The life of Russell Brand
Who is Russell Brand?
Russell Brand built a stand-up career in Britain in the 2000s and wrote openly about addiction and recovery in his memoir My Booky Wook. He moved into Hollywood comedy with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, and later shifted to political commentary and online broadcasting.
Defining moments
Russell Brand and Laura Gallacher marry
Neptune squared his first-house Sun 149 days before the wedding, marking a period of personal realignment and shifting identity that dissolved old patterns well ahead of his marriage.
The Marriage in the timeline ↓Russell Brand and Jemima Goldsmith end their relationship
The Separation in the timeline ↓Russell Brand and Jemima Goldsmith begin a relationship
The Partnership in the timeline ↓Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorce
The Divorce in the timeline ↓Russell Brand's birth chart
☾ Born Jun 4, 1975 · 12:05 AM GMT+1 · Orsett, Essex, United Kingdom · Birth data: A · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
Russell Brand pairs an unaspected Gemini Mercury with an Aries Moon, channeling raw impulse into rapid-fire improvisation. His life path spans public excess, recovery memoirs, Hollywood comedies, and independent broadcasting.
Sun in Gemini in the 4th house reflects his focus on autobiographical exploration and rapid linguistic versatility in memoirs like My Booky Wook.
Moon in Aries in the 2nd house fuels an instinctual, fiery emotional style that powered his early stand-up and confrontational interview presence.
Capricorn Rising is a formal threshold that the Aries Moon in the second house keeps overrunning. Lilith in the first house makes the manner deliberately harder to place than the structure suggests.
How Russell Brand's chart holds together
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Elements and modalities
cardinal-heavy by a wide margin, with no element standing out.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 🜃 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 🜁 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 🜄 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
Elements
Modalities
Chart patterns that stand out
A missing modality: no planets acting in that mode at all
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See celebrities with this pattern →Mercury unaspected: running with no major aspect to anchor it
See celebrities with this pattern →A missing element: no planets carrying that element at all
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read Russell Brand's chart
the full reading
13 placements in the chart signature →Natal Chart
placidus houses
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Exact planetary positions
● Sun, Moon or chart ruler · ℞ retrograde
| Body | Position | House | Motion | Theme | Sabian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | ♈︎ Aries 4°31' | 2 | - | — | Zeal |
| Mars | ♈︎ Aries 10°11' | 2 | - | — | Idealization |
| Jupiter | ♈︎ Aries 17°18' | 2 | - | — | Recuperation |
| Chiron | ♈︎ Aries 26°44' | 2 | - | — | Recall |
| Sun | ♊︎ Gemini 12°44' | 4 | - | — | Virtuosity |
| Mercury | ♊︎ Gemini 22°36' | 5 | ℞ | — | Potential |
| Saturn | ♋︎ Cancer 17°18' | 6 | - | — | Provision |
| Venus | ♋︎ Cancer 27°25' | 6 | - | — | Integration |
| Pluto | ♎︎ Libra 6°32' | 8 | ℞ | — | Guardianship |
| Uranus | ♎︎ Libra 28°49' | 8 | ℞ | — | Legacy |
| North node | ♐︎ Sagittarius 0°52' | 10 | - | — | Reflection |
| Neptune | ♐︎ Sagittarius 10°22' | 10 | ℞ | — | Devotion |
| Lilith | ♓︎ Pisces 13°17' | 1 | - | — | Luxury |
| South node | ♊︎ Gemini 0°52' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 28°12' | ⚸ |
| House 2 | ♓︎ Pisces | 27°15' | ☽︎♂︎♃︎⚷ |
| House 3 | ♉︎ Taurus | 6°42' | - |
| House 4 | ♊︎ Gemini | 0°33' | ☉︎ |
| House 5 | ♊︎ Gemini | 18°39' | ☿︎ |
| House 6 | ♋︎ Cancer | 5°59' | ♄︎♀︎ |
| House 7 | ♋︎ Cancer | 28°12' | - |
| House 8 | ♍︎ Virgo | 27°15' | ♇︎♅︎ |
| House 9 | ♏︎ Scorpio | 6°42' | - |
| House 10 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 0°33' | ☊♆︎ |
| House 11 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 18°39' | - |
| House 12 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 5°59' | - |
Full aspects · 27
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden A · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
Russell Brand and Katy Perry marry
Wikidata P26 claim on Q296609, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Venus dasha · Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 8
5 passages in force · Saturn opposition Moon · Pluto square Moon · Chiron trine Mercury · Uranus square Mercury · Neptune trine Mercury
Russell Brand's chart on the wedding day, 2010Collapse
Jul 5Jan 1Jun 30Jul 5, 2009 – Jun 30, 2010 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Moonslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Neptune trine Mercuryslow
Katy Perry marries
Venus dasha · Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 8
Russell Brand's read · timed chart
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Ascendant
A power window was active 21 days before the wedding as Uranus sextiled her second-house Ascendant, highlighting an unconventional personal reinvention.
