Steven Spielberg’s birth chart
Born 18 December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at 18:16 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Scorpio Moon · Cancer rising
Steven Spielberg’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 18 December 1946, a Wednesday. Their zodiac sign is Sagittarius, with the Moon in Scorpio and Cancer rising. Steven turns 80 in 2026. The birth time, 18:16, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is four fire, three water, two air and one earth. By modality the count is five fixed, three mutable and two cardinal. Moon, Venus and Jupiter all fall in Scorpio. Closest of the aspects is the trine between Mercury and Saturn, 0.4° from exact. Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 18 December, among them Brad Pitt, Christina Aguilera and Billie Eilish. Wikidata links Steven with one person in the dataset: Amy Irving (married in 1985, marriage ended in 1989).
Steven Spielberg’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
26° Sagittarius 27'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Steven Spielberg forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Scorpio
6° Scorpio 50'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Steven that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Cancer
10° Cancer 42'
With Cancer rising, Steven tends to come across as approachable and a little guarded. People often confide in a Cancer rising early and find that they are noticed in return; the shell opens on its own schedule.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 18:16 on 18 December 1946, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Sagittarius 27' | House 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 6° Scorpio 50' | House 5 |
| Mercury | 7° Sagittarius 48' | House 6 |
| Venus | 19° Scorpio 14' | House 5 |
| Mars | 1° Capricorn 08' | House 6 |
| Jupiter | 17° Scorpio 56' | House 5 |
| Saturn | 8° Leo 09'℞ | House 2 |
| Uranus | 19° Gemini 29'℞ | House 12 |
| Neptune | 10° Libra 38' | House 4 |
| Pluto | 13° Leo 06'℞ | House 2 |
| North Node | 11° Gemini 44' | House 12 |
| South Node | 11° Sagittarius 44' | House 6 |
Steven Spielberg’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Steven Spielberg’s private life.
Sun in Sagittarius
26° Sagittarius 27' · sixth house
purpose and vitality
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Steven Spielberg's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
Steven's identity, with the Sun in the sixth house, comes through the work they do every day and the small routines that keep them steady when everything else feels uncertain. Being useful is not a chore with this placement; it is part of how they know who they are and what they are for.
Moon in Scorpio
6° Scorpio 50' · fifth house
needs and habits
For Steven, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
The Moon in the fifth house can let Steven's feelings out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and without an outlet somewhere those feelings may quietly build up. Play is probably part of how Steven keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
Mercury in Sagittarius
7° Sagittarius 48' · sixth house
mind and voice
Steven's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Steven thinks in systems and checklists, and in how to make an everyday process work a little better than it did before. With Mercury in the sixth house, analysing the small details of a routine is satisfying in itself, not a chore they merely put up with.
Venus in Scorpio
19° Scorpio 14' · fifth house
love and values
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Steven is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
Venus in the fifth house can bring romance, creativity and pure enjoyment alive for Steven, and is associated with falling for people and projects with visible enthusiasm. Playfulness may well be one of Steven's most attractive qualities, drawing people in without much effort.
Mars in Capricorn
1° Capricorn 08' · sixth house
drive and anger
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in Steven's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Mars in the sixth house works with drive and stamina, and a repetitive task frustrates Steven unless there is a way to get through it fast. They like to be on the move, and physical effort is where tension from other parts of life gets used up.
Jupiter in Scorpio
17° Scorpio 56' · fifth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Steven, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Steven's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Steven is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Leo
8° Leo 09' ℞ · second house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Steven's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
With Saturn in the second house, Steven takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Gemini
19° Gemini 29' ℞ · twelfth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Steven and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Uranus in the twelfth house brings sudden insight in quiet or solitude, often surprising even Steven with where it comes from. Their inner world is apt to hold ideas that run ahead of language, waiting for the right moment to surface.
Neptune in Libra
10° Libra 38' · fourth house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Steven among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Steven is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Leo
13° Leo 06' ℞ · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Steven, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Pluto in the second house means Steven holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in Steven Spielberg’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury trine Saturn
0.4° applying
Steven Spielberg's thinking has discipline behind it, which gives them a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. With Mercury trine Saturn, conclusions can be trusted because they have usually been tested already, often more thoroughly than anyone nearby realises.
Moon square Saturn
1.3° applying
With the Moon square Saturn, emotional needs can run into self-doubt: a fear of asking for too much, or of feelings being an inconvenience. Each time Steven lets someone show up for them anyway, that fear loses a little of its grip.
Venus conjunction Jupiter
1.3° separating
Venus conjunct Jupiter tends to make Steven's capacity for love and pleasure generous and expansive, and it usually comes with a warm enjoyment of life. The result is naturally good company; the thing to watch is the point where generosity has quietly become excess.
Saturn sextile Neptune
2.5° separating
Steven's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Mercury sextile Neptune
2.8° applying
Steven's thinking and imagination cooperate gently, so creative and intuitive ideas are within easy reach. The inventiveness is soft and pleasant rather than analytical, useful for easing a difficult conversation without losing the point of it.
Sun conjunction Mars
4.7° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mars, Steven's will and identity are fused, which makes for strong, immediate drive and a low tolerance for sitting still. They probably act on impulse more often than most, and aiming that energy at a goal of their own serves them better than using it up on the first thing in front of them.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Neptune sextile Pluto2.5°
- Jupiter square Pluto4.8°
- Saturn conjunction Pluto5.0°
- Mercury trine Pluto5.3°
- Moon sextile Mars5.7°
- Venus square Pluto6.1°
- Moon square Pluto6.3°
- Sun opposition Uranus7.0°
Steven Spielberg in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Sagittarius Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Steven Spielberg
Also born on 18 December
Steven Spielberg in the StarMap archive
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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