Benedict Cumberbatch’s birth chart
The aspects
19 July 1976, 12:00, Hammersmith, United Kingdom
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Benedict as “you”.
Important elements of every horoscope are also the aspects – they are angles which the planets and other important points form with each other.
Here, we consider six most important aspects: Conjunction (0 degrees), Sextile (60 degrees), Square (90 degrees), Trine (120 degrees), Inconjunction (150 degrees), Opposition (180 degrees).
The more accurate the angle between two planets is, the more important and influential is their relationship in your horoscope. When calculating the aspects, we also consider a certain deviation, which depends on the importance of the aspect and the planets involved (deviation can be anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees of the exact angle).
There are also many smaller aspects, which are only important, if they are very accurate (up to 1 degree) and they, of course, have smaller power or influence. They can be of help with a more detailed and deeper analysis or description of personal horoscope, but for now, we do not take them into consideration.
Continue reading the analysis for all your aspects.
Sun square Moon
The Sun square the Moon often forces you to a certain inner fight between reason and emotions and that is why you are not always most successful in harmonizing the two areas. You often put you reason above your emotions (but this also depends on other positions and aspects), which usually leads to dissatisfaction. On the other hands, this inner dissatisfaction often motivates you, drives you forward and also encourages you to solve conflicts and pushes you to personal growth. You have difficulty completely relaxing, you often seem tense and nervous (that is why you often experience emotional problems or stress, which can lead to disease, especially if other positions and aspects also emphasize it).
Sun conjunction Mercury
Conjunction is actually the only aspect which the Sun and Mercury can form, because the maximum distance between them is less than 30 degrees (and so less than one astrological sign). You are usually a dynamic, moveable and persuasive person and usually have good ability of speech and communication. You quickly make conclusions and connections (unless Mercury is in another bad aspect or goes retrograde) and you often also have a good nose for business, you also master the art of bluffing. You have a sharp and quick mind, sense of detail and you are cunning, although you are also often talented in languages, writing, music and art. You are very sociable, also easy going and adaptable, that is why you have many acquaintances and friends and people, as a rule, like you and often invite you places. You have an audacious, curious and youthful nature and often also looks.
Sun sextile Jupiter
You are audacious and curious by nature, a good-natured, cheerful and hearty person. You love life and all pleasures, also nature, children and animals. You are positive, enthusiastic and convincing, you are a good influence on others and you motivate them with your impetus. Numerous opportunities come your way in your life and you can take advantage of many of them successfully, as well as of manifold acquaintances. This aspect is also favorable for your health.
Sun square Uranus
You are usually restless, nervous and also impulsive. You are an exciting, often a bit special person and you radiate something interesting. You attract others, you often draw them to you like a magnet, although you also tease them with your (special) way. You like challenges and things that are special in one way or the other, you are brave and audacious. Because of your inner restlessness and curiosity about everything, you are usually always on the go and constantly seek something or are walking the path, on which tons of exciting things are happening.
Moon square Mercury
You are restless, dynamic and fast, you are often prone to being nervous. Your mind is always active; you constantly need a thinking challenge and rarely completely relax or calm down (unless other aspects and positions indicate differently). You are usually talkative and you like expressing in different areas. Often your words are quicker than your thoughts, that is why you frequently get in conflict with others. Being in a calm environment and nurturing being grounded is very important to you, you also need a lot of attention and encouragement, otherwise you quickly start to get bored. It is very useful for you to do something creative, writing is appropriate and advisable.
Moon square Venus
You are usually emotional and passionate, but often also shy and reserved, you prefer to hold in your strong emotions and therefore often have inner emotional struggles and you succumb to emotional swings and quick mood changes. You have strong appetites in all areas, which usually reflects in making too quick or too frequent contacts and it can also reflect in you being insatiable and eating too much, that is why you are prone to obesity (if other aspects and positions contribute to that). It is advisable and useful for you to do something creative, e.g. painting and sculpturing or gardening, etc.
Moon square Saturn
You are usually a serious, persistent, decisive, enterprising and ambitious person, sometimes you even exaggerate in your ambitiousness and don't take others into consideration, that is why you are not always the most popular among people. Because of your emotional reservations and because you don't seem to be the most warm person, others often experience you as a rather cold person. You constantly strive for progression and better material standard, with which you try to substitute your possible lack of love or warmth. You often worry and find it difficult to relax. For you, it is very advisable to be creative in art of a more tangible nature or such that also creates actual results, such as sculpturing, wood carving, etc., contact with earth is also useful for you.
Moon opposition Uranus
Such aspect brings unrest, nervousness and impulsiveness; you are often prone to being nervous and irritable. You are constantly driven by something, you have curious nature and are always exploring. Emotionally, you are too sensitive and moody and not always understood, so you sometimes feel lonely and alienated, but because of your exciting energy, you attract people and usually at least awake their interest. You are creative, innovative and have strong intuition, which usually appears as a flash of wit, but sometimes you wander in your own world and lose the ground beneath your feet. Because you are extremely sensitive, you react strongly to medicine and aggressive substances, you are prone to allergy, you can also be slightly anemic. You need emotionally dynamic relationships and you don't like routine. For you, it is useful to work in areas, which are involved with the common good (nature, ecology...), it is very advisable you keep frequent contact with nature and earth, because you need to be grounded.
Mercury conjunction Venus
You are usually a good-spirited person and have a pleasant nature, are sociable and talkative, you always find a way to express your creativity. You love children, animals, nature and art and often your work (or hobby) is connected to them. You are also skilled in household chores, especially those which are connected to handwork and systematization (e.g. organizing, tidying, putting things in order).
