Charlize Theron’s birth chart
Born 7 August 1975, in Benoni, South Africa, at 08:00 (Rodden B).
Leo Sun · Leo Moon · Virgo rising
Charlize Theron’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
7 August 1975 was a Thursday: the day Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, South Africa. That makes Charlize a Leo, with the Moon in Leo and Virgo rising. Charlize turns 51 in 2026. The birth time, 08:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
Of the ten planets, five are in fire signs, two in earth, two in air and one in water. Cardinal signs hold four, fixed signs four and mutable signs two. Sun, Moon and Mercury all fall in Leo. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mars and Saturn: a sextile, 0.2° from exact. Venus and Neptune were retrograde. The Moon was new.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 7 August, among them Jimmy Wales, Yun Hyon-seok and David Duchovny. Wikidata links Charlize with one person in the dataset: Sean Penn (listed as partners, 2013 to 2015).
Charlize Theron’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Leo
14° Leo 07'
A Leo Sun shines. For Charlize Theron that suggests warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who they really are, running through much of what they do. This placement grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon sign
Leo
10° Leo 39'
A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Charlize up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.
Rising sign
Virgo
7° Virgo 24'
Virgo rising gives Charlize a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 08:00 on 7 August 1975, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 14° Leo 07' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 10° Leo 39' | House 12 |
| Mercury | 20° Leo 26' | House 12 |
| Venus | 11° Virgo 41'℞ | House 1 |
| Mars | 25° Taurus 12' | House 9 |
| Jupiter | 24° Aries 36' | House 8 |
| Saturn | 25° Cancer 24' | House 11 |
| Uranus | 28° Libra 46' | House 2 |
| Neptune | 9° Sagittarius 04'℞ | House 3 |
| Pluto | 7° Libra 10' | House 1 |
| North Node | 27° Scorpio 45' | House 3 |
| South Node | 27° Taurus 45' | House 9 |
Charlize Theron’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Charlize Theron’s private life.
Sun in Leo
14° Leo 07' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
Purpose for Charlize Theron is probably tied to creating and being seen doing it, and a Leo Sun's vitality rises the moment there is an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. The giveaway is often the extra effort that goes into something the moment someone notices them making it.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Charlize'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 Leo
10° Leo 39' · twelfth house
needs and habits
A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Charlize faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Charlize did.
In the twelfth house, the Moon describes an emotional life that runs deeper than what shows on the surface, and Charlize may need uninterrupted solitude to work out what they are feeling underneath. Quiet time alone can be a need for them, not a treat, whatever other people assume.
Mercury in Leo
20° Leo 26' · twelfth house
mind and voice
Mercury in Leo gives Charlize a mind that thinks in confident, story-shaped terms and communicates with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. Attachment to being right can make Charlize more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.
In Charlize'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. Charlize may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Virgo
11° Virgo 41' ℞ · first house
love and values
With Venus in Virgo, Charlize is likely to love through small, practical acts of service and to value competence and reliability in a partner. People with this Venus tend to be hardest on those they love most, and can mistake giving notes for giving care. They may try to fix a partner's problem before simply listening to it.
Venus in the first house is associated with warmth and charm in a person's manner, and Charlize is likely to come across as easy to like before much else is known. Personal style, whatever form it takes, is part of the appeal with this placement and not an accessory to it.
Mars in Taurus
25° Taurus 12' · ninth house
drive and anger
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Charlize may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
With Mars in the ninth house, Charlize is likely to pursue new ideas, travel and beliefs with restless energy, and a good debate about philosophy or politics can fire them up for hours. They would rather go out and find the answer than sit and wait for it to arrive.
Jupiter in Aries
24° Aries 36' · eighth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aries grows through bold, direct action and taking the first step before feeling fully ready. Charlize's overreach, on this reading, is starting more than can realistically be finished. A burst of confidence tends to get a new venture off the ground, whether or not the groundwork is in place.
Jupiter in the eighth house brings a quiet trust to intimacy and to whatever is held in common, and for Charlize it suggests an expectation that things will be fair with the people closest to them. The placement goes with meeting deep change openly, not warily.
Saturn in Cancer
25° Cancer 24' · eleventh house
discipline and doubt
Emotional security is where Charlize's Saturn in Cancer builds discipline; it is a placement often associated with learning early to be the steady one. Asking for care tends to be difficult with this Saturn, even when care is clearly needed. Over time, people with this placement often become the dependable anchor for others, including some who never quite return the favour.
With Saturn in the eleventh house, Charlize may keep a smaller circle of friends, but holds on to those friends with loyalty over many years and without much fuss. Belonging to a group is likely to take longer to feel secure, and to be valued all the more for that.
Uranus in Libra
28° Libra 46' · second house
freedom, generational
Charlize holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Charlize 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 Sagittarius
9° Sagittarius 04' ℞ · third house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Charlize in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
With Neptune in the third house, a poetic, sometimes imprecise quality runs through Charlize's thoughts and words, which carry as much through feeling and tone as through plain fact. Creative or intuitive expression suits this mind better than rigid logic, especially when the subject matters.
Pluto in Libra
7° Libra 10' · first house
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Charlize belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Charlize probably carries an intensity that people sense even when very little is said, and Pluto in the first house suggests a sense of self that can be remade more than once. Charlize is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.
Aspects in Charlize Theron’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars sextile Saturn
0.2° applying
Sustained effort feels manageable, not draining, when Mars and Saturn are in sextile, and Charlize Theron has that combination of drive and discipline. What results is quiet, dependable follow-through, the kind that gets a long project finished while flashier approaches give out halfway.
Jupiter square Saturn
0.8° separating
Enthusiasm for growth can run into limits here, whether practical or self-imposed, and to Charlize it may feel as though ambition keeps outrunning the time and energy available. Jupiter square Saturn works best when the limit is treated as a pace-setter and not as a wall.
Moon trine Neptune
1.6° separating
There is an easy current between Charlize's feelings and imagination, and it makes for a gentle, intuitive emotional life. Compassion tends to come naturally with the Moon trine Neptune, in a way that makes other people feel understood almost immediately.
Venus square Neptune
2.6° applying
Under Venus square Neptune, affection can blur into an idealised picture of love, and disappointment follows when a real person or relationship falls short of the dream. Charlize's task is to love what is there, which tends to prove more durable than loving the fantasy.
Saturn square Uranus
3.4° applying
The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Charlize's chart, producing either rigid routines that eventually snap or sudden breaks from commitments that were meant sincerely. Saturn square Uranus is best answered with structure loose enough to bend before it has to break.
Sun conjunction Moon
3.5° applying
Charlize 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.
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.
- Neptune sextile Pluto1.9°
- Moon sextile Pluto3.5°
- Jupiter opposition Uranus4.2°
- Mercury trine Jupiter4.2°
- Mercury square Mars4.8°
- Sun trine Neptune5.1°
- Sun conjunction Mercury6.3°
Charlize Theron in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Leo Sun and Leo Moon, like Charlize Theron
Also born on 7 August
Charlize Theron in the StarMap archive
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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 (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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