Jane Fonda’s birth chart
Born 21 December 1937, in New York City, New York, at 09:14 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Leo Moon · Capricorn rising
Jane Fonda’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Jane Fonda was born on Tuesday, 21 December 1937, in New York City, New York. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Leo and Capricorn rising. Jane turns 89 in 2026. The birth time, 09:14, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, three are in fire signs, three in earth, two in air and two in water. Fixed signs hold four, mutable signs four and cardinal signs two. The tightest aspect is Sun sextile Mars, 0.6° from exact. Mercury, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 21 December, among them Mikheil Saakashvili, Heinrich Böll and Frank Zappa. Wikidata links Jane with two people in the dataset: Ted Turner (married in 1991, marriage ended in 2001) and Roger Vadim (married in 1965, marriage ended in 1973).
See the sky the night Jane was born: the stars over New York City, New York at 09:14, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Jane Fonda’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
29° Sagittarius 18'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Jane Fonda forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Leo
21° Leo 59'
A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Jane up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.
Rising sign
Capricorn
28° Capricorn 20'
Capricorn rising comes across as composed and capable, and people with it tend to seem older than their age when young, then younger than their age later. Responsibility is likely to land on Jane without their asking for it.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 09:14 on 21 December 1937, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 29° Sagittarius 18' | House 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 21° Leo 59' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 15° Capricorn 33'℞ | House 12 |
| Venus | 18° Sagittarius 39' | House 11 |
| Mars | 29° Aquarius 53' | House 1 |
| Jupiter | 0° Aquarius 18' | House 1 |
| Saturn | 28° Pisces 41' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 10° Taurus 02'℞ | House 3 |
| Neptune | 21° Virgo 09' | House 8 |
| Pluto | 29° Cancer 36'℞ | House 7 |
| North Node | 5° Sagittarius 53' | House 10 |
| South Node | 5° Gemini 53' | House 4 |
Jane Fonda’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Jane Fonda’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Jane Fonda's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Sun in the eleventh house means Jane finds themselves through friendships and the causes they throw their weight behind, more than through solitary achievement. Jane is at their best inside a group with a shared purpose, and being cut off from that kind of company can dim their spark.
A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Jane faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Jane did.
With the Moon in the seventh house, Jane is likely to feel most themselves inside a close partnership, reading the emotional temperature of a relationship constantly and by instinct. Too long alone can leave them unmoored, even when nothing is wrong.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Jane 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. Jane will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
In Jane's chart, Mercury in the twelfth house suggests a mind that works in the background, turning things over long before any conclusion rises to the surface. Jane may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Jane probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
Friendship matters enormously with Venus in the eleventh house, a placement that tends to gather a warm, easygoing circle around Jane without any effort to draw it. With Venus here, the instinct is to keep the peace in a group, often smoothing over tension before anyone else has noticed it.
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Jane can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
For Jane, action comes first and thought later, with an energy that is direct, physical and hard to miss when they walk into a room. Someone with Mars in the first house is usually seen as a person who moves the moment a decision is made, rarely one who lingers over it.
Jupiter in Aquarius
0° Aquarius 18' · first house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Jane may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Jupiter in the first house can give Jane a natural confidence and openness that people notice right away, often before very much has been said. Jane usually walks into a situation expecting it to go reasonably well, and that expectation shapes how people respond.
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For Jane, the doubt is likely to take the form of guilt for protecting their own time and energy. What this Saturn works towards is a quiet, mature compassion, once it is clear that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.
With Saturn in the second house, Jane 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 Taurus
10° Taurus 02' ℞ · third house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Taurus is a generational placement that Jane shares with many people born within a few years. That generation rethinks ownership, land and what security means, often through technology that unsettles older arrangements. Personally, that may be a reluctance to prize things simply because an older generation did.
Uranus in the third house works in sudden leaps rather than tidy steps, and Jane often says the thing nobody expected, in exactly the way nobody expected. New ideas excite them far more than familiar ones, and hearing the same thought twice bores them fast.
Neptune in Virgo
21° Virgo 09' · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Jane 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 Jane 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
29° Cancer 36' ℞ · seventh house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Jane 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 Jane'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 Jane Fonda’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Mars
0.6° applying
Jane Fonda's identity and energy work together, giving them an easy confidence that is there when they decide to use it. With this aspect, taking the initiative comes more naturally than might be expected, especially when the stakes are theirs to own.
Sun square Saturn
0.6° separating
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Jane pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Jupiter opposition Pluto
0.7° separating
In this opposition, the urge to expand outward meets a need to control the process so tightly that it limits the very growth being sought. When Jane loosens their grip on the outcome, the opportunity itself tends to get through.
Saturn trine Pluto
0.9° applying
Discipline and the capacity for transformation work together under Saturn trine Pluto, so Jane can rebuild after a setback with a strength that outlasts the difficulty. Such endurance is quiet and formidable, and other people tend to notice it only in hindsight, once the hard period has passed.
Jupiter sextile Saturn
1.6° separating
A workable, grounded kind of optimism comes from this sextile, in which Jane's sense of possibility and sense of structure assist each other. The plans they make tend to hold together, even under the sort of pressure that scatters looser ones.
Venus square Neptune
2.5° applying
Under Venus square Neptune, affection can blur into an idealised picture of love, and disappointment follows when a real person or relationship falls short of the dream. Jane's task is to love what is there, which tends to prove more durable than loving the fantasy.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Moon trine Venus3.3°
- Mercury trine Uranus5.5°
- Mercury trine Neptune5.6°
- Sun trine Moon7.3°
- Saturn opposition Neptune7.5°
- Moon opposition Mars7.9°
Jane Fonda in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Sagittarius Sun and Leo Moon, like Jane Fonda
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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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