Yul Brynner’s birth chart
ActorBorn July 11, 1920, Vladivostok, RussiaDied October 10, 1985
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonTaurusThe Hearth
- VenusCancerThe Nurturer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong. Charm came naturally: taste, warmth and a love of beautiful things were close to his core.
The Sun conjunction Venus (close at 2.0°)
What he needed
Moon in Taurus, the Hearth
Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same.
How he loved
Venus in Cancer, the Nurturer
Loves tenderly and protectively. Wants closeness, family and a feeling of belonging.
How he thought
Mercury in Leo, the Storyteller
Speaks with flair and conviction. Thinks in bold strokes and tells a story everyone remembers. A poet’s mind: he heard what went unsaid, and his best ideas came from somewhere hard to explain.
Mercury conjunction Neptune (almost exact at 0.3°)
What drove him
Mars in Scorpio or Libra, the Strategist
Intense, strategic and relentless. Keeps a goal close and doesn’t let it go. Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.
Mars trine Uranus (wide at 5.2°) · For a birth before 3:02 a.m., his Mars was in Libra.
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his heart and his intensity (the Sun, Venus and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through took deliberate effort.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Yul Brynner was born five days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 29% lit, in Taurus. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Sunday, nineteen days after the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Yul Brynner, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1978 and 1979, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1949. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Yul Brynner
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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
More with the Sun in Cancer
See allQuestions about his chart
What is Yul Brynner’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Yul Brynner was born on July 11, 1920, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong.
What is Yul Brynner’s Moon sign?
Taurus, the Hearth. Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same.
What is Yul Brynner’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 July 11, 1920. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Yul Brynner’s Venus sign?
Cancer, the Nurturer. Loves tenderly and protectively. Wants closeness, family and a feeling of belonging.
How does your chart compare with Yul Brynner’s?
Set your chart beside Yul Brynner’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 Yul Brynner’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: CBS Television, 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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