Charlie Hunnam Birth Chart

What complicates the Aries Sun here is its almost-exact opposition to Pluto in Libra at 20° — a 0.34° orb, which in astrology means the two planets are functionally welded together across the zodiac. This is the most defining geometric feature of the chart, and we'll return to it. It means the bold-front-man identity is not stand-alone; it is always being negotiated against a buried demand for control, intimacy on his own terms, and a quieter recognition that the public self is partly armor.

The Aquarius Moon is the placement nobody guesses from the Aries Sun and the leather jacket. The Moon describes the inner life — what soothes the person, what they need to feel safe — and Aquarius wants distance, principle, and the freedom to step away from intensity rather than dissolve into it. In practice this is the Hunnam who lives quietly in California with the same partner since 2005, who has spoken in interviews about disliking premieres and the social-press circuit, and who has talked openly about needing long stretches of time alone after a project wraps. The water-sign actor would crash and burn there; the Aquarius Moon treats privacy as a non-negotiable rather than a preference.

The cost of an Aquarius Moon is emotional remove — the partner, family, or co-star who feels held at arm's length even at close range, the difficulty being inside a feeling rather than analyzing it after the fact. And the placement that complicates it sits two signs away: an Aries Sun built for confrontation and a first-move temperament that wants visibility, paired with a Moon that finds visibility tiring and other people's emotions difficult to read in real time. The whole chart oscillates between the front-man pulse and the loner who needs the room cleared. It is the same internal pattern that produced both Sons of Anarchy's seven-year commitment and the Fifty Shades exit; the Sun signed on, the Moon did the accounting.

The traditional Big Three closes with a third placement that depends on the exact minute of birth. Hunnam's birth time has not been publicly documented at a verification standard we accept, so we are making no claim about that placement here. Several public-facing astrology sites do — quietly assuming a noon chart and reporting the result — but that is interpretation dressed as data, and we'd rather decline than guess.

Mercury in Pisces (24°) sits at the late degrees of the sign, opposite Saturn in Virgo and trine Uranus in Scorpio. This is the most introverted Mercury placement in the zodiac — a thinking style that prefers image, mood, and intuition to argument, and that often takes longer than expected to produce a verbal answer because the answer is being assembled out of impressions rather than logic. The Saturn opposition is the reason Hunnam in interviews sounds careful rather than fluent: the Pisces Mercury wants to drift, and the Virgo Saturn keeps making him show the work. He has talked about needing weeks of preparation before a script feels usable; this is the placement doing that.

Venus in Gemini (6°) is the relationship and aesthetic planet in the sign of curiosity, conversation, and the second pass. It softens the chart considerably — Gemini Venus likes wit and intellectual play, dislikes possessiveness, and tends to keep its partnerships private specifically because the chemistry depends on it staying interior. Hunnam has been with the same partner, jewelry designer Morgana McNelis, since 2005, and has built one of the most low-key long-term arrangements in his cohort of leading men. That is what a Gemini Venus looks like when it is not chasing novelty: the novelty is staying.

Mars in Leo (25°) is the engine. Mars in fixed fire wants the work to look like something — wants the physical performance, the camera-loved gesture, the long take, the stunt that the audience can see was him. It is also conjunct his north node in Leo at 27° within two degrees, which in evolutionary astrology suggests a developmental pull toward visible creative authorship: not just acting, but owning the frame. The producing credits he has been quietly stacking since the late 2010s — including the canceled Apple TV+ series Shantaram, where he was lead and a producing partner — sit on that line.

Sun opposite Pluto (20° Aries vs. 20° Libra, 0.34° orb). This is the chart's signature tension, and it does not soften. A Sun-Pluto opposition is the geometry of a person whose public identity is constantly entangled with power dynamics they did not invent — typecasting that follows them across roles, public projection that exceeds the actual private person, and a recurring pattern of feeling consumed by attention. Hunnam has spoken in profiles about Jax Teller as a role he had to actively work to leave behind years after the series ended; that is the opposition talking. The same geometry sits behind <a href="/blog/seth-rogen-birth-chart-aries-sun-pluto-knocked-up-2026">Seth Rogen's chart</a> from a different angle, and produces a comparable difficulty: when the public takes a single image of you and refuses to update it, the Sun-Pluto opposition is the placement that turns the projection into a real cost.

