Kurt Russell, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, began as a child actor with an uncredited part in It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) and signed a ten-year contract with Walt Disney Productions in 1966. He played minor league baseball in the early 1970s. His Elvis Presley in the television film Elvis (1979) drew an Emmy nomination. With the director John Carpenter he made Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Silkwood (1983) brought a Golden Globe nomination, and Tango & Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993) and Stargate (1994) followed. Later came Miracle (2004), Death Proof (2007), The Hateful Eight (2015), Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), which won him a Critics' Choice Super Award.
Gauquelin's book of American charts
The Source Notes at Astro-Databank read: "Gauquelin Book of American Charts." The data source is given as "Quoted BC/BR", a birth certificate or record, and the rating is AA.
No other hour is on file. Springfield kept Eastern Standard Time that March, five hours behind Greenwich.
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♋︎ Cancer | 10:41 a.m. to 1:03 p.m. | Gemini before, Leo after |
| Midheaven | ♓︎ Pisces | 10:22 a.m. to 12:12 p.m. | Aquarius before, Aries after |
| Moon | ♋︎ Cancer | all day | n/a |
Rising sign, midheaven and Moon calculated by us, Springfield, Massachusetts, Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5).
Moon at home in Cancer, with Uranus in the 1st house
The Moon rules Cancer, so the planet that governs the rising sign stands in its own sign at 17°17′, and both house systems put it in the 1st. That is a strong placement, with feeling that sits close to the surface.
Uranus is in the same house at 5°24′ of Cancer, an unconventional streak in how that feeling gets expressed. The Moon crossed into Cancer at 12:06 a.m. on March 16, 34.6 hours earlier, and stays until 11:45 a.m. on March 18.
Our pages: Moon in Cancer · Uranus in Cancer · 1st house · moon sign calculator · Sun, Moon and rising together.
A Moon squared by Neptune and trined by Jupiter
Retrograde Neptune at 18°45′ of Libra squares the Moon, 1°29′ from exact, a pairing that goes with feeling that absorbs mood and atmosphere, with some blurring at the edges.
Jupiter at 21°46′ of Pisces trines the Moon, 4°29′ off, and links two water signs. That suggests generosity and ease in feeling, arriving from the 10th house, the area of public standing.
Our pages: Neptune in Libra · Jupiter in Pisces · 5th house · 10th house.
Pisces overhead: midheaven, Sun and Jupiter
Pisces took the midheaven, 5°31′ Pisces, at 10:22 a.m. and kept it until 12:12 p.m. The Sun at 26°15′ and Jupiter at 21°46′ are both in Pisces, 4°28′ from an exact conjunction.
Placidus calls both the 10th house and Whole Sign the 9th. A Sun joined to Jupiter points to optimism and a wish for a wide stage, and the 10th stands for career and standing.
Our pages: Pisces · Jupiter in Pisces · Midheaven in Pisces · 10th house · 9th house.
Aries gathers Mercury, Venus and Mars beside the summit
Mercury at 2°19′, Mars at 12°06′ and Venus at 25°25′ of Aries follow the Pisces midheaven in the zodiac. Placidus gives Mercury the 10th house and the other two the 11th; Whole Sign lumps all three into the 10th.
Aries is direct and quick to start, so planets there suggest impulse in speech, affection and drive. Mars trines Pluto in Leo, 5°44′ from exact, and squares the Moon, 5°11′ off.
Our pages: Mercury in Aries · Venus in Aries · Mars in Aries · Pluto in Leo · 11th house.
Saturn at the very end of Virgo, across from the Sun
Retrograde Saturn stands at 29°13′ of Virgo, the last degree of the sign, and opposes the Sun within 2°58′ and Mercury within 3°06′. An opposition from Saturn brings a counterweight, caution set against the openness of a Pisces Sun.
Neptune and Pluto, 0°56′ from an exact sextile, make the tightest pair in the chart, but they belong to a whole generation.
Our pages: Saturn in Virgo · Mercury in Aries · Pluto in Leo · 4th house · 3rd house.
Cancer takes the horizon at 10:41 a.m.
Cancer rose at 10:41 a.m., a minute ahead of the birth, and holds the Springfield horizon until 1:03 p.m. The ascendant is 0°22′ Cancer, with Gemini on the horizon before it.
Cancer rising goes with a protective, receptive first impression, and with the Moon as ruler, sign and planet agree. Cardinal signs hold six planets: the Moon and Uranus in Cancer, Mercury, Venus and Mars in Aries, and Neptune in Libra.
Our pages: Cancer rising · Cancer · 1st house · rising sign calculator.
All major aspects between the planets in Kurt Russell's chart
- Neptune sextile Pluto orb 0°56′
- Moon square Neptune orb 1°29′
- Sun opposition Saturn orb 2°58′
- Mercury opposition Saturn orb 3°06′
- Mercury square Uranus orb 3°06′
- Sun conjunction Jupiter orb 4°28′
- Moon trine Jupiter orb 4°29′
- Moon square Mars orb 5°11′
- Mars trine Pluto orb 5°44′
- Sun conjunction Mercury orb 6°04′
- Saturn square Uranus orb 6°12′
- Venus opposition Neptune orb 6°39′
- Mars opposition Neptune orb 6°40′
- Mars square Uranus orb 6°41′
- Jupiter opposition Saturn orb 7°27′
- Venus trine Pluto orb 7°35′
- Moon square Venus orb 8°08′
- Sun trine Moon orb 8°58′
- Sun square Uranus orb 9°10′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Kurt Russell's chart
Which sign is rising for Kurt Russell?
Cancer, at 0°22′ Cancer, from 10:41 a.m. to 1:03 p.m.
Where is his Moon?
In Cancer, at 17°17′, in the 1st house. It stayed in the sign all day.
What is his Sun sign?
Pisces, at 26°15′, joined to Jupiter in the same sign.
When was he born?
March 17, 1951, at 10:42 a.m., in Springfield, Massachusetts.
What is the tightest pair?
Neptune sextile Pluto, 0°56′ off. The Moon square Neptune follows at 1°29′.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Kurt Russell's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.