Franka Potente’s birth chart
Born 22 July 1974, in Münster, Germany. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Cancer Sun · Virgo Moon
Franka Potente’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Franka Potente was born in Münster, Germany, on 22 July 1974, a Monday. Their zodiac sign is Cancer, with the Moon in Virgo. Franka turns 52 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Franka, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Water carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against fire two, air two and earth one. By modality the count is six cardinal, three mutable and one fixed. Cancer holds a stellium, four planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn. Closest of the aspects is the conjunction between Mercury and Saturn, about 1.9° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Jupiter and Neptune. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 22 July, among them Selena Gomez, Willem Dafoe and John Leguizamo. Paulo Jamelli was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Franka was born: the stars over Münster, Germany, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Franka Potente’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Cancer
about 29° Cancer at midday
A Cancer Sun protects. For Franka Potente, home, memory and the people they have decided are theirs tend to sit at the centre of things, and they probably read a room before anyone speaks. Care is the strength of this Sun, and their task is to include themselves in it.
Moon sign
Virgo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Franka is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
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 Münster, Germany, at each hour of the day.
Franka Potente’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Franka 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 22 July 1974, computed for Münster, Germany.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:30 | Taurus rising |
| 00:30 to 02:20 | Gemini rising |
| 02:20 to 04:50 | Cancer rising |
| 04:50 to 07:40 | Leo rising |
| 07:40 to 10:30 | Virgo rising |
| 10:30 to 13:20 | Libra rising |
| 13:20 to 16:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 16:15 to 18:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 18:45 to 20:30 | Capricorn rising |
| 20:30 to 21:40 | Aquarius rising |
| 21:40 to 22:30 | Pisces rising |
| 22:30 to 23:20 | Aries rising |
| 23:20 to 24:00 | Taurus 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 22 July 1974, 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 | 29° Cancer 15' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo |
| Mercury | 9° Cancer 13' |
| Venus | 1° Cancer 31' |
| Mars | 26° Leo 47' |
| Jupiter | 17° Pisces 30'℞ |
| Saturn | 11° Cancer 09' |
| Uranus | 23° Libra 50' |
| Neptune | 7° Sagittarius 02'℞ |
| Pluto | 4° Libra 27' |
| North Node | 18° Sagittarius 42' |
| South Node | 18° Gemini 42' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Franka Potente’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Franka Potente’s private life.
With the Sun in Cancer, Franka Potente is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Franka's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Franka's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and Franka probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.
Venus in Cancer loves by nurturing, and for Franka that suggests valuing emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. Old hurts tend to linger here long after the person who caused them has changed. This is a Venus that feeds people, checks on people and quietly keeps score of who has shown up in return.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Franka 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 Pisces
17° Pisces 30' at midday ℞
growth and excess
For Franka, 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.
Emotional security is where Franka'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.
Uranus in Libra
23° Libra 50' at midday
freedom, generational
Franka holds Uranus in Libra in common with many people born in the same stretch of years. Together that generation reshapes ideas of partnership, fairness and how relationships are arranged. Its personal side is a readiness to question traditional roles more openly than earlier generations felt able to.
Neptune in Sagittarius
7° Sagittarius 02' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Franka in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
4° Libra 27' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Franka belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Aspects in Franka Potente’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.
Mercury conjunction Saturn
about 1.9° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Saturn, Franka Potente's thinking is likely to be careful and structured, and they tend to say only what they are sure of. That makes their word worth taking, and the risk is that caution keeps an idea back until it feels perfectly finished.
Venus square Pluto
about 2.9° at midday
Where Venus squares Pluto, the desire for closeness can get tangled with control, and the aspect is associated with jealousy, possessiveness or testing a partner's loyalty. Whenever Franka chooses trust over control, that intensity becomes a strength instead of a strain.
Mars sextile Uranus
about 3.0° at midday
Bold, original action comes to Franka without much friction, because drive and independence are on good terms in this sextile. It is useful initiative with little drama attached, the sort that tries something new without making a big production of it.
Mercury square Pluto
about 4.8° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Franka looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Sun sextile Pluto
about 5.2° at midday
Franka's identity and depth are allies, which gives them resilience without constant upheaval. They probably handle intensity better than most, and it takes less out of them than it looks from outside, especially once they trust their own steadiness.
Sun square Uranus
about 5.4° at midday
When the Sun is square Uranus, Franka's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
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 Plutoabout 2.6°
- Jupiter trine Saturnabout 6.4°
- Saturn square Plutoabout 6.7°
- Mercury conjunction Venusabout 7.7°
Cancer Sun and Virgo Moon, like Franka Potente
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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; 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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