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Melissa McCarthy’s birth chart

ActressBorn August 26, 1970, Plainfield, Illinois, United States

Modest about a great deal of skill.

  • SunVirgoThe Fixer
  • MoonCancerThe Nest-Maker
  • VenusLibraThe Sweetheart

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she is

    Sun in Virgo, the Fixer

    Modest about a great deal of skill. Cares through careful, useful help, and has a wit that catches people off guard. Her confidence comes easily and spreads: she thinks big, and other people want to come along.

    The Sun sextile Jupiter (close at 1.4°)

  2. What she needs

    Moon in Cancer, the Nest-Maker

    Feels everything and needs a safe home and close people. Remembers every kindness. Her moods change without warning, and she wants closeness and room to breathe at the same time.

    The Moon square Uranus (almost exact at 0.8°)

  3. How she loves

    Venus in Libra, the Sweetheart

    Graceful, warm and drawn to harmony. Loves romance, beauty and a true partnership of equals.

  4. How she thinks

    Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst

    Clever, methodical and useful. Turns a muddle into a list and the list into results. She thinks in pictures and music: her words carry a mood, and her imagination gives her ideas colour.

    Mercury sextile Neptune (almost exact at 0.8°)

  5. What drives her

    Mars in Leo, the Leader

    Confident, dramatic and courageous. Puts heart into every effort and likes to lead from the front. Drive with the brakes on: she wants to move, something holds her back, and the friction makes her tough.

    Mars square Saturn (close at 2.7°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her mind and her intensity (the Sun, Mercury and Pluto) gather in Virgo, and that part of life draws her attention first. Most of her planets are in earth signs: the practical and the solid.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Melissa McCarthy was born five days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 23% lit, in Cancer. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Wednesday, twenty-seven days before the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Melissa McCarthy, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2000, at 29: her first Saturn return. The second begins in 2029. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Virgo

You and Melissa McCarthy

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Melissa McCarthy’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Melissa McCarthy’s zodiac sign?

Virgo. Melissa McCarthy was born on August 26, 1970, with the Sun in Virgo, the Fixer. Modest about a great deal of skill. Cares through careful, useful help, and has a wit that catches people off guard.

What is Melissa McCarthy’s Moon sign?

Cancer, the Nest-Maker. Feels everything and needs a safe home and close people. Remembers every kindness.

What is Melissa McCarthy’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on August 26, 1970. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Melissa McCarthy’s Venus sign?

Libra, the Sweetheart. Graceful, warm and drawn to harmony. Loves romance, beauty and a true partnership of equals.

How does your chart compare with Melissa McCarthy’s?

Set your chart beside Melissa McCarthy’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Melissa McCarthy’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: greg2600 (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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