Ryan Reynolds Birth Chart: The Astrology Behind Hollywood's Most Charming Wildcard
A Scorpio Sun, a tight Moon-Mars-Uranus conjunction, and a Mercury in Libra that can disarm anyone in three sentences — Ryan Reynolds' chart is a study in why the charming guy is almost never the soft one.
By Sera Vane·April 20, 2026·Updated May 18, 2026AI-assisted, editor-reviewed
When Wrexham AFC clinched promotion back to England's second tier in April 2025, Ryan Reynolds was filmed celebrating in the stands with co-owner Rob McElhenney and then cracking a self-deprecating joke seconds later, on camera, like the moment needed a soft landing. That whiplash between deep feeling and instant deflection is the entire Ryan Reynolds business model. Deadpool, Free Guy, the Aviation Gin and Mint Mobile exits, the Apple Mayday casting announced this April, the just-renewed
— every project leans on the same trick: feel everything, show almost none of it, hide the rest behind a punchline. The chart explains why the trick is so durable.
Ryan Reynolds — Natal Chart Reference
Birth date
October 23, 1976
Birth place
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sun sign
Scorpio (0°29')
Moon sign
Scorpio (8°41')
Mercury
Libra (20°52')
Venus
Sagittarius (3°44')
Mars
Scorpio (10°12')
Jupiter
Taurus (29°20', retrograde)
Saturn
Leo (15°45')
Uranus
Scorpio (7°02')
Mercury in Libra: the disarming mouth
Start with the part of the chart that earns Reynolds his paycheck. Mercury — the planet of speech, timing, comebacks — sits at 20° Libra. Libra is the sign of balance, social grace, and the conflict-averse smile, and Mercury here gives you a brain wired for the room: read the temperature, find the angle, land the joke without making anyone the villain. It is the placement of the late-night couch guest who can rescue a dying interview in two beats.
What sharpens it is a sextile — the gentle 60-degree angle of two planets that trade notes — to Saturn in Leo. Saturn is the planet of structure, discipline, the part of you that drills. In Leo, the sign of performance, that discipline goes into one thing: the bit. The improvised ad-lib that looks tossed-off has almost certainly been rehearsed. The Aviation Gin spots that read as casual Reynolds-being-Reynolds were written, rewritten, and re-shot. Mercury-Libra gives the velvet; Saturn-Leo gives the iron underneath.
The Scorpio stellium nobody talks about
Here's where the chart stops being polite. Reynolds carries a Scorpio stellium — a stellium being three or more planets crowded into one sign, which essentially lets that sign run the whole personality. He has four bodies in Scorpio: Sun at 0°, Moon at 8°, Mars at 10°, and Uranus at 7°. Add the North Node at 3° Scorpio — the karmic compass point astrologers read as the soul's growth direction — and the cluster is five strong. That is not a 'Scorpio rising vibes' situation. That is a chart with one center of gravity, and it is in the sign of intensity, obsession, and emotional depth that does not blink.
The headline aspect inside that stack is a Moon-Mars-Uranus conjunction — three planets within three degrees of each other, all in Scorpio. Moon-Mars is fight-or-flight wired into the emotional body: reactive, defensive, quick to snap and quick to apologize. Add Uranus, the planet of disruption and refusal, and you get someone whose nervous system is allergic to being managed. Tell this person to play it safe and they will, then quietly burn the safe version down and shoot the weird one. Tilda Swinton's Scorpio stellium uses the same fixed-sign intensity in the opposite direction — toward the avant-garde, toward shapeshifting in art-house cinema. Reynolds takes the same engine and aims it at mass-market comedy. Same fuel, opposite throttle.
This is also why the public Reynolds — affable, self-roasting, the guy who answers a paparazzi question with a Wrexham score — almost never gives interviews about the inner Reynolds. Scorpio is the sign of the guarded vault. The charm is real. So is the wall behind it. For another Scorpio-stellium acting peer who runs the same vault-and-velvet trick, see Rachel McAdams' birth chart.
Venus in Sagittarius and the wide-shot warmth
Venus — the planet of attraction, taste, what we love and how we love it — sits at 3° Sagittarius and runs into Neptune, the planet of dreams, idealism, and the softer kind of glamour, in a wide conjunction. That combination is the rom-com Venus: warm, wide-shot, slightly idealized, allergic to cynicism in love. It also explains why Reynolds-led romantic comedies — The Proposal, Definitely, Maybe, Just Friends — work even when the scripts don't. He's selling sincerity inside the joke, which is a Venus-Neptune trick.
But Venus in Sag is also opposed by Jupiter in Taurus — the 180-degree opposition that pits two planets in tug-of-war, asking the chart-holder to find balance between them. Jupiter is the planet of growth, expansion, abundance; in Taurus, it loves money, comfort, and ownership. The Venus-Jupiter opposition is the internal argument between 'I want everyone to feel seen' and 'I want to own the company.' Reynolds resolves it by buying the brand he's the spokesperson for — Aviation Gin, sold to Diageo for up to $610M in 2020; Mint Mobile, sold to T-Mobile in a deal valued at roughly $1.35B in 2023. The Sagittarius Venus charms the customer; the Taurus Jupiter cashes the check.
