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James McAvoy

James McAvoy’s birth chart

Born April 21, 1979 in Glasgow, birth time not public.

Taurus Sun · Aquarius Moon · Earth · Fixed

Sun

Taurus

0° Taurus 44'

You build. Comfort, steadiness and things that last matter more to you than novelty, and people trust you because you do not change your mind for show. Your growth edge is letting go before something stops working.

Moon

Aquarius

23° Aquarius 02'

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.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

James McAvoy’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 0° Taurus 44'
Moon 23° Aquarius 02'
Mercury 3° Aries 26'
Venus 27° Pisces 56'
Mars 11° Aries 09'
Jupiter 0° Leo 05'
Saturn 7° Virgo 21'
Uranus 19° Scorpio 45'
Neptune 20° Sagittarius 16'
Pluto 17° Libra 29'
North Node 16° Virgo 39'
South Node 16° Pisces 39'

James McAvoy's full reading

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

  1. Sun in Taurus

    0° Taurus 44'

    purpose and vitality

    They find purpose in building something that lasts, and their vitality runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The tension is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. It shows up in how long they stay at one job or one home before they will admit it is time to move.

  2. Moon in Aquarius

    23° Aquarius 02'

    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.

  3. Mercury in Aries

    3° Aries 26'

    mind and voice

    They think in quick, decisive strokes and say what they mean without much preamble. The tension is speaking before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It shows up as finishing other people's sentences and preferring a fast decision to a long meeting.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    27° Pisces 56'

    love and values

    They love without much guard, and they value emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The tension is idealising a partner before they have really seen them. It shows up as giving generously to relationships and struggling to notice when James is giving more than James is getting.

  5. Mars in Aries

    11° Aries 09'

    drive and anger

    They act immediately and decisively, and their anger flares fast, hot and honest before it clears. The tension is acting before they have thought a situation all the way through. It shows up as starting the argument or the project the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.

  6. Jupiter in Leo

    0° Leo 05'

    growth and excess

    They grow through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. The overreach is overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. It shows up as a natural showmanship that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.

  7. Saturn in Virgo

    7° Virgo 21'

    discipline and doubt

    They build discipline around competence, often driven by a fear that they have not yet done enough to deserve rest. The doubt shows up as feeling like a fraud even when their actual track record says otherwise. It shows up as becoming genuinely, quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio

    19° Scorpio 45'

    freedom, generational

    Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that transforms power, secrecy and shared resources, often living through major upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. Personally, it can show up as a low tolerance for hidden agendas.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius

    20° Sagittarius 16'

    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

    17° Libra 29'

    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 James McAvoy's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Sun square Jupiter

    0.7° separating

    Their ambitions can outpace what their current resources or timeline can realistically support, leading to overpromising they later have to walk back. The lesson is scaling a genuinely good instinct to a size that actually holds.

  2. Venus trine Jupiter

    2.1° applying

    Their affections and their sense of abundance reinforce each other, giving they a warm, easy generosity in relationships. Good fortune in love and friendship tends to find they without much forcing, more consistently than most people would consider fair.

  3. Moon sextile Neptune

    2.8° separating

    Their feelings and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they easy access to empathy and intuition. This is a soft, likeable kind of emotional sensitivity, one that lets they read a room accurately without anyone having to explain it to they.

  4. Neptune sextile Pluto

    2.8° separating

    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.

  • Moon square Uranus3.3°
  • Mercury trine Jupiter3.4°
  • Mercury conjunction Venus5.5°
  • Moon trine Pluto5.6°
  • Mars opposition Pluto6.3°
  • Sun trine Saturn6.6°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars7.7°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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