Born: May 4, 1929, 3:00 AM local time, Ixelles, Belgium. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA.
The AA rating means the time comes from a birth record, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be taken at face value. Open Audrey Hepburn's chart on Astrolas alongside this read.
Venus runs through this chart twice over. Venus itself sits in the 1st house, the house of self-presentation, next to the Moon and Uranus. And Taurus, the sign the library says Venus rules, holds both the Sun and Jupiter in the 2nd house. Between the two, nearly every planet here touches Venus's territory: how she looked, and what she valued.
Audrey Hepburn was a film actress who became one of the defining faces of 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, and later a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Roman Holiday (1953), and starred in Sabrina (1954), Funny Face (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and My Fair Lady (1964). Offscreen she became closely associated with designer Hubert de Givenchy, whose clothes she wore both in films and in daily life. She spent part of her childhood in the Netherlands during the Second World War. In 1989 she became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, traveling to some of the poorest parts of the world on its behalf until shortly before her death in 1993.
Moon, Venus and Uranus in house 1
The Moon sits at 6ยฐ27' cPisces, Venus at 22ยฐ47' aAries, retrograde, and Uranus at 9ยฐ21' Aries. All three land in the 1st house, the house the Astrolas library ties to self-presentation and the face shown to the world.
The library's Pisces Moon is sensitive, dreamy and deeply intuitive, prone to viewing the world through a romantic lens, with real artistic ability in music, art or writing, and a gift for reading what other people feel. In the 1st house, that same Moon reads others by instinct, knows who is sincere and who isn't, feels pressure from the need to be accepted, and leans toward family and lasting attachment.
Venus in Aries loves with intensity, impulsiveness and speed, drawn in almost at first sight, generous and quick to create joy for people close to her. In the 1st house, retrograde, the library reads that charm as quieter and more discreet than the sign alone suggests: slow to open up, careful about revealing herself, with a refined sense of beauty but little interest in showing it off.
Uranus in Aries is bold, independent and quick to turn an idea into action, uncomfortable with old methods, drawn to leaving a personal, distinctive mark, even in appearance. In the 1st house, the library reads that distinctiveness as a captivating, one-of-a-kind presence, tied to sudden shifts of direction and sharp intuition.
Hepburn's look, slight, angular, with a face the camera hadn't quite seen before, built an image Hollywood didn't already have a category for. Her later turn toward work on behalf of children fits the Pisces Moon's reach for something bigger than herself just as well as any film role did.
Sun and Jupiter in Taurus, house 2
The Sun sits at 13ยฐ07' sTaurus, and Jupiter at 20ยฐ45' Taurus. Both land in the 2nd house, the house of income, assets and personal values.
The library's Taurus Sun is ruled by Venus, steady, reliable and affectionate, slow to decide but nearly unshakable once it has, with a career suited to art, aesthetics and anything built to last. In the 2nd house, the library ties that Sun to self-worth built through financial independence, with a pull toward luxury worth watching.
Jupiter in Taurus draws wealth and stability naturally, with a refined eye for beauty, music, painting and fine possessions, and a preference for the lasting over the fleeting. In the 2nd house, the library reads this as a knack for spotting profitable opportunities others miss, paired with real financial luck, as long as spending stays in check.
Hepburn's career ran largely on the Taurus Sun's own terms: parts that favored elegance and restraint over spectacle, a fashion partnership that outlasted any single film, and a public image built to hold up decades later rather than burn out fast.
Mercury in Gemini, house 3
Mercury sits at 0ยฐ19' dGemini in the 3rd house, the house of communication.
The library's Gemini Mercury is quick, curious and wide-ranging, absorbing information from every direction and expressing it with wit and ease, one of the strongest placements the library gives for writing, speaking or working in media. Its caution is scattered focus, chasing too many directions to finish any one of them. In the 3rd house, the library reads that same mind as fluent and persuasive, able to present a view clearly, though it warns against letting restlessness turn into needless friction with people close to her.
