Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Nicholas Ray’s birth chart
Born August 7, 1911 in La Crosse, birth time not public.
Leo Sun · Capricorn Moon · Fire · Fixed
Sun
♌Leo
14° Leo 05'
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
♑Capricorn
17° Capricorn 21'
You feel responsibly. You hold yourself together for other people and can be hard on yourself when you cannot. You are restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person you let see you tired.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
Nicholas Ray’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♌ 14° Leo 05' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♑ 17° Capricorn 21' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♍ 10° Virgo 50' | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♍ 24° Virgo 18' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♉ 14° Taurus 37' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♏ 6° Scorpio 31' | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♉ 19° Taurus 37' | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♑ 26° Capricorn 41'℞ | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♋ 22° Cancer 09' | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♊ 28° Gemini 30' | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♉ 4° Taurus 43' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♏ 4° Scorpio 43' |
Nicholas Ray's full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Leo
♌ 14° Leo 05'
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.
☽Moon in Capricorn
♑ 17° Capricorn 21'
needs and habits
Their comfort comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave they oddly unsettled even on holiday. They keep their harder feelings for when Nicholas is alone. It shows up as tidying, organising or finishing one more task before they allow themselves to rest.
☿Mercury in Virgo
♍ 10° Virgo 50'
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.
♀Venus in Virgo
♍ 24° Virgo 18'
love and values
They love through small, practical acts of service, and they value competence and reliability in a partner. The tension is critiquing the people they love the most, mistaking notes for care. It shows up as fixing a partner's problem before they have simply listened to it.
♂Mars in Taurus
♉ 14° Taurus 37'
drive and anger
They act deliberately and stick with a course once they have chosen it, and their anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. The tension is digging in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It shows up as needing real provocation to snap, and staying rattled for a while after they do.
♃Jupiter in Scorpio
♏ 6° Scorpio 31'
growth and excess
They grow through facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, which tends to pay off later even when it costs something now. The overreach is an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. It shows up as a resilience people notice only after they have already come through the hard part.
♄Saturn in Taurus
♉ 19° Taurus 37'
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around financial and material security, often after a period of real scarcity or instability that taught they to take nothing for granted. The doubt shows up as a fear that stability could disappear even once it clearly has not. It shows up as a caution around spending that outlasts the circumstances that first caused it.
♅Uranus in Capricorn
♑ 26° Capricorn 41' ℞
freedom, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and authority structures. Personally, it can show up as scepticism toward systems that ask for trust without having earned it.
♆Neptune in Cancer
♋ 22° Cancer 09'
imagination, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who idealise home and family, often carrying a wider cultural nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never have quite existed. Personally, it can show up as a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
♇Pluto in Gemini
♊ 28° Gemini 30'
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that transforms communication and collective thought itself, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. Personally, it can show up as an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects
How the planets in Nicholas Ray's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Sun square Mars
0.5° applying
Their sense of self and their drive to act can clash, producing impatience or a habit of picking fights they did not need to pick. Learning to pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into real, usable determination.
Venus sextile Neptune
2.2° separating
Their affections and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they easy access to romance and creative warmth. This is soft, pleasant tenderness rather than intense longing, the sort that makes ordinary moments with someone feel a little more meaningful.
Moon trine Saturn
2.3° applying
Their feelings and their sense of discipline support each other, so they manage difficult emotions with real maturity and without much drama. This steadiness is a genuine asset, especially under pressure, and it is often the quality people trust they for the most.
Venus trine Uranus
2.4° applying
Their affections and their independence cooperate easily, letting they stay close to people without feeling confined by it. Excitement and stability manage to coexist for they, more comfortably than the usual choice between the two would suggest.
- Saturn sextile Neptune2.5°
- Moon trine Mars2.7°
- Mercury trine Mars3.8°
- Venus square Pluto4.2°
- Mercury sextile Jupiter4.3°
- Uranus opposition Neptune4.5°
- Venus trine Saturn4.7°
- Moon opposition Neptune4.8°
- Mars conjunction Saturn5.0°
- Sun square Saturn5.5°
- Moon trine Mercury6.5°
- Moon trine Venus7.0°
- Sun square Jupiter7.6°
Nicholas’s couples, by the stars
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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