Mel Gibson’s birth chart
Born 3 January 1956, in Peekskill, New York, at 16:45 (Rodden B).
Capricorn Sun · Libra Moon · Cancer rising
Mel Gibson’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, on 3 January 1956, a Tuesday. The Sun was in Capricorn, so Capricorn is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Libra and Cancer rising. Mel turns 70 in 2026. The birth time, 16:45, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
By element the count is three earth, three water, two fire and two air. Fixed signs hold six, cardinal signs three and mutable signs one. Scorpio holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Saturn and Neptune. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Mercury and Saturn, 0.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 12 other people born on 3 January, among them Sergio Leone, Jisoo and Florence Pugh.
See the sky the night Mel was born: the stars over Peekskill, New York at 16:45, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Mel Gibson’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
12° Capricorn 30'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Mel Gibson up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Libra
0° Libra 00'
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Mel, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
Cancer
14° Cancer 59'
With Cancer rising, Mel tends to come across as approachable and a little guarded. People often confide in a Cancer rising early and find that they are noticed in return; the shell opens on its own schedule.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 16:45 on 3 January 1956, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 12° Capricorn 30' | House 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 0° Libra 00' | House 4 |
| Mercury | 29° Capricorn 17' | House 7 |
| Venus | 13° Aquarius 08' | House 8 |
| Mars | 23° Scorpio 19' | House 5 |
| Jupiter | 1° Virgo 03'℞ | House 3 |
| Saturn | 29° Scorpio 10' | House 5 |
| Uranus | 1° Leo 02'℞ | House 1 |
| Neptune | 0° Scorpio 11' | House 4 |
| Pluto | 28° Leo 20'℞ | House 3 |
| North Node | 17° Sagittarius 04' | House 6 |
| South Node | 17° Gemini 04' | House 12 |
Mel Gibson’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Mel Gibson’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Mel Gibson is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
Mel's identity, with the Sun in the sixth house, comes through the work they do every day and the small routines that keep them steady when everything else feels uncertain. Being useful is not a chore with this placement; it is part of how they know who they are and what they are for.
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Mel's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
For Mel, the Moon in the fourth house can make home the place where emotions live, and the placement is associated with unusual sensitivity to the mood of a household. A settled home probably steadies almost everything else, while chaos there can unsettle them quickly.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Mel tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Mel will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Mercury in the seventh house is associated with thinking best out loud with another person, and Mel may need to talk an idea through with someone before it feels settled. Negotiation and dialogue may come more naturally than solitary decisions, which rarely sit comfortably for long.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Mel may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
Venus in the eighth house wants intimacy that goes all the way down, not the kind that stays comfortably light, and Mel is inclined to build trust slowly and value it highly once it exists. The placement suggests that whatever Mel shares with someone means more when the bond behind it is solid.
In Mel's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
With Mars in the fifth house, Mel is apt to go after what excites them without much hesitation, and creative and romantic pursuits can carry intensity. The placement brings competition and passion alive in this part of life, and is rarely satisfied by a half-hearted effort.
Jupiter in Virgo
1° Virgo 03' ℞ · third house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Virgo finds its growth in mastering a craft in unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. For Mel, perfectionism may be the excess, turning growth into an endless list of corrections. People with this Jupiter are often trusted with more responsibility than they feel they deserve, usually because the care in the work shows.
With Jupiter in the third house, Mel is curious by nature and enjoys learning new things, and their ideas spread easily, shared with contagious enthusiasm. Teaching suits them well, and they rarely hoard what they know for its own sake.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Mel letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Saturn in the fifth house can make self-expression and romance feel risky or quietly judged, so that for Mel playfulness is something to be practised rather than something that comes easily. Creative confidence is likely to be something grown into over time, arriving later than it does for most people.
Uranus in Leo
1° Leo 02' ℞ · first house
freedom, generational
Mel shares Uranus in Leo with a generation, one that redefines self-expression and individuality, often through forms of creativity and visibility that were not available before. Closer to home, it suggests being comfortable with being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
With Uranus in the first house, Mel is likely to come across as unconventional and hard to define, even by their own account, with labels fitting loosely at best. The placement goes with a presence that shifts the energy of a room by being unpredictable in a way people cannot quite place.
Neptune in Scorpio
0° Scorpio 11' · fourth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Scorpio marks a long season that Mel shares with many people of a similar age. Its imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, with a wider cultural fascination for secrets and endings. In an individual that can be a pull towards mystery for its own sake.
Mel is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Leo
28° Leo 20' ℞ · third house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Mel, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
With Pluto in the third house, Mel's mind is drawn to what lies underneath a conversation, and they rarely settle for the tidy, surface version of an explanation. Words can be a way of exposing what other people would rather leave hidden, even when that makes things briefly uncomfortable.
Aspects in Mel Gibson’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury sextile Saturn
0.1° separating
Turning a loose idea into something solid is easier with Mercury sextile Saturn, because Mel Gibson's thinking and sense of structure work together. The clarity is quiet and practical, and it shows most when a plan has to work.
Moon trine Mercury
0.7° separating
Mel can probably explain what they feel almost as soon as they feel it, because feeling and thinking flow together easily here. A Moon-Mercury trine makes for a comforting voice in emotional moments, and people with it are often the ones others call first when something has gone wrong.
Moon sextile Saturn
0.8° separating
Mel's feelings have a sense of structure to lean on, which gives them a workable, grounded way of managing difficult emotions. Call it quiet resilience rather than avoidance, the kind that holds up over a long stretch of time.
Saturn square Pluto
0.8° separating
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Mel may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
0.9° applying
Inspired ideas are within Mel's reach without any loss of footing, since possibility and imagination are gently linked by this sextile. The optimism is soft and workable, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift far from what is real.
Mercury square Neptune
0.9° applying
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Mel is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
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.
- Uranus square Neptune0.8°
- Moon sextile Uranus1.0°
- Mercury opposition Uranus1.7°
- Neptune sextile Pluto1.9°
- Saturn trine Uranus1.9°
- Jupiter square Saturn1.9°
- Jupiter conjunction Pluto2.7°
- Mars square Pluto5.0°
- Mars conjunction Saturn5.8°
Capricorn Sun and Libra Moon, like Mel Gibson
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Mel Gibson in the StarMap archive
Pages from the celebrity-homes site StarMap used to be, newest first.
- Inside Mel Gibson’s Lavender Hill Farm Malibu Estate · archived 2012
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 (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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