Doris Day’s birth chart
Born 3 April 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at 16:30 (Rodden AA).
Aries Sun · Gemini Moon · Virgo rising
Doris Day’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
3 April 1922 was a Monday: the day Doris Day was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their zodiac sign was Aries, with the Moon in Gemini and Virgo rising. Doris died on 13 May 2019, aged 97. The birth time, 16:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Fire carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against air three, water three and earth none. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is five, one and four. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Neptune: a trine, exact to a tenth of a degree. Three planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 3 April, among them Marlon Brando, Eddie Murphy and Alec Baldwin.
See the sky the night Doris was born: the stars over Cincinnati, Ohio at 16:30, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Doris Day’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aries
13° Aries 20'
An Aries Sun starts things. For Doris Day that points to energy that is direct and impatient with delay, and to feeling most like themselves when there is something to go first at. The work of this placement is finishing what the spark began.
Moon sign
Gemini
26° Gemini 31'
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Doris, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
Rising sign
Virgo
13° Virgo 26'
Virgo rising gives Doris 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 16:30 on 3 April 1922, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 13° Aries 20' | House 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 26° Gemini 31' | House 10 |
| Mercury | 24° Pisces 00' | House 7 |
| Venus | 26° Aries 34' | House 8 |
| Mars | 19° Sagittarius 04' | House 4 |
| Jupiter | 14° Libra 05'℞ | House 2 |
| Saturn | 3° Libra 32'℞ | House 1 |
| Uranus | 11° Pisces 27' | House 6 |
| Neptune | 13° Leo 17'℞ | House 11 |
| Pluto | 7° Cancer 58' | House 10 |
| North Node | 8° Libra 43' | House 2 |
| South Node | 8° Aries 43' | House 8 |
Doris Day’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Doris Day’s private life.
With the Sun in Aries, Doris Day's sense of purpose tends to come alive when there is a clear start line. They probably feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though that energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. The typical pattern is a project launched with excitement, then handed off once the routine sets in.
Doris is apt to go looking for what lies beneath the surface, in themselves and in the people close to them, and shallow exchanges may leave them cold. With the Sun in the eighth house, trust tends to become the ground their identity is built on, and opening up may wait until it exists.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Doris is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
With the Moon in the tenth house, Doris's emotional security may be tangled up with how work is going and whether it is respected. A setback at work can land harder on someone with this placement than it appears to from the outside.
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Doris is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
Mercury in the seventh house is associated with thinking best out loud with another person, and Doris may need to talk an idea through with someone before it feels settled. Negotiation and dialogue may come more naturally than solitary decisions, which rarely sit comfortably for long.
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Doris that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
Venus in the eighth house wants intimacy that goes all the way down, not the kind that stays comfortably light, and Doris is inclined to build trust slowly and value it highly once it exists. The placement suggests that whatever Doris shares with someone means more when the bond behind it is solid.
Mars in Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Doris may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Doris'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 Libra
14° Libra 05' ℞ · second house
growth and excess
In Doris'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.
Open-handedness is the mark of Jupiter in the second house, and Doris would probably rather share a good thing than guard it. Their values widen as more of the world is seen, and rarely stay fixed for long.
For Doris, 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.
Seriousness tends to arrive early with Saturn in the first house, and Doris's self-confidence is the kind that comes through lived experience rather than being handed over at the start. They would rather build slowly and with care, and trust what is made that way.
Uranus in Pisces
11° Pisces 27' · sixth house
freedom, generational
Doris 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.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Doris is often the inventive one at work, finding shortcuts or better systems that other people miss. A rigid, unchanging routine is apt to wear on Doris faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Leo
13° Leo 17' ℞ · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Doris 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.
Friendships and causes with an idealistic edge draw Doris, who may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the practical. With Neptune in the eleventh house, disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when its effort was sincere.
Pluto in Cancer
7° Cancer 58' · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Doris 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.
Influence may matter more to Doris than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Doris Day’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun trine Neptune
0.0° separating
Doris Day's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.
Moon sextile Venus
0.1° separating
Warmth and emotional generosity are likely to come naturally to Doris, because feeling and affection get along in this aspect. There is a gentle, likeable tenderness in it, the sort that makes people comfortable saying how they feel.
Sun opposition Jupiter
0.8° applying
The Sun opposite Jupiter can leave Doris torn between their own direction and the draw of other people's philosophies, mentors and offers. Finding their own confidence rather than borrowing someone else's is what turns this pull into growth they can stand behind.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
0.8° applying
Inspired ideas are within Doris's reach without any loss of footing, since possibility and imagination are gently linked by this sextile. The optimism is soft and workable, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift far from what is real.
Moon square Mercury
2.5° separating
Instinct and logic sometimes pull in different directions when the Moon is square Mercury, and Doris may overthink a feeling or dismiss a good instinct because it is not fully rational. Letting both weigh in improves their judgement.
Saturn square Pluto
4.4° separating
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Doris may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
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 Pluto3.5°
- Mercury square Mars4.9°
- Mars sextile Jupiter5.0°
- Sun square Pluto5.4°
- Sun trine Mars5.7°
- Mars trine Neptune5.8°
- Jupiter square Pluto6.1°
- Moon square Saturn7.0°
- Moon opposition Mars7.4°
Aries Sun and Gemini Moon, like Doris Day
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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 (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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