Paul Simon's Birth Chart: Libra Sun, Cancer Moon, Virgo Rising

Mars in Aries acts first, directly, and without waiting for permission.

Mars in the 8th house is effective in crisis, and forceful about intimacy and shared money.

Saturn in Taurus works hard for security, and fears going without.

Saturn in the 9th house studies formally and adopts beliefs only after testing them.

Uranus in Taurus disrupts money, land and what a society calls valuable.

Uranus in the 9th house reaches its own beliefs, often against the ones it was taught.

Jupiter in Gemini grows through ideas and contacts, and spreads itself thin.

Jupiter in the 10th house builds a wide public reputation, and is tempted to overreach.

The Moon in Cancer feels deeply and attaches for good, with home as the anchor.

The Moon in the 11th house finds emotional belonging in friendship and shared causes.

Pluto in Leo dismantles inherited authority and insists on the individual.

Pluto in the 11th house keeps few deep friendships and quiet power inside groups.

Neptune in Virgo idealizes health, work and the improvement of small things.

Neptune in the 1st house softens the outline of the self and how others read it.

The Sun in Libra builds identity through relationships, fairness and balance.

The Sun in the 2nd house ties identity to resources, possessions and self-worth.

Mercury in Scorpio investigates, keeps what it learns and says little of it.

Mercury in the 3rd house is at home in speech, writing and everyday learning.

Venus in Sagittarius loves freely, and needs the relationship to leave room.

Venus in the 4th house makes home a place of beauty, comfort and welcome.

Discipline and imagination in easy agreement, capable of building an ideal and rarely asked to.

Need and anger in conflict, producing indirect temper and eventually a hard-won skill with conflict.

Innovation and imagination in easy agreement, a background tolerance needing a personal planet to show.

Confidence and opportunity in easy flow, which rewards effort and quietly discourages it.

Structure fused with disruption, reforming from inside the system, with brake and accelerator engaged.

Conscious aims at odds with instinctive needs, producing inner argument and, over time, real self-knowledge.

Depth and affection in easy agreement, magnetic and discreet, with influence exercised without reflection.

Affection in conflict with freedom, breaking intimacy on reflex until autonomy and fear are separated.

Drive at odds with identity, producing friction, temper, and eventually hard-earned technique.

Mind and feeling in easy agreement, fluent and articulate, and rarely pushed past the conversational.

Affection in conflict with limitation, scarce and self-doubting, requiring self-worth to be built.

A Virgo Ascendant meets the world carefully, noticing details first.

A Gemini Midheaven is known publicly for words, contacts and range.