The 2026 sky over him: a once-in-84-years transit
Now zoom out to what is moving overhead this spring. The most significant transit — a transit being a current planet making an angle to a natal one — is Uranus at the very last degrees of Taurus, conjuncting his natal Jupiter at 29°20' Taurus. Orb on April 20, 2026: 0.39 degrees. That is essentially exact. Uranus takes around 84 years to lap the zodiac, which means this contact happens once in a lifetime, and it lands on the planet of expansion, business, and reach in his chart.
Uranus-Jupiter is the breakthrough transit — sudden expansion, unexpected doors, the deal you didn't see coming. The Apple Mayday casting announcement and the renewal of Welcome to Wrexham, both confirmed in early April 2026, are textbook expression: two new long-form commitments, landing in the same week the natal Jupiter is being lit up. The same transit is hitting everyone with late-Taurus planets right now. Rory McIlroy's Taurus chart got the Augusta breakthrough version of it; Reynolds is getting the next-decade contract version.
Layered on top: the transiting Sun in Taurus is exactly opposing his natal Scorpio Sun this week — orb of 0.22 degrees on April 20. Astrologers call this the solar opposition or solar half-return, the annual halfway point of the solar year. It is a built-in pause for review. What looked clear in October 2025, when the year started for him, gets the other side of the argument now. Combined with Pluto in Aquarius squaring his natal Uranus from 1.5 degrees away, the spring wants him to renegotiate something — and Pluto squares are the ones that don't let you fake the answer. The May 1 Full Moon in Scorpio falls right on top of his stellium and amplifies the same theme.
There is a softer counterweight. Transiting Neptune in Aries is currently trine his natal Venus — orb under one degree. That is the long-haul aesthetic glow-up transit, the one that makes audiences read you as more cinematic, more romantic, more dreamlike than usual. For an actor whose Venus-Neptune is the foundation of his on-screen warmth, this is a rare two-year window of additional public softness. The Uranus contact destabilizes the business; the Neptune contact polishes the persona. They are not the same story.
What this chart asks (and what it costs)
Every chart has a tax. The Reynolds version is this: the same Scorpio stellium that gives him obsessive work ethic, a writer's instinct for what hits, and a Moon-Mars willingness to fight for the version of the project he believes in — is also the placement of someone who sits on big feelings until they leak sideways. Mercury-Libra wants peace. The Scorpio cluster wants truth. Those are not the same goal, and the chart resolves it by routing almost everything through comedy, which is partly a gift and partly a defense.
The 2026 transits are pulling on that exact seam. A solar opposition asks you to stop performing the year and tell the truth about it. A Uranus-Jupiter conjunction asks you to outgrow a structure that already worked. A Pluto square to natal Uranus asks you to find the part of you that refuses to be controlled and actually use it on purpose, instead of letting it leak out as a joke. In a chart this Scorpio-heavy, the cost of not doing that work is high. The benefit of doing it is the next twenty years.
Compare it to Anne Hathaway's Scorpio stellium — same fixed-sign depth, very different public mask — or to Sharon Osbourne's Scorpio Venus, which channels the same intensity into love-and-loyalty rather than craft. Scorpio shows up everywhere in entertainment because it is the sign of holding something back on purpose. Reynolds just dressed his version in a Deadpool suit.
For entertainment and self-reflection purposes. Not predictive and not a substitute for professional advice.
What is Ryan Reynolds' zodiac sign?
Ryan Reynolds is a Scorpio, born October 23, 1976. His Sun sits at the very start of Scorpio at 0 degrees, joined in the same sign by his Moon at 8 degrees, Mars at 10 degrees, and Uranus at 7 degrees. That four-planet cluster is called a stellium and is the dominant feature of his chart.
What is Ryan Reynolds' moon sign?
Ryan Reynolds' Moon is in Scorpio at approximately 8 degrees, calculated from a noon-fallback chart because his exact birth time has not been publicly verified. The Moon stays in Scorpio across any plausible birth time on October 23, 1976. It sits within three degrees of his Mars and Uranus, forming a tight conjunction.
Does Ryan Reynolds have a Scorpio stellium?
Yes. Reynolds carries a five-body Scorpio cluster — Sun, Moon, Mars, Uranus, and the North Node all in Scorpio within roughly ten degrees of each other. That is an unusually dense stellium and astrologers read it as a chart fundamentally organized around Scorpio themes: emotional intensity, privacy, depth, transformation, and a refusal to perform comfort.
What major transits is Ryan Reynolds experiencing in 2026?
The headline transit is Uranus at 29 degrees Taurus exactly conjuncting his natal Jupiter — a once-in-84-years contact tied to sudden expansion and disruption in business and reputation. Pluto in Aquarius is also squaring his natal Uranus, and Neptune in Aries is forming a soft trine to his Venus through much of 2026 and 2027.
Birth time
Unverified (Rodden C). No rising sign or house placements claimed.
Data source
Astrotheme reference; positions calculated via Swiss Ephemeris
