Orson Welles’s birth chart
Born 6 May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 07:00 (Rodden AA).
Taurus Sun · Aquarius Moon · Gemini rising
Orson Welles’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Orson Welles was born on Thursday, 6 May 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Sun was in Taurus, so Taurus was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Aquarius and Gemini rising. Orson died on 10 October 1985, aged 70. The birth time, 07:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is three air, three water, two fire and two earth. Cardinal signs hold four, fixed signs four and mutable signs two. The tightest aspect is Mercury sextile Jupiter, 0.2° from exact. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was at its last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 6 May, among them George Clooney, Dani Alves and Mateo Kovačić. Wikidata links Orson with two people in the dataset: Rita Hayworth (married in 1943) and Dolores del Río (listed as partners, 1938 to 1941).
Orson Welles’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Taurus
14° Taurus 55'
A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to Orson Welles 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
Aquarius
18° Aquarius 48'
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Orson is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
Rising sign
Gemini
24° Gemini 18'
On first meeting, Orson 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 07:00 on 6 May 1915, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 14° Taurus 55' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 18° Aquarius 48' | House 9 |
| Mercury | 20° Taurus 36' | House 12 |
| Venus | 11° Aries 19' | House 11 |
| Mars | 15° Aries 10' | House 11 |
| Jupiter | 20° Pisces 46' | House 10 |
| Saturn | 29° Gemini 25' | House 1 |
| Uranus | 15° Aquarius 34' | House 9 |
| Neptune | 27° Cancer 51' | House 2 |
| Pluto | 0° Cancer 38' | House 1 |
| North Node | 22° Aquarius 46' | House 9 |
| South Node | 22° Leo 46' | House 3 |
Orson Welles’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Orson Welles’s private life.
Sun in Taurus
14° Taurus 55' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and Orson Welles'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, Orson'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.
Moon in Aquarius
18° Aquarius 48' · ninth house
needs and habits
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Orson is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
The Moon in the ninth house is restored by new places, new ideas and a wider view than the everyday routine offers, and staying still for too long makes Orson quietly restless. A change of scenery, even a small one, settles them again.
Mercury in Taurus
20° Taurus 36' · twelfth house
mind and voice
With Mercury in Taurus, Orson 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 Orson'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. Orson may understand something by intuition well before they can explain, even to themselves, how they got there.
Venus in Aries
11° Aries 19' · eleventh house
love and values
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Orson 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.
Friendship matters enormously with Venus in the eleventh house, a placement that tends to gather a warm, easygoing circle around Orson 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 Aries
15° Aries 10' · eleventh house
drive and anger
For Orson, Mars in Aries points to acting immediately and decisively, with anger that tends to flare fast, hot and honest before it clears. The downside is acting before a situation has been thought all the way through. The argument or the project tends to start the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.
Mars in the eleventh house puts energy into friendships and causes, and Orson is often the one who gets a whole group moving. Friction in a group probably does not scare them off, and they would rather push through a disagreement than step around it.
Jupiter in Pisces
20° Pisces 46' · tenth house
growth and excess
For Orson, 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.
Jupiter in the tenth house is associated with generosity and fairness at work, and in Orson's chart it points to patience about letting a reputation build over time. The placement is also linked with optimism about working life and a readiness to take on more.
Saturn in Gemini
29° Gemini 25' · first house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Orson that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Seriousness tends to arrive early with Saturn in the first house, and Orson's self-confidence is the kind that comes through lived experience rather than being handed over at the start. They would rather build slowly and with care, and trust what is made that way.
Uranus in Aquarius
15° Aquarius 34' · ninth house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Orson's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
With Uranus in the ninth house, Orson may be drawn to unusual places and ideas that question the usual view of how things work. A single fixed philosophy rarely holds the interest of someone with this placement, who would rather keep updating a view of the world than settle it once and for all.
Neptune in Cancer
27° Cancer 51' · second house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Orson 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 Orson 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 Cancer
0° Cancer 38' · first house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Orson 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.
Orson 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. Orson is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.
Aspects in Orson Welles’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mercury sextile Jupiter
0.2° applying
Orson Welles's thinking and optimism keep easy company, which gives their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity does much of the work with this aspect, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.
Mars sextile Uranus
0.4° applying
Bold, original action comes to Orson 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.
Sun square Uranus
0.7° applying
When the Sun is square Uranus, Orson'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.
Saturn conjunction Pluto
1.2° applying
Saturn conjunct Pluto describes discipline forged through intensity, often after a period that asked for more endurance than seemed fair at the time. For Orson the aspect suggests serious, hard-won resilience, and the remaining step is trusting that what needed proving has been proved.
Moon square Mercury
1.8° applying
Instinct and logic sometimes pull in different directions when the Moon is square Mercury, and Orson may overthink a feeling or dismiss a good instinct because it is not fully rational. Letting both weigh in improves their judgement.
Moon conjunction Uranus
3.2° separating
The Moon conjunct Uranus suggests an emotional life that is unpredictable and independent, with feelings that arrive suddenly rather than build gradually. There is freedom in that for Orson, and the work is letting people close enough to see the pattern behind the surprises.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Moon sextile Mars3.6°
- Venus conjunction Mars3.8°
- Sun square Moon3.9°
- Venus sextile Uranus4.2°
- Mercury square Uranus5.0°
- Sun conjunction Mercury5.7°
- Sun sextile Jupiter5.9°
Orson Welles in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Taurus Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Orson Welles
Also born on 6 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 (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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