Laurence Olivier’s birth chart
Born 22 May 1907, in Dorking, England, at 05:00 (Rodden AA).
Taurus Sun · Virgo Moon · Gemini rising
Laurence Olivier’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Laurence Olivier was born on Wednesday, 22 May 1907, in Dorking, England. The Sun was in Taurus, so Taurus was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Virgo and Gemini rising. Laurence died on 11 July 1989, aged 82. The birth time, 05:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
Earth carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against water three, fire one and air one. By modality the count is five cardinal, three mutable and two fixed. Closest of the aspects is the conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, exact to a tenth of a degree. One planet was retrograde: Uranus. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds ten other people born on 22 May, among them Novak Djokovic, Charles Aznavour and George Best. Wikidata links Laurence with two people in the dataset: Vivien Leigh (married in 1940, marriage ended in 1960) and Joan Plowright (married from 1961 until 1989).
See the sky the night Laurence was born: the stars over Dorking, England at 05:00, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Laurence Olivier’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Taurus
29° Taurus 57'
A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to Laurence Olivier than novelty, and people tend to trust someone who does not change their mind for show. The growth edge is letting go before something stops working.
Moon sign
Virgo
19° Virgo 08'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Laurence 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
Gemini
15° Gemini 57'
On first meeting, Laurence probably seems curious, quick and easy to talk to. People with Gemini rising tend to look younger than their years and to be hard to pin down, and a conversation with them usually goes somewhere.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 05:00 on 22 May 1907, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 29° Taurus 57' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 19° Virgo 08' | House 5 |
| Mercury | 27° Taurus 18' | House 12 |
| Venus | 29° Aries 29' | House 12 |
| Mars | 17° Capricorn 43' | House 8 |
| Jupiter | 10° Cancer 46' | House 2 |
| Saturn | 25° Pisces 32' | House 11 |
| Uranus | 12° Capricorn 14'℞ | House 8 |
| Neptune | 10° Cancer 49' | House 2 |
| Pluto | 22° Gemini 41' | House 1 |
| North Node | 24° Cancer 59' | House 3 |
| South Node | 24° Capricorn 59' | House 9 |
Laurence Olivier’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Laurence Olivier’s private life.
A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and Laurence Olivier's vitality probably runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The drawback is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. People with this Sun can stay in one job or one home long after part of them knows it is time to move.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Laurence'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.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Laurence's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Laurence's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
The Moon in the fifth house can let Laurence's feelings out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and without an outlet somewhere those feelings may quietly build up. Play is probably part of how Laurence keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
With Mercury in Taurus, Laurence is likely to think slowly and thoroughly, and a conclusion once reached is rarely revisited without good reason. The communication style is plain and practical rather than showy. A new idea that clashes with what they already believe may have to wait a while for a hearing.
In Laurence'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. Laurence may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Laurence that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Laurence 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 Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in Laurence's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Mars in the eighth house suggests close bonds with some heat in them, and Laurence may find the harder conversations about trust, power and vulnerability less daunting than most. With Mars here, a difficult truth is apt to be faced head-on, not stepped around.
Jupiter in Cancer
10° Cancer 46' · second house
growth and excess
For Laurence, Jupiter in Cancer means growing by nurturing others and building a home that people want to return to. The excess can be protecting loved ones past the point they need it. Generosity here takes the form of home-cooked meals, open doors and an instinct to take in anyone who needs somewhere to land.
Open-handedness is the mark of Jupiter in the second house, and Laurence would probably rather share a good thing than guard it. Their values widen as more of the world is seen, and rarely stay fixed for long.
Saturn in Pisces builds discipline around boundaries, and it usually starts from a habit of carrying feelings that belong to other people. For Laurence, 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 eleventh house, Laurence may keep a smaller circle of friends, but holds on to those friends with loyalty over many years and without much fuss. Belonging to a group is likely to take longer to feel secure, and to be valued all the more for that.
Uranus in Capricorn
12° Capricorn 14' ℞ · eighth house
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of Laurence's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Intimacy is something Laurence is likely to approach in their own particular way, sometimes resisting the usual expectations about how far two lives should merge. With Uranus in the eighth house, sudden insights about the self tend to arrive through close, unguarded relationships rather than in solitude.
Neptune in Cancer
10° Cancer 49' · second house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Laurence and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Neptune in the second house holds material things loosely, and what Laurence owns probably matters less to them than what it means. The placement leans towards intangible values, the kind that are hard to set out in a list and easier to recognise in practice.
Pluto in Gemini
22° Gemini 41' · first house
power, generational
Laurence shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Laurence probably carries an intensity that people sense even when very little is said, and Pluto in the first house suggests a sense of self that can be remade more than once. Laurence is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.
Aspects in Laurence Olivier’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter conjunction Neptune
0.0° applying
For Laurence Olivier, growth is likely to be idealistic and compassionate, a matter of causes, beliefs or visions bigger than daily concerns. Jupiter conjunct Neptune supplies the inspiration and leaves them the job of checking a beautiful idea against what can be achieved.
Moon trine Mars
1.4° separating
Laurence is likely to act on emotional instinct with confidence and little hesitation, because feeling and drive back each other up. There is a natural courage in a Moon-Mars trine, the kind that makes other people look to them when a fast decision is needed.
Jupiter opposition Uranus
1.5° applying
One side of this opposition wants Laurence to expand along a familiar path; the other wants them to leave it entirely for something untested. Neither impulse needs to win outright, and trying the new direction on a smaller scale first tends to serve them well.
Mercury sextile Saturn
1.8° separating
Turning a loose idea into something solid is easier with Mercury sextile Saturn, because Laurence's thinking and sense of structure work together. The clarity is quiet and practical, and it shows most when a plan has to work.
Sun conjunction Mercury
2.7° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Laurence's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Saturn square Pluto
2.9° separating
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Laurence may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
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.
- Uranus opposition Neptune1.4°
- Moon square Pluto3.6°
- Sun sextile Saturn4.4°
- Mars conjunction Uranus5.5°
- Moon opposition Saturn6.4°
- Mars opposition Neptune6.9°
- Moon trine Uranus6.9°
- Mars opposition Jupiter6.9°
Laurence Olivier in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Taurus Sun and Virgo Moon, like Laurence Olivier
Also born on 22 May
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 (Quoted BC/BR). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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