Ryan Gosling birth chart, interpreted by The AstroTwins
The following analysis by celebrity astrologers Tali & Ophi Edut, aka The AstroTwins, highlights the most interesting astrological features of Ryan Gosling’s birth chart for all level astrology readers to understand.
When is Ryan Gosling’s birthday?
Ryan Gosling’s birthday is November 12, 1980.
Ryan Gosling Scorpio Sun, in the shapeshifting 8th house
•The Sun represents the essence of your personality, your main character energy•
Ryan Gosling was born at 2:34 PM on November 12, 1980, in London, Canada. His astrological sign is Scorpio.
Sizzle, sizzle. Not only is Ryan Gosling born under the sign of sex, mystery and intimacy, but his Scorpio Sun is in the transformative eighth house, which shares a similar energy to Scorpio. This double-hit of seductive intensity, makes Gosling wired for depth, mystery and emotional complexity. Is it any surprise that his role as The Notebook’s Noah Calhoun has been melting us into puddles of tears since the romantic movie debuted in 2004?
Art may imitate life for the Oscar nominee who inhabits his roles with the complexity and depth of the zodiac’s Scorpion. Gosling speaks openly about his turbulent childhood. Raised by a single mother after his parents’ divorce, he struggled with bullying and undiagnosed ADHD and was pulled from the classroom to be homeschooled before winding up on The Mickey Mouse Club at age 12. There’s an “emotional exile” that many people with an eighth house Sun placement can experience before they learn to transmute their pain into power.
This solar placement also lends the Golden Globe winner a presence that feels less like performance and more like embodiment. In Blue Valentine and La La Land, Gosling portrays men who are at once tender and unknowable. His characters seem one step from a secret (oh hey, Scorpio!), but it’s also textbook eighth house: private and magnetic and charged with unspoken desire. In other words, he makes the quiet moments smolder!
Chiron opposite Ryan Gosling’s Scorpio Sun: Kenough?
•Your Chiron sign can reveal your core wound in this lifetime, and also hold the key to unlocking your personal superpower•
Chiron, the “wounded healer,” sits opposite Ryan’s Scorpio Sun, landing in his second house of values, security and self-worth. This opposition suggests an internal tug-of-war: the need to feel emotionally safe and materially grounded versus the Scorpio drive to merge, transform and sometimes tear down what feels too stable.
Ryan Gosling’s role of Ken in Barbie movie was both satiric and searing—a send up of the classic “mimbo” who also discovered his feelings. There was both heart and humor to the Ken that Gosling created. He explored his feelings of emptiness, then journeyed toward self-sovereignty and wholeness—becoming “Kenough” on his own rather than Barbie’s mere accessory.
Gosling himself may know a thing or two about that search for self-definition with his Sun-Chiron opposition. Following the success of Barbie, he launched General Admission, a film production company, along with an Apple Original Films executive. This venture allows him to take an even more active role in storytelling and filmmaking, and expand his influence in the industry while doing so.
Ryan Gosling’s Capricorn moon: still waters, strong ties
•Your moon sign governs the “inner you” and influences your emotions•
If Ryan Gosling’s Scorpio Sun gives him slow-burn intensity, his Capricorn moon is what keeps things cool under pressure. Stable and emotionally structured, this steadfast temperament has made him a loyal partner to Pisces Eva Mendes since they met on the set of The Place Beyond The Pines in 2011.
People with a Capricorn moon sign tend to hold a lot beneath the surface and often take on adult responsibilities early in life. They are not likely to overshare or react on impulse—instead, they build trust slowly, almost architecturally, like someone stacking bricks. In their personal interactions, they can be hard on themselves, at times creating an impossible standard to live up to. As a result, they are prone to melancholy.
Ryan’s natal chart moon is in his eleventh house of friendships, community and collective vision, which can lighten some of the weight of this moon sign. While Capricorn energy can be reserved, the has a quiet devotion to his crew—those he sees as chosen family. It also speaks to his affinity for offbeat, collaborative projects like the Barbie movie, the Dead Man’s Bones “monster-ghost-love-story” album and his real-life role as a fiercely loyal partner and parent. He and partner Eva Mendes are rarely seen together in public, and they keep their two daughters intentionally out of the spotlight.
