Orson Welles’s birth chart

Orson Welles's full reading

Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Taurus

   ♉ 14° Taurus 55' · twelfth house

   purpose and vitality

   They find purpose in building something that lasts, and their vitality runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The tension is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. It shows up in how long they stay at one job or one home before they will admit it is time to move.

   Their identity is quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is where they recharge the parts of they that people rarely get to see. Rest is not wasted time for they, it is essential fuel that lets the rest of their life run.

2. ☽Moon in Aquarius

   ♒ 18° Aquarius 48' · 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.

3. ☿Mercury in Taurus

   ♉ 20° Taurus 36' · twelfth house

   mind and voice

   They think slowly and thoroughly, and once they have reached a conclusion they rarely revisit it without good reason. Their communication is plain and practical rather than showy. The tension is taking a while to consider a new idea that clashes with what they already believe.

   Their mind works in the background, turning things over quietly long before any conclusions rise to the surface where others can see them. They often understand something intuitively well before they can fully explain, even to themselves, how they actually got there.

4. ♀Venus in Aries

   ♈ 11° Aries 19' · eleventh house

   love and values

   They love with immediacy and pursue what they want without much hesitation, and they value a partner who can keep up. The tension is losing interest once the chase is over. It shows up as falling for someone fast and needing the relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.

   Friendship matters enormously to they, and they tend to draw a warm, easygoing circle of people around they without much deliberate effort. Group harmony is something they naturally help maintain, often smoothing over tension before anyone else in the room even notices it.

5. ♂Mars in Aries

   ♈ 15° Aries 10' · eleventh house

   drive and anger

   They act immediately and decisively, and their anger flares fast, hot and honest before it clears. The tension is acting before they have thought a situation all the way through. It shows up as starting the argument or the project the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.

   They bring energy and initiative to their friendships and to causes they genuinely believe in, sometimes becoming the one who gets a whole group moving. Group friction does not scare they off easily, and they would rather push through a disagreement than quietly avoid it.

6. ♃Jupiter in Pisces

   ♓ 20° Pisces 46' · tenth house

   growth and excess

   They grow through compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things they cannot fully explain. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. It shows up as a generosity of spirit that others lean on more than they let they know.

   Their career tends to grow steadily over the years, often helped along by a solid reputation for fairness and genuine generosity toward the people they work with. Public recognition tends to arrive gradually rather than all at once, but it tends to last once it does.

7. ♄Saturn in Gemini

   ♊ 29° Gemini 25' · first house

   discipline and doubt

   They build discipline around expressing themselves clearly, often after early doubt about whether their ideas were good enough to say out loud. The doubt shows up as overpreparing before they will speak or write anything. It shows up as becoming, later in life, unusually precise and credible with words, once the early self-consciousness eases.

   They may have felt older than their years growing up, and self-confidence for they tend to come through real, lived experience rather than being given freely at the start. What they build here lasts precisely because they built it slowly and carefully over time.

8. ♅Uranus in Aquarius

   ♒ 15° Aquarius 34' · ninth house

   freedom, generational

   Uranus is at home here, and shared by everyone born in this multi-year span, this placement marks a generation defined by rapid technological and social change happening within a single lifetime. Personally, it can show up as an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.

   Orson is drawn to unconventional beliefs, unusual places and ideas that genuinely challenge the mainstream view of how things work. A single fixed philosophy rarely holds their interest for long, and they would rather keep updating their worldview than settle it once and for all.

9. ♆Neptune in Cancer

   ♋ 27° Cancer 51' · second house

   imagination, generational

   Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who idealise home and family, often carrying a wider cultural nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never have quite existed. Personally, it can show up as a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.

   Their relationship with money and material things may feel foggier than most people's, with resources sometimes slipping through their hands or arriving in genuinely unexpected ways. Their real values tend to lean toward something less tangible than possessions, however much they try to pin them down.

10. ♇Pluto in Cancer

    ♋ 0° Cancer 38' · first house

    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.

    They carry an intensity that people sense even when they say very little in the room, and their sense of self may have gone through real transformation more than once. Orson is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.

Aspects

How the planets in Orson Welles's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Mercury sextile Jupiter

   0.2° applying

   Their thinking and their optimism cooperate easily, giving their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity tends to serve they well without much extra effort, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.

2. Mars sextile Uranus

   0.4° applying

   Their drive and their independence cooperate, giving they easy access to bold, original action without much friction. This is useful, low-drama initiative, the sort that lets they try something new without making a big production of it.

3. Sun square Uranus

   0.7° applying

   Their identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people around they. The lesson is choosing their disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them for they.

4. Saturn conjunction Pluto

   1.2° applying

   Their sense of discipline is forged through real intensity, often after a period that asked more endurance of they than seemed fair at the time. This gives they seriou, hard-won resilience, and the edge is trusting that they have already proven what they needed to prove.

• Moon square Mercury1.8°
• Moon conjunction Uranus3.2°
• 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°