Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Sean Penn’s birth chart
Born August 17, 1960 in Santa Monica at 15:17.
Leo Sun · Cancer Moon · Sagittarius 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
5° Cancer 42'
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
♐Sagittarius
16° Sagittarius 43'
You come across as open, frank and optimistic. People feel that anything might happen when you are around, and you say the thing everyone was thinking.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♌ 24° Leo 58' | House 8 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♋ 5° Cancer 42' | House 7 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♌ 11° Leo 55' | House 8 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♍ 10° Virgo 26' | House 9 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♊ 10° Gemini 11' | House 6 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♐ 23° Sagittarius 47'℞ | House 1 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♑ 12° Capricorn 28'℞ | House 1 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♌ 21° Leo 38' | House 8 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♏ 6° Scorpio 36' | House 11 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♍ 5° Virgo 29' | House 9 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♍ 15° Virgo 39' | House 9 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♓ 15° Pisces 39' | House 3 |
Sean Penn'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' · eighth 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.
Sean is drawn to what lies beneath the surface, in themselves and in the people close to they, and shallow exchanges leave they genuinely cold. Trust, once earned, becomes the ground they build their identity on, and they rarely open up before that trust exists.
☽Moon in Cancer
♋ 5° Cancer 42' · seventh house
needs and habits
Their needs are tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Sean 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.
They feel most themselves inside a close partnership, and they tend to read the emotional temperature of any relationship Sean is in almost constantly and instinctively. Being alone for too long can leave they feeling unmoored, even when nothing is actually wrong.
☿Mercury in Leo
♌ 11° Leo 55' · eighth 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 Sean is attached to being right. It shows up as turning a simple update into something closer to a performance.
Their mind is drawn to what is hidden, complicated or left unsaid, and surface-level small talk bores they within minutes. Sean is usually the one who asks the question everyone else in the room was quietly avoiding out of politeness.
♀Venus in Virgo
♍ 10° Virgo 26' · ninth 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.
Sean is drawn to beauty in other cultures, in travel and in big, sweeping ideas about how the world works. A shared love of exploring somewhere new can genuinely be part of what draws they to a person, and learning together appeals to they deeply.
♂Mars in Gemini
♊ 10° Gemini 11' · sixth house
drive and anger
They act through words, argument and quick maneuvering rather than force, and their anger tends to come out sharp and verbal. The tension is winning a point without actually resolving the conflict underneath it. It shows up as debating their way through a disagreement long after the other person just wants it to end.
They bring drive and real stamina to their daily work, and a repetitive task can frustrate they badly unless they find a way to push through it fast. Physical activity helps they burn off tension that quietly builds up in other, less obvious parts of their life.
♃Jupiter in Sagittarius
♐ 23° Sagittarius 47' ℞ · first house
growth and excess
They grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than their usual life. The overreach is promising more than circumstances can deliver, fuelled by genuine optimism rather than dishonesty. It shows up as a faith that things will work out that, more often than average, turns out to be right.
They carry a natural confidence and openness that people tend to notice right away, often before they have said very much at all. Growth and opportunity tend to follow they simply because they show up expecting things to work out reasonably well.
♄Saturn in Capricorn
♑ 12° Capricorn 28' ℞ · first house
discipline and doubt
Saturn is at home here, and they build discipline as naturally as breathing, often carrying responsibility earlier than most people their age. The doubt shows up as never quite believing they have achieved enough to relax. It shows up as an authority that others recognise well before Sean is willing to claim it themselves.
They may have felt older than their years growing up, and self-confidence for they tend to come through real, lived experience rather than being given freely at the start. What they build here lasts precisely because they built it slowly and carefully over time.
♅Uranus in Leo
♌ 21° Leo 38' · eighth house
freedom, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who redefine self-expression and individuality, often through new forms of creativity and visibility unavailable to earlier generations. Personally, it can show up as comfort being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
They approach intimacy and shared resources in their own particular way, sometimes resisting the usual expectations around trust or merging finances that other people take for granted. Sudden insights about themselves tend to arrive precisely through close, unguarded relationships rather than in solitude.
♆Neptune in Scorpio
♏ 6° Scorpio 36' · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people whose collective imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, often through a wider cultural fascination with secrets and endings. Personally, it can show up as being pulled toward mystery for its own sake.
Sean 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 Virgo
♍ 5° Virgo 29' · ninth house
power, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of work, health systems and daily life itself. Personally, it can show up as intensity around control, order and what a body or a system can actually handle.
Their beliefs may have gone through a real transformation at some point in their life, with an old worldview eventually giving way to one they personally tested and rebuilt. They do not take a philosophy on faith easily, and they tend to question it thoroughly first.
Aspects
How the planets in Sean Penn's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Moon sextile Pluto
0.2° separating
Their feelings and their depth cooperate, giving they acces to real emotional resilience without constant upheaval. They recover from hard feelings more easily than they might expect, and often faster than the people watching they go through it.
Venus square Mars
0.2° separating
Their desires and their need for harmony can clash, showing up as tension between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. The lesson is voicing a want directly instead of letting it leak out sideways.
Moon trine Neptune
0.9° applying
Their feelings and their imagination flow together with real ease, giving they a gentle, intuitive emotional life. Compassion for other people comes to they naturally, without much effort, in a way that makes people feel understood almost immediately.
Neptune sextile Pluto
1.1° applying
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.
- Sun trine Jupiter1.2°
- Mercury sextile Mars1.7°
- Venus trine Saturn2.0°
- Jupiter trine Uranus2.1°
- Sun conjunction Uranus3.3°
- Venus sextile Neptune3.8°
- Mars square Pluto4.7°
- Moon sextile Venus4.7°
- Venus conjunction Pluto4.9°
- Mercury square Neptune5.3°
- Moon opposition Saturn6.8°
- Saturn trine Pluto7.0°
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Confidence AA. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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