Julia Child’s birth chart
ChefBorn August 15, 1912, Pasadena, California, United StatesDied August 13, 2004
Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind.
- SunLeoThe Bright One
- MoonLibraor Virgo
- VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Leo, the Bright One
Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind. Wants to be proud of the work and the people around her.
What she needed
Moon in Libra or Virgo, the Peacemaker
Feels most at peace when the people around her are at peace. Needs beauty, balance and someone to share things with. Steady feelings: she kept calm under strain, and she loved in ways that lasted.
The Moon trine Saturn (close at 1.1°) · For a birth before 4:48 a.m., her Moon was in Virgo.
How she loved
Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic
Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. Words with charm in them: she had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to her.
Mercury conjunction Venus (almost exact at 0.4°)
How she thought
Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst
A careful, exact mind. Spots the flaw, fixes the plan and gets the wording just right. She doubted her own ideas before anyone else could, and so she checked every one twice.
Mercury square Saturn (close at 1.0°)
What drove her
Mars in Virgo, the Craftsperson
Diligent and exact. Puts effort into doing a thing properly, step by careful step.
The shape of her chart
Saturn is the hub of her chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so her discipline touched everything else in it. The weight of her chart sits in air signs: ideas and people.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Julia Child was born three days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 13% lit. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 38 days before the September equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Julia Child was born, as it was on 71 days of 1912. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Julia Child, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2001, at 88: her third Saturn return, after the second in 1971 and 1972. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Leo
You and Julia Child
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.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Leo
See allQuestions about her chart
What is Julia Child’s zodiac sign?
Leo. Julia Child was born on August 15, 1912, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind. Wants to be proud of the work and the people around her.
What is Julia Child’s Moon sign?
Libra or Virgo. The Moon moved from Virgo into Libra at 4:48 a.m. that day, local time: in Virgo for a birth before then, in Libra for one after.
What is Julia Child’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 15, 1912. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Julia Child’s Venus sign?
Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches.
How does your chart compare with Julia Child’s?
Set your chart beside Julia Child’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 Julia Child’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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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