Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood’s birth chart

Fashion designerBorn April 8, 1941, Hollingworth, United KingdomDied December 29, 2022

Direct, brave and impatient with waiting.

  • SunAriesThe Pioneer
  • MoonVirgoor Leo
  • VenusAriesThe Chaser

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Aries, the Pioneer

    Direct, brave and impatient with waiting. At her best with a fresh start and a door nobody has opened yet. Charm came naturally: taste, warmth and a love of beautiful things were close to her core.

    The Sun conjunction Venus (close at 2.8°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Virgo or Leo, the Mender

    Feels calm when things are in order and useful. Shows care through small, practical help.

    For a birth before 10:22 a.m., her Moon was in Leo.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Aries, the Chaser

    Falls fast and loves the chase. Wants passion, honesty and a partner who keeps up.

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Pisces, the Poet

    Dreamy and perceptive. Remembers how a moment felt better than what was said in it. A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and she saw answers others missed.

    Mercury sextile Uranus (almost exact at 0.1°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Aquarius, the Rebel

    Driven by ideas and causes. Breaks with convention and pushes for something new. A fierce will: she met opposition head on, and a fight brought out her full strength.

    Mars opposition Pluto (close at 2.1°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her optimism, her discipline and her independence (Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus) gather in Taurus, and that part of life drew her attention first. Most of her planets are in earth signs: the practical and the solid.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Vivienne Westwood was born three days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 84% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Tuesday, eighteen days after the March equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Vivienne Westwood, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1999 and 2000, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1970. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Aries

You and Vivienne Westwood

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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.

Vivienne Westwood’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Vivienne Westwood’s zodiac sign?

Aries. Vivienne Westwood was born on April 8, 1941, with the Sun in Aries, the Pioneer. Direct, brave and impatient with waiting. At her best with a fresh start and a door nobody has opened yet.

What is Vivienne Westwood’s Moon sign?

Virgo or Leo. The Moon moved from Leo into Virgo at 10:22 a.m. that day, local time: in Leo for a birth before then, in Virgo for one after.

What is Vivienne Westwood’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 April 8, 1941. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Vivienne Westwood’s Venus sign?

Aries, the Chaser. Falls fast and loves the chase. Wants passion, honesty and a partner who keeps up.

How does your chart compare with Vivienne Westwood’s?

Set your chart beside Vivienne Westwood’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 Vivienne Westwood’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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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