Rachel McAdams Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Rachel McAdams is a Scorpio, born November 17, 1978.
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Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Scorpio
- Moon
- Moon in Gemini
- Rising
- Capricorn
- Chinese zodiac
- Horse
- BaZi day master
- Water
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- London, Canada
Western + Eastern: Scorpio Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Rachel McAdams's Scorpio Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Horse adds a year based cycle and Water names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
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Fire placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams is a Canadian actress, born on November 17, 1978 in London, Canada.
Rachel McAdams's Sun sign is Scorpio, a Water sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in London because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Scorpio | 24.99° | No |
| moon | Gemini | 28.33° | No |
| mercury | Sagittarius | 17.35° | No |
| venus | Scorpio | 9.74° | Yes |
| mars | Sagittarius | 11.36° | No |
| jupiter | Leo | 8.95° | No |
| saturn | Virgo | 12.70° | No |
| uranus | Scorpio | 17.23° | No |
| neptune | Sagittarius | 17.19° | No |
| pluto | Libra | 18.04° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Capricorn
House 1: Capricorn · House 2: Pisces · House 3: Aries · House 4: Taurus · House 5: Gemini · House 6: Cancer · House 7: Cancer · House 8: Virgo · House 9: Libra · House 10: Scorpio · House 11: Sagittarius · House 12: Capricorn
Strongest aspects
Mercury + Neptune conjunction · 0.16° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Saturn quintile · 0.30° orb
Sun (identity) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form a quintile: Their themes link, bringing attention to the relationship between these functions.
Mercury + Pluto sextile · 0.69° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Jupiter square · 0.79° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Jupiter (growth and perspective) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Neptune + Pluto sextile · 0.85° orb
Neptune (imagination and ideals) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Mars + Saturn square · 1.34° orb
Mars (drive and action) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 4 · Earth 1 · Air 2 · Water 3
Modalities: Cardinal 1 · Fixed 4 · Mutable 5
Detected patterns: Stellium in Scorpio · Stellium in Sagittarius
Sun and Moon relationship
The Scorpio Sun and Gemini Moon do not form a major classical aspect by sign; their themes can still be read together as separate parts of the chart.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Rachel McAdams's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Rachel McAdams's Sun in Scorpio. They become more recognizably themselves by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Rachel McAdams's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 5th house
Rachel McAdams's Moon in Gemini. Their emotional system settles by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Rachel McAdams's Moon in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure.
Mercury in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 11th house
Rachel McAdams's Mercury in Sagittarius. Their mind becomes clear by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Rachel McAdams's Mercury in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Venus in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 9th house · Retrograde
Rachel McAdams's Venus in Scorpio. Love and self worth deepen by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Rachel McAdams's Venus in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience. Retrograde turns their Venus inward. They re-examine what they love and what they're worth before they commit to it. What survives that second look tends to last.
Mars in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 10th house
Rachel McAdams's Mars in Sagittarius. Their drive becomes clean by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Rachel McAdams's Mars in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Jupiter in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 7th house
Rachel McAdams's Jupiter in Leo. Growth becomes meaningful by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Rachel McAdams's Jupiter in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Saturn in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 7th house
Rachel McAdams's Saturn in Virgo. Maturity develops by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Rachel McAdams's Saturn in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Uranus in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 9th house
Rachel McAdams's Uranus in Scorpio. Freedom becomes real by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Rachel McAdams's Uranus in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Neptune in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 11th house
Rachel McAdams's Neptune in Sagittarius. Their sensitivity becomes creative by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Rachel McAdams's Neptune in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Pluto in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 8th house
Rachel McAdams's Pluto in Libra. Transformation begins by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Rachel McAdams's Pluto in House 8 touches intimacy, shared resources, loss, trust, and taboo. It asks them to choose honest exchange over control.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Rachel McAdams's rising sign?
Rachel McAdams's Rising sign is Capricorn, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Rachel McAdams's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Rachel McAdams a Scorpio?
Yes. Rachel McAdams's Sun sign is Scorpio in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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