Reid Hoffman

1967-08-05 · Palo Alto, California, USA · birth time unverified

Leo SunLeo MoonLibra RisingBusiness
Fire dominantLeo stelliumVirgo stellium3 retrogradesSun conjunct Moon

Reid Hoffman'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 Leo Moon speaks to what Reid needs emotionally... warmth, recognition, and creative expression to feel secure. This is the private self, the part that exists when the spotlight fades.

The world meets Reid through Libra rising... graceful, charming, and aesthetically attuned... someone who makes every interaction feel balanced. 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 runs deep and is not easily deterred... they pursue goals with quiet, transformative intensity. With 3 retrograde planets in their natal chart, much of Reid's energy is directed inward... a rich inner world that fuels their outer expression. A concentration of planets in Leo gives Reid's chart a strong Leo emphasis... amplifying the themes of that sign throughout their life.

House System:

Planetary Positions

Rising: Libra · Midheaven: Cancer
Sun

Leo

12° · House 10

Moon

Leo

8° · House 10

Mercury

Cancer

24° · House 10

Venus

Virgo

13° · House 11

Mars

Scorpio

8° · House 1

Jupiter

Leo

14° · House 10

Saturn

Aries

12° · House 6

Uranus

Virgo

22° · House 11

Neptune

Scorpio

21° · House 2

Pluto

Virgo

19° · House 11

North Node

Taurus

1° · House 7

Chiron

Pisces

29° · House 6

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 Leo in House 10

Your Moon in Leo in the tenth house connects your emotional life to the domain of career, public standing, and the visible impact you make in the world through the characteristically Leo need to shine genuinely, to lead warmly, and to build a public identity that reflects the full creative warmth and generous confidence of the Sun-ruled sign at its best. The 10th house is Angular and among the four most powerful positions in the chart, and the Moon here means your emotional life is genuinely intertwined with your professional standing and public reputation: recognition in your field nourishes your inner world with a directness that can be uncomfortable to acknowledge but is genuinely real and worth taking seriously as a structural need rather than a personal failing. Leo is fixed fire ruled by the Sun, and in the public domain those qualities produce a professional persona characterized by warmth, creative authority, generous leadership, and a quality of personal charisma that attracts loyal attention and builds enduring professional relationships. You are naturally drawn to roles where your personal creativity, leadership warmth, and the visible expression of your particular gifts can be genuinely expressed ... careers in entertainment, education, creative leadership, arts administration, or any field where personality and vision are legitimate professional assets. To work with this energy consciously, build an interior source of professional worth and self-regard that remains stable through the inevitable public criticism or periods of reduced visibility ... the Moon in Leo in the 10th can be more wounded by public indifference or criticism than its outward confidence suggests, and the growth is developing the inner knowing that your worth is not defined by any particular moment's public assessment. The honest growth challenge is that Leo in the 10th can become so identified with its public role and professional standing that private life atrophies from neglect, and the balance is ensuring that the interior warmth that makes the public persona genuinely good is regularly replenished by the private experiences that sustain it.

Mercury in Cancer in House 10

Your Mercury in Cancer in the tenth house links your intuitive, empathically oriented, and emotionally intelligent communication directly to your public identity and professional reputation ... you are known in the world for a quality of communication that makes people feel genuinely heard, cared for, and understood in ways that more technically accomplished but less emotionally present professionals cannot match. Mercury governs communication and professional intelligence; Cancer is cardinal water ruled by the Moon, and in the tenth house of career and public standing, that quality means your professional authority is built on a foundation of genuine emotional attunement that the public trusts. You have an extraordinary ability to read what the public, a client, or an audience actually needs and to communicate directly to that need rather than to a more generic version of it. To work with this energy consciously, build your professional reputation deliberately around your specific emotional intelligence gifts ... the niche you occupy is not just your technical expertise but the combination of that expertise with genuine human attunement. The growth edge is that Cancer in the public tenth house can make your professional life deeply sensitive to public reception in ways that are emotionally draining; the growth work is developing enough professional self-grounding that your confidence in your work does not fluctuate entirely with the emotional climate of external response.

Venus in Virgo in House 11

Your Venus in Virgo in the eleventh house brings practical helpfulness, analytical intelligence, and modest warmth to your friendships, group involvement, and social ideals. Venus in its fall here means you show love for friends through practical support ... helping with problems, offering useful advice, and being reliably present when needed. Your social circle tends to include intelligent, health-conscious, and service-oriented people. Group involvement that centers on community improvement, health advocacy, or environmental stewardship resonates with your values. Your vision for the future emphasizes practical improvements, better systems, and service to those in need. The challenge is being the perpetual helper in friendships without receiving equal support in return. Consciously work on accepting help from friends as graciously as you offer it, and on building friendships based on mutual enjoyment rather than solely on mutual usefulness.

Mars in Scorpio in House 1

Your Mars in Scorpio in the first house places the planet of drive in one of its co-ruling signs ... a placement of exceptional depth, intensity, and strategic power. You project a magnetic, penetrating presence that others feel immediately, even when you say very little. Your drive is quiet but relentless; you pursue your goals with complete focus and do not back down when obstacles arise. You have a natural instinct for power dynamics and an ability to see through surface appearances to what is really going on. The key insight: your intensity is a gift ... direct it with intention rather than letting it burn indiscriminately, and you become a genuinely transformative force in every arena you enter.

