Vera Lynn’s birth chart
Born 20 March 1917, in East Ham, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Aquarius Moon
Vera Lynn’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
20 March 1917 was a Tuesday: the day Vera Lynn was born in East Ham, England. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Aquarius. Vera died on 18 June 2020, aged 103. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Water carries the most weight: six of the ten planets, against air two, fire one and earth one. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is two, four and four. Four planets stand together in Pisces: Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Venus: a conjunction, about 0.7° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Saturn and Neptune. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 20 March, among them Chester Bennington, Carl Reiner and Fernando Torres.
See the sky the day Vera was born: the stars over East Ham, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Vera Lynn’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 29° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Vera Lynn the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Aquarius
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Vera 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
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over East Ham, England, at each hour of the day.
Vera Lynn’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Vera yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 20 March 1917, computed for East Ham, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:25 | Sagittarius rising |
| 02:25 to 04:10 | Capricorn rising |
| 04:10 to 05:20 | Aquarius rising |
| 05:20 to 06:10 | Pisces rising |
| 06:10 to 07:05 | Aries rising |
| 07:05 to 08:10 | Taurus rising |
| 08:10 to 10:00 | Gemini rising |
| 10:00 to 12:30 | Cancer rising |
| 12:30 to 15:20 | Leo rising |
| 15:20 to 18:10 | Virgo rising |
| 18:10 to 21:00 | Libra rising |
| 21:00 to 23:50 | Scorpio rising |
| 23:50 to 24:00 | Sagittarius rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 20 March 1917, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 29° Pisces 18' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aquarius |
| Mercury | 20° Pisces 30' |
| Venus | 19° Pisces 51' |
| Mars | 25° Pisces 08' |
| Jupiter | 6° Taurus 45' |
| Saturn | 23° Cancer 41'℞ |
| Uranus | 21° Aquarius 51' |
| Neptune | 2° Leo 14'℞ |
| Pluto | 2° Cancer 19' |
| North Node | 17° Capricorn 06' |
| South Node | 17° Cancer 06' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Vera Lynn’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Vera Lynn’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Vera Lynn's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Vera 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.
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Vera is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Vera probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
With Mars in Pisces, Vera is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
Jupiter in Taurus
6° Taurus 45' at midday
growth and excess
In Vera's chart, Jupiter in Taurus grows through patience, and what it builds tends to come together slowly and steadily rather than in one leap. Taken too far, that can become excess: holding on to more comfort or more stuff than serves them. They are probably generous with food, gifts and shared pleasures, and now and then generosity tips into indulgence.
Emotional security is where Vera's Saturn in Cancer builds discipline; it is a placement often associated with learning early to be the steady one. Asking for care tends to be difficult with this Saturn, even when care is clearly needed. Over time, people with this placement often become the dependable anchor for others, including some who never quite return the favour.
Uranus in Aquarius
21° Aquarius 51' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Vera'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.
Neptune in Leo
2° Leo 14' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Vera alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
2° Cancer 19' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Vera 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.
Aspects in Vera Lynn’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mercury conjunction Venus
about 0.7° at midday
Mercury conjunct Venus ties Vera Lynn's thinking closely to what they love, so they probably talk about affection and beauty with ease. It lends a diplomatic, pleasant way of putting things, especially when the subject is close to the heart.
Mars trine Saturn
about 1.5° at midday
Staying power on long, difficult goals is what Mars trine Saturn offers, with drive and discipline reinforcing each other. Vera is likely to get more done, more consistently, than the visible effort would suggest, which is a quiet advantage over time.
Sun trine Neptune
about 2.9° at midday
Vera's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.
Sun square Pluto
about 3.0° at midday
With this aspect, Vera's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Vera chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Mercury trine Saturn
about 3.2° at midday
Vera's thinking has discipline behind it, which gives them a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. With Mercury trine Saturn, conclusions can be trusted because they have usually been tested already, often more thoroughly than anyone nearby realises.
Venus trine Saturn
about 3.8° at midday
A steady, dependable way of loving, one that people trust, is what this trine gives Vera, since affection and commitment hold each other up. Relationships built on it tend to last, often well past the point where less committed people would have moved on.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Sun conjunction Marsabout 4.2°
- Jupiter sextile Plutoabout 4.4°
- Jupiter square Neptuneabout 4.5°
- Mercury conjunction Marsabout 4.6°
- Venus conjunction Marsabout 5.3°
- Sun trine Saturnabout 5.6°
Pisces Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Vera Lynn
Also born on 20 March
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; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their 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. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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