Celebrity StarMap · Actor
Donald Sutherland’s birth chart
Born July 17, 1935 in Saint John at 11:30.
Cancer Sun · Aquarius Moon · Virgo rising · Water · Cardinal
Sun
♋Cancer
24° Cancer 04'
You protect. Home, memory and the people you have decided are yours sit at the centre of your life, and you read a room before anyone speaks. Your strength is care; your task is to include yourself in it.
Moon
♒Aquarius
13° Aquarius 18'
You feel from a step back. You understand emotions better than you inhabit them, and you need space and ideas to process. Friends are your family; freedom is your security.
Rising
♍Virgo
26° Virgo 54'
You come across as precise, observant and modest. People trust your judgement and sometimes mistake your reserve for coolness until they see how much you help.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♋ 24° Cancer 04' | House 10 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♒ 13° Aquarius 18' | House 5 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♋ 3° Cancer 49' | House 10 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♍ 8° Virgo 12' | House 12 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♎ 23° Libra 43' | House 2 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♏ 13° Scorpio 28' | House 2 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♓ 9° Pisces 40'℞ | House 6 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♉ 5° Taurus 15' | House 8 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♍ 12° Virgo 34' | House 12 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 25° Cancer 34' | House 10 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♑ 22° Capricorn 00' | House 4 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♋ 22° Cancer 00' | House 10 |
Donald Sutherland's full reading
Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Cancer
♋ 24° Cancer 04' · tenth house
purpose and vitality
They feel most alive when Donald is caring for people and places that matter to they, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. The tension is taking things personally when they feel unneeded. It shows up in how much better their whole day goes after they have checked in on someone they love.
Career and public standing matter to their sense of self more than almost anything else in their life, whether they admit that plainly or not. They want their name attached to something visible and worth being proud of, and they tend to work accordingly for years.
☽Moon in Aquarius
♒ 13° Aquarius 18' · fifth house
needs and habits
They proces daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and they need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The tension is intellectualising a feeling instead of simply having it. It shows up as needing time alone to recover even after a good day with people.
Their feelings come out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and they need a genuine outlet for them somewhere or they quietly build up. Being playful is part of how they stay emotionally well, not a luxury they can easily skip for long.
☿Mercury in Cancer
♋ 3° Cancer 49' · tenth house
mind and voice
They think in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and they communicate best when there is emotional trust in the room. The tension is letting mood colour how a fact gets delivered or received. It shows up as remembering exactly how a conversation felt years after the details have faded.
They think strategically about their reputation and their next career move, often turning plans over quietly in their head long before anyone else knows they exist. Clear, well-timed communication tends to serve their ambitions better than almost any other single skill they have.
♀Venus in Virgo
♍ 8° Virgo 12' · twelfth house
love and values
They love through small, practical acts of service, and they value competence and reliability in a partner. The tension is critiquing the people they love the most, mistaking notes for care. It shows up as fixing a partner's problem before they have simply listened to it.
Their affections run private and sometimes idealized, and they may love more deeply than they actually show on the surface to most people. Quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, mean more to they than public displays or grand romantic gestures ever could.
♂Mars in Libra
♎ 23° Libra 43' · second house
drive and anger
They act diplomatically and prefer negotiation to confrontation, and their anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. The tension is avoiding conflict so consistently that resentment builds underneath the calm surface. It shows up as agreeing to something they actually minded, then feeling it later.
They go after what they want with real, visible drive, and their sense of their own value can fuel real determination when it comes to building resources. Patience with slow, gradual progress is not their strong suit, and waiting around tends to frustrate they quickly.
♃Jupiter in Scorpio
♏ 13° Scorpio 28' · second house
growth and excess
They grow through facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, which tends to pay off later even when it costs something now. The overreach is an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. It shows up as a resilience people notice only after they have already come through the hard part.
They tend to have an optimistic, generous relationship with money and resources, and abundance often finds its way to they gradually over time rather than all at once. Their values expand the more of the world they actually get exposed to, rarely staying fixed for long.
♄Saturn in Pisces
♓ 9° Pisces 40' ℞ · sixth house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around boundaries, often after an early habit of taking on more feeling than was ever theirs to carry. The doubt shows up as guilt for protecting their own time and energy. It shows up as a quiet, mature compassion that arrives once they learn that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
They take their daily responsibilities seriously, sometimes to the point of being noticeably harder on themselves than the job itself actually requires. Discipline in their routine, kept up steadily over years, tends to pay off in ways that surprise even they eventually.
♅Uranus in Taurus
♉ 5° Taurus 15' · eighth house
freedom, generational
Shared by everyone born across this generation, this placement marks people who reinvent ideas of money, land and security, often through technology that unsettles older systems of ownership. Personally, it can show up as a discomfort with financial norms their parents took for granted.
They approach intimacy and shared resources in their own particular way, sometimes resisting the usual expectations around trust or merging finances that other people take for granted. Sudden insights about themselves tend to arrive precisely through close, unguarded relationships rather than in solitude.
♆Neptune in Virgo
♍ 12° Virgo 34' · twelfth house
imagination, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people whose collective imagination turns toward healing, service and idealised routines of self-improvement. Personally, it can show up as chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
This is Neptune's natural home, and their inner life is genuinely rich with imagination, intuition and a sense of connection to something larger than themselves. Solitude here is less about being alone and more about quietly tuning in to what is already there.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 25° Cancer 34' · tenth house
power, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.
Their career may involve real reinvention at some point along the way, and Donald is drawn to positions of genuine influence rather than mere surface status. Public power interests they considerably more than public popularity, even though the two often get confused by others.
Aspects
How the planets in Donald Sutherland's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Moon square Jupiter
0.2° separating
Their emotional generosity can run ahead of what is actually sustainable, leading to overcommitting their time or their care. The lesson is generosity with limits, which tends to last longer, for they and for everyone else, than generosity offered without any limits at all.
Sun square Mars
0.4° separating
Their sense of self and their drive to act can clash, producing impatience or a habit of picking fights they did not need to pick. Learning to pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into real, usable determination.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
0.9° applying
Their sense of possibility and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they acces to inspired ideas without losing their footing. This is soft, workable optimism, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift too far from what is real.
Mercury sextile Uranus
1.4° applying
Their thinking and their originality cooperate, giving they easy access to fresh angles on ordinary problems. This is a useful, low-effort kind of inventiveness that makes routine problems feel more interesting than they really are.
- Venus opposition Saturn1.5°
- Sun conjunction Pluto1.5°
- Mars square Pluto1.9°
- Saturn opposition Neptune2.9°
- Venus trine Uranus3.0°
- Jupiter trine Saturn3.8°
- Venus conjunction Neptune4.4°
- Mercury sextile Venus4.4°
- Saturn sextile Uranus4.4°
- Mercury trine Saturn5.9°
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Confidence A. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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