Robert Downey Jr. Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Robert Downey Jr. is an Aries, born April 4, 1965.
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Aries
- Moon
- Moon in Taurus
- Rising
- Leo
- Chinese zodiac
- Snake
- BaZi day master
- Earth
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, United States
Western + Eastern: Aries Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Robert Downey Jr.'s Aries Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Snake adds a year based cycle and Earth 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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Earth placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor, born on April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, United States.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Sun sign is Aries, a Fire sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Manhattan because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Aries | 14.71° | No |
| moon | Taurus | 18.53° | No |
| mercury | Aries | 21.23° | Yes |
| venus | Aries | 12.79° | No |
| mars | Virgo | 10.20° | Yes |
| jupiter | Taurus | 26.19° | No |
| saturn | Pisces | 11.98° | No |
| uranus | Virgo | 11.50° | Yes |
| neptune | Scorpio | 19.51° | Yes |
| pluto | Virgo | 14.28° | Yes |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Leo
House 1: Leo · House 2: Leo · House 3: Virgo · House 4: Libra · House 5: Scorpio · House 6: Sagittarius · House 7: Aquarius · House 8: Aquarius · House 9: Pisces · House 10: Aries · House 11: Taurus · House 12: Gemini
Strongest aspects
Saturn + Uranus opposition · 0.48° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Uranus (change and independence) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Neptune opposition · 0.99° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Mars + Uranus conjunction · 1.30° orb
Mars (drive and action) and Uranus (change and independence) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Mars + Saturn opposition · 1.78° orb
Mars (drive and action) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Venus conjunction · 1.92° orb
Sun (identity) and Venus (affection and values) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Saturn + Pluto opposition · 2.30° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 3 · Earth 5 · Air 0 · Water 2
Modalities: Cardinal 3 · Fixed 3 · Mutable 4
Detected patterns: Stellium in Aries · Stellium in Virgo
Sun and Moon relationship
The Aries Sun and Taurus 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 Robert Downey Jr.'s private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 9th house
Robert Downey Jr.'s Sun in Aries. They become more recognizably themselves by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Sun in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Moon in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 10th house
Robert Downey Jr.'s Moon in Taurus. Their emotional system settles by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Moon in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Mercury in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 10th house · Retrograde
Robert Downey Jr.'s Mercury in Aries. Their mind becomes clear by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Mercury in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity. Retrograde reroutes their Mercury inward. They process ideas by revisiting and refining them, not by saying the first thing that comes to mind. Editing, not improvising, is where their mind actually gets it right.
Venus in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 9th house
Robert Downey Jr.'s Venus in Aries. Love and self worth deepen by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Venus in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Mars in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Robert Downey Jr.'s Mars in Virgo. Their drive becomes clean by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Mars in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde slows their Mars down before it lets them move. They act after real deliberation, not on impulse. Their power builds quietly, then lands with more force when it finally does.
Jupiter in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 11th house
Robert Downey Jr.'s Jupiter in Taurus. Growth becomes meaningful by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Jupiter 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.
Saturn in Pisces
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 8th house
Robert Downey Jr.'s Saturn in Pisces. Maturity develops by making room for mystery without losing contact with reality; this makes imagination, empathy, creativity, and permeable awareness central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Saturn in House 8 touches intimacy, shared resources, loss, trust, and taboo. It asks them to choose honest exchange over control.
Uranus in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Robert Downey Jr.'s Uranus in Virgo. Freedom becomes real by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Uranus in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde keeps their Uranus's originality private at first. Their most independent ideas develop internally before the world ever sees them. What looks sudden to others was actually years in the making.
Neptune in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 4th house · Retrograde
Robert Downey Jr.'s Neptune in Scorpio. Their sensitivity becomes creative 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 lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Neptune in House 4 touches home, ancestry, family, and private foundations. It asks them to make an inner base beyond inherited expectations. Retrograde turns their Neptune's imagination inward. Their inner world runs deeper than what they show, and their sensitivity works best as a private compass, not a performance.
Pluto in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Robert Downey Jr.'s Pluto in Virgo. Transformation begins by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Pluto in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde makes their Pluto's transformation an inside job. Their greatest power shifts happen through self-mastery, not through changing what's around they. The deepest change in their life starts with them.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Robert Downey Jr.'s rising sign?
Robert Downey Jr.'s Rising sign is Leo, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Robert Downey Jr.'s birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Robert Downey Jr. an Aries?
Yes. Robert Downey Jr.'s Sun sign is Aries 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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