Mercury conjunction Saturn
You are usually a very organized, methodical and systematical person. All your actions are guided by your accurate and disciplined mind, nothing is left to coincidence. This aspect also brings excessive self-restraint and sometimes rigidity in your thinking and acting; you accept other models of thinking and acting with difficulty. You often worry and dwell in dark thoughts, you find it difficult to relax.
Mercury square Uranus
You are a very restless person and practically have a constantly active mind; you are extremely intelligent and have endless mind potentials, which you try to take advantage of, but are not always successful, since you act too quickly and slapdash because of your multi-layerness. You are interested in everything, you want to get to all the dimensions of everything. You are very original and inventive, fast and agile, others often follow you and don't always understand you; sometimes you are perceived and seen as being freaky or even eccentric. You can usefully direct the abundance of your intellectual energy to education and science.
Venus conjunction Saturn
You are usually friendly, polite and respectful, yet reserved and shy. You have a serious, reliable and responsible character. You behave like an adult already from at a young age. You find it hard to relax, have fun and enjoy. This is often the result of strict upbringing or lack of warmth and love or loving environment in childhood.
Venus square Uranus
You are restless, eager and impulsive. You react quickly, are always in action, you have difficulties calming down. If nothing is happening or if things don't happen fast enough, you become impatient or even change your mind. Although you are unpredictable and others often see you as unreliable, you have enough attraction and inventiveness to convince them again and again.
Venus trine Neptune
You are very emotional, sensitive and compassionate, also friendly, pleasant and attractive, that is why other people like you a lot. You are often surrounded by a certain mysteriousness. You are extremely intuitive and have vivid imagination, which you use to good effect. You are interested in art and beautiful things and often also have big talent and success in these areas. In emotional relationships, you are dedicated, gentle and loving and also have beautiful and fulfilling emotional and other relationships.
Venus sextile Pluto
You have a lot of energy which you efficiently accumulate and renew. Health is important to you, you don't cross your boundaries, you are appreciative and quickly realize the value of things. You are enterprising and often have a good nose for business, you like doing business.
Venus sextile Ascendant
You are a pleasant person who is usually popular because of your positive orientation, others like being in your company. You are witty and sociable, interested in beauty and art, you often create in these areas.
Mars sextile Uranus
You have a dynamic and flexible, sociable and playful nature and open spirit. You have fresh approaches and enough charm to awake interest and affection in other people. You are interested in novelties and technical things and often have a talent to work in these areas.
Mars square Neptune
You are emotional, sensitive and have strong intuition, but it is often not of much help to you; whether you don't follow it or you place too much importance on different possible perspectives, which are often only your mind constructs and fantasies or even your escape from reality and this actually distances you from the right path. You indulge in daydreaming and sometimes you spend too much time and attention daydreaming, so you are caught in a vicious circle of inactivity and stressful and depressive emotions.
Mars sextile MC
You are a dynamic, flexible and always active person, you don't do anything by force. You have a good sense of doing the right activity at the right time, because you have good instincts and you make decisions quickly and also react quickly in every situation. You often have good connections, which you also know how to cash in well.
Saturn square Uranus
You are usually ambitious, you strive for development and progress and don't chose classic or preordained paths, although you don't belittle and neglect them. You often have a stubborn and rebellious character and try to change existing systems or want to introduce new ones.
Saturn trine Neptune
You are polite, respectful and understanding. You often have creative nature, good and original ideas and vivid imagination, also sense of balancing your earthly and firmer side with your emotional and experimental side, so you can fulfill numerous plans and set goals.
Saturn sextile Pluto
You are usually a hard-working, disciplined, organized, persistent and decisive person. You have a perspicacious character and are a good judge. You respect knowledge and appreciate true authorities, also tradition and traditional values, you are interested in ‘men's areas’ (e.g. politics).
Saturn sextile Ascendant
You are usually a friendly, polite and respectful, also reserved and often shy person. You usually don't stand out with your character, you are rather modest. You appreciate knowledge and science, are interested in history and similar sciences, you respect elders and authorities and gladly learn from them, often they also help you on your path.
Neptune sextile Pluto
You are emotional, intuitive and usually have a very rich inner and dream world. You are interested in everything which is mysterious and creates agitation. You are creative and have active imagination.
Neptune sextile Ascendant
You are pleasant, kind and agreeable, easy-going, flexible and fluent. You have an emotional and compassionate, mild, benevolent and understanding character, that is why other people usually like you, you get along with them well and have harmonious relationships.
Neptune inconjunct MC
You are an extremely sensitive person, you have changeable character and it influences everything you do and your relationships. Because you are over-sensitive, moody and changeable, others may find you difficult and/or unreliable and so you sometimes can't find a common language and your ideas can remain unfulfilled.
Pluto conjunction Ascendant
You are an energetic person with enormous amount of inner strength which you radiate , that is why you attract others with your charisma and you are always noticed in company, even if you don't stand out and aren't in the forefront. You have a perspicacious character, are a good observer and judge, you have strong intuition. You are not too patient and tolerant, also not tactful. You are emotional, sensitive and sensual, impulsive, fiery and passionate, you do everything intensively and impetuously, you rarely act lightly or leisurely. You are also irritable and argumentative, sometimes even violent (unless other aspects and positions prevail), you can also experience many injuries. You find it difficult to calm down and tame your exceptional strength, that is why you sometimes find it difficult to get along with yourself and with others. Usually, you experience frequent changes in life, also very important and sometimes radical ones, but you always find the strength to regenerate and move forward.
Pluto square MC
You are usually an intensive, energetic, enterprising, very ambitious and capable person, but often you are preventing yourself to succeed, because you are not too tolerant, patient and tactful. You have enormous strength, are extremely capable and you expect and demand this from others as well and are not always understanding and compassionate to others and don't take their opinions into consideration, so your business and other cooperation with people can sometimes be difficult. You need to nurture tolerance and tactfulness.
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