
Merle Oberon’s birth chart
ActressBorn February 19, 1911, Mumbai, IndiaDied November 23, 1979
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic.
- SunAquariusor Pisces
- MoonScorpioThe Vault
- VenusPiscesThe Tender Heart
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Aquarius or Pisces, the Free Thinker
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic. Asks why things are done this way and imagines a better one. Purpose and patience worked as a team: she built slowly and got better with every year.
The Sun sextile Saturn (close at 2.2°) · For a birth after 11:51 p.m., her Sun was in Pisces.
What she needed
Moon in Scorpio, the Vault
Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely. Her head and her feelings argued: she knew what she thought before she knew what she felt, or the other way round.
The Moon square Mercury (almost exact at 0.5°)
How she loved
Venus in Pisces, the Tender Heart
Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it. A romantic with an artist’s eye: she saw the beauty in people and made it visible to others.
Venus trine Neptune (almost exact at 0.5°)
How she thought
Mercury in Aquarius, the Inventor
Clever, unusual and ahead of the moment. Loves ideas for their own sake and thinks about everyone, not only the few. Big ideas and loose details: she thought on a large scale, and the small print was where things got away from her.
Mercury square Jupiter (wide at 5.8°)
What drove her
Mars in Capricorn, the Achiever
Determined, controlled and built for the long climb. Works patiently toward the top. Big drive and big confidence: she went after large goals, and her enthusiasm carried others along.
Mars sextile Jupiter (close at 1.1°)
The shape of her chart
Jupiter is the hub of her chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so her optimism touched everything else in it. No fire at all, so the bold first move came by choice rather than by instinct.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Merle Oberon was born six days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 68% lit, in Scorpio. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Sunday, 30 days before the March equinox.
Saturn return
For Merle Oberon, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1969, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1940. When is yours?
You and Merle Oberon
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
Questions about her chart
What is Merle Oberon’s zodiac sign?
Aquarius or Pisces. The Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces at 11:51 p.m. that day, local time: in Aquarius for a birth before then, in Pisces for one after.
What is Merle Oberon’s Moon sign?
Scorpio, the Vault. Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely.
What is Merle Oberon’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 February 19, 1911. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Merle Oberon’s Venus sign?
Pisces, the Tender Heart. Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it.
How does your chart compare with Merle Oberon’s?
Set your chart beside Merle Oberon’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 Merle Oberon’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Studio, 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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