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Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s birth chart

PhilanthropistBorn July 10, 1921, Brookline, Massachusetts, United StatesDied August 11, 2009

Tender under a careful shell.

  • SunCancerThe Protector
  • MoonVirgoor Libra
  • VenusGeminiThe Charmer

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Cancer, the Protector

    Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. Purpose and patience worked as a team: she built slowly and got better with every year.

    The Sun sextile Saturn (close at 2.2°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Virgo or Libra, the Mender

    Shows feeling in practical ways: a fixed problem, a remembered detail, a cup of tea at the right time.

    For a birth after 2:28 p.m., her Moon was in Libra.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Gemini, the Charmer

    Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match.

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind

    Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. She thought fast and spoke faster: her mind liked a contest, and her words had an edge.

    Mercury conjunction Mars (almost exact at 0.5°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Cancer, the Defender

    Fights hardest for the people closest to her. Works best for a cause that feels personal. Big drive and big confidence: she went after large goals, and her enthusiasm carried others along.

    Mars sextile Jupiter (almost exact at 0.2°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her mind, her drive and her intensity (the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew her attention first. The weight of her chart sits in water signs: feeling and intuition.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born five days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 34% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Sunday, eighteen days after the June solstice.

  • Mercury retrograde

    Mercury was retrograde all the day Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born, as it was on 66 days of 1921. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2008 and 2009, at 87: her third Saturn return, after the second in 1979. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Cancer

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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.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s chart in full

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Questions about her chart

What is Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s zodiac sign?

Cancer. Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born on July 10, 1921, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it.

What is Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s Moon sign?

Virgo or Libra. The Moon moved from Virgo into Libra at 2:28 p.m. that day, local time: in Virgo for a birth before then, in Libra for one after.

What is Eunice Kennedy Shriver’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 July 10, 1921. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s Venus sign?

Gemini, the Charmer. Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match.

How does your chart compare with Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s?

Set your chart beside Eunice Kennedy Shriver’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 Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Claire Flanders, photographer, Washington, D.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

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

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