Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Roman Polanski’s birth chart
Born August 18, 1933 in Paris at 10:30.
Leo Sun · Cancer Moon · Libra rising · Fire · Fixed
Sun
♌Leo
24° Leo 58'
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
♋Cancer
22° Cancer 27'
The Moon is at home here. Your feelings are tidal, strong and closely tied to the people you love, and you remember how everything felt. You are restored by home, by cooking, and by being needed.
Rising
♎Libra
15° Libra 23'
You come across as graceful, fair and easy to like. People feel considered in your company, and you are often the one asked to settle a disagreement.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♌ 24° Leo 58' | House 11 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♋ 22° Cancer 27' | House 10 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♌ 6° Leo 22' | House 10 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♍ 26° Virgo 14' | House 12 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♎ 24° Libra 58' | House 1 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♍ 25° Virgo 16' | House 12 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♒ 12° Aquarius 06'℞ | House 4 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♈ 27° Aries 19'℞ | House 7 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♍ 9° Virgo 21' | House 11 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 23° Cancer 51' | House 10 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♒ 28° Aquarius 35' | House 5 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♌ 28° Leo 35' | House 11 |
Roman Polanski's full reading
Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Leo
♌ 24° Leo 58' · eleventh house
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.
They find themselves through their friendships and the causes they throw their weight behind, more than through solitary achievement. Belonging to a group with a shared purpose brings out their best qualities, and being cut off from that kind of community can dim their spark.
☽Moon in Cancer
♋ 22° Cancer 27' · tenth house
needs and habits
Their needs are tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Roman is steadied by small rituals like a particular meal or a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that they absorb them as their own without noticing.
Their emotional security is tangled up with how their work is going and whether they feel respected publicly for what they do. A setback at work can hit they harder emotionally than it would hit someone else, even when they try to shrug it off.
☿Mercury in Leo
♌ 6° Leo 22' · tenth house
mind and voice
They think in confident, story-shaped terms and communicate with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. The tension is being more persuasive than accurate when Roman is attached to being right. It shows up as turning a simple update into something closer to a performance.
They think strategically about their reputation and their next career move, often turning plans over quietly in their head long before anyone else knows they exist. Clear, well-timed communication tends to serve their ambitions better than almost any other single skill they have.
♀Venus in Virgo
♍ 26° Virgo 14' · twelfth house
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.
Their affections run private and sometimes idealized, and they may love more deeply than they actually show on the surface to most people. Quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, mean more to they than public displays or grand romantic gestures ever could.
♂Mars in Libra
♎ 24° Libra 58' · first house
drive and anger
They act diplomatically and prefer negotiation to confrontation, and their anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. The tension is avoiding conflict so consistently that resentment builds underneath the calm surface. It shows up as agreeing to something they actually minded, then feeling it later.
They act first and think later, and their energy is direct, physical and genuinely hard to miss when they walk into a room. People experience they a someone who moves the moment a decision is made, rarely someone who lingers on it for long.
♃Jupiter in Virgo
♍ 25° Virgo 16' · twelfth house
growth and excess
They grow through mastering a craft in genuine, unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. The overreach is perfectionism that turns growth into an endless list of corrections. It shows up as being trusted with more responsibility than they think they have earned, largely because they actually have.
Their inner life holds a quiet sense of faith, and solitude often brings they real insight rather than isolation or loneliness. They tend to trust that things ultimately make sense, even in the moments when they genuinely cannot see the whole picture clearly yet.
♄Saturn in Aquarius
♒ 12° Aquarius 06' ℞ · fourth house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around belonging to a group on their own terms, often after early experiences of feeling like an outsider. The doubt shows up as holding back their stranger ideas until Roman is sure they will not be mocked. It shows up as becoming, eventually, a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community they once worried would not accept they.
Home and family responsibilities have likely weighed on they from a fairly early age, and building a stable home may have taken real, deliberate and sustained effort. The security they eventually create there means more precisely because of how much work it actually took.
♅Uranus in Aries
♈ 27° Aries 19' ℞ · seventh house
freedom, generational
Shared by everyone born in this multi-year span, this placement marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. Personally, it can show up as an impatience with slow-moving institutions that older generations built.
Their relationships tend to need more freedom and less convention than the average partnership, and Roman is drawn to partners who genuinely respect their independence. Sudden shifts in a relationship do not rattle they the way they rattle most other people they know.
♆Neptune in Virgo
♍ 9° Virgo 21' · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people whose collective imagination turns toward healing, service and idealised routines of self-improvement. Personally, it can show up as chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
Roman is drawn to friendships and causes with an idealistic edge, and they may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the merely practical. Disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when their effort was genuinely sincere.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 23° Cancer 51' · tenth house
power, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.
Their career may involve real reinvention at some point along the way, and Roman is drawn to positions of genuine influence rather than mere surface status. Public power interests they considerably more than public popularity, even though the two often get confused by others.
Aspects
How the planets in Roman Polanski's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Mars
0.0° applying
Their identity and their energy cooperate, giving they an easy, available confidence when they decide to use it. Taking initiative tends to go well for they, more often than they might expect, especially when the stakes are actually yours to own.
Venus conjunction Jupiter
1.0° separating
Their capacity for love and pleasure is generous and expansive, and they tend to enjoy life with real warmth. This makes they naturally good company, and the edge is noticing when generosity has quietly become excess.
Mars square Pluto
1.1° separating
Their drive can turn into a fight for control, whether with themselves or with people who resist they. Each time they choose to redirect that intensity into the actual work, this friction turns into real, lasting strength.
Moon conjunction Pluto
1.4° applying
Their emotional life runs deep and private, and they feel things with an intensity that can surprise even they. This gives they real emotional depth, and the growth edge is trusting that a feeling can be strong without needing to be hidden completely.
- Jupiter sextile Pluto1.4°
- Mars opposition Uranus2.3°
- Sun trine Uranus2.4°
- Venus sextile Pluto2.4°
- Moon square Mars2.5°
- Moon sextile Jupiter2.8°
- Uranus square Pluto3.5°
- Moon sextile Venus3.8°
- Moon square Uranus4.9°
- Mercury opposition Saturn5.7°
Roman’s couples, by the stars
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Confidence AA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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