Wikimedia Commons

Mindy Kaling

1979-06-24 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA· birth time unknown

☉ Cancer Sun☽ Cancer Moon↑ Virgo Rising(est.)Actor, Writer, Producer

Earth dominantCancer stellium4 retrogradesSun conjunct Moon

Note: Mindy Kaling's exact birth time isn't on record. Planetary signs are calculated for noon on her 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 she was born near a sign change.

Actress, comedian, and writer who starred in and wrote for The Office and created The Mindy Project.

The birth chart of Mindy Kaling is a portrait of the person behind the performance — revealing the drives, gifts, and inner world behind her art and creative life...

Mindy Kaling's solar signature falls in Cancer — a nature that moves in cycles — inward and outward, open and closed, expressive and retreating. This isn't inconsistency. It's the rhythm of something alive. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and both are necessary.

On the emotional side, a Cancer Moon shapes There is a particular humor in Cancer Moon — a loony, almost irrational sense of comedy that surfaces at unexpected moments and completely undercuts any impression of pure sentimentality. The emotional depth and the unexpected levity coexist, and the coexistence is genuine.

Away from the spotlight, Mindy's Venus in Gemini is playful, light-handed, and genuinely delighted by the people it loves — the affection comes through in humor, in the specific attention it pays to what makes someone laugh, in the quality of conversation it creates and returns to.

The way Mindy 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.

Mindy — when it comes to pursuit — channels energy into building and accumulating over time — the interest is not in the dramatic win but in the durable one. This Mars wants something that will still be standing in ten years, and it works accordingly.

With 4 retrograde planets natally, much of Mindy's energy turns inward... a rich interior life that quietly shapes everything she puts into the world.

What does your chart look like?

Free natal chart — every planet, every placement, 1,700+ interpretations.

Get Mine Free

Birth time unknown. The Rising sign, house placements, and Midheaven shown below are estimated using noon. Only the Sun and Moon positions are reliable.

Planetary Positions

Rising: Virgo (est.) · Midheaven: Gemini (est.)

☉Sun

Cancer

2° · House 10 (est.)

☽Moon

Cancer

4° · House 10 (est.)

☿Mercury

Cancer

26° · House 11 (est.)

♀Venus

Gemini

15° · House 9 (est.)

♂Mars

Taurus

28° · House 9 (est.)

♃Jupiter

Leo

9° · House 11 (est.)

♄Saturn

Virgo

8° · House 12 (est.)

♅Uranus

Scorpio

17° · House 2 (est.)℞

♆Neptune

Sagittarius

18° · House 3 (est.)℞

♇Pluto

Libra

16° · House 1 (est.)℞

☊North Node

Virgo

10° · House 12 (est.)℞

⚷Chiron

Taurus

12° · House 8 (est.)

Chart Interpretations

Birth time unknown. Sign placements (Sun, Moon, planets) are accurate. House placements and Rising sign are estimated from noon and may not reflect the actual chart.

☉

Sun in CancerHouse 10 (est.)

Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and the Sun is in its fall here ... the solar drive for distinct self-expression meeting Water's instinct to merge, protect, and retreat. Your identity forms through feeling, belonging, and the quality of your emotional bonds rather than through outward assertion. Cardinal modality gives you an initiating instinct, but it moves toward nurturing rather than leading. A concrete behavioral tendency is building your strongest sense of self around home and close relationships ... the people and spaces that feel like yours are genuinely where you live from the inside out.

☽

Moon in CancerHouse 10 (est.)

Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign and the Moon's natural domicile ... the sign the Moon rules, giving this one of the most instinctively resonant lunar placements in the zodiac. Water makes feelings run deep and permeate every perception; Cardinal modality means your emotional instincts are proactive, moving toward those you love to nurture and protect before they even ask. Your home environment is as important to your wellbeing as food or sleep. A concrete tendency is absorbing the emotional atmosphere of any room you walk into ... a gift of profound attunement, but one that requires conscious boundaries to avoid carrying others' weight as your own.

☿

Mercury in CancerHouse 11 (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 GeminiHouse 9 (est.)

Gemini is a Mutable Air sign, and Venus here falls in love with minds ... with wit, unexpected ideas, and the pleasure of a conversation that could go anywhere. Air makes your love nature social, curious, and communicatively alive; Mutable modality keeps attraction multi-directional and resistant to the fixity that deep commitment can feel like. You are charming, playful, and genuinely interesting to be around. A concrete tendency is a restlessness that can read as inconsistency: you are not fickle so much as genuinely stimulated by variety, and the relational work is finding a partner whose range is wide enough to keep your interest engaged at the depth you are actually capable of.

♂

Mars in TaurusHouse 9 (est.)

Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign, and Mars is in its detriment here ... the planet of swift, impulsive action in the sign of patient, methodical accumulation. Earth grounds your drive in the material world; you pursue what you want steadily and with remarkable endurance. Fixed modality makes you almost impossible to stop once you have committed. A concrete tendency is the slow, thoroughly earned anger: this placement's temper is slow to rise but proportionally slow to dissipate, and when it finally surfaces it can surprise people who mistook your patience for indifference ... understanding your own activation threshold is some of the most practically useful self-knowledge this placement offers.

♃

Jupiter in LeoHouse 11 (est.)

