A Gemini Sun, a Venus in Cancer that quietly fuels every love-life headline, and a Leo Moon-Mars-Saturn stellium — Joshua Jackson's chart explains why this April 2026 chapter is landing the way it is.
On April 14, 2026, Joshua Jackson walked the red carpet at a Brunello Cucinelli gala screening in New York — and ended up standing next to Katie Holmes. The photos moved fast:
The reunion wasn't scripted drama — it was the Brunello Cucinelli Solomeo: The New Humanism cinema event in New York on April 14, 2026, and Jackson and Holmes happened to arrive on the same night. People led with a shot of them sharing a laugh on the step-and-repeat. Us Weekly called it their first public moment together in over twenty years. Parade ran a round-up of every time they'd been quietly asked about each other in the years since. None of the coverage claimed anything more than friendliness. And yet the internet found its main character for the week.
This kind of attention is, at this point, almost structural to Jackson's career. Every few years, a chapter of his private life gets pulled into the headlines — The Affair, Diane Kruger, Jodie Turner-Smith, the quiet amicable co-parenting. People keep watching. The chart doesn't cause any of it. But it does explain, with unusual clarity, why the watching never quite stops.
Jackson is a Gemini Sun with Mercury also in Gemini, sitting close enough to the Sun to pull the whole identity into Mercury's orbit. A Sun-Mercury conjunction — the meeting of ego and mind in the same few degrees of sky — is the signature of people who think by talking, who process reality through conversation, whose personality is mostly indistinguishable from how they sound out loud. Add the Gemini overlay, and you get someone who genuinely enjoys the act of describing things: other actors, the scene they just shot, a wine, a friend's parenting decision, a podcast he disagrees with.
This is why Jackson is such a natural interview. The industry is full of actors who endure press tours; he clearly likes them. It's also why his Dawson's Creek legacy never fully receded — a Gemini Sun doesn't resist being associated with multiple versions of himself, because a Gemini Sun already contains multiple versions of himself. Pacey Witter, Peter in The Affair, Dr. Cole in Doctor Odyssey, the thoughtful ex in the tabloids: these don't feel like contradictions. They feel like chapters.
If you want to see a comparable Gemini signature in a very different career, Paul McCartney's chart carries the same mutable-air fluency — the insistence on staying conversational no matter how legendary the résumé gets. Gemini doesn't do heavy. Gemini does current.
Here's the placement doing the most work in 2026: Venus in Cancer at 24°43′. Venus in Cancer is the sweetest, most domestic expression of the planet of love — tender, nostalgic, protective of whoever it lets in. It's not flashy romance. It's the kind of Venus that remembers birthdays, cooks, keeps photos, asks about your mother.
The trade-off is that Venus in Cancer does not separate cleanly. It bonds deeply, often publicly attaches to the idea of family, and carries relationships like a shell — even after the shell is empty. This is why every Jackson breakup has been covered with a strange tenderness in the press, and why his co-parenting arrangements have been treated as reporting material in their own right. Cancer Venus doesn't do clean endings. It does extended afterglows.
It also explains why a one-night red-carpet photo with an ex from the 2000s is still enough to move search traffic. Venus in Cancer keeps emotional doors on the latch. The audience, having watched this for twenty-five years, treats that as plot.
The most underappreciated part of Jackson's chart is the Leo stellium — a pile-up of three personal planets in the same sign, which is what a stellium is: a cluster of three or more bodies concentrated enough to dominate a chart's weather. Jackson has Moon at 26° Leo, Mars at 28° Leo, and Saturn at 25° Leo, with Moon and Saturn touching at just 0.66° apart. That orb is a knife-edge conjunction — tight enough that most astrologers would call it the chart's emotional thesis.
Moon conjunct Saturn is the placement of people whose feelings were structured early. Loyalty isn't a virtue for them; it's a reflex. Emotional expression is filtered through a sense of what's appropriate, what's earned, what's safe to show. When you add Mars to the same conjunction, that restraint acquires a backbone — the person doesn't just wait and observe, they act on whatever their discipline has decided matters. Mars in Leo wants to make grand gestures. Saturn in Leo refuses to cheapen them by doing it too often.
That's the chart talking. This is the signature of the boyfriend who shows up, the co-parent who shows up, the co-star who remembers what your kid's name is — but who also, famously, does not talk about his private life on camera. The Leo fire isn't missing. It's just behind glass.
Compare this to a very different kind of Leo public figure: Meghan Markle's Leo Sun expresses the sign outward, in mission and narrative. Jackson's Leo expresses it inward, in loyalty and control. Same sign, very different assignment.
