Édith Piaf’s birth chart
Born 19 December 1915, in Paris, France, at 05:00 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Gemini Moon · Scorpio rising
Édith Piaf’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Édith Piaf was born in Paris, France, on 19 December 1915, a Sunday. Their zodiac sign was Sagittarius, with the Moon in Gemini and Scorpio rising. Édith died on 10 October 1963, aged 47. The birth time, 05:00, 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 water three, air two and earth one. Mutable signs hold four, cardinal signs three and fixed signs three. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Jupiter: a sextile, 0.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 19 December, among them Karim Benzema, Jake Gyllenhaal and Lee Myung-bak. Wikidata links Édith with one person in the dataset: Yves Montand (listed as partners in Wikidata).
See the sky the night Édith was born: the stars over Paris, France at 05:00, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Édith Piaf’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
26° Sagittarius 12'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Édith Piaf forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Gemini
0° Gemini 58'
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Édith, 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
Scorpio
23° Scorpio 39'
Scorpio rising comes across as intense and self-contained. People tend to sense that there is more going on than Édith is saying; this rising sign keeps more back than it shows.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 05:00 on 19 December 1915, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 26° Sagittarius 12' | House 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 0° Gemini 58' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 28° Sagittarius 00' | House 2 |
| Venus | 20° Capricorn 29' | House 2 |
| Mars | 28° Leo 50' | House 9 |
| Jupiter | 20° Pisces 34' | House 4 |
| Saturn | 14° Cancer 21'℞ | House 8 |
| Uranus | 13° Aquarius 04' | House 3 |
| Neptune | 2° Leo 10'℞ | House 8 |
| Pluto | 2° Cancer 24'℞ | House 8 |
| North Node | 8° Aquarius 51' | House 3 |
| South Node | 8° Leo 51' | House 9 |
Édith Piaf’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Édith Piaf’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Édith Piaf's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Sun in the second house rests Édith's sense of worth on what is built and looked after over time, not on one good season. They feel most confident when the things they own and make reflect their own taste, their own standards and their own pace.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Édith 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 seventh house, Édith is likely to feel most themselves inside a close partnership, reading the emotional temperature of a relationship constantly and by instinct. Too long alone can leave them unmoored, even when nothing is wrong.
Édith's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
With Mercury in the second house, Édith weighs up what things are worth with care and holds clear, well-reasoned opinions about value that they can explain in detail. Talking a choice or a plan through out loud helps them settle on the right one.
For Édith, 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.
With Venus in the second house, Édith has an eye for quality and comfort, and being surrounded by beautiful things probably matters more to them than an outsider would guess. Édith's taste leans towards pleasure, ease and things made well, over things that are merely practical.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Édith 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.
With Mars in the ninth house, Édith 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 Pisces
20° Pisces 34' · fourth house
growth and excess
For Édith, 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.
With Jupiter in the fourth house, Édith probably likes a home with room in it, for more people, more projects and the warmth visitors feel on coming through the door. A generous, welcoming household may matter more to Édith than a tidy or impressive one.
Emotional security is where Édith'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.
Saturn in the eighth house points to trust that builds slowly, and Édith is inclined to take time before letting anyone close. Once that trust is in place, the placement suggests a wish to keep what is shared for a long time.
Uranus in Aquarius
13° Aquarius 04' · third house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Édith'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.
Uranus in the third house works in sudden leaps rather than tidy steps, and Édith often says the thing nobody expected, in exactly the way nobody expected. New ideas excite them far more than familiar ones, and hearing the same thought twice bores them fast.
Neptune in Leo
2° Leo 10' ℞ · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Édith 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.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Édith can be unusually sensitive to what goes unsaid. Trust may ask them to keep their feet on the ground rather than merge completely and lose their own outline.
Pluto in Cancer
2° Cancer 24' ℞ · eighth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Édith 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.
The eighth house is Pluto's natural home, and for Édith 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 Édith Piaf’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus sextile Jupiter
0.1° applying
Warmth and generosity come naturally to Édith Piaf and stop short of overextending, because affection and optimism work together in this sextile. Call it comfortable, unforced goodwill, the kind that makes people feel welcome without any performance being needed.
Mercury trine Mars
0.8° applying
Édith's thinking and drive support each other, and it shows in decisions communicated with clarity and confidence. Debate and quick thinking come easily with Mercury trine Mars, which makes Édith persuasive when the moment calls for it.
Moon sextile Neptune
1.2° applying
Édith's feelings and imagination work gently together, so empathy and intuition are close to hand. Reading a room accurately, without anyone having to explain it, probably comes easily, and the sensitivity behind that is soft and likeable rather than overwhelming.
Sun conjunction Mercury
1.8° separating
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Édith'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.
Moon square Mars
2.1° separating
Feeling and the impulse to act can clash when the Moon is square Mars, and the result is quick reactions that Édith may later have to walk back. A breath between feeling and acting turns all that energy into something more useful.
Sun trine Mars
2.6° applying
Confidence and drive move in the same direction for Édith, so they are likely to act on their goals with very little inner resistance. The energy of a Sun-Mars trine is uncomplicated, and other people notice it and often want to be near it.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Mars sextile Pluto3.6°
- Mercury opposition Pluto4.4°
- Sun square Jupiter5.6°
- Venus opposition Saturn6.1°
- Sun opposition Pluto6.2°
- Jupiter trine Saturn6.2°
Édith Piaf in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Sagittarius Sun and Gemini Moon, like Édith Piaf
Also born on 19 December
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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