Actor
Michael Emerson
Earth holds four of his ten planets, water four, and fire and air one each. Earth builds and water keeps the record of it; the elements that would force a thing or argue it out are down to a planet apiece. The record says Emerson won two Emmys, for Lost and for Person of Interest.
The Sun sits at fifteen degrees of Virgo with Mercury on the twenty ninth degree of the same sign, and the Moon answers from Capricorn. Virgo notices the exact detail and corrects it; Capricorn counts what everything costs. Venus sits on the first degree of Scorpio. For an actor whose awards came for two series rather than for films, a Virgo Sun with speech at the very end of the sign is as apt a placement as this project finds.
Mars makes easy contact with Saturn at under a quarter of a degree, drive and the planet of discipline agreeing completely, and makes an easy skill of its contact with Neptune at nine tenths. Nothing else comes inside a degree, and not one of his ten planets was retrograde at his birth, so this is both a loose chart and an undivided one. No named pattern forms anywhere in it. For an actor, drive and discipline in complete agreement is the aspect that produces stillness rather than force.
Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Cancer birth degree on 25 May 2026, at seventy one, and five circuits come before it. Cancer counts what is still in the house, and for a record that names two awards thirty years into a career, what is still there is the measure that recognises it. Drive and discipline in complete agreement, in an actor, is the aspect that produces stillness rather than force. A Mercury on the twenty ninth degree of Virgo, with Venus on the first of Scorpio, is the detail underneath it: speech at the far end of the exacting sign and taste right at the start of the withholding one. With one planet in fire and one in air, nothing here ever needed to raise its voice.
- Born
- 1954-09-07, Cedar Rapids, USAA Tuesday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Capricorn
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Birth Chart
1954-09-07, Cedar Rapids, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Chicagothe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 14°31′ | Direct |
| Moon | Capricorn | 9°16′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 28°57′ | Direct |
| Venus | Scorpio | 0°41′ | Direct |
| Mars | Capricorn | 5°26′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 22°54′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 5°40′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Cancer | 26°19′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Libra | 24°19′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 25°19′ | Direct |
Michael Emerson is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Michael Emerson was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.