One more natal signature deserves attention, because it shows up in almost every profile anyone has ever written about him. Jackson's Mercury is opposite Neptune — planet of clear thinking staring across the chart at planet of dream, haze, fiction — at an orb of just 0.29°. That is functionally exact. His Sun also opposes Neptune, same axis, 3.64° wide.
Sun-Mercury-Neptune oppositions — the 180° angle that pits one energy against another and dares the person to synthesize them — produce people who can hold two incompatible emotional truths at once without needing to resolve them. It's an actor's signature. It's also a diplomat's signature. It's the reason Jackson can discuss his exes without bitterness, keep long friendships with people he's been romantically involved with, and give an interview that reveals very little while feeling entirely open. Neptune dissolves edges. Gemini Sun-Mercury keeps talking. You end up with a person who is genuinely transparent about the fact that he is not going to be fully transparent.
Three transits matter for this specific chapter. The first is the most immediate. Uranus at 29° Taurus is squaring his natal Mars at 28° Leo within a 0.68° orb — effectively exact. Uranus-Mars squares are short-fuse transits: sudden action, broken routine, a decision to do something you've been quietly refusing to do. This is a near-perfect astrological fingerprint for a surprise public appearance alongside a very specific person. It doesn't mean a reunion-in-any-romantic-sense. It means the pattern of not showing up together broke, and it broke on a Uranian schedule.
The second is slower and richer. Jupiter is in Cancer for 2026, which means it's already moved across his natal Jupiter at 11° Cancer — a Jupiter return, the every-twelve-years cycle when the planet completes its full orbit and reopens questions about meaning, expansion, and what you actually want the next chapter to hold. It's now advancing toward his natal Venus at 24° Cancer, which it will reach later in 2026. This is a months-long blessing on his Cancer placements — family, home, the private world where his Venus actually lives. Other charts are also catching this Jupiter: Zayn Malik is navigating the same Jupiter-in-Cancer window from a very different starting point.
The third is textural rather than loud. Neptune at 2° Aries is opposing his North Node at 2° Libra within 0.53°. The nodal axis is the chart's growth spine — where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's, astrologically read as the direction a soul is moving toward. Neptune on that axis means the destination is getting foggy in the most useful way: old certainties dissolving, new ones not yet formed. It's the kind of transit that makes someone show up at a gala without a plan and leave with a story.
Readers tracking the broader April sky will recognize the backdrop: the Mercury-Jupiter square between Aries and Cancer is the same tension — big feelings meeting fast headlines, Cancer's privacy colliding with Aries' need to just say it out loud.
Nothing in Jackson's chart points to a romantic reunion with Holmes specifically, and it would be irresponsible to claim otherwise — his chart and Katie Holmes's Sagittarius Sun chart read as affectionate co-alumni more than a symmetry waiting to resume. What the chart does suggest is that Jackson is in an unusually public phase of a private Venus-Jupiter chapter, with a Mars under Uranian pressure that will keep producing out-of-pattern moments for the rest of 2026.
Translation in plainer English: expect more unexpected sightings, more red-carpet surprises, more conversations about his personal life that he did not volunteer. And expect him to handle all of it with the Gemini diplomat's voice, the Cancer Venus tenderness, and the Leo Saturn's refusal to say the quiet part loud. Those aren't tendencies the chart is predicting. Those are traits the chart has been running for forty-seven years. The sky just put a spotlight on them.
If you like watching a Gemini air stellium handle public attention in real time, Iga Świątek's Gemini chart is a useful companion read — a different kind of career, same fast-talking, many-chaptered mutable signature.
Joshua Jackson is a Gemini Sun, born June 11, 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His Mercury is also in Gemini and sits in a tight conjunction with his Sun, which doubles down on Gemini's natural fluency — curiosity, conversation, mental quickness, and an ability to inhabit multiple public personas comfortably.
No. There is no Rodden-rated birth time on file for Joshua Jackson in public astrology databases, so his rising sign and planetary house placements cannot be confirmed. Every claim in this article is based on his birth date and location alone — sign placements and planet-to-planet aspects, which hold regardless of exact minute of birth.
Jackson and Holmes both attended the Brunello Cucinelli Solomeo: The New Humanism cinema gala screening in New York on April 14, 2026. According to People and Us Weekly, it was their first public co-appearance in more than two decades. No relationship status beyond friendly was reported.
Venus in Cancer is one of the most tender, home-oriented, and emotionally bonded placements of the love planet. It suggests Jackson attaches deeply, values family and continuity, and tends to maintain emotional care for past partners long after relationships end — which fits the amicable public co-parenting and warm ex-relationships visible in his life.
Yes — notably so. Jupiter transits Cancer for most of 2026 and will cross his natal Venus and natal Jupiter, both also in Cancer. This is considered one of astrology's most supportive expansion cycles for relationships, family, home, and creative visibility. It typically unfolds across months rather than producing a single event.