Charlie Sheen is a Virgo, but he doesn't appear to fit the profile of this famously cautious sign. Born September 3, 1965 at 10:48 pm in New York City, the popular actor's public image as a party guy runs counter to the goody-two-shoes reputation of his Virgo Sun. While he's got the sharp good looks and well-developed professional skills associated with this sign, there are good astrological reasons for his bad boy behavior. Two prime candidates are Uranus and Pluto, astrology's wildest planets, both of which were conjunct Charlie's Virgo Sun when he was born. The close presence of any planet to the Sun will strongly color someone's personality and, in a case like this, take it far from its usual forms of expression. Uranus is the rebel, the law breaker, the individualist and risk taker who avoids following a conventional path. When it is powerful in a birth chart, it often indicates a life filled with dramatic episodes and sudden turns of fortune. In spite of his highly public issues with drugs, guns and prostitutes, Charlie always seems to land on his feet. Just like his character Charlie Harper on 'Two and Half Men,' he's adaptable to change. And it works … in spite of the bad press and behavior, there's something likeable about the guy.

While Uranus and Pluto conjunct the Sun can take a person on some strange and scary journeys, Charlie is gifted by a generous Moon in Sagittarius. The earth's satellite in this outgoing and friendly fire sign reflects an easygoing manner that's at odds with Virgo's introverted worrying. Sagittarius loves adventure and risk. While most individuals with this placement in their birth chart have some sense of limits, Charlie has more difficulty knowing where to draw the line when it comes to having a good time. Jupiter, the planet of expansion, is opposite his Sagittarius Moon, which can push him beyond the boundaries of reason. Excess is one of Jupiter's primary characteristics, and its strong connection with the emotional Moon makes for a prodigious appetite for life. Going too far with alcohol and drugs has put Charlie in rehab more than once. But on the positive side, his expansive Moon-Jupiter hook-up also motivated him to work out eight hours a day, six days a week to get in shape for his role in 'Hot Shots, Part Deux.'

Charlie Sheen is a talented and complicated man. When wild Uranus and Pluto join up with a prim and proper Virgo Sun, it's no surprise that his life's been a wild ride. Fortunately for him, lucky Jupiter's tagging along to save him from suffering total loss due to overdoses, gun charges, divorces and scandals. We see something of ourselves in him … a fallen man, a sinner whose suffering reminds us of our own imperfections, and whose survival is a lesson in redemption.