, someone who treats partnership as something built rather than stumbled into. You seek a relationship with structure and a long horizon. What you are looking for in another is often the steady maturity you respect and want to stand beside.
Midheaven in Pisces(est.)
Pisces is a Mutable Water sign, and on the Midheaven it runs the career through imagination and compassion ... you are drawn to work that serves something larger, or that makes art out of feeling. The reputation grows through empathy, through the ability to reach people somewhere deeper than the transaction. You are known for the soul you bring to the work. The risk is the boundaries dissolving ... the work is giving the gift a structure that can hold it.
Imum Coeli in Virgo(est.)
Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and at the IC it shapes roots of order and care ... home has to function for you to feel at peace, the small systems quietly holding the day together. You recharge by tending your environment, putting things right, taking care of the details that make a space feel like yours. The private self rests when the world is in order.
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