Vivien Leigh’s birth chart
Born 5 November 1913, in Darjeeling, India, at 17:16 (Rodden B).
Scorpio Sun · Aquarius Moon · Taurus rising
Vivien Leigh’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Vivien Leigh was born in Darjeeling, India, on 5 November 1913, a Wednesday. Their zodiac sign was Scorpio, with the Moon in Aquarius and Taurus rising. Vivien died on 8 July 1967, aged 53. The birth time, 17:16, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
By element the count is four air, four water, one fire and one earth. By modality the count is five cardinal, three fixed and two mutable. Mars, Neptune and Pluto all fall in Cancer. The tightest aspect is Sun sextile Jupiter, 1.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was at its first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 29 other people born on 5 November, among them Bryan Adams, Yair Lapid and Famke Janssen. Wikidata links Vivien with one person in the dataset: Laurence Olivier (married in 1940, marriage ended in 1960).
Vivien Leigh’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
12° Scorpio 28'
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Vivien Leigh, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Aquarius
9° Aquarius 17'
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Vivien 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
Taurus
20° Taurus 49'
With Taurus rising, the first impression of Vivien 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 17:16 on 5 November 1913, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 12° Scorpio 28' | House 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 9° Aquarius 17' | House 10 |
| Mercury | 5° Sagittarius 33' | House 7 |
| Venus | 18° Libra 52' | House 6 |
| Mars | 21° Cancer 43' | House 3 |
| Jupiter | 13° Capricorn 34' | House 9 |
| Saturn | 17° Gemini 03'℞ | House 1 |
| Uranus | 3° Aquarius 49' | House 9 |
| Neptune | 28° Cancer 14'℞ | House 3 |
| Pluto | 0° Cancer 55'℞ | House 2 |
| North Node | 22° Pisces 53' | House 11 |
| South Node | 22° Virgo 53' | House 5 |
Vivien Leigh’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Vivien Leigh’s private life.
Sun in Scorpio
12° Scorpio 28' · sixth house
purpose and vitality
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Vivien Leigh's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
Vivien'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.
Moon in Aquarius
9° Aquarius 17' · tenth house
needs and habits
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Vivien 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.
With the Moon in the tenth house, Vivien's emotional security may be tangled up with how work is going and whether it is respected. A setback at work can land harder on someone with this placement than it appears to from the outside.
Mercury in Sagittarius
5° Sagittarius 33' · seventh house
mind and voice
Vivien's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Mercury in the seventh house is associated with thinking best out loud with another person, and Vivien may need to talk an idea through with someone before it feels settled. Negotiation and dialogue may come more naturally than solitary decisions, which rarely sit comfortably for long.
Venus in Libra
18° Libra 52' · sixth house
love and values
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Vivien probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Vivien may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
In Vivien's chart, Venus in the sixth house lends grace to the working day, and ordinary tasks often become more pleasant for the people alongside them. A harmonious workplace probably matters more than an impressive one, and tension there can wear on Vivien faster than the workload does.
Mars in Cancer
21° Cancer 43' · third house
drive and anger
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Vivien, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Mars in the third house makes words come out fast, with a sharp edge under frustration, and Vivien probably enjoys a good, direct debate more than most. Directness is how they communicate by default, even when a gentler approach might land better.
Jupiter in Capricorn
13° Capricorn 34' · ninth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Vivien would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
The ninth house is Jupiter's natural home, and travel, higher learning and big philosophical questions excite Vivien more than almost anything else. Someone with this placement is often the first to say yes to the unplanned trip or the ambitious course of study.
Saturn in Gemini
17° Gemini 03' ℞ · 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 Vivien 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 Vivien'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
3° Aquarius 49' · ninth house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Vivien'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, Vivien 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
28° Cancer 14' ℞ · third house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Vivien 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.
With Neptune in the third house, a poetic, sometimes imprecise quality runs through Vivien's thoughts and words, which carry as much through feeling and tone as through plain fact. Creative or intuitive expression suits this mind better than rigid logic, especially when the subject matters.
Pluto in Cancer
0° Cancer 55' ℞ · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Vivien 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.
Pluto in the second house means Vivien holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in Vivien Leigh’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun sextile Jupiter
1.1° applying
Optimism is part of who Vivien Leigh is, and it tends to show them open doors, provided they are willing to walk through. With some deliberate effort behind it, the outlook of a Sun-Jupiter sextile becomes momentum that carries past the first burst of enthusiasm.
Mercury sextile Uranus
1.7° separating
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Vivien, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Venus trine Saturn
1.8° separating
A steady, dependable way of loving, one that people trust, is what this trine gives Vivien, 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.
Venus square Mars
2.8° applying
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Vivien 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.
Sun square Moon
3.2° applying
With the Sun square the Moon, who Vivien is trying to be and what comforts them can tug in different directions, and that friction sharpens self-awareness. Working through it teaches them to want things in a way their feelings can live with.
Moon sextile Mercury
3.7° separating
Feelings and thoughts are on speaking terms for Vivien, so talking through whatever is going on inside comes more easily than average. Think of it as self-awareness without the hard work, at its most useful in ordinary, everyday conversations.
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.
- Venus square Jupiter5.3°
- Moon conjunction Uranus5.5°
- Uranus opposition Neptune5.6°
- Mars conjunction Neptune6.5°
- Moon trine Saturn7.8°
Vivien Leigh in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Scorpio Sun and Aquarius Moon, like Vivien Leigh
Also born on 5 November
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 (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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