Lena Horne’s birth chart
SingerBorn June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, New York, United StatesDied May 9, 2010
Tender under a careful shell.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonScorpioThe Vault
- VenusCancerThe Nurturer
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. Intensity at the centre: she wanted the whole truth about everything, herself first, and she remade herself more than once to reach it.
The Sun conjunction Pluto (wide at 4.3°)
What she needed
Moon in Scorpio, the Vault
Still on the surface and strong underneath. Holds on to feelings, and to the people who earn them.
How she loved
Venus in Cancer, the Nurturer
Shows love by looking after people. Needs a partner who feels like a safe harbour. Affection came to her with generosity attached: her heart and her optimism helped each other.
Venus sextile Jupiter (wide at 4.3°)
How she thought
Mercury in Gemini, the Quick Wit
Quick, witty and endlessly curious. Picks up a subject fast and can talk about ten things at once. A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and she saw answers others missed.
Mercury trine Uranus (close at 1.3°)
What drove her
Mars in Gemini, the Multitasker
Quick, clever and busy. Gets things done through talk, ideas and juggling several jobs.
The shape of her chart
In her chart, her identity, her heart and her intensity (the Sun, Venus and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew her attention first. No earth at all, so the practical, settled side was the one she had to find.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Lena Horne was born four days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 79% lit, in Scorpio. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Saturday, eight days after the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Lena Horne, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2005, at 88: her third Saturn return, after the second in 1975 and 1976. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Lena Horne
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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
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See allQuestions about her chart
What is Lena Horne’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it.
What is Lena Horne’s Moon sign?
Scorpio, the Vault. Still on the surface and strong underneath. Holds on to feelings, and to the people who earn them.
What is Lena Horne’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 June 30, 1917. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Lena Horne’s Venus sign?
Cancer, the Nurturer. Shows love by looking after people. Needs a partner who feels like a safe harbour.
How does your chart compare with Lena Horne’s?
Set your chart beside Lena Horne’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 Lena Horne’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
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The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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