Julian Assange’s birth chart
Born 3 July 1971, in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, at 15:00 (Rodden A).
Cancer Sun · Scorpio Moon · Sagittarius rising
Julian Assange’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Julian Assange was born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, on 3 July 1971, a Saturday. That makes Julian a Cancer, with the Moon in Scorpio and Sagittarius rising. Julian turns 55 in 2026. The birth time, 15:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
By element the count is four air, four water, one fire and one earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, three and four. The tightest aspect is Jupiter sextile Pluto, 0.1° from exact. Two planets were retrograde: Jupiter and Neptune. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 12 other people born on 3 July, among them Tom Cruise, Tom Stoppard and Laura Branigan.
Julian Assange’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Cancer
10° Cancer 38'
A Cancer Sun protects. For Julian Assange, home, memory and the people they have decided are theirs tend to sit at the centre of things, and they probably read a room before anyone speaks. Care is the strength of this Sun, and their task is to include themselves in it.
Moon sign
Scorpio
7° Scorpio 42'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Julian that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Sagittarius
2° Sagittarius 01'
With Sagittarius rising, Julian probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 15:00 on 3 July 1971, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 10° Cancer 38' | House 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 7° Scorpio 42' | House 12 |
| Mercury | 24° Cancer 03' | House 9 |
| Venus | 25° Gemini 28' | House 7 |
| Mars | 21° Aquarius 32' | House 4 |
| Jupiter | 27° Scorpio 17'℞ | House 12 |
| Saturn | 1° Gemini 40' | House 6 |
| Uranus | 9° Libra 32' | House 11 |
| Neptune | 0° Sagittarius 42'℞ | House 12 |
| Pluto | 27° Virgo 09' | House 11 |
| North Node | 15° Aquarius 05' | House 3 |
| South Node | 15° Leo 05' | House 9 |
Julian Assange’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Julian Assange’s private life.
Sun in Cancer
10° Cancer 38' · eighth house
purpose and vitality
With the Sun in Cancer, Julian Assange is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.
Julian is apt to go looking for what lies beneath the surface, in themselves and in the people close to them, and shallow exchanges may leave them cold. With the Sun in the eighth house, trust tends to become the ground their identity is built on, and opening up may wait until it exists.
Moon in Scorpio
7° Scorpio 42' · twelfth house
needs and habits
For Julian, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
In the twelfth house, the Moon describes an emotional life that runs deeper than what shows on the surface, and Julian may need uninterrupted solitude to work out what they are feeling underneath. Quiet time alone can be a need for them, not a treat, whatever other people assume.
Mercury in Cancer
24° Cancer 03' · ninth house
mind and voice
Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and Julian probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.
With Mercury in the ninth house, Julian thinks in big frameworks and enjoys following an idea all the way to where it leads, even if that means a change of mind along the way. Foreign ideas, languages and philosophies excite them more than familiar, well-worn ones.
Venus in Gemini
25° Gemini 28' · seventh house
love and values
Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Julian probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.
In the seventh house, Venus points to a knack for making a relationship feel balanced, fair and warm, and in Julian's chart it suggests partnership is where their charm shows most. Committed pairing tends to appeal more than casual or short-term connection.
Mars in Aquarius
21° Aquarius 32' · fourth house
drive and anger
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Julian can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Julian's chart it points to a protective instinct towards the people close to them. The placement is also linked with an urge to build, repair and rearrange, so that home is rarely a place that stands still.
Jupiter in Scorpio
27° Scorpio 17' ℞ · twelfth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Julian, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
Julian probably carries a quiet trust that things make sense, and solitude is apt to bring them insight rather than loneliness. With Jupiter in the twelfth house, that trust tends to hold even in the moments when the whole picture cannot yet be seen.
Saturn in Gemini
1° Gemini 40' · sixth house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Julian that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
With Saturn in the sixth house, Julian takes daily responsibilities seriously, sometimes to the point of being harder on themselves than the job requires. Saturn here keeps up a discipline over years, long after others would have let it slip.
Uranus in Libra
9° Libra 32' · eleventh house
freedom, generational
Julian holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Uranus in the eleventh house gathers an unusual, wide-ranging group of friends around Julian, who feels most alive contributing to causes that set out to change something. Belonging matters to them, but strictly on their own terms, and they resist any group that asks them to blend in.
Neptune in Sagittarius
0° Sagittarius 42' ℞ · twelfth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Julian in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
The twelfth house is Neptune's natural home, and Julian's inner life is likely to be rich with imagination, intuition and a sense of connection to something larger than themselves. Neptune here makes solitude less about being alone and more about tuning in to what is already there.
Pluto in Virgo
27° Virgo 09' · eleventh house
power, generational
Pluto in Virgo is shared by Julian and many people born in the same span of years. That generation lives through deep change in work, in how services are organised, and in daily life itself. In one person that can be intensity around control, order and how much any one system can carry.
Julian's loyalty, once given, holds through far more strain than a casual friendship could. With Pluto in the eleventh house, friendships and group involvements can carry intensity, sometimes including a falling-out that reshapes who counts as the true circle.
Aspects in Julian Assange’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
0.1° applying
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Julian Assange's sense of possibility and depth working in concert. The opportunities that matter tend to come at a manageable pace, not all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
Saturn opposition Neptune
1.0° separating
Grounded, practical planning sits opposite a tendency towards doubt, or disillusionment about whether the effort is worth it, and Julian is likely to know both. Checking in with the original inspiration, and not only with the workload, tends to restore the balance.
Sun square Uranus
1.1° separating
When the Sun is square Uranus, Julian's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Venus square Pluto
1.7° applying
Where Venus squares Pluto, the desire for closeness can get tangled with control, and the aspect is associated with jealousy, possessiveness or testing a partner's loyalty. Whenever Julian chooses trust over control, that intensity becomes a strength instead of a strain.
Sun trine Moon
2.9° applying
With a Sun-Moon trine, purpose and emotional needs back each other up with very little effort. Julian is likely to know what they want and to feel good pursuing it, which gives them an unusual, steady confidence that other people can sense.
Mercury sextile Pluto
3.1° applying
Julian's thinking can reach their depth when it needs to, which gives them insight without unnecessary intensity. With this aspect they are likely to notice what others miss, which makes them a useful person to have in a hard conversation.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Mercury trine Jupiter3.2°
- Jupiter conjunction Neptune3.4°
- Neptune sextile Pluto3.6°
- Venus trine Mars3.9°
- Jupiter opposition Saturn4.4°
- Saturn trine Pluto4.5°
- Mars square Jupiter5.8°
- Mercury trine Neptune6.6°
Cancer Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Julian Assange
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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