Serena Williams’s birth chart
Born 26 September 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan, at 20:28 (Rodden AA).
Libra Sun · Virgo Moon · Taurus rising
Serena Williams’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Serena Williams was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on 26 September 1981, a Saturday. Their zodiac sign is Libra, with the Moon in Virgo and Taurus rising. Serena turns 45 in 2026. The birth time, 20:28, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, five are in air signs, two in fire, two in water and one in earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is five, three and two. Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto all fall in Libra. The tightest aspect is Venus square Mars, 0.7° from exact. No planet was retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 26 September, among them Petro Poroshenko, Michael Ballack and Olivia Newton-John. Wikidata links Serena with one person in the dataset: Drake (listed as partners, 2011 to 2015).
See the sky the night Serena was born: the stars over Saginaw, Michigan at 20:28, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Serena Williams’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Libra
3° Libra 48'
A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Serena Williams's decisions, and this is a placement that can see both sides of almost anything. The growth lies in choosing a side when it counts.
Moon sign
Virgo
20° Virgo 23'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Serena 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
Taurus
3° Taurus 09'
With Taurus rising, the first impression of Serena is calm, grounded and unhurried. People tend to relax around them and to assume that someone so settled is not going anywhere.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 20:28 on 26 September 1981, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 3° Libra 48' | House 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 20° Virgo 23' | House 6 |
| Mercury | 29° Libra 39' | House 6 |
| Venus | 16° Scorpio 19' | House 7 |
| Mars | 15° Leo 34' | House 5 |
| Jupiter | 17° Libra 02' | House 6 |
| Saturn | 11° Libra 42' | House 6 |
| Uranus | 27° Scorpio 14' | House 7 |
| Neptune | 22° Sagittarius 14' | House 8 |
| Pluto | 23° Libra 27' | House 6 |
| North Node | 29° Cancer 44' | House 4 |
| South Node | 29° Capricorn 44' | House 10 |
Serena Williams’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Serena Williams’s private life.
With the Sun in Libra, Serena Williams's vitality is likely to rise in good company, and purpose to feel real when they are creating balance or beauty with other people. The risk is losing their own direction while managing everyone else's. Deciding alone is probably harder for them than deciding with a second opinion in the room.
Serena's identity, with the Sun in the sixth house, comes through the work they do every day and the small routines that keep them steady when everything else feels uncertain. Being useful is not a chore with this placement; it is part of how they know who they are and what they are for.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Serena's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Serena's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
The Moon in the sixth house ties the sense that all is well to daily routine, and an unpredictable schedule can leave Serena more rattled than the problem itself warrants. Small, dependable habits, kept even loosely, calm them faster than anything else.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Serena tends to communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. Settling on an opinion can take so long that the moment for it passes. They may change their mind in the middle of a conversation because the other point had merit.
Serena thinks in systems and checklists, and in how to make an everyday process work a little better than it did before. With Mercury in the sixth house, analysing the small details of a routine is satisfying in itself, not a chore they merely put up with.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Serena is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
In the seventh house, Venus points to a knack for making a relationship feel balanced, fair and warm, and in Serena's chart it suggests partnership is where their charm shows most. Committed pairing tends to appeal more than casual or short-term connection.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Serena its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
With Mars in the fifth house, Serena is apt to go after what excites them without much hesitation, and creative and romantic pursuits can carry intensity. The placement brings competition and passion alive in this part of life, and is rarely satisfied by a half-hearted effort.
Jupiter in Libra
17° Libra 02' · sixth house
growth and excess
In Serena's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.
Serena finds meaning in routines that others would call dull, and brings optimism to work every day. With Jupiter in the sixth house, growth comes by steady, patient improvement rather than by one dramatic leap.
For Serena, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
With Saturn in the sixth house, Serena takes daily responsibilities seriously, sometimes to the point of being harder on themselves than the job requires. Saturn here keeps up a discipline over years, long after others would have let it slip.
Uranus in Scorpio
27° Scorpio 14' · seventh house
freedom, generational
Much of Serena's age group has Uranus in Scorpio. It changes attitudes to power, secrecy and what is held in common, often while living through upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. In an individual it tends to be a low tolerance for hidden agendas.
Uranus in the seventh house asks for relationships with more freedom and less convention than the average partnership, and Serena may look for people who respect that independence. A sudden shift in a relationship may rattle Serena less than most.
Neptune in Sagittarius
22° Sagittarius 14' · eighth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Serena in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
With Neptune in the eighth house, intimacy can feel like dissolving the usual boundaries with another person, for better and sometimes for worse, and Serena 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 Libra
23° Libra 27' · sixth house
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Serena belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Daily work gets Serena's full intensity, and a role or a routine is often transformed completely once they commit themselves to it. With Pluto in the sixth house, a job is hard to do by halves, so rest may be something Serena has to choose on purpose.
Aspects in Serena Williams’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus square Mars
0.7° separating
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Serena Williams may be caught between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. What the aspect asks for is a want voiced directly, before it leaks out sideways.
Mars sextile Jupiter
1.5° applying
There is confident, well-aimed energy in this sextile, and not much wasted effort, since Serena's drive and optimism pull together. Taking the initiative suits Serena, above all when they commit to one goal and do not scatter their energy across several.
Moon square Neptune
1.8° applying
Emotional needs can get lost in a fog of other people's moods, or of an idealised version of how things should feel, when the Moon is square Neptune. The work for Serena is checking in with themselves often enough to keep their own feelings in focus.
Mars sextile Saturn
3.9° separating
Sustained effort feels manageable, not draining, when Mars and Saturn are in sextile, and Serena has that combination of drive and discipline. What results is quiet, dependable follow-through, the kind that gets a long project finished while flashier approaches give out halfway.
Moon sextile Venus
4.1° separating
Warmth and emotional generosity are likely to come naturally to Serena, because feeling and affection get along in this aspect. There is a gentle, likeable tenderness in it, the sort that makes people comfortable saying how they feel.
Jupiter conjunction Saturn
5.3° separating
Growth and discipline are unusually well matched when Jupiter is conjunct Saturn, so Serena's optimism tends to come with a realistic plan attached. It is an effective combination for building things that last, with vision balanced by the patience to see it through.
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.
- Neptune sextile Pluto1.2°
- Mercury conjunction Pluto6.2°
- Jupiter conjunction Pluto6.4°
- Mars trine Neptune6.7°
- Sun conjunction Saturn7.9°
Serena Williams in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Libra Sun and Virgo Moon, like Serena Williams
Also born on 26 September
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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