Elizabeth Taylor’s birth chart
Born 27 February 1932, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, England, at 02:30 (Rodden AA).
Pisces Sun · Scorpio Moon · Sagittarius rising
Elizabeth Taylor’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Elizabeth Taylor was born on Saturday, 27 February 1932, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, England. That made Elizabeth a Pisces, with the Moon in Scorpio and Sagittarius rising. Elizabeth died on 23 March 2011, aged 79. The birth time, 02:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is five water, three fire, one earth and one air. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, three and four. Three planets stand together in Pisces: Sun, Mercury and Mars. Closest of the aspects is the conjunction between Venus and Uranus, 0.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 27 February, among them John Steinbeck, Joanne Woodward and Chelsea Clinton. Wikidata links Elizabeth with one person in the dataset: Richard Burton (married in 1964 and 1975).
Elizabeth Taylor’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
7° Pisces 17'
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Elizabeth Taylor the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Scorpio
15° Scorpio 44'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Elizabeth that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Sagittarius
13° Sagittarius 10'
With Sagittarius rising, Elizabeth probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 02:30 on 27 February 1932, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 7° Pisces 17' | House 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 15° Scorpio 44' | House 11 |
| Mercury | 7° Pisces 28' | House 2 |
| Venus | 17° Aries 10' | House 4 |
| Mars | 1° Pisces 34' | House 2 |
| Jupiter | 15° Leo 10'℞ | House 8 |
| Saturn | 0° Aquarius 18' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 17° Aries 03' | House 4 |
| Neptune | 6° Virgo 35'℞ | House 8 |
| Pluto | 20° Cancer 12'℞ | House 7 |
| North Node | 26° Pisces 17' | House 3 |
| South Node | 26° Virgo 17' | House 9 |
Elizabeth Taylor’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Elizabeth Taylor’s private life.
Sun in Pisces
7° Pisces 17' · second house
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Elizabeth Taylor's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
The Sun in the second house rests Elizabeth'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.
Moon in Scorpio
15° Scorpio 44' · eleventh house
needs and habits
For Elizabeth, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
With the Moon in the eleventh house, Elizabeth feels most at ease among friends who see the world the same way and share a sense of what matters in it. Not belonging anywhere can quietly unsettle a person with this placement, while a steady circle feels like part of their foundation.
Mercury in Pisces
7° Pisces 28' · second house
mind and voice
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Elizabeth 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.
With Mercury in the second house, Elizabeth 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.
Venus in Aries
17° Aries 10' · fourth house
love and values
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Elizabeth 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 fourth house wants a home that feels beautiful and welcoming, and Elizabeth probably puts steady care into making it that way for themselves and for guests. The placement puts a high value on harmony at home, so discord there is apt to be felt quickly.
Mars in Pisces
1° Pisces 34' · second house
drive and anger
With Mars in Pisces, Elizabeth is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
With Mars in the second house, Elizabeth goes after what they want with visible drive, and a firm sense of their own worth fuels that determination. Patience with slow, gradual progress is unlikely to be their strong suit, and waiting around frustrates them quickly.
Jupiter in Leo
15° Leo 10' ℞ · eighth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Elizabeth 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.
Jupiter in the eighth house brings a quiet trust to intimacy and to whatever is held in common, and for Elizabeth 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 Aquarius
0° Aquarius 18' · second house
discipline and doubt
With Saturn in Aquarius, Elizabeth's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
With Saturn in the second house, Elizabeth takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Aries
17° Aries 03' · fourth house
freedom, generational
Uranus spends about seven years in each sign, so Elizabeth shares Uranus in Aries with many people of a similar age. It marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. In one life it can appear as impatience with the slow-moving institutions older generations built.
Uranus in the fourth house goes with an unconventional idea of home, and Elizabeth may well need more independence within a household than most people do. Stability, with this placement, probably includes room to be different rather than a fixed routine imposed from outside.
Neptune in Virgo
6° Virgo 35' ℞ · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Elizabeth shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Elizabeth 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
20° Cancer 12' ℞ · seventh house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Elizabeth 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.
Pluto in the seventh house is associated with bonds that run unusually deep once trust is built, and in Elizabeth's chart it points to close partnerships that change a person. The placement is also linked with power struggles before that trust has had a chance to settle in.
Aspects in Elizabeth Taylor’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus conjunction Uranus
0.1° separating
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and Elizabeth Taylor is likely to be drawn to people and situations that keep them interested more than settled. There is romantic excitement in that. The difficulty is letting closeness deepen without the urge to bolt from it.
Sun conjunction Mercury
0.2° separating
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Elizabeth'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 Jupiter
0.6° separating
Emotional generosity can run ahead of what can be sustained when the Moon is square Jupiter, and Elizabeth may end up overcommitting their time or their care. Generosity with limits lasts longer, for them and for everyone else, than generosity offered with no limits at all.
Sun opposition Neptune
0.7° separating
For Elizabeth, a clear, grounded sense of self sits on one side, and on the other a habit of idealising people or situations past what they can deliver. With this aspect, holding compassion and clear sight together resolves more than choosing one over the other.
Mercury opposition Neptune
0.9° separating
Under Mercury opposite Neptune, clear thinking competes with the lure of an appealing story or a hopeful assumption. Checking conclusions against plain evidence keeps Elizabeth on firm ground, without asking them to give up the imagination that makes their thinking interesting in the first place.
Jupiter trine Uranus
1.9° separating
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Elizabeth a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
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.
- Venus trine Jupiter2.0°
- Venus square Pluto3.0°
- Uranus square Pluto3.2°
- Moon trine Pluto4.5°
- Mars opposition Neptune5.0°
- Sun conjunction Mars5.7°
- Mercury conjunction Mars5.9°
Elizabeth Taylor in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Pisces Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Elizabeth Taylor
Also born on 27 February
Elizabeth Taylor 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 (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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