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Actor · Aquarius Sun

Paul Mescal birth chart

February 2, 1996
Maynooth, Ireland
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunAquarius

☽︎MoonCancer

Main elementWater 42%

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Aquarius Sun, from the Lir Academy to an Academy Award nomination

Sun and Mars in Aquarius read as someone who would rather skip the standard route.

The route here is oddly standard: The Lir Academy, plays in Dublin theatres, Normal People in 2020 and a British Academy Television Award, then a film debut in 2021 and an Academy Award nomination for the 2022 film Aftersun.

Venus in Pisces conjunct Saturn in Pisces is the quieter placement, by the book feeling held back and released slowly.

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Mars in Aquarius

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Venus in Pisces

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Saturn in Pisces

Only in this chart

By sign alone Paul Mescal has look-alikes, so degrees do the splitting: Saturn at 22° Pisces and Venus at 22° Pisces, and no other chart here sits within a degree or so on both. François Truffaut misses by one planet.

Mars in Aquarius with Jupiter in Capricorn. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 162 here, Dove Cameron and Scarlett Johansson among them.
Jupiter and Saturn swap signs. Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Pisces each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Sasha Pieterse's chart, 1 chart in 54 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, an Aquarius Sun reads as original and independent, a Cancer Moon as protective and loyal: a 150° gap astrologers call awkward, two parts that need translating, the same pair Joseph Quinn carries. Elements run water 42%, air 40%, earth 16%, fire 2%, cardinal first at 44%, the nearest mix to Toni Morrison.

Planets

Gold lines: Venus conjunct Saturn (0.0°), Mercury sextile Venus (3.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♒︎ Aquarius 12°refuses the defaultnearest chart: Ayn Rand 12°
☽︎Moon · emotions♋︎ Cancerremembers every mood, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♑︎ Capricorn 19°plans in five-year chunksnearest chart: Romain Rolland 19°
♀︎Venus · taste♓︎ Pisces 22°loves without edgesnearest chart: John Tyler 22°
♂︎Mars · drive♒︎ Aquarius 19°rebels on principlenearest chart: Josh Peck 19°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♑︎ Capricorn 6°grows by earning itnearest chart: Doyoung 6°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♓︎ Pisces 22°learns to hold a linenearest chart: Aya Nakamura 22°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♒︎Uranus in Aquarius25% of charts here

♆︎ ♑︎Neptune in Capricorn30% of charts here

♇︎ ♐︎Pluto in Sagittarius28% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Venus conjunct Saturn (0.1°). Taste and self-control act as one, and only Ray Bradbury and Peter Dinklage have it tighter at noon.
Mercury sextile Venus (2.5°). The mind gets an easy opening from taste, as tight as Sydney Sweeney’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Dobby
Marvel: Professor X
Star Wars: Luke Skywalker
The Apothecary Diaries: Luomen
Demon Slayer: Tanjiro Kamado
One Piece: Koby
Spider-Man: Peter Parker

Full match · 15 worldsPaul Mescal in…

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Famous people whose charts click with Paul Mescal

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Closest chart twins

Doyoung, born 1 day earlier: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
Robert Burns, 237 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn signs, average gap 19°.
Sasha Pieterse is the nearest in film (1996): same Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Mercury and Venus.

Born on February 2

February 2 also belongs to Shakira (1977, music), Ayn Rand (1905, history) and Gerard Piqué (1987, sport). February 2, 1996 was a Friday, and the Moon was waxing gibbous.

Among actors and directors

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Cancer is the rarest among actors and directors (4%), closest to Louis Partridge and Daniela Melchior. Aquarius ranks 11th of 12 Suns here (6%, against 8% across the base), with Sasha Pieterse and Ariel Winter nearest on the same Sun.