Dolly Parton’s birth chart
Born 19 January 1946, in Pittman Center, Tennessee, at 20:25 (Rodden AA).
Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon · Virgo rising
Dolly Parton’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Dolly Parton was born on Saturday, 19 January 1946, in Pittman Center, Tennessee. That made Dolly a Capricorn, with the Moon in Virgo and Virgo rising. Dolly died on 25 August 2026, aged 80. The birth time, 20:25, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Earth carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against air three, water two and fire one. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is seven, one and two. Three planets stand together in Capricorn: Sun, Mercury and Venus. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mars and Saturn: a conjunction, 0.1° from exact. Five planets were retrograde: Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 12 other people born on 19 January, among them Janis Joplin, Claudio Marchisio and Logan Lerman.
See the sky the night Dolly was born: the stars over Pittman Center, Tennessee at 20:25, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Dolly Parton’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
29° Capricorn 23'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Dolly Parton up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Virgo
0° Virgo 24'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Dolly is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Rising sign
Virgo
2° Virgo 27'
Virgo rising gives Dolly 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 20:25 on 19 January 1946, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 29° Capricorn 23' | House 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 0° Virgo 24' | House 12 |
| Mercury | 15° Capricorn 26' | House 5 |
| Venus | 26° Capricorn 23' | House 5 |
| Mars | 20° Cancer 54'℞ | House 11 |
| Jupiter | 26° Libra 35' | House 3 |
| Saturn | 20° Cancer 47'℞ | House 11 |
| Uranus | 13° Gemini 50'℞ | House 10 |
| Neptune | 8° Libra 35'℞ | House 2 |
| Pluto | 10° Leo 53'℞ | House 12 |
| North Node | 29° Gemini 39' | House 10 |
| South Node | 29° Sagittarius 39' | House 4 |
Dolly Parton’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Dolly Parton’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, Dolly Parton 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 fifth house, self-expression, romance and creative play are probably where Dolly feels most alive, and holding that side back tends to leave them flat. The placement asks for a stage of some kind, even a small and informal one, or that natural warmth has nowhere to go.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Dolly's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Dolly's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
In the twelfth house, the Moon describes an emotional life that runs deeper than what shows on the surface, and Dolly 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 Capricorn thinks methodically, and Dolly 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. Dolly will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Creative projects, playful banter and whatever happens to be interesting at the moment are apt to light up Dolly's mind. Mercury in the fifth house flirts with ideas the way other people flirt with each other, testing an idea, turning it over and seeing whether it talks back.
For Dolly, 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.
Venus in the fifth house can bring romance, creativity and pure enjoyment alive for Dolly, and is associated with falling for people and projects with visible enthusiasm. Playfulness may well be one of Dolly's most attractive qualities, drawing people in without much effort.
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Dolly, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Mars in the eleventh house puts energy into friendships and causes, and Dolly is often the one who gets a whole group moving. Friction in a group probably does not scare them off, and they would rather push through a disagreement than step around it.
Jupiter in Libra
26° Libra 35' · third house
growth and excess
In Dolly's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.
With Jupiter in the third house, Dolly is curious by nature and enjoys learning new things, and their ideas spread easily, shared with contagious enthusiasm. Teaching suits them well, and they rarely hoard what they know for its own sake.
Emotional security is where Dolly'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, Dolly 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 Gemini
13° Gemini 50' ℞ · tenth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Dolly and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Dolly's working life may look less linear than most, because they prefer work that lets them innovate to work that follows an established script. Uranus in the tenth house would rather be known for being different than for fitting an existing mould.
Neptune in Libra
8° Libra 35' ℞ · second house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Dolly among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Neptune in the second house holds material things loosely, and what Dolly owns probably matters less to them than what it means. The placement leans towards intangible values, the kind that are hard to set out in a list and easier to recognise in practice.
Pluto in Leo
10° Leo 53' ℞ · twelfth house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Dolly, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Pluto in the twelfth house suggests a great deal going on beneath the surface for Dolly, with growth coming from facing what is hidden within instead of avoiding it. Solitude can be the setting for the biggest changes, more than any single outside event.
Aspects in Dolly Parton’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars conjunction Saturn
0.1° applying
With Mars conjunct Saturn, drive is disciplined and controlled, and Dolly Parton is likely to channel energy into long, patient effort in place of short bursts. It makes them capable of sustained work. The risk is that caution talks them out of acting when the moment calls for it.
Venus square Jupiter
0.2° applying
Under this square, Dolly's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.
Sun square Jupiter
2.8° separating
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Dolly may promise more than can be delivered and then walk it back. The lesson of a Sun-Jupiter square is scaling a good instinct to a size that holds.
Sun conjunction Venus
3.0° applying
Who Dolly is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.
Moon sextile Jupiter
3.8° separating
An unforced optimism runs through Dolly's emotional life, because feeling and the sense of possibility work easily together. With the Moon sextile Jupiter, comfort and hope tend to arrive together, and a bad day rarely takes both away at once.
Mercury opposition Saturn
5.4° applying
Under Mercury opposite Saturn, a doubt can creep into Dolly's thinking about whether it is good enough to share. Speaking the imperfect version out loud matters more than waiting for the polished one.
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 Pluto2.3°
- Uranus sextile Pluto2.9°
- Uranus trine Neptune5.2°
- Mercury opposition Mars5.5°
- Venus opposition Mars5.5°
- Venus opposition Saturn5.6°
- Mars square Jupiter5.7°
- Jupiter square Saturn5.8°
- Mercury square Neptune6.8°
- Sun opposition Mars8.5°
- Sun opposition Saturn8.6°
Capricorn Sun and Virgo Moon, like Dolly Parton
Also born on 19 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 (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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