In love and in life, he may not be the one making grand emotional gestures, but when he’s in, he’s all in. He’s spoken in interviews about how important his mom is to him, and how fiercely protective he felt of her while growing up because she raised him alone. Loyalty is everything to the Scorpio Sun with Capricorn moon!
Ryan Gosling’s Pisces rising adds to his romantic mystique
•Your rising sign, or ascendant, is the first impression you make. Like a filter, it “tints” your Sun sign•
Ryan Gosling is a Pisces rising, the sign of the boundless (and hopeless) romantic. Pisces rules dance and the feet and Gosling has glided in to several of his most meaningful roles. In the Oscar-winning film Lala Land, he wooed fellow Scorpio Emma Stone while tap dancing and twirling around the screen. His iconic Dance The Night choreography was a scene-stealing moment in Barbie, moves he cut his teeth in as a tween popping and locking alongside Justin Timberlake on The Mickey Mouse Club.
Ryan’s emphatic Pisces rising is also illustrated by various humanitarian efforts, including supporting the Enough Project, which aims to end genocide and crimes against humanity. He has traveled to conflict zones to raise awareness and advocate for human rights, showing his commitment to global issues. He’s also a long-time supporter of animal rights, collaborating with organizations like PETA and Mercy for Animals.
Ryan Gosling’s Libra Stellium: Romance as sacred art
•A stellium is when three or more planets are in the same zodiac sign or house in a birth chart•
Ryan Gosling has Venus in Libra, the sign it rules—a placement that practically sings of romance. Add that to his loaded seventh house of partnerships and marriage and voila! You have a Hollywood heartthrob in the making.
Ryan’s Venus is flanked by stable Saturn, sultry Pluto, and big-hearted Jupiter—all in Libra, all in the seventh house! But this isn’t some lightweight rom-com vibe. Relationships for him are a serious, transformative journey. He’s drawn to partnerships that feel fated, that challenge and grow him. (And with Pluto in the mix, there’s often an edge—power dynamics, emotional depth, a need to truly merge.)
He may be private and understated in his marriage with Eva Mendes, but astrologically? This man was built for epic love stories. His Venus placement explains why his characters so often linger in the cultural imagination—Noah from The Notebook, Dean in Blue Valentine, even Sebastian in La La Land. He doesn’t play lovers, he embodies them both on and offscreen.
His Libra acumen shows up in business, too: He co-owns, Tagine, a famous Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills. He reportedly opened the restaurant in 2004 with a chef who had catered an event for him, after which he said he could eat that chef’s food “every day.” Beyond his financial investment, he spent a year renovating the space and collaborating on the menu—another testament to his Libra devotion to beauty, balance and partnership!
Mercury in Scorpio in the 7th house: More than words
Adding another layer to his seventh house story, Ryan’s Mercury—the planet of communication—is in emotionally intense Scorpio. This placement doesn’t waste breath on small talk. He turns words into connection—and connection into chemistry. And he isn’t afraid to try new ways to communicate with audiences, whether it’s romance, comedy, action heroes or entering the expansive Star Wars universe in a stand-alone adventure called Starfighter.
Ryan Gosling’s Natal Chart Nodes: Learning to lead with heart
•Astrologers use the nodes of the moon (found opposite each other in your birth chart) to determine where your destiny lies (North node) and what you were in past lifetimes (South node).
Ryan Gosling’s North Node in Leo is nestled in his sixth house of service. His karmic lesson is to step fully into his creativity and shine. The Leo North Node calls him to lead with heart, to own his individuality and to express himself unapologetically through his craft. His resume to-date certainly checks those boxes!
Balancing this energy is his South Node in Aquarius, resting in the twelfth house of healing, surrender and the subconscious. In past lifetimes—or early in this one—Ryan may have been more comfortable blending into the background, working behind the scenes or giving his power away to the group. But in this life, he’s meant to step up and into the spotlight—not for fame’s sake, but to co-create and to inspire.
And when he hit the Oscars stage in rhinestones and sunglasses, he embodied a new kind of leading man: self-aware, playful, emotional and unafraid to sparkle. In true Leo North Node fashion, Ryan didn’t just follow a script—he set a new one!
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