Idris Elba’s birth chart

Idris Elba's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Virgo

   ♍ 13° Virgo 56'

   purpose and vitality

   They find purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and their energy is steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. The tension is feeling like they have not earned rest until everything is fixed. It shows up in the way they keep tweaking something long after everyone else would call it finished.

2. ☽Moon in Leo

   ♌ 28° Leo 46'

   needs and habits

   They need warmth and acknowledgement worked into their everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing they drain they faster than a hard day with an audience. It shows up as brightening visibly the moment someone compliments something small they did.

3. ☿Mercury in Virgo

   ♍ 1° Virgo 46'

   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.

4. ♀Venus in Cancer

   ♋ 28° Cancer 25'

   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.

5. ♂Mars in Virgo

   ♍ 14° Virgo 16'

   drive and anger

   They act carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and their anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. The tension is criticising instead of confronting when Idris is actually upset. It shows up as a clipped tone that signals frustration well before they say anything directly.

6. ♃Jupiter in Sagittarius

   ♐ 28° Sagittarius 43'

   growth and excess

   They grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than their usual life. The overreach is promising more than circumstances can deliver, fuelled by genuine optimism rather than dishonesty. It shows up as a faith that things will work out that, more often than average, turns out to be right.

7. ♄Saturn in Gemini

   ♊ 19° Gemini 58'

   discipline and doubt

   They build discipline around expressing themselves clearly, often after early doubt about whether their ideas were good enough to say out loud. The doubt shows up as overpreparing before they will speak or write anything. It shows up as becoming, later in life, unusually precise and credible with words, once the early self-consciousness eases.

8. ♅Uranus in Libra

   ♎ 16° Libra 33'

   freedom, generational

   Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who reshape ideas of partnership, fairness and relationship structure. Personally, it can show up as questioning traditional relationship roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.

9. ♆Neptune in Sagittarius

   ♐ 2° Sagittarius 37'

   imagination, generational

   Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of grand belief systems and utopian journeys. Personally, it can show up as a hopeful faith that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.

10. ♇Pluto in Libra

    ♎ 1° Libra 12'

    power, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of partnership, justice and social contracts. Personally, it can show up as an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.

Aspects

How the planets in Idris Elba's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Moon trine Jupiter

   0.1° separating

   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.

2. Sun conjunction Mars

   0.3° applying

   Their will and their identity are fused, giving they strong, immediate drive and a low tolerance for sitting still. They act on impulse more often than most, and channelling that energy toward a real goal serves they better than spending it on the first thing in front of they.

3. Mercury square Neptune

   0.8° applying

   Their thinking can blur under the pull of wishful assumptions or a compelling but unverified story. The lesson is pairing their genuine imagination with a habit of checking the details before they repeat the story as though it were already settled fact.

4. Neptune sextile Pluto

   1.4° applying

   Shared by this generation, the placement marks collective imagination and transformation cooperating gently, with relatively little friction. Personally, it can show up as cultural belief shifting alongside deeper change with real ease.

• Jupiter square Pluto2.5°
• Venus sextile Pluto2.8°
• Moon conjunction Mercury3.0°
• Mercury trine Jupiter3.1°
• Saturn trine Uranus3.4°
• Moon square Neptune3.9°
• Venus trine Neptune4.2°
• Mars square Saturn5.7°
• Sun square Saturn6.0°