Donald Pleasence’s birth chart
Born 5 October 1919, in Worksop, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Libra Sun · Aquarius Moon
Donald Pleasence’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Donald Pleasence was born in Worksop, England, on 5 October 1919, a Sunday. The Sun was in Libra, so Libra was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Aquarius. Donald died on 2 February 1995, aged 75. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Air carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against fire three, earth two and water one. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, five and two. Three planets stand together in Leo: Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Neptune: a sextile, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Uranus was retrograde. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 24 other people born on 5 October, among them Václav Havel, Kate Winslet and Imran Khan.
See the sky the day Donald was born: the stars over Worksop, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Donald Pleasence’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Libra
about 11° Libra at midday
A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Donald Pleasence's decisions, and this is a placement that can see both sides of almost anything. The growth lies in choosing a side when it counts.
Moon sign
Aquarius
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Donald 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
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 Worksop, England, at each hour of the day.
Donald Pleasence’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Donald 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 5 October 1919, computed for Worksop, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:20 | Leo rising |
| 02:20 to 05:15 | Virgo rising |
| 05:15 to 08:10 | Libra rising |
| 08:10 to 11:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 11:00 to 13:35 | Sagittarius rising |
| 13:35 to 15:20 | Capricorn rising |
| 15:20 to 16:25 | Aquarius rising |
| 16:25 to 17:10 | Pisces rising |
| 17:10 to 18:00 | Aries rising |
| 18:00 to 19:05 | Taurus rising |
| 19:05 to 20:50 | Gemini rising |
| 20:50 to 23:20 | Cancer rising |
| 23:20 to 24:00 | Leo 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 5 October 1919, 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 | 11° Libra 11' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aquarius |
| Mercury | 17° Libra 18' |
| Venus | 11° Virgo 08' |
| Mars | 27° Leo 09' |
| Jupiter | 12° Leo 45' |
| Saturn | 6° Virgo 38' |
| Uranus | 28° Aquarius 13'℞ |
| Neptune | 11° Leo 05' |
| Pluto | 7° Cancer 46' |
| North Node | 25° Scorpio 48' |
| South Node | 25° Taurus 48' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Donald Pleasence’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Donald Pleasence’s private life.
With the Sun in Libra, Donald Pleasence's vitality is likely to rise in good company, and purpose to feel real when they are creating balance or beauty with other people. The risk is losing their own direction while managing everyone else's. Deciding alone is probably harder for them than deciding with a second opinion in the room.
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Donald 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.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Donald tends to communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. Settling on an opinion can take so long that the moment for it passes. They may change their mind in the middle of a conversation because the other point had merit.
With Venus in Virgo, Donald 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.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Donald its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
Jupiter in Leo
12° Leo 45' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Donald the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Donald may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Aquarius
28° Aquarius 13' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Donald's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
Neptune in Leo
11° Leo 05' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Donald 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
7° Cancer 46' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Donald 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 Donald Pleasence’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.
Sun sextile Neptune
about 0.1° at midday
Creativity and empathy are there when Donald Pleasence makes room for them, because identity and imagination work gently together in this aspect. The sensitivity is soft, and people notice it without it having to be announced.
Mars opposition Uranus
about 1.1° at midday
When Donald acts on their own terms, it can bring them up against people or systems that expect the usual process to be followed; this opposition lives in that clash. Rebellion chosen deliberately, moment by moment, tends to serve them better than a reaction to every restriction.
Saturn sextile Pluto
about 1.1° at midday
No crisis is needed to bring out Donald's resilience, because discipline and depth are on working terms in this sextile. Long, steady effort tends to be rewarded in ways that build quietly over time, not all at once.
Sun sextile Jupiter
about 1.6° at midday
Optimism is part of who Donald is, and it tends to show them open doors, provided they are willing to walk through. With some deliberate effort behind it, the outlook of a Sun-Jupiter sextile becomes momentum that carries past the first burst of enthusiasm.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
about 1.7° at midday
For Donald, growth is likely to be idealistic and compassionate, a matter of causes, beliefs or visions bigger than daily concerns. Jupiter conjunct Neptune supplies the inspiration and leaves them the job of checking a beautiful idea against what can be achieved.
Venus sextile Pluto
about 3.4° at midday
This sextile promises intimacy without unnecessary drama, with Donald's affections and depth working side by side. Relationships tend to deepen at a comfortable pace, with no crisis or dramatic turning point needed to get there.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Sun square Plutoabout 3.4°
- Venus conjunction Saturnabout 4.5°
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 6.1°
Libra Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Donald Pleasence
Also born on 5 October
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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