Orson Welles’ birth chart
ActorBorn May 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, United StatesDied October 10, 1985
Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle.
- SunTaurusThe Gardener
- MoonAquariusThe Cool Head
- VenusAriesThe Chaser
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Taurus, the Gardener
Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle. Has a gift for comfort, beauty and making things that last. He needed room to be himself, and any rule that fit too tightly got broken.
The Sun square Uranus (almost exact at 0.5°)
What he needed
Moon in Aquarius, the Cool Head
Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them. His head and his feelings argued: he knew what he thought before he knew what he felt, or the other way round.
The Moon square Mercury (almost exact at 0.5°)
How he loved
Venus in Aries, the Chaser
Falls quickly and wholeheartedly. Needs passion and a little challenge to stay interested. Magnetic: affection and desire came together in him, and people noticed.
Venus conjunction Mars (wide at 3.8°)
How he thought
Mercury in Taurus, the Careful Thinker
Thinks things through at his own pace. Practical, patient and very hard to talk out of a view. A generous, wide-ranging mind: he learned easily, told a good story and saw the big picture.
Mercury sextile Jupiter (almost exact at 0.2°)
What drove him
Mars in Aries, the Trailblazer
Pure forward motion. Brave, competitive and happiest in the middle of the action. Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.
Mars sextile Uranus (almost exact at 0.2°)
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Orson Welles was born seven days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 44% lit, in Aquarius. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 46 days before the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Orson Welles, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1973 and 1974, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1944. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Taurus
You and Orson Welles
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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
Together, chart beside chart
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What is Orson Welles’ zodiac sign?
Taurus. Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, with the Sun in Taurus, the Gardener. Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle. Has a gift for comfort, beauty and making things that last.
What is Orson Welles’ Moon sign?
Aquarius, the Cool Head. Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them.
What is Orson Welles’ 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 May 6, 1915. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Orson Welles’ Venus sign?
Aries, the Chaser. Falls quickly and wholeheartedly. Needs passion and a little challenge to stay interested.
How does your chart compare with Orson Welles’?
Set your chart beside Orson Welles’ 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 Orson Welles’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, 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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