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Rachel McAdams’ birth chart

ActressBorn November 17, 1978, London, Ontario, Canada

Intense, private and loyal.

  • SunScorpioThe Detective
  • MoonGeminior Cancer
  • VenusScorpioThe Devotee

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she is

    Sun in Scorpio, the Detective

    Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing. Funnier than people expect, and kinder in private than in public. Born original: her identity and her need for freedom are the same thing, and she surprises people, herself included.

    The Sun conjunction Uranus (wide at 7.8°)

  2. What she needs

    Moon in Gemini or Cancer, the Talker

    Light on her feet emotionally. Feels at home in a good conversation and gets restless in silence.

    For a birth after 3:16 p.m., her Moon was in Cancer.

  3. How she loves

    Venus in Scorpio, the Devotee

    Loves intensely and loyally. Wants a close, honest bond and nothing less. She loves too much of a good thing: pleasure, praise and grand gestures run past what one life can use.

    Venus square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.8°)

  4. How she thinks

    Mercury in Sagittarius, the Philosopher

    A wide-ranging mind. Learns by asking, travelling and following a question as far as it goes. A poet’s mind: she hears what goes unsaid, and her best ideas come from somewhere hard to explain.

    Mercury conjunction Neptune (almost exact at 0.2°)

  5. What drives her

    Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion

    Adventurous and principled. Throws herself behind big causes and what is right. Drive with the brakes on: she wants to move, something holds her back, and the friction makes her tough.

    Mars square Saturn (close at 1.3°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her heart and her independence (the Sun, Venus and Uranus) gather in Scorpio, and that part of life draws her attention first. In her chart, fire signs hold the most planets: instinct and enthusiasm.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Rachel McAdams was born three days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 92% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Friday, 34 days before the December solstice.

  • Venus retrograde

    Venus was retrograde all the day Rachel McAdams was born, as it was on 42 days of 1978. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Rachel McAdams, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2008, at 29: her first Saturn return. The second begins in 2037. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Scorpio

You and Rachel McAdams

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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.

Rachel McAdams’ chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Rachel McAdams’ zodiac sign?

Scorpio. Rachel McAdams was born on November 17, 1978, with the Sun in Scorpio, the Detective. Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing.

What is Rachel McAdams’ Moon sign?

Gemini or Cancer. The Moon moved from Gemini into Cancer at 3:16 p.m. that day, local time: in Gemini for a birth before then, in Cancer for one after.

What is Rachel McAdams’ 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 November 17, 1978. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Rachel McAdams’ Venus sign?

Scorpio, the Devotee. Loves intensely and loyally. Wants a close, honest bond and nothing less.

How does your chart compare with Rachel McAdams’?

Set your chart beside Rachel McAdams’ 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 Rachel McAdams’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, 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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