Russell Brand's chart on the wedding day, 2010Collapse
Jul 29Oct 23Jan 17Jul 29, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011 · 172 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Marsslow
- Uranus trine Venusslow
- Uranus sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
Katy Perry's read
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun
Thirty-nine days before her wedding, Pluto sextile Sun in the second house marked a power window that reinforced her personal authority and core values as she prepared for marriage.
Katy Perry's chart on the wedding day, 2010Collapse
Jul 29Oct 23Jan 17Jul 29, 2010 – Jan 17, 2011 · 172 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorce
Wikidata P26 claim on Q296609, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Venus dasha · Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 8
9 passages in force · Neptune square Midheaven · Neptune square Midheaven · Saturn square Venus · Saturn square Ascendant · Chiron square Midheaven · Uranus trine Midheaven · Pluto square Mars · North Node opposition Sun · Jupiter square Ascendant
Russell Brand's chart on the day of the divorce, 2012Collapse
Jul 5Jan 1Jun 29Jul 5, 2011 – Jun 29, 2012 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Venusslow
- Saturn square Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Midheavenslow
- Uranus trine Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Marsslow
- North Node opposition Sunfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
Russell Brand and Jemima Goldsmith begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q296609, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Venus dasha · Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 8
3 passages in force · Pluto square Mars · Neptune square Midheaven · Uranus conjunction Moon
Russell Brand's chart on the start of a partnership, 2013Collapse
Jul 5Jan 1Jun 30Jul 5, 2012 – Jun 30, 2013 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Marsslow
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Uranus conjunction Moonslow
Russell Brand and Jemima Goldsmith end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q296609, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Venus dasha · Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 8
4 passages in force · Pluto square Mars · Chiron square Sun · Uranus conjunction Mars · Neptune square Midheaven
Russell Brand's chart on the day of the separation, 2014Collapse
Oct 12Jan 1Mar 23Oct 12, 2013 – Mar 23, 2014 · 162 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Marsslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Uranus conjunction Marsslow
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
Russell Brand and Laura Gallacher marry
Venus dasha · Personal year 11 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · Neptune square Sun
Neptune squared his first-house Sun 149 days before the wedding, marking a period of personal realignment and shifting identity that dissolved old patterns well ahead of his marriage.
Russell Brand's chart on the wedding day, 2017Collapse
Mar 21Aug 26Jan 31Mar 21, 2017 – Jan 31, 2018 · 316 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn opposition Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Ascendantslow
- Chiron trine Venusslow
- Uranus square Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Venusslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- Neptune square Sunslow
- North Node sextile Mercuryfast
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
Human Design
Manifesting Generator 2/4 with Emotional Authority
Channels multi-passionate energy across comedy, film, and broadcasting when honoring emotional clarity.
The Right Angle Cross of Consciousness
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Centers · 5 defined / 4 open
| Centre | State | What it governs |
|---|---|---|
| Head | Open | — |
| Ajna | Defined | — |
| Throat | Defined | — |
| G identity | Open | — |
| Heart will | Defined | — |
| Sacral | Defined | — |
| Solar plexus | Defined | — |
| Spleen | Open | — |
| Root | Open | — |
Chart properties
Signature
When the strategy is working
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Not-self theme
When it isn't
—
Personality activations · 13
| Planet | Gate.Line |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | 35.2 |
| · Earth | 5.2 |
| ☽︎ Moon | 17.1 |
| ☊ North node | 34.1 |
| ☋ South node | 20.1 |
| ☿︎ Mercury | 45.6 |
| ♀︎ Venus | 56.2 |
| ♂︎ Mars | 21.1 |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | 51.3 |
| ♄︎ Saturn | 53.3 |
| ♅︎ Uranus | 50.3 |
| ♆︎ Neptune | 9.5 |
| ♇︎ Pluto | 18.3 |
Design activations · 13
| Planet | Gate.Line |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | 63.4 |
| · Earth | 64.4 |
| ☽︎ Moon | 11.6 |
| ☊ North node | 34.5 |
| ☋ South node | 20.5 |
| ☿︎ Mercury | 13.5 |
| ♀︎ Venus | 21.4 |
| ♂︎ Mars | 41.1 |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | 36.5 |
| ♄︎ Saturn | 39.3 |
| ♅︎ Uranus | 28.1 |
| ♆︎ Neptune | 5.1 |
| ♇︎ Pluto | 18.5 |
Defined channels · 4
Centres and channels derive from the combined design (88° solar arc pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set; lines come from planetary longitude.