Jupiter in Leo in House 10

Your Jupiter in Leo in the tenth house is a commanding placement for career success, public recognition, and leadership. Jupiter's expansive energy at the peak of your chart combines with Leo's creative confidence to create powerful potential for professional achievement and public visibility. You are naturally suited to leadership roles, and your career is likely to involve creativity, performance, education, or any field that puts you in front of an audience. Your public reputation is warm, generous, and inspiring, and you attract professional opportunities through sheer personal magnetism. Authority figures tend to support your rise, recognizing your combination of talent and ambition. The challenge is becoming so identified with your professional image that you lose touch with who you are outside your career. Maintain rich personal relationships and creative outlets beyond your professional role, and your career success will be grounded in authentic substance rather than just impressive appearance.

Saturn in Aries in House 6

Your Saturn in Aries in the sixth house shapes your approach to work, health, and daily routine with a restless but serious energy. You may have a tendency to start health regimens or work projects with great force, only to burn out before structures are established. Saturn in fall in Aries means the conflict between impulsive action and the slow-building nature of Saturn is felt most acutely in your daily habits. The breakthrough comes when you pair Aries drive with Saturn's discipline: small, consistent actions practiced over months and years. Your work ethic, once harnessed, becomes a genuine asset and a source of quiet pride.

Uranus in Virgo in House 11

Your Uranus in Virgo in the eleventh house brings practical innovation and analytical skill to your friendships, community involvement, and collective aspirations. Virgo is mutable earth, so you approach group dynamics with a desire to be useful and to improve how the collective functions, while Uranus amplifies your vision for how things could work better. As a generational placement, your cohort transforms social organizations, health-focused communities, and how groups practically solve problems together, and with Uranus in your eleventh house, you are personally drawn to communities organized around service, improvement, or health. You may be the friend who notices what the group actually needs and quietly creates systems to provide it. Your social vision is practical ... you want a better world, and you have specific, detailed ideas about how to build one. The challenge is not becoming the group's unpaid consultant, fixing everyone's problems while neglecting your own social needs. When you allow yourself to receive help and friendship for its own sake rather than always being the one who serves, your community involvement becomes genuinely reciprocal and deeply fulfilling.

Neptune in Scorpio in House 2

Your Neptune in Scorpio in the second house blends the planet of idealism and dissolution with Scorpio's intense, all-or-nothing energy, directing it into the house of money, possessions, and personal values. Neptune in Scorpio is generational, but the second house makes financial and self-worth themes personally significant. Your relationship with money and resources is deep and emotionally charged ... financial security may feel existentially important, or conversely you may periodically seek to dissolve your attachment to material things entirely. You are drawn to earn and invest with intensity and strategic depth. The practical insight is to develop a conscious, clear relationship with money that neither obsesses over control nor escapes into magical thinking, but treats resources as a powerful tool for genuine transformation.

Pluto in Virgo in House 11

Your Pluto in Virgo in the eleventh house channels transformative analytical energy into friendships, group affiliations, and your vision for collective improvement. Virgo's mutable earth nature draws you to communities organized around practical service, health advocacy, environmental improvement, or any cause that aims to make systems work better for everyone. Your influence within groups often comes through your willingness to do the detailed, unglamorous work that others avoid. Friendships may undergo transformations when you or others fail to meet exacting standards of reliability and competence. You have a gift for identifying the weaknesses in group structures and proposing practical solutions. The growth opportunity is contributing your analytical gifts to collective causes without becoming the group's resident critic or perfectionist. When you channel your transformative energy into genuinely supportive service alongside constructive feedback, your social impact becomes a quietly powerful force for meaningful, practical change.

North Node in Taurus in House 7

Your North Node in Taurus in the seventh house guides your growth toward building partnerships that are stable, loyal, and grounded in shared values and physical comfort. You are here to learn what it means to commit slowly and deeply ... to choose partners with patience and then invest in the long arc of a relationship rather than seeking intensity and transformation above all else. The seventh house centers this growth in marriage, close partnerships, and contracts. Seek partners who are reliable and share your values, invest in the slow building of trust, and resist the allure of relationships defined primarily by volatility. Steady, devoted love is your evolutionary reward.

Chiron in Pisces in House 6

Your Chiron in Pisces in the sixth house directs the Wounded Healer toward daily work and health through Pisces' sensitive, boundaryless mutable water energy. Your core wound involves the struggle to function practically in the material world when your natural orientation is toward the spiritual, emotional, and imaginative. Daily routines may feel draining, and your health can be deeply affected by emotional states, environmental sensitivities, or the energy of the people around you. You may be vulnerable to substances, allergens, or environmental toxins in ways that conventional medicine does not fully address. Your gift is an intuitive understanding of the connection between emotional, spiritual, and physical health, making you a natural healer who addresses root causes rather than symptoms. The growth path involves building gentle, consistent daily structures that protect your sensitive system while channeling your healing gifts into sustainable service, recognizing that caring for your own health is the first and most important act of healing you can perform.

Ascendant (Rising) in Libra

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

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.

MC

Midheaven in Cancer

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.

IC

Imum Coeli in Capricorn

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.