Rip Torn’s birth chart
ActorBorn February 6, 1931, Temple, Texas, United StatesDied July 9, 2019
Original, independent and fair.
- SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
- MoonLibraThe Peacemaker
- VenusCapricornor Sagittarius
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker
Original, independent and fair. Thinks about how things could work better for everyone. He kept rebuilding himself to fit what life asked, and control was the hardest thing to give up.
The Sun quincunx Pluto (close at 2.2°)
What he needed
Moon in Libra, the Peacemaker
Feels most at peace when the people around him are at peace. Needs beauty, balance and someone to share things with.
How he loved
Venus in Capricorn or Sagittarius, the Loyal Partner
Careful with the heart and true once it is given. Shows love by being reliable year after year. A romantic with an artist’s eye: he saw the beauty in people and made it visible to others.
Venus trine Neptune (wide at 4.6°) · For a birth before 6:25 a.m., his Venus was in Sagittarius.
How he thought
Mercury in Capricorn, the Planner
Thinks practically and plans ahead. Speaks with authority and a dry sense of humour. His words had force: he spoke to persuade, and he kept his own counsel until the right moment.
Mercury opposition Pluto (wide at 4.3°)
What drove him
Mars in Leo, the Leader
Confident, dramatic and courageous. Puts heart into every effort and likes to lead from the front.
The shape of his chart
Pluto is the hub of his chart: it takes part in six of its aspects, more than any other body, so his intensity touched everything else in it. In his chart, earth signs hold the most planets: the practical and the solid.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Rip Torn was born four days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 81% lit, in Libra. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Friday, 42 days before the March equinox.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Rip Torn was born, as it was on 67 days of 1931. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Rip Torn, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2019, at 88: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1990. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aquarius
You and Rip Torn
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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 Aquarius
See allQuestions about his chart
What is Rip Torn’s zodiac sign?
Aquarius. Rip Torn was born on February 6, 1931, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. Original, independent and fair. Thinks about how things could work better for everyone.
What is Rip Torn’s Moon sign?
Libra, the Peacemaker. Feels most at peace when the people around him are at peace.
What is Rip Torn’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 6, 1931. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
How does your chart compare with Rip Torn’s?
Set your chart beside Rip Torn’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 Rip Torn’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Alan Light ; cropped by Beyond My Ken ( talk ) 07:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC), CC BY 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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