Hepburn worked across several languages, including English, French and Dutch, and carried that fluency into decades of public appearances, many of them built around the UNICEF work rather than film.
Mars in Cancer, house 6
Mars sits at 25ยฐ09' fCancer in the 6th house, the house of daily work.
The library's Cancer Mars softens the planet's usual force into something steadier and more emotional, advancing like a tide rather than a single strike, deeply attached to whatever project or relationship it takes on. In the 6th house, the library reads that same energy as a proactive, fervent approach to work, pushing for high performance, with a caution against impatience that can strain relationships with colleagues.
The sign and the house both point toward care work in the end. Her film career ran on discipline and repetition, training, fittings, long days on set, and her UNICEF years ran on something closer to the Cancer Mars's own terms: sustained, hands-on work built around children.
Saturn retrograde in Capricorn, house 10
Saturn sits at 0ยฐ03' vCapricorn, retrograde, in the 10th house, the house of career and public standing.
Capricorn is the sign the library gives Saturn its greatest strength in: ambitious, disciplined and self-reliant, with real leadership and organizational ability, though prone to a rigid or overly strict manner that can read as distant. In the 10th house, retrograde, the library describes a career that advances through cycles of self-doubt, interruption and rebuilding rather than a straight climb, asking her to trust her own ability and rise again after each setback, with success built from the inside out rather than handed to her.
Hepburn's own arc fits that shape: an interrupted path toward a dance career in the Netherlands, a pivot into acting that turned into stardom within a few years of Roman Holiday, and then, well into her career's later stretch, a deliberate turn away from film and toward UNICEF, a second career built on exactly the kind of inner discipline the library describes.
Neptune retrograde in Leo, house 6, and Pluto in Cancer, house 5
Neptune sits at 28ยฐ36' Leo, retrograde, in the 6th house. Pluto sits at 16ยฐ26' Cancer in the 5th house.
Neptune in Leo by sign is generational, and the library ties it historically to a boom in cinema and broadcasting, the era's own display of imagination and performance. It becomes personal through the 6th house: the library reads it as needing a gentle, cooperative workplace to do its best work, with deep intuition and a genuine spiritual pull, more at ease helping quietly than claiming credit.
Pluto in Cancer by sign belongs to a generation, roughly 1912 to 1938, shaped by the First World War and the Great Depression, years that pressed hard on home, land and family security. Hepburn was born in 1929, inside that window. In the 5th house, the library ties it to intense, protective love, channeled into personal creative projects and, above all, into children, with a caution against holding on too tightly, whether to a role, a project or a child.
Between the two, work and children sit near the emotional center of the chart almost as strongly as film does.
Aquarius rising, and the angles
The Ascendant sits at 28ยฐ37' Aquarius, the Descendant at 28ยฐ37' Leo, the Midheaven at 16ยฐ58' Sagittarius and the IC at 16ยฐ58' Gemini.
The Astrolas library doesn't yet have entries for Aquarius rising, a Sagittarius Midheaven or a Gemini IC. None of the aspects in this chart have library text yet either, from Neptune opposite the Ascendant at an orb of 0ยฐ01', the tightest contact in the whole chart, down through Saturn's ties to the Ascendant and to Neptune, and Mercury's squares to both. So this piece is built entirely on the ten planets' signs and houses, not on the lines between them.
What the chart adds up to
Venus shows up almost everywhere in this chart, as a planet in the 1st house and as the ruler of the sign holding the 2nd house pair. The result reads like someone built, from the start, around how she looked and what she valued, with Saturn in Capricorn asking her to earn a second, harder-won career on top of the first, and the Cancer and Pisces placements pulling the whole thing toward children and care by the end.
Open Audrey Hepburn's chart on Astrolas, find the Taurus pair in the 2nd house on the wheel, and compare it with a chart you know.