Ellen DeGeneres’s birth chart
Born 26 January 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana, at 08:43 (Rodden A).
Aquarius Sun · Aries Moon · Pisces rising
Ellen DeGeneres’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Ellen DeGeneres was born on Sunday, 26 January 1958, in Metairie, Louisiana. The Sun was in Aquarius, so Aquarius is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Aries and Pisces rising. Ellen turns 68 in 2026. The birth time, 08:43, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
Of the ten planets, four are in fire signs, two in earth, two in air and two in water. By modality the count is five fixed, three mutable and two cardinal. The tightest aspect is Venus opposition Uranus, exact to a tenth of a degree. Three planets were retrograde: Venus, Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 26 January, among them Paul Newman, José Mourinho and Wayne Gretzky. Wikidata links Ellen with two people in the dataset: Portia de Rossi (married in 2008) and Anne Heche (listed as partners, 1997 to 2000).
Ellen DeGeneres’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
6° Aquarius 09'
An Aquarius Sun sees differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence are the marks of this placement in Ellen DeGeneres's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Aries
19° Aries 59'
With the Moon in Aries, Ellen is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Rising sign
Pisces
9° Pisces 49'
With Pisces rising, the first impression is gentle, dreamy and receptive. People are inclined to tell Ellen things they have told no one, and the mood of this rising sign shifts with the room.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 08:43 on 26 January 1958, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 6° Aquarius 09' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 19° Aries 59' | House 1 |
| Mercury | 14° Capricorn 13' | House 11 |
| Venus | 9° Aquarius 45'℞ | House 12 |
| Mars | 24° Sagittarius 11' | House 10 |
| Jupiter | 1° Scorpio 02' | House 8 |
| Saturn | 22° Sagittarius 08' | House 10 |
| Uranus | 9° Leo 46'℞ | House 6 |
| Neptune | 4° Scorpio 45' | House 8 |
| Pluto | 1° Virgo 40'℞ | House 6 |
| North Node | 5° Scorpio 39' | House 8 |
| South Node | 5° Taurus 39' | House 2 |
Ellen DeGeneres’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Ellen DeGeneres’s private life.
Sun in Aquarius
6° Aquarius 09' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
Ellen DeGeneres's purpose, with the Sun in Aquarius, probably lies in being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, with a vitality that rises around causes and communities. The tension can be detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It is the placement of the reliable one at meetings who is the hardest person to reach one to one.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Ellen's identity may be quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is probably where they recharge the parts of themselves that rarely get seen. The Sun here treats rest as the fuel the rest of life runs on, not as wasted time.
Moon in Aries
19° Aries 59' · first house
needs and habits
The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Ellen, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
The Moon in the first house tends to make Ellen's moods visible almost immediately, so that how they feel colours how they come across before a single word has been said. Other people are apt to read that emotional weather quickly, sometimes before it has been named.
Mercury in Capricorn
14° Capricorn 13' · eleventh house
mind and voice
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Ellen 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. Ellen will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Ellen thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Ellen's best thinking happens.
Venus in Aquarius
9° Aquarius 45' ℞ · twelfth house
love and values
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Ellen may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Ellen may feel more deeply than they show to most people. The placement values quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, over public displays or grand romantic gestures.
Mars in Sagittarius
24° Sagittarius 11' · tenth house
drive and anger
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. Ellen 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 tenth house makes ambition the driving force, and Ellen is apt to push hard towards a public goal once their sights are set on it. Competition at work sharpens their focus where it might intimidate someone else, and a proper challenge can bring out Ellen's best effort.
Jupiter in Scorpio
1° Scorpio 02' · eighth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Ellen, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
Jupiter in the eighth house brings a quiet trust to intimacy and to whatever is held in common, and for Ellen 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 Sagittarius
22° Sagittarius 08' · tenth house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Sagittarius builds discipline around belief and meaning, testing a big idea hard before committing to it. In front of people who might challenge a conviction, Ellen is likely to hedge. Over time, someone with this Saturn often becomes a credible voice on the very questions they once felt they had no right to answer.
Saturn in the tenth house is associated with taking the long road in working life, and Ellen is inclined to trust sustained effort over shortcuts. Saturn here goes with a reliability that shows long before any confidence in their own standing among their peers.
Uranus in Leo
9° Leo 46' ℞ · sixth house
freedom, generational
Ellen shares Uranus in Leo with a generation, one that redefines self-expression and individuality, often through forms of creativity and visibility that were not available before. Closer to home, it suggests being comfortable with being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Ellen 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 Ellen faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Scorpio
4° Scorpio 45' · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Scorpio marks a long season that Ellen shares with many people of a similar age. Its imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, with a wider cultural fascination for secrets and endings. In an individual that can be a pull towards mystery for its own sake.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Ellen 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 Virgo
1° Virgo 40' ℞ · sixth house
power, generational
Pluto in Virgo is shared by Ellen and many people born in the same span of years. That generation lives through deep change in work, in how services are organised, and in daily life itself. In one person that can be intensity around control, order and how much any one system can carry.
Daily work gets Ellen's full intensity, and a role or a routine is often transformed completely once they commit themselves to it. With Pluto in the sixth house, a job is hard to do by halves, so rest may be something Ellen has to choose on purpose.
Aspects in Ellen DeGeneres’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus opposition Uranus
0.0° separating
Ellen DeGeneres may want intimacy and still feel a reflex to protect their freedom the moment things seem too certain; that is the tension of Venus opposite Uranus. Naming the need for space early tends to work better than acting on it as sudden distance.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
0.6° applying
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Ellen's sense of possibility and depth working in concert. The opportunities that matter tend to come at a manageable pace, not all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
Sun square Neptune
1.4° separating
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Ellen's sense of who they are under the pull of an ideal, a cause or someone else's story, until it is unclear where they end and the dream begins. The task is staying inspired without losing their own outline.
Mars conjunction Saturn
2.0° separating
With Mars conjunct Saturn, drive is disciplined and controlled, and Ellen 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.
Moon trine Saturn
2.2° applying
Ellen is likely to manage difficult emotions with maturity and without much drama, because feeling and discipline support each other here. The steadiness of a Moon-Saturn trine is a strength, especially under pressure, and it is often the quality people trust most.
Sun conjunction Venus
3.6° applying
Who Ellen 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.
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 Pluto3.1°
- Sun opposition Uranus3.6°
- Jupiter conjunction Neptune3.7°
- Moon trine Mars4.2°
- Venus square Neptune5.0°
- Uranus square Neptune5.0°
- Sun square Jupiter5.1°
- Moon square Mercury5.8°
Ellen DeGeneres in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Aquarius Sun and Aries Moon, like Ellen DeGeneres
Also born on 26 January
Ellen DeGeneres 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 (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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