Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Helen Mirren’s birth chart
Born July 26, 1945 in Hammersmith at 02:00.
Leo Sun · Aquarius Moon · Gemini rising · Fire · Fixed
Sun
♌Leo
2° Leo 40'
You shine. Warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who you really are run through everything you do. A Leo Sun grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon
♒Aquarius
14° Aquarius 38'
You feel from a step back. You understand emotions better than you inhabit them, and you need space and ideas to process. Friends are your family; freedom is your security.
Rising
♊Gemini
21° Gemini 26'
You come across as curious, quick and easy to talk to. People find you younger than your years and hard to pin down, and conversations with you go somewhere.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♌ 2° Leo 40' | House 3 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♒ 14° Aquarius 38' | House 9 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♌ 29° Leo 31' | House 4 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♊ 19° Gemini 33' | House 12 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♊ 1° Gemini 49' | House 12 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♍ 24° Virgo 21' | House 5 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♋ 16° Cancer 50' | House 2 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♊ 16° Gemini 02' | House 12 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♎ 4° Libra 05' | House 5 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♌ 9° Leo 38' | House 3 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♋ 9° Cancer 05' | House 2 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♑ 9° Capricorn 05' | House 8 |
Helen Mirren's full reading
Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Leo
♌ 2° Leo 40' · third house
purpose and vitality
Purpose for they i tied to creating and being genuinely seen doing it, and their vitality rises the moment they have an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. It shows up as the extra effort they put into something the moment someone notices they making it.
Helen is energized by talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around they that day. Curiosity is not a side interest for they, it sits close to the core of who Helen is, and a good conversation can genuinely change their mood.
☽Moon in Aquarius
♒ 14° Aquarius 38' · ninth house
needs and habits
They proces daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and they need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The tension is intellectualising a feeling instead of simply having it. It shows up as needing time alone to recover even after a good day with people.
They feel restored by new places, new ideas and a wider view of things than their everyday routine offers, and staying too still for too long makes they quietly restless. A change of scenery, even a small one, genuinely helps settle they back down.
☿Mercury in Leo
♌ 29° Leo 31' · fourth house
mind and voice
They think in confident, story-shaped terms and communicate with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. The tension is being more persuasive than accurate when Helen is attached to being right. It shows up as turning a simple update into something closer to a performance.
They think a great deal about home, family and where they originally come from, and conversations with family tend to carry more weight for they than they might for others. Their childhood shaped how their mind works in ways Helen is still discovering as an adult.
♀Venus in Gemini
♊ 19° Gemini 33' · twelfth house
love and values
They love through conversation, wit and mental connection, and a partner who bores they i harder to stay with than one who challenges they. They value variety and being kept interested. The tension is treating a wandering attention as more serious than it is. It shows up as flirting through banter more naturally than through anything more direct.
Their affections run private and sometimes idealized, and they may love more deeply than they actually show on the surface to most people. Quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, mean more to they than public displays or grand romantic gestures ever could.
♂Mars in Gemini
♊ 1° Gemini 49' · twelfth house
drive and anger
They act through words, argument and quick maneuvering rather than force, and their anger tends to come out sharp and verbal. The tension is winning a point without actually resolving the conflict underneath it. It shows up as debating their way through a disagreement long after the other person just wants it to end.
Their drive often works behind the scenes, and frustration they cannot easily name can build up if they do not find a private, physical outlet for it. Solitary activity, done away from an audience, helps release tension that they rarely let other people see directly.
♃Jupiter in Virgo
♍ 24° Virgo 21' · fifth house
growth and excess
They grow through mastering a craft in genuine, unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. The overreach is perfectionism that turns growth into an endless list of corrections. It shows up as being trusted with more responsibility than they think they have earned, largely because they actually have.
Creativity, romance and play come with a real sense of abundance for they, and they tend to enjoy these parts of life fully rather than cautiously holding back. Good fortune often shows up around the things they genuinely love doing, almost without they chasing it directly.
♄Saturn in Cancer
♋ 16° Cancer 50' · second house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around emotional security, often shaped by an early home life that asked they to be steadier than a child should have to be. The doubt shows up as difficulty asking for care even when they clearly need it. It shows up as becoming, over time, the dependable emotional anchor for people who never quite return the favour.
They take a serious, disciplined approach to money and values, sometimes worrying more about them than the actual situation strictly calls for. Financial security, for they, tends to come through steady, patient effort over years rather than through any single lucky break.
♅Uranus in Gemini
♊ 16° Gemini 02' · twelfth house
freedom, generational
Shared by an entire generational span, this placement marks people who come of age alongside a communication revolution, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. Personally, it can show up as a restless need for new information.
Sudden insight tends to arrive when Helen is alone or quiet, often surprising even they with where it comes from. Their inner world holds ideas that are genuinely ahead of what they have found the words for yet, waiting for the right moment to surface.
♆Neptune in Libra
♎ 4° Libra 05' · fifth house
imagination, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by media images of love that outpace real relationships. Personally, it can show up as a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Romance and creativity carry a dreamlike, sometimes idealized quality for they, and they may fall for a fantasy just as easily as for an actual person. Artistic expression, in whatever form they choose, gives their imagination somewhere genuinely real and grounded to go.
♇Pluto in Leo
♌ 9° Leo 38' · third house
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. Personally, it can show up as a charged relationship with authority and who gets to hold the spotlight.
Their mind is drawn to what lies underneath a conversation, and they rarely settle for the tidy, surface version of an explanation. Words, for they, can be a way of exposing what other people would honestly rather leave hidden, even when that makes things briefly uncomfortable.
Aspects
How the planets in Helen Mirren's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Mars
0.8° separating
Their identity and their energy cooperate, giving they an easy, available confidence when they decide to use it. Taking initiative tends to go well for they, more often than they might expect, especially when the stakes are actually yours to own.
Moon trine Uranus
1.4° applying
Their feelings and their independence cooperate easily, letting they stay emotionally open without feeling trapped by it. Closeness and freedom coexist for they with unusual ease, more than most people manage even after years of deliberate practice.
Sun sextile Neptune
1.4° applying
Their identity and their imagination work together gently, giving they acces to creativity and empathy when they make room for them. This is a soft, easy kind of sensitivity that people notice without they having to announce it.
Mars trine Neptune
2.3° applying
Their drive and their imagination work together with real ease, giving they an inspired, almost effortless way of pursuing creative or compassionate goals. Energy and vision arrive together for they, which makes starting a meaningful project feel far less daunting than it looks to others.
- Mercury square Mars2.3°
- Venus conjunction Uranus3.5°
- Venus square Jupiter4.8°
- Moon trine Venus4.9°
- Moon opposition Pluto5.0°
- Sun conjunction Pluto7.0°
Helen’s couples, by the stars
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (Bio/autobiography). Confidence B. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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