Mars square Uranus (25° Leo vs. 24° Scorpio, 1.11° orb). Mars-Uranus squares are the disruption aspect — the sudden no, the unplanned walk-off, the project that ends not because it ran its course but because the person could not keep going under the existing terms. The Fifty Shades withdrawal lives here. So, in a different register, did the abrupt cancellation of Shantaram after one season at Apple TV+. The placement does not produce flakiness so much as it produces a person who, when the conditions go sideways, prefers to break than to bend.

Saturn square Neptune (21° Virgo vs. 22° Sagittarius, 0.97° orb). This is a near-exact square between the planet of structure and the planet of dissolution, and it is one of the harder under-the-hood configurations in any chart. It tends to produce a person who struggles to trust their own intuition because Saturn keeps demanding evidence — and who, conversely, struggles to commit to a method because Neptune keeps suggesting it is not the real one. In a career, it often shows up as years of preparation followed by a sense that the result was thinner than the effort. Hunnam's track record of meticulously chosen but commercially uneven projects fits the shape.

Beyond the three above, the chart has a few patterns worth flagging. Sun trine Neptune at 22° Sagittarius (1.88° orb) is the placement most directly responsible for the photogenic, slightly otherworldly screen presence — the trine is the harmony angle, and Sun-Neptune harmony tends to produce people who film well without effort. Mercury trine Uranus is the cognitive signature behind the unconventional career choices: Pisces Mercury intuits the project, Uranus says go, and the result is a filmography that does not look like anyone else's. And Jupiter conjunct the north node in Leo, within three degrees, gives a developmental nudge toward expansion through visible creative work — the kind of placement that rewards the actor-as-producer pivot rather than punishing it.

The chart promises a leading-man trajectory and delivers one — but the route it actually takes is more crooked than the Aries Sun suggests. Hunnam was a working actor at fifteen on Byker Grove, had a critical breakthrough at nineteen on Queer as Folk, then moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and spent six years in midsize roles — Judd Apatow's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeclared">Undeclared</a>, Cold Mountain, Green Street, Children of Men — before Sons of Anarchy arrived in 2008 and reorganized his career around a single character for the next seven years.

That seven-year arc is, astrologically, an Aquarius Moon arrangement — a stable container the rest of the chart could orbit around — but the Sun-Pluto opposition charged the cost. Hunnam has been candid in interviews about the difficulty of separating from Jax Teller after the show ended in 2014. The roles he chose immediately after — Guillermo del Toro's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Peak">Crimson Peak</a> in 2015, James Gray's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)">The Lost City of Z</a> in 2017, Guy Ritchie's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur:_Legend_of_the_Sword">King Arthur: Legend of the Sword</a> in 2017 — were deliberate auteur-collaboration moves, and several of them underperformed at the box office despite strong individual reviews. That gap between chart-promise and commercial reality is the Saturn-Neptune square doing its work: the projects were beautifully chosen, and several of them did not connect with the audience the way a Pacific Rim sequel would have.

The 2024 Netflix series The Gentlemen — Hunnam as the unexpectedly inheriting aristocrat Eddie Horniman — is the first major commercial reset since Sons of Anarchy ended, and it lands during the most important transit of his adult life so far (see below).

His career arc in this way resembles fellow Aries actor <a href="/celebrities/ewan-mcgregor">Ewan McGregor</a>'s — both leading-man-shaped, both deliberately uncommercial in their middle period, both with a recent late-career reset that the chart had been building toward.