Gene Keys
Life Work Gene Key 35: From Hunger to Adventure
Reflects a thematic shift from insatiable appetite into experiential wisdom through recovery.
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Hologenetic Profile
Activation Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Life's Work | Gene Key 35 Conscious Sun | |
| Evolution | Gene Key 5 Conscious Earth | |
| Radiance | Gene Key 63 Unconscious Sun | |
| Purpose | Gene Key 64 Unconscious Earth |
Venus Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Attraction | Gene Key 11 | |
| IQ | Gene Key 56 | |
| EQ | Gene Key 21 | |
| SQ | Gene Key 21 |
Pearl Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Vocation | Gene Key 41 | |
| Culture | Gene Key 36 | |
| Pearl | Gene Key 51 |
Rings, codons & partners
Gene Keys derive from the same combined design (88 days pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set as Human Design, read through the shadow → gift → siddhi spectrum rather than defined/undefined centres.
Vedic Nakshatras
uttara_bhadrapada Moon nakshatra
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Nakshatra placements · 14
● shown in snapshot · scrolls →
| Body | Nakshatra | Pada | Sidereal | Ruler | Deity | Animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chiron | Ashwini | 1 | Aries 3° | Ketu | Ashwini Kumaras | Male Horse |
| Sun | Rohini | 3 | Taurus 19° | Moon | Brahma | Male Serpent |
| Mercury | Mrigashira | 2 | Taurus 29° | Mars | Soma | Female Serpent |
| Saturn | Punarvasu | 2 | Gemini 23° | Jupiter | Aditi | Female Cat |
| Venus | Pushya | 1 | Cancer 3° | Saturn | Brihaspati | Male Goat |
| Pluto | Hasta | 1 | Virgo 13° | Moon | Savitar | Female Buffalo |
| Uranus | Chitra | 4 | Libra 5° | Mars | Tvashtar | Female Tiger |
| North node | Anuradha | 2 | Scorpio 7° | Saturn | Mitra | Female Deer |
| Neptune | Jyeshtha | 1 | Scorpio 16° | Mercury | Indra | Male Deer |
| Ascendant | Uttara ashadha | 3 | Capricorn 4° | Sun | Vishvadevas | Female Cow |
| Lilith | Shatabhisha | 4 | Aquarius 19° | Rahu | Varuna | Female Horse |
| Moon | Uttara bhadrapada | 3 | Pisces 11° | Saturn | Ahir Budhnya | Female Cow |
| Mars | Uttara bhadrapada | 4 | Pisces 16° | Saturn | Ahir Budhnya | Female Cow |
| Jupiter | Revati | 3 | Pisces 23° | Mercury | Pushan | Male Elephant |
Maha Dasha timeline · 9
| Ruler | Span | Flag |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn | Jun 4, 1975 → Jun 28, 1983 | - |
| Mercury | Jun 28, 1983 → Jun 28, 2000 | - |
| Ketu | Jun 28, 2000 → Jun 28, 2007 | - |
| Venus | Jun 28, 2007 → Jun 28, 2027 | Now |
| Sun | Jun 28, 2027 → Jun 28, 2033 | - |
| Moon | Jun 28, 2033 → Jun 28, 2043 | - |
| Mars | Jun 28, 2043 → Jun 28, 2050 | - |
| Rahu | Jun 28, 2050 → Jun 28, 2068 | - |
| Jupiter | Jun 28, 2068 → Jun 28, 2084 | - |
Antardashas within Venus
Sub-periods exist only for the running maha dasha; the other eight rows carry none by design, so they show none.
