Cary Grant’s birth chart
Born 18 January 1904, in Bristol, England, at 01:07 (Rodden B).
Capricorn Sun · Aquarius Moon · Libra rising
Cary Grant’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
18 January 1904 was a Monday: the day Cary Grant was born in Bristol, England. That made Cary a Capricorn, with the Moon in Aquarius and Libra rising. Cary died on 29 November 1986, aged 82. The birth time, 01:07, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
Of the ten planets, four are in air signs, two in fire, two in earth and two in water. Mutable signs hold four, cardinal signs three and fixed signs three. Three planets stand together in Aquarius: Moon, Mars and Saturn. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Mars and Uranus, 1.2° from exact. Mercury, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was new.
StarMap's dataset holds 24 other people born on 18 January, among them Kevin Costner, Pep Guardiola and Takeshi Kitano.
See the sky the night Cary was born: the stars over Bristol, England at 01:07, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Cary Grant’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
26° Capricorn 31'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Cary Grant up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Aquarius
0° Aquarius 47'
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Cary is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
Rising sign
Libra
28° Libra 15'
With Libra rising, the first impression Cary gives is graceful, fair and easy to like. People tend to feel considered in Cary's company, and a Libra rising is often the one asked to settle a disagreement.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 01:07 on 18 January 1904, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Capricorn 31' | House 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 0° Aquarius 47' | House 3 |
| Mercury | 25° Capricorn 14'℞ | House 3 |
| Venus | 15° Sagittarius 12' | House 2 |
| Mars | 28° Aquarius 43' | House 4 |
| Jupiter | 20° Pisces 41' | House 5 |
| Saturn | 9° Aquarius 56' | House 4 |
| Uranus | 27° Sagittarius 34' | House 2 |
| Neptune | 3° Cancer 57'℞ | House 9 |
| Pluto | 19° Gemini 02'℞ | House 8 |
| North Node | 29° Virgo 27' | House 11 |
| South Node | 29° Pisces 27' | House 5 |
Cary Grant’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Cary Grant’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Cary Grant 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.
What energises Cary is talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around that day. With the Sun in the third house, curiosity is not a side interest but close to the core of who they are, and a good conversation can change their whole mood.
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Cary is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
The Moon in the third house suggests someone who talks or writes a feeling through until it makes sense, and Cary may find silence around an unspoken worry deeply unsettling. A conversation with the right person at the right moment is often how Cary finds their footing again.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Cary 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. Cary will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
The third house is Mercury's natural home, and words, ideas and quick exchanges come more easily to Cary than to most people. Someone with this placement is often the fastest talker or the sharpest writer in the room.
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Cary probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
With Venus in the second house, Cary has an eye for quality and comfort, and being surrounded by beautiful things probably matters more to them than an outsider would guess. Cary's taste leans towards pleasure, ease and things made well, over things that are merely practical.
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Cary can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Cary's chart it points to a protective instinct towards the people close to them. The placement is also linked with an urge to build, repair and rearrange, so that home is rarely a place that stands still.
Jupiter in Pisces
20° Pisces 41' · fifth house
growth and excess
For Cary, Jupiter in Pisces means finding growth in compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things that cannot be fully explained. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. Others lean on this generosity of spirit more than they let on.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Cary's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Cary is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
With Saturn in Aquarius, Cary's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
Saturn sits in the fourth house of Cary's chart, a placement linked with the weight of home and family responsibility on a person's shoulders, often from early on. With this placement, a stable home is apt to be built by sustained effort, and the security created there tends to mean more because of the work it takes.
Uranus in Sagittarius
27° Sagittarius 34' · second house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Cary than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.
Cary is unlikely to be satisfied for long by conventional measures of worth, and with Uranus in the second house, the idea of what is worth having changes over time. They place value on things that are usually overlooked, and would rather travel light than be tied down by what they own.
Neptune in Cancer
3° Cancer 57' ℞ · ninth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Cary and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
With Neptune in the ninth house, Cary may be drawn to big questions about meaning, and travel can feel like a search for something beyond the practical reason for the trip. The placement is associated with ideals that are felt more than argued, and held quietly and steadily.
Pluto in Gemini
19° Gemini 02' ℞ · eighth house
power, generational
Cary shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
The eighth house is Pluto's natural home, and for Cary questions of trust, power and what is truly shared between people can matter enormously. Pluto here wants to understand what most people are too afraid to look at directly, even about themselves.
Aspects in Cary Grant’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars sextile Uranus
1.2° separating
Bold, original action comes to Cary Grant 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.
Sun conjunction Mercury
1.3° separating
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Cary's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Jupiter square Pluto
1.7° separating
Ambition can turn into a struggle for control under this square, over outcomes that were never fully Cary's to control. The considerable drive involved is better aimed at transformation than at domination, which tends to produce a result that lasts.
Venus opposition Pluto
3.8° applying
A wish for deep intimacy meets a fear of losing oneself, or losing control, inside it: that is the pattern of Venus opposite Pluto. For Cary, choosing vulnerability a little at a time, instead of guarding against it, tends to build the very depth being sought.
Sun conjunction Moon
4.3° separating
Cary was born near a new Moon, with the Sun and Moon conjunct, so identity and instinct move as one and what they want rarely argues with what they feel. People with this aspect act from a settled inner place, though it can be hard for them to see themselves from outside when there is no inner distance to work with.
Mercury sextile Jupiter
4.5° applying
Cary'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.
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.
- Mars trine Neptune5.2°
- Venus square Jupiter5.5°
- Moon conjunction Mercury5.5°
- Sun sextile Jupiter5.8°
- Uranus opposition Neptune6.4°
- Jupiter square Uranus6.9°
Capricorn Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Cary Grant
Also born on 18 January
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 (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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