Coco Chanel
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Coco Chanel’s birth chart

Fashion designerBorn August 19, 1883, Saumur, FranceDied January 10, 1971

Warm, generous and made to be seen.

  • SunLeoThe Bright One
  • MoonPiscesThe Tide
  • VenusLeoThe Romantic

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Leo, the Bright One

    Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too. More sensitive to criticism than it looks. Her purpose and her drive worked together: once she decided on something, she moved on it fast.

    The Sun sextile Mars (almost exact at 0.9°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Pisces, the Tide

    Soaks up the feelings around her. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to herself. Feelings came second to duty: she held herself to a high standard, even in private.

    The Moon square Saturn (almost exact at 0.1°)

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Leo, the Romantic

    Loves with warmth, pride and a generous heart. Wants romance, admiration and loyalty in return. She loved the dream of a person, and the real one had to compete with it.

    Venus square Neptune (wide at 3.8°)

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst

    Clever, methodical and useful. Turns a muddle into a list and the list into results. She doubted her own ideas before anyone else could, and so she checked every one twice.

    Mercury square Saturn (wide at 5.5°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Gemini, the Multitasker

    Restless, quick and clever. Does several things at once and wins with words. Restless and quick to rebel: she pushed against limits, and sudden decisions came with the territory.

    Mars square Uranus (wide at 5.0°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her drive, her discipline and her intensity (Mars, Saturn and Pluto) gather in Gemini, and that part of life drew her attention first.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Coco Chanel was born the day after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 99% lit, in Pisces. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Sunday, 34 days before the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Coco Chanel, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1942 and 1943, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1913. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Leo

You and Coco Chanel

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, and the signs you share.

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The chart

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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Coco Chanel’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Also Leo Sun, Pisces MoonAlso born on August 19

Questions about her chart

What is Coco Chanel’s zodiac sign?

Leo. Coco Chanel was born on August 19, 1883, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too.

What is Coco Chanel’s Moon sign?

Pisces, the Tide. Soaks up the feelings around her. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to herself.

What is Coco Chanel’s rising sign?

The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on August 19, 1883. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Coco Chanel’s Venus sign?

Leo, the Romantic. Loves with warmth, pride and a generous heart. Wants romance, admiration and loyalty in return.

How does your chart compare with Coco Chanel’s?

Set your chart beside Coco Chanel’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Coco Chanel’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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