Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Dustin Hoffman’s birth chart
Born August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles at 17:07.
Leo Sun · Virgo Moon · Capricorn rising · Fire · Fixed
Sun
♌Leo
16° Leo 01'
You shine. Warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who you really are run through everything you do. A Leo Sun grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon
♍Virgo
18° Virgo 06'
You feel by fixing. When something is wrong you look for the practical cause, and you calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. Let people help you without a to-do list attached.
Rising
♑Capricorn
18° Capricorn 04'
You come across as composed, capable and older than your age when young, then younger than your age later. People hand you responsibility without asking.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♌ 16° Leo 01' | House 7 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♍ 18° Virgo 06' | House 8 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♍ 11° Virgo 42' | House 8 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♋ 4° Cancer 43' | House 6 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♐ 0° Sagittarius 03' | House 10 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♑ 19° Capricorn 26'℞ | House 1 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♈ 4° Aries 42'℞ | House 2 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♉ 13° Taurus 38' | House 4 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♍ 17° Virgo 29' | House 8 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 28° Cancer 48' | House 7 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♐ 12° Sagittarius 58' | House 11 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♊ 12° Gemini 58' | House 5 |
Dustin Hoffman'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 Leo
♌ 16° Leo 01' · seventh house
purpose and vitality
Purpose for they i tied to creating and being genuinely seen doing it, and their vitality rises the moment they have an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. It shows up as the extra effort they put into something the moment someone notices they making it.
They come into focus through their one-to-one relationships and tend to see themselves most clearly reflected back by a partner rather than in isolation. Pairing up is less optional for they than it is for most people, and solo living can leave they feeling incomplete.
☽Moon in Virgo
♍ 18° Virgo 06' · eighth house
needs and habits
Their habits run toward order, and a messy space or an unfinished list unsettles their mood more than most people would guess. Dustin is calmed by small, useful tasks. The tension is turning self-care into another chore to get right instead of something they actually enjoy.
They feel things at a depth other people sometimes miss entirely, and they need real, tested trust before they let anyone see that undercurrent. Shared vulnerability, once it genuinely happens between they and someone else, tends to run deep and change the bond for good.
☿Mercury in Virgo
♍ 11° Virgo 42' · eighth house
mind and voice
Their thinking is precise and detail oriented, and they communicate clearly because they have usually checked their facts first. The tension is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. It shows up as editing a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
Their mind is drawn to what is hidden, complicated or left unsaid, and surface-level small talk bores they within minutes. Dustin is usually the one who asks the question everyone else in the room was quietly avoiding out of politeness.
♀Venus in Cancer
♋ 4° Cancer 43' · sixth house
love and values
They love by nurturing, and they value emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. The tension is holding onto old hurts long after the person who caused them has changed. It shows up as feeding people, checking on people and quietly keeping score of who has shown up for they.
They bring genuine grace to their daily routine and often make ordinary tasks noticeably more pleasant for the people working alongside they. A harmonious workplace matters more to they than an impressive one, and tension there drains they faster than the actual workload does.
♂Mars in Sagittarius
♐ 0° Sagittarius 03' · tenth house
drive and anger
They act boldly and want room to move while Dustin is doing it, and their anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on their freedom. The tension is speaking bluntly in the heat of the moment and smoothing it over later. It shows up as walking away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Ambition drives they here, and Dustin is willing to push hard toward a public goal once they have properly set their sights on it. Competition at work tends to sharpen their focus rather than intimidate they, and a real challenge often brings out their best effort.
♃Jupiter in Capricorn
♑ 19° Capricorn 26' ℞ · first house
growth and excess
They grow through long-term discipline, and their gains tend to arrive later than they would like but tend to hold once they do. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. It shows up as a slow, earned authority that people trust more the longer they know they.
They carry a natural confidence and openness that people tend to notice right away, often before they have said very much at all. Growth and opportunity tend to follow they simply because they show up expecting things to work out reasonably well.
♄Saturn in Aries
♈ 4° Aries 42' ℞ · second house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse, and the doubt shows up as second-guessing whether they moved too fast or not fast enough. It shows up as a slow-earned confidence in their own initiative that finally arrives once they stop rushing every decision.
They take a serious, disciplined approach to money and values, sometimes worrying more about them than the actual situation strictly calls for. Financial security, for they, tends to come through steady, patient effort over years rather than through any single lucky break.
♅Uranus in Taurus
♉ 13° Taurus 38' · fourth 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.
Home life may have included sudden changes or an unconventional family structure growing up, and they likely need more independence within a household than most people ever do. Stability, for they, includes room to be genuinely different, not a fixed routine imposed from outside.
♆Neptune in Virgo
♍ 17° Virgo 29' · eighth 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.
Intimacy for they can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Dustin is sensitive to what goes unsaid between they. Real trust asks they to stay reasonably grounded rather than merge completely and lose their own outline.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 28° Cancer 48' · seventh 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 closest partnerships tend to be transformative, sometimes bringing up real power struggles before genuine trust has a chance to settle in fully. Once that trust is actually built between they, the bond tends to run unusually deep and to hold under real pressure.
Aspects
How the planets in Dustin Hoffman's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Venus square Saturn
0.0° separating
Their desire for closeness can meet a fear that Dustin is not quite enough to keep it, showing up as self-doubt in relationships that have given they no real reason for it. Each time they let themselves be loved without earning it first, that fear eases.
Moon conjunction Neptune
0.6° separating
Their emotional life is deeply sensitive and imaginative, and they pick up on the moods around they almost before they register their own. This gives they real empathy, and the growth edge is learning whose feelings actually belong to they.
Mars trine Pluto
1.2° separating
Their drive and their capacity for transformation support each other, giving they real resilience under pressure and the ability to come back stronger from setbacks. This is quiet, formidable strength that other people notice mainly in how little it seems to cost they.
Moon trine Jupiter
1.3° applying
Their feelings and their optimism reinforce each other, giving they a naturally buoyant emotional life that recovers well from setbacks. People find real comfort in their presence, even on days when they have not said very much at all.
- Mercury trine Uranus1.9°
- Jupiter trine Neptune2.0°
- Sun square Uranus2.4°
- Uranus trine Neptune3.8°
- Moon trine Uranus4.5°
- Mars trine Saturn4.6°
- Mercury conjunction Neptune5.8°
- Jupiter trine Uranus5.8°
- Saturn trine Pluto5.9°
- Moon conjunction Mercury6.4°
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (Quoted BC/BR). Confidence AA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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