Leo is a Fixed Fire sign, and Jupiter here grows through creative self-expression, generosity, and the full celebration of your own and others' gifts. Fire makes your expansive energy warm, vivid, and inherently visible; Fixed modality gives that growth real staying power. Your fortune flows in the direction of authentic self-expression ... art, leadership, performance, or any arena where your personality is the instrument. A concrete tendency is the inflation of ego that can accompany Jupiter amplifying Leo's already considerable pride: the line between sharing your light and demanding the spotlight is one that this placement must cross and recross honestly, in both directions, across a lifetime.

♄

Saturn in VirgoHouse 12 (est.)

Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and Saturn here intensifies Virgo's already exacting standards for precision, service, and practical competence. Earth makes the lessons concrete and tangible; Mutable modality means the challenge is adaptability within discipline ... rigor without paralysis. Your standards of quality are genuinely high, and your capacity for thoroughness is a real asset. A concrete tendency is the incompleteness loop: the same perfectionism that produces mastery can generate an inner critic so exacting that nothing ever quite clears the bar, preventing completion and eroding satisfaction in work that is, by any reasonable measure, excellent. Learning to recognize when done is better than perfect is some of this placement's most liberating work.

♅

Uranus in ScorpioHouse 2 (est.)

℞

Scorpio is a Fixed Water sign, and Uranus here (1975–1981) disrupts through sudden and irreversible transformation in power, sexuality, death, and the hidden structures beneath social life. Water makes Uranus's disruption psychologically penetrating and impossible to ignore once activated; Fixed modality means the changes are thorough and lasting when they finally come. Your generation grew up through the AIDS crisis, the restructuring of sexual norms, and major upheavals in global power. A concrete tendency is a deep familiarity with intensity and transformation as the natural rhythm of existence ... and an unusual ability to navigate crisis without being undone by it.

♆

Neptune in SagittariusHouse 3 (est.)

℞

Sagittarius is a Mutable Fire sign, and Neptune here (1970–1984) dissolves the boundaries around religion, philosophy, and the search for meaning across cultures. Fire makes Neptune's idealism expansive and drawn to the universal; Mutable modality keeps the dissolution wide-ranging and restlessly seeking. This generation is drawn to spiritual exploration across traditions and carries a genuine hunger for a truth that transcends any single faith. The shadow is spiritual bypassing ... the dilution of profound traditions into comfortable lifestyle choices, and a restlessness that mistakes perpetual seeking for having arrived at the wisdom it was looking for.

♇

Pluto in LibraHouse 1 (est.)

℞

Libra is a Cardinal Air sign, and Pluto here (1971–1984) brought profound transformation to partnership, justice, and the social contracts governing how people relate. Air makes Pluto's transformation relational and conceptual; Cardinal modality means the destruction and rebuilding arrive at points of commitment and formal agreement. This generation came of age witnessing the collapse of conventional marriage, the rise of identity politics, and a wholesale reconsideration of what equality actually requires. The shadow is a power struggle at the heart of love ... the intimate relationship as the primary arena in which questions of domination and freedom are played out rather than resolved.

☊

North Node in VirgoHouse 12 (est.)

℞

Your North Node in Virgo calls you toward discernment, practical service, and the satisfaction of grounded, skillful work done in service of something real. Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign ... the evolutionary direction here is toward precision, usefulness, and the humility of attending to what is actually in front of you rather than what is transcendently possible. The corresponding South Node in Pisces suggests an ingrained ease with imagination, dissolution, and the avoidance of the particular. A concrete tendency from the South Node is the drift toward idealism that excuses you from the harder work of specificity. The medicine is learning that the spiritual and the practical are not opposites ... that genuine service is one of the most grounded expressions of compassion available.

⚷

Chiron in TaurusHouse 8 (est.)

Your Chiron in Taurus places your core wound in the realm of self-worth, material security, and the body. Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign ... the wound here is slow to form, deep, and organized around the felt sense of inherent value or its absence. You may carry a persistent background sense that love, comfort, or belonging must be earned rather than received as a baseline. A concrete tendency is the endless productivity that is really an argument against unworthiness ... the unconscious belief that if you rest or stop building, something important will be revealed as missing. The gift is a hard-won wisdom about what genuine worth actually is, and a remarkable capacity to help others discover it in themselves.

↑

Ascendant (Rising) in Virgo(est.)

With Virgo rising, you come across as thoughtful, precise, and quietly competent. People trust your judgment because you clearly pay attention to details others miss. There's a modesty to your presence that understates how capable you actually are. You process the world through analysis and service.

↓

Descendant in Pisces(est.)

With your Descendant in Pisces, you're drawn to partners who are empathic, creative, and spiritually attuned. You seek relationships with emotional depth and a sense of transcendence... where connection goes beyond words.

Midheaven in Gemini(est.)

With your Midheaven in Gemini, your career thrives on communication, versatility, and intellectual stimulation. You're drawn to work that lets you talk, write, teach, or connect ideas. Your public reputation is built on being the person who can explain anything to anyone.

Imum Coeli in Sagittarius(est.)

With your IC in Sagittarius, your roots are shaped by philosophy, freedom, and a sense of adventure. Your childhood may have involved travel, diverse beliefs, or an emphasis on the bigger picture. You recharge through exploration and meaning-making.