Born: July 1, 1961, 7:45 PM local time, Sandringham, England. Source: Astro-Databank, Rodden rating A.
The A rating means the time comes from the person herself or a source close to her, one step below a birth certificate but still treated as reliable, so the rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses below can be read normally. Open Princess Diana's chart on Astrolas to follow along.
One feature sets the tone for the whole chart. Three of her ten planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, sit together in the 8th house, the part of the chart the Astrolas library ties to shared resources, crisis and deep change. Almost nothing in her public life stayed in one place for long.
She was born Diana Frances Spencer into an aristocratic English family and married Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981, becoming Princess of Wales at 20. The marriage produced two sons, Princes William and Harry, and ended in divorce in 1996. She spent her final years working on causes such as the campaign against landmines, then died in a car accident in Paris in August 1997.
Mars, Uranus and Pluto in the 8th house
Mars sits at 1ยฐ39' hVirgo, Uranus at 23ยฐ20' Leo and Pluto at 6ยฐ03' Virgo. All three land in the 8th house, the single biggest concentration in the chart.
The Astrolas library reads Mars in Virgo as a drive for order and thorough, patient work, with a perfectionist streak that can tip into losing the bigger picture under pressure. In the 8th house, the library ties Mars to caution around shared money and to financial matters that move slowly and need negotiation to settle.
Uranus in Leo, in the library's terms, is about a strong need to be seen and to lead in a personal, sometimes unconventional way. In the 8th house it points to sudden swings in shared resources or inheritance, the kind of change that arrives without warning.
PPluto in Virgo is generational, read by the library as a pull toward service, health and practical reform, the cohort that lived through major shifts in labor and medicine. Its 8th-house placement is personal: the library describes an all-or-nothing intensity and a gift for turning something that looks used up into something valuable again, usually achieved quietly rather than through open force.
Mars and Pluto are in conjunction here, about four degrees apart (orb 4ยฐ24'). The library reads this pairing as a colossal source of energy and a will that rarely lets go of a goal, strong enough to draw people in and hold their attention, with a caution against letting the drive to control tip into something harsher. Her charity work after the divorce, especially the 1997 campaign against landmines that took her to Angola, reads like a version of that drive aimed outward rather than at a title or a role.
Sun and Mercury in Cancer, in the 7th house
The Sun sits at 9ยฐ40' fCancer and Mercury, retrograde, at 3ยฐ12' Cancer, both in the 7th house.
The library's Cancer Sun is sensitive, intuitive and loyal, happiest building a stable home and lasting bonds, with a risk of retreating into a shell when hurt. The 7th-house Sun, in the library's reading, invests heavily in partnership: identity and drive become tied to a spouse, sometimes at the cost of personal independence, and the library notes this is a strong placement for anyone whose public role runs through a one-on-one bond.
That matches a woman whose public identity was built, at first, entirely through marriage. She became Princess of Wales at 20 and spent the following fifteen years defined in the press largely through that role.
Mercury in Cancer, per the library, thinks and decides through feeling and memory more than pure logic, with a gift for reading the emotional temperature of a room. Mercury in the 7th house favors deep, direct conversation in partnership, though the library notes it can tip into overanalyzing a partner's words. Mercury also sextiles Mars, about a degree and a half apart (orb 1ยฐ34'), and sextiles Pluto, about two and a half degrees apart (orb 2ยฐ50'). The library has no text yet for either contact, so read them only as wiring between the quick Cancer mind and the harder-edged 8th-house planets.
Moon and Jupiter together in Aquarius, in the 2nd house
The Moon sits at 25ยฐ02' xAquarius, and Jupiter, retrograde, at 5ยฐ06' Aquarius. Both land in the 2nd house.
The library calls the Aquarius Moon rational and humanitarian, happiest thinking about problems with a little distance, and drawn to friendship, fairness and causes bigger than any one relationship. Jupiter in Aquarius, in the library's reading, carries social magnetism and a knack for drawing both opportunity and other people's luck toward itself, usually through unexpected connections rather than a conventional ladder. It ties the sign to work in fields built on the new and the humanitarian, and notes that people with this placement often become a bridge for other people's chances, not only their own.
The 2nd house, in the library's terms, ties the Moon to a need for financial and material security as emotional ground, and ties Jupiter in the same house to resources that build slowly and quietly rather than in one windfall.
Diana's later public work, visiting AIDS patients in 1987, campaigning against landmines in the final months of her life, reads like these Aquarius placements turned outward: care expressed as a cause rather than kept private.
Venus in Taurus, in the 5th house
Venus sits at 24ยฐ24' sTaurus, in the 5th house.
The library's Taurus Venus loves slowly and deeply, cautious about giving her heart but, once committed, loyal and generous, with a taste for comfort, beauty and stability in a home. It can tip into possessiveness when a partner feels at risk.
The 5th house, which the library ties to romance, creativity and children, often shows up as devotion extended to both love and to whatever gets raised or created. Diana had two sons, William, born in 1982, and Harry, born in 1984, and much of her later public work with them, hospital visits and informal outings, was reported as unusually hands-on for a royal parent.
Venus here also forms a wide square to Uranus, about a degree apart (orb 1ยฐ04'), and a wider trine to Saturn (orb 3ยฐ25'). The library has no text for either contact yet, so treat them only as wiring between the steady, home-loving Venus and the more unpredictable and disciplined planets elsewhere in the chart.
Saturn in Capricorn, rising in the 1st house
Saturn sits at 27ยฐ49', retrograde, in vCapricorn, in the 1st house, the same house as the Ascendant.
Capricorn is Saturn's own sign, where the library says it reaches full strength: ambitious, disciplined, self-reliant from an early age, with real leadership ability and a tendency to put career and status ahead of rest. The lesson it names is to stay open and let others share the load rather than carrying everything alone.
In the 1st house, the library reads Saturn as a slow-building sense of self: shy or unsure early on, guarded with people who are not yet familiar, but maturing into someone who earns recognition the hard way, through sustained effort rather than an easy start. The Astrolas library has no entry yet for the sign on the Ascendant itself, lSagittarius at 18ยฐ25', so this piece does not build a reading on the rising sign alone, only on the Saturn that shares its house.
Her public path fits that slow-build pattern: a famously shy start in the role, years of work on causes such as AIDS awareness and landmine clearance, and a reputation that, by the mid-1990s, had shifted from a shy young bride to a figure taken seriously on the causes she championed.
What the chart adds up to
The chart doesn't explain why the public followed Diana the way it did. What it shows is where the weight sits: three planets clustered in the 8th house of crisis and change, a Sun and Mercury in Cancer built around one relationship, and a Moon and Jupiter in Aquarius pointed outward at other people's causes rather than inward at comfort alone.
Open Princess Diana's chart on Astrolas, look at the 8th house cluster on the wheel, then compare it with a chart you know.
Questions people ask
What was Princess Diana's rising sign?
Sagittarius, at 18ยฐ25', based on her A-rated birth time of 7:45 PM. The Astrolas library doesn't have an entry for this sign yet, so this piece reads the chart mainly through the planets and houses instead.
What are Princess Diana's Sun and Moon signs?
Her Sun is at 9ยฐ40' Cancer in the 7th house. Her Moon is at 25ยฐ02' Aquarius in the 2nd house, a few degrees from Jupiter in the same sign and house.
What is the strongest feature of her chart?
Three planets, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, cluster in the 8th house of shared resources and transformation. It's the biggest concentration in the chart, bigger than any single sign grouping.