Ava Gardner’s birth chart
Born 24 December 1922, in Grabtown, North Carolina. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Pisces Moon
Ava Gardner’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Ava Gardner was born on Sunday, 24 December 1922, in Grabtown, North Carolina. Their zodiac sign was Capricorn, with the Moon in Pisces. Ava died on 25 January 1990, aged 67. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Water carries the most weight: six of the ten planets, against earth two, fire one and air one. By modality the count is four cardinal, three fixed and three mutable. Three planets stand together in Pisces: Moon, Mars and Uranus. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Uranus and Pluto: a trine, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 24 December, among them Ricky Martin, Dima Bilan and Stephenie Meyer. Wikidata links Ava with two people in the dataset: Frank Sinatra (married in 1951, marriage ended in 1957) and Mickey Rooney (married in 1942, marriage ended in 1943).
See the sky the day Ava was born: the stars over Grabtown, North Carolina, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Ava Gardner’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 2° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Ava Gardner up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Pisces
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Pisces, Ava may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Grabtown, North Carolina, at each hour of the day.
Ava Gardner’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Ava yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 24 December 1922, computed for Grabtown, North Carolina.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:05 | Virgo rising |
| 00:05 to 02:30 | Libra rising |
| 02:30 to 04:55 | Scorpio rising |
| 04:55 to 07:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 07:15 to 09:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 09:15 to 10:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 10:45 to 12:05 | Pisces rising |
| 12:05 to 13:20 | Aries rising |
| 13:20 to 14:55 | Taurus rising |
| 14:55 to 16:50 | Gemini rising |
| 16:50 to 19:10 | Cancer rising |
| 19:10 to 21:35 | Leo rising |
| 21:35 to 24:00 | Virgo rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 24 December 1922, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 2° Capricorn 07' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces |
| Mercury | 12° Capricorn 14' |
| Venus | 26° Scorpio 03' |
| Mars | 9° Pisces 39' |
| Jupiter | 11° Scorpio 59' |
| Saturn | 18° Libra 58' |
| Uranus | 10° Pisces 11' |
| Neptune | 17° Leo 52'℞ |
| Pluto | 10° Cancer 19'℞ |
| North Node | 24° Virgo 17' |
| South Node | 24° Pisces 17' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Ava Gardner’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Ava Gardner’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Ava Gardner 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.
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Ava more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Ava 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. Ava will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Ava is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
With Mars in Pisces, Ava 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.
Jupiter in Scorpio
11° Scorpio 59' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Ava, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Ava, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
10° Pisces 11' at midday
freedom, generational
Ava has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
17° Leo 52' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Ava alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
10° Cancer 19' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Ava 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.
Aspects in Ava Gardner’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mercury sextile Jupiter
about 0.3° at midday
Ava Gardner's thinking and optimism keep easy company, which gives their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity does much of the work with this aspect, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.
Mars conjunction Uranus
about 0.5° at midday
Mars conjunct Uranus makes for a sudden, independent drive, and Ava probably acts fastest at the exact moment someone says it cannot be done. Courage and originality come with the aspect, and so does the need to check an impulsive decision against longer-term goals before committing to it.
Mars trine Pluto
about 0.7° at midday
Resilience under pressure, and the ability to come back stronger from a setback, are the marks of this trine between drive and the capacity for change. In Ava's chart the aspect points to a quiet, formidable strength, the kind other people notice mainly in how little it seems to cost.
Saturn sextile Neptune
about 1.1° at midday
Ava's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Jupiter trine Pluto
about 1.7° at midday
In this trine, Ava's optimism and capacity for transformation feed each other, and the combination can give them the power to turn a big vision into lasting change. The growth it brings tends to be deep as well as broad, which is why the bigger changes usually stick.
Jupiter trine Uranus
about 1.8° at midday
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Ava a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 0.1°
- Mercury opposition Plutoabout 1.9°
- Mercury sextile Uranusabout 2.0°
- Mars trine Jupiterabout 2.3°
- Mercury sextile Marsabout 2.6°
- Jupiter square Neptuneabout 5.9°
- Sun opposition Plutoabout 8.2°
Ava Gardner in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Capricorn Sun and Pisces Moon, like Ava Gardner
Also born on 24 December
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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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