| Ruler | Span |
|---|---|
| Venus | Jun 28, 2007 → Oct 27, 2010 |
| Sun | Oct 27, 2010 → Oct 27, 2011 |
| Moon | Oct 27, 2011 → Jun 27, 2013 |
| Mars | Jun 27, 2013 → Aug 27, 2014 |
| Rahu | Aug 27, 2014 → Aug 27, 2017 |
| Jupiter | Aug 27, 2017 → Apr 27, 2020 |
| Saturn | Apr 27, 2020 → Jun 28, 2023 |
| Mercury | Jun 28, 2023 → Apr 27, 2026 |
| Ketu | Apr 27, 2026 → Jun 28, 2027 |
Ayanamsa: 23.5138 · Dasha system: Vimshottari
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 241 · White Wind · Resonant
Ik · Resonant tone
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Seal & tone
Oracle relations
Analog, Occult: not recorded for this kin.
Kin from birth date against the 260-day count, Dreamspell correlation · Seal = kin mod 20, tone = kin mod 13
Numerology
Life Path 5: The Restless Communicator
Emphasizes an appetite for personal freedom, sensory variety, and constant lifestyle shifts.
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Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
Wood Rabbit
Adds diplomatic social charm and quick wit behind an energetic public persona.
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| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 乙 | 卯 |
| Month | 辛 | 巳 |
| Day | 辛 | 丑 |
| Hour | 戊 | 子 |
Day master
辛 anchors this Four Pillars reading: the Day pillar's Heavenly Stem, and the one value here that never depends on a recorded birth time.
Inner animals
Solar calendar; year boundary at the start of spring, not January 1.
Tarot Birth Cards
The Hierophant
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The reduction
| Card | Title | Keywords | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personality & Soul | The Hierophant | tradition, conformity, institutions, belief | Inherited wisdom and shared belief systems — the structures that bind a community together. |
Year card for 2026 · turns over 1 Jan 2027
Birth-date reduction against the 22 Major Arcana; year card recomputed for the current calendar year at each rebuild
Arabic Parts
Lots, formulas & sensitive points
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Lots on the wheel
Lots · 8
The body and worldly fortune; where material and emotional well-being converge. Reveals how you attract abundance and physical vitality.
The mind and spiritual purpose; the inverse of Fortune. Reveals conscious intent, vocation, and the soul's directional momentum.
Triumph through sustained effort; favorable outcomes earned by aligning ambition with discipline and structure.
Binding obligation and fated constraint; the circumstances that must be endured or worked through rather than chosen.
Reckoning and karmic consequence; the area of life where past choices return to be faced directly.
Desire, passion, and erotic magnetism; where attraction and creative drive merge. Reveals the nature of what you most deeply crave.
Partnership destiny and the nature of committed bonds; reveals the quality and karma of your most significant unions.
Boldness, daring, and the warrior spirit; where you find the nerve to act and the audacity to lead.
Sabian Symbols
Gemini 14: A Great Musician at His Piano
Points to technical virtuosity with language, treating spoken rhetoric like a rapid musical performance.
Sun · Gemini 12°44'
A great musician at his piano
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A triangle with wings
"Zeal"
The president of the country
"Idealization"
An empty hammock stretched between two trees
"Recuperation"
Through imagination a lost opportunity is regained
"Recall"
A great musician at his piano
"Virtuosity"
Three fledglings in a nest high in a tree
"Potential"
A hen scratching the ground to find nourishment for her progeny
"Provision"
An Indian girl introduces her white lover to her assembled tribe
"Integration"
A woman feeding chickens and protecting them from the hawks
"Guardianship"
Mankind's vast and enduring effort to reach for knowledge transferable from generation to generation
"Legacy"
Retired army veterans gather to reawaken old memories
"Reflection"
In the left section of an archaic temple a lamp burns in a container shaped like a human body
"Devotion"
A woman reading tea leaves
"Divination"
A lady wrapped in a large stole of fox fur
"Luxury"
Feng Shui
Kua 7
Favorable: Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, West
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Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
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Begin your journeyQuestions about Russell Brand's birth chart
What is Russell Brand's zodiac sign?
Russell Brand's Sun sign is Gemini.
What is Russell Brand's moon and rising sign?
Russell Brand has a Aries Moon and a Capricorn rising.
When was Russell Brand born?
Russell Brand was born on Jun 4, 1975.
How reliable is this birth data?
This chart carries a Rodden rating of A: the standard scale astrologers use to grade how well-documented a birth time is. Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
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