Anthony Hopkins’s birth chart
Born 31 December 1937, in Port Talbot, Wales, at 09:15 (Rodden A).
Capricorn Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Capricorn rising
Anthony Hopkins’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Anthony Hopkins was born in Port Talbot, Wales, on 31 December 1937, a Friday. Their zodiac sign is Capricorn, with the Moon in Sagittarius and Capricorn rising. Anthony turns 89 in 2026. The birth time, 09:15, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
Earth carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against water three, fire one and air one. Cardinal signs hold four, mutable signs four and fixed signs two. Capricorn holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Venus. The tightest aspect is Saturn trine Pluto, 0.3° from exact. Four planets were retrograde: Mercury, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 31 December, among them Alex Ferguson, Psy and Ben Kingsley.
Anthony Hopkins’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
9° Capricorn 17'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Anthony Hopkins up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Sagittarius
24° Sagittarius 04'
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Anthony, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising sign
Capricorn
22° Capricorn 41'
Capricorn rising comes across as composed and capable, and people with it tend to seem older than their age when young, then younger than their age later. Responsibility is likely to land on Anthony without their asking for it.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 09:15 on 31 December 1937, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 9° Capricorn 17' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 24° Sagittarius 04' | House 11 |
| Mercury | 6° Capricorn 17'℞ | House 12 |
| Venus | 0° Capricorn 58' | House 11 |
| Mars | 7° Pisces 18' | House 1 |
| Jupiter | 2° Aquarius 29' | House 1 |
| Saturn | 29° Pisces 07' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 9° Taurus 51'℞ | House 3 |
| Neptune | 21° Virgo 08'℞ | House 8 |
| Pluto | 29° Cancer 25'℞ | House 7 |
| North Node | 5° Sagittarius 52' | House 10 |
| South Node | 5° Gemini 52' | House 4 |
Anthony Hopkins’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Anthony Hopkins’s private life.
Sun in Capricorn
9° Capricorn 17' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
With the Sun in Capricorn, Anthony Hopkins is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Anthony's identity may be quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is probably where they recharge the parts of themselves that rarely get seen. The Sun here treats rest as the fuel the rest of life runs on, not as wasted time.
Moon in Sagittarius
24° Sagittarius 04' · eleventh house
needs and habits
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Anthony edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
With the Moon in the eleventh house, Anthony feels most at ease among friends who see the world the same way and share a sense of what matters in it. Not belonging anywhere can quietly unsettle a person with this placement, while a steady circle feels like part of their foundation.
Mercury in Capricorn
6° Capricorn 17' ℞ · twelfth house
mind and voice
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Anthony tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Anthony will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
In Anthony's chart, Mercury in the twelfth house suggests a mind that works in the background, turning things over long before any conclusion rises to the surface. Anthony may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Capricorn
0° Capricorn 58' · eleventh house
love and values
For Anthony, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Friendship matters enormously with Venus in the eleventh house, a placement that tends to gather a warm, easygoing circle around Anthony without any effort to draw it. With Venus here, the instinct is to keep the peace in a group, often smoothing over tension before anyone else has noticed it.
Mars in Pisces
7° Pisces 18' · first house
drive and anger
With Mars in Pisces, Anthony is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
For Anthony, action comes first and thought later, with an energy that is direct, physical and hard to miss when they walk into a room. Someone with Mars in the first house is usually seen as a person who moves the moment a decision is made, rarely one who lingers over it.
Jupiter in Aquarius
2° Aquarius 29' · first house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Anthony may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Jupiter in the first house can give Anthony a natural confidence and openness that people notice right away, often before very much has been said. Anthony usually walks into a situation expecting it to go reasonably well, and that expectation shapes how people respond.
Saturn in Pisces
29° Pisces 07' · second house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For Anthony, the doubt is likely to take the form of guilt for protecting their own time and energy. What this Saturn works towards is a quiet, mature compassion, once it is clear that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
With Saturn in the second house, Anthony takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Taurus
9° Taurus 51' ℞ · third house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Taurus is a generational placement that Anthony shares with many people born within a few years. That generation rethinks ownership, land and what security means, often through technology that unsettles older arrangements. Personally, that may be a reluctance to prize things simply because an older generation did.
Uranus in the third house works in sudden leaps rather than tidy steps, and Anthony often says the thing nobody expected, in exactly the way nobody expected. New ideas excite them far more than familiar ones, and hearing the same thought twice bores them fast.
Neptune in Virgo
21° Virgo 08' ℞ · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Anthony shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Anthony can be unusually sensitive to what goes unsaid. Trust may ask them to keep their feet on the ground rather than merge completely and lose their own outline.
Pluto in Cancer
29° Cancer 25' ℞ · seventh house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Anthony to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Pluto in the seventh house is associated with bonds that run unusually deep once trust is built, and in Anthony's chart it points to close partnerships that change a person. The placement is also linked with power struggles before that trust has had a chance to settle in.
Aspects in Anthony Hopkins’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Saturn trine Pluto
0.3° applying
Discipline and the capacity for transformation work together under Saturn trine Pluto, so Anthony Hopkins can rebuild after a setback with a strength that outlasts the difficulty. Such endurance is quiet and formidable, and other people tend to notice it only in hindsight, once the hard period has passed.
Sun trine Uranus
0.6° applying
Being original feels easy rather than effortful with this aspect, because Anthony's sense of self and need for freedom sit comfortably together. They are likely to gravitate towards places that let them be exactly who they are without much friction.
Mercury sextile Mars
1.0° separating
Speaking up quickly and clearly when it matters comes easily to Anthony, since thinking and drive work in step. That plain directness serves them well in fast-moving conversations and quick decisions alike.
Venus square Saturn
1.9° separating
Venus square Saturn can pair the desire for closeness with a fear of not being quite enough to keep it. For Anthony that may mean self-doubt in relationships that have given no reason for it, and the fear can ease each time they let themselves be loved without first having to deserve it.
Sun sextile Mars
2.0° separating
Anthony's identity and energy work together, giving them an easy confidence that is there when they decide to use it. With this aspect, taking the initiative comes more naturally than might be expected, especially when the stakes are theirs to own.
Mars sextile Uranus
2.6° applying
Bold, original action comes to Anthony without much friction, because drive and independence are on good terms in this sextile. It is useful initiative with little drama attached, the sort that tries something new without making a big production of it.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Moon square Neptune2.9°
- Sun conjunction Mercury3.0°
- Jupiter opposition Pluto3.1°
- Jupiter sextile Saturn3.4°
- Mercury trine Uranus3.6°
- Moon square Saturn5.0°
- Mercury conjunction Venus5.3°
- Moon conjunction Venus6.9°
- Saturn opposition Neptune8.0°
- Sun conjunction Venus8.3°
Capricorn Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Anthony Hopkins
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How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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