Venus in Gemini and Mars in Leo are an interesting pair: Venus wants intellectual play and freedom, Mars wants visibility and devotion-shaped attention. The combination tends to produce a person who is monogamous by preference but in a relationship organized around shared projects and private jokes rather than public performance. Hunnam and Morgana McNelis have been together since 2005 and have kept the relationship resolutely off the press circuit, declining red carpets together and rarely discussing the partnership in interviews. That is the Gemini Venus's privacy instinct doing the work, with Mars in Leo handling the visible-life side separately.

The Aquarius Moon is the third member of that arrangement. It is the placement most responsible for the long-term stability, because Aquarius does not need constant proof of affection to feel held; it needs to be trusted to be unreachable for stretches without that being treated as a withdrawal. A partner who reads Aquarius silence as rejection will not survive this chart's relational tempo. A partner who treats it as the price of admission will.

From mid-2026 through early 2027, transiting Saturn in Aries crosses Hunnam's natal Sun. This is the once-every-29-years Saturn-Sun conjunction, and it is the most consequential transit any chart receives in adulthood. Saturn entered Aries in May 2025 and is currently at 11° Aries; it will reach the natal Sun at 20° Aries around August 2026, retrograde back across that degree in late 2026 and early 2027, and clear it for good in spring 2027.

What this transit does, reliably, is force a reckoning with the public identity. It is the moment when the costume the person has been wearing — the role, the image, the franchise association — either gets tailored to fit who they have actually become or gets discarded. For Hunnam, with the Sun-Pluto opposition already in place, the transit is going to operate as a kind of unmistakable correction: the Sun-Pluto axis tends to keep older versions of the public self alive past their expiration date, and Saturn arriving on the Sun ends that. Practically, this is the window in which a major creative pivot — toward producing, toward directing, toward a different kind of role entirely — tends to become irreversible rather than experimental.

The 2024 Gentlemen series was the dress rehearsal. The next eighteen months are the reckoning.

The honest read of Charlie Hunnam's chart is that it built a person more interior than the career has needed him to be. The Aries Sun and Mars in Leo got him cast as leading men; the Aquarius Moon and Pisces Mercury are not actually that person. The visible career — the franchise lead, the action hero, the Sons of Anarchy poster — has been a partial expression of the chart, propped up by the Aries front and the Leo Mars while the Aquarius-Pisces interior life carried a different existence behind the scenes: long solitary stretches, a quiet long-term partnership, a famously cautious approach to public access.

What the chart asks you to reckon with — and what the Saturn transit currently in motion is making explicit — is the cost of running a career that uses 60% of the chart and benches the rest. Hunnam's most interesting performances (the brutalized engineer in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_(2017_film)">Papillon</a>, the obsessive explorer in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film)">The Lost City of Z</a>) are the ones where the Pisces Mercury and Aquarius Moon get screen time and the Aries Sun is asked to recede. The next chapter of this career, if the chart is read correctly, is the one where the interior moves to the front. Whether the industry lets him do that is a separate question — but the chart is finally asking him to find out.

The pattern resembles, at a different speed, the late-career interior turn visible in <a href="/celebrities/quentin-tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a>'s Aries-Capricorn architecture: the Aries front for the public, the slower placements for the work that ages.

For comparable Aquarius-toned interior lives running underneath visible-fire careers, see also our reading of <a href="/blog/lewis-pullman-birth-chart-remarkably-bright-creatures-2026">Lewis Pullman's chart</a> and <a href="/blog/ethel-cain-birth-chart-aries-stellium-aquarius-2026">Ethel Cain's Aries-Aquarius cross-current</a>, which sit on the same axis as Hunnam's Sun-Moon arrangement from a different angle.

Actress, Producer, Entrepreneur • 1976-03-22

turns 50 under a once-in-a-lifetime Neptune conjunction to her Aries Sun. Her cardinal T-square -- Sun square Moon, Moon opposite Mars, all within half a degree -- reveals the driven force behind Hollywood's most ambitious producer.