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Hugh Hefner’s birth chart
Born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, birth time not public.
Aries Sun · Pisces Moon · Fire · Cardinal
Sun
♈Aries
19° Aries 07'
You start things. Your energy is direct and impatient with delay, and you are most yourself when there is something to go first at. The work of an Aries Sun is finishing what the spark began.
Moon
♓Pisces
10° Pisces 57'
You feel what everyone in the room is feeling. Music, water, sleep and imagination restore you, and you need to be careful whose moods you carry home. Your empathy is a gift that needs a door.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
Hugh Hefner’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♈ 19° Aries 07' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♓ 10° Pisces 57' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♈ 3° Aries 19'℞ | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♓ 3° Pisces 11' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♒ 12° Aquarius 40' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♒ 20° Aquarius 38' | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♏ 25° Scorpio 06'℞ | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♓ 26° Pisces 45' | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♌ 22° Leo 08'℞ | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 12° Cancer 37' | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♋ 21° Cancer 17' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♑ 21° Capricorn 17' |
Hugh Hefner's full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Aries
♈ 19° Aries 07'
purpose and vitality
Their sense of purpose comes alive when there is a clear start line. They feel most like themselves pushing into something new, though their energy can burn hot and fade before the finish. It shows up as the project they launch with excitement and then hand off once the routine sets in.
☽Moon in Pisces
♓ 10° Pisces 57'
needs and habits
Their daily mood is porous, picking up the emotional temperature of a room without they choosing to. Hugh is restored by quiet, music or time near water more than by talking things out. The tension is not noticing how much of what they feel actually belongs to someone else.
☿Mercury in Aries
♈ 3° Aries 19' ℞
mind and voice
They think in quick, decisive strokes and say what they mean without much preamble. The tension is speaking before the thought is fully formed, which can come across sharper than intended. It shows up as finishing other people's sentences and preferring a fast decision to a long meeting.
♀Venus in Pisces
♓ 3° Pisces 11'
love and values
They love without much guard, and they value emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The tension is idealising a partner before they have really seen them. It shows up as giving generously to relationships and struggling to notice when Hugh is giving more than Hugh is getting.
♂Mars in Aquarius
♒ 12° Aquarius 40'
drive and anger
They act on principle, and their anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. The tension is detaching from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. It shows up as arguing the issue with real heat while staying strangely calm about the relationship itself.
♃Jupiter in Aquarius
♒ 20° Aquarius 38'
growth and excess
They grow through community, ideas and causes bigger than their own life. The overreach is so much faith in a theory or a group that they overlook its practical flaws. It shows up as an optimism about the future that makes they a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
♄Saturn in Scorpio
♏ 25° Scorpio 06' ℞
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around trust and control, often shaped by an early loss of something they could not get back. The doubt shows up as bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given they no real reason to. It shows up as an eventual, hard-earned comfort with vulnerability that most people around they never see they struggle for.
♅Uranus in Pisces
♓ 26° Pisces 45'
freedom, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who transform spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries earlier generations kept firm. Personally, it can show up as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
♆Neptune in Leo
♌ 22° Leo 08' ℞
imagination, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 12° Cancer 37'
power, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects
How the planets in Hugh Hefner's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter opposition Neptune
1.5° applying
They feel a pull between pursuing a genuine opportunity and getting lost chasing an idealised version of one that does not quite exist. Testing an exciting idea against the plain facts protects the optimism rather than undermining it.
Sun sextile Jupiter
1.5° applying
Their identity and their sense of possibility work together nicely, opening doors when Hugh is willing to walk through them. A little deliberate effort turns this natural optimism into real momentum that carries past the initial burst of enthusiasm.
Saturn trine Uranus
1.7° separating
Their discipline and their independence support each other, letting they build lasting structures that still leave room for genuine change. Consistency and originality coexist for they with real ease, more comfortably than the usual trade-off between the two would suggest.
Moon trine Pluto
1.7° applying
Their feelings and their capacity for transformation support each other, so they proces even difficult emotions in a way that leaves they stronger rather than depleted. This is quiet, genuine resilience, the sort that other people only notice once they see what they have come through.
- Saturn square Neptune3.0°
- Sun trine Neptune3.0°
- Jupiter square Saturn4.5°
- Sun square Pluto6.5°
- Mercury conjunction Uranus6.6°
- Moon conjunction Venus7.8°
- Mars conjunction Jupiter8.0°
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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