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Ellen DeGeneres.

26 January 1958 · 08:43 · Metairie, Jefferson Parish, United States

Ellen DeGeneres's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Aries, Pisces rising. Born January 26, 1958 in Metairie, Jefferson Parish, United States.

About this chart

What is Ellen DeGeneres's sun sign?

Ellen DeGeneres's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Ellen DeGeneres's moon sign?

Ellen DeGeneres's moon is in Aries.

What is Ellen DeGeneres's rising sign?

Ellen DeGeneres's Rising (Ascendant) is Pisces.

When and where was Ellen DeGeneres born?

Ellen DeGeneres was born January 26, 1958 in Metairie, Jefferson Parish, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAquarius · 12th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonAries · 1st house

Feeling arrives hot and fast. Reactions are immediate and blunt, sometimes regretted. The inner self needs autonomy, and comfort comes from action rather than from being held. Soothing means being given permission to move. Feeling shows on the surface. The mood reads on the face and in the body, and you lead with emotion. A sensitive, available presence, sometimes more open than is comfortable.

ASC
RisingPisces · the doorway

You arrive and adjust to the room. The body responds to whatever atmosphere it finds, taking on the quality of the container. People feel a quiet attunement they cannot name. Your chart ruler is Jupiter, in Scorpio in the 8th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Pisces rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeScorpio · 8th house

The pull is toward Scorpio: depth, honest intimacy, transformation, the courage to let things end. The familiar groove is Taurus: comfort, possession, staying because it is easy. Growth is trading safety for what is actually alive.

South NodeTaurus · 2nd house

The South Node in Taurus (2nd house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in water territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Pisces rising puts Jupiter in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Jupiter · the chart rulerScorpio · 8th house

Growth comes through depth, transformation and the willingness to go down, carried by faith in the rebirth. The shadow is the obsession that will not release.

Where it drives. Increase comes through what is shared. Often money received through others, profound transformations, and strong intuition. The underworld is a teacher here.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger. Planets in the 10th (Mars, Saturn) amplify that signal.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in fire and fixed signs: will. Passion. Spirit. The energy of action and inspiration.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusLeo · 6th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Leo

A generation that revolutionises self-expression, and hands the spotlight to everyone.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneScorpio · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Scorpio

An era that dreams of universal transformation, sex and death as spiritual practice, the dissolving of taboo.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoVirgo · 6th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Virgo

An era that remakes health, work and the body, putting useful labour through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 12th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowPisces · 1st house

Lilith is the part of you that picks up what everyone is carrying, including what they hide. It is sensitivity that was called too much. The medicine is reclaiming that perception as authority, not apology. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 1st house (self, body, first impression): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on fire. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Burnout and scorched ground. Unchecked, the fire runs on ego and impatience: starting everything, finishing little, mistaking heat for progress and leaving people singed.

The middle ground

The everyday work is pacing. Channel the spark into one or two real things, let them burn slow, and check who is standing in the blast radius before you ignite.

At your best

A genuine source of warmth and momentum. At your best the fire is courage that moves a whole room: you start what others only talk about and you make the brave choice look obvious.

“My fire is a tool, not a verdict: I choose where it burns.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry heat: you can start what other people only discuss.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need honest heat and room to move when feelings rise.
  5. People meet your atmosphere first: soft, imaginative, hard to pin down.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is a fire, mutable chart led by Mars. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a fire-dominant chart, which means you run on enthusiasm, instinct, and the urge to act. You lead with passion and warmth, you initiate easily, and you can struggle to slow down, sit still, or stay patient with the slow and the practical.

Missing: Little or no earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Mars is the loudest force in your chart, which means drive, desire, and assertion lead. You are martial, defined by energy and the will to pursue, a person of action who moves on want rather than waiting.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Aries Moon · Pisces rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Aries is the inner emotional life, and your Pisces Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
41%
Earth
10%
Air
26%
Water
23%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Neptune, Sun, Uranus)

In your chart, Neptune, Sun, Uranus form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

T-Square · apex Neptunecommon
an opposition under pressure from Neptune (Neptune, Uranus, Venus)

In your chart, Neptune, Uranus, Venus form a T-square with Neptune at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Taurus, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Neptune: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Neptune can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Taurus, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Venus opposition Uranusorb 0.00°

In you, Venus sits opposite Uranus, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 0.63°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Pluto, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Sun square Neptuneorb 1.40°

In you, the Sun grinds against Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Mars conjunction Saturnorb 2.04°

In you, Mars is fused with Saturn, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon trine Saturnorb 2.15°

In you, the Moon flows together with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Jupiter sextile Plutoorb 0.6°

An easy, available link: Jupiter and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon trine Saturnorb 2.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Moon and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Part of Fortune trine Vertexorb 2.4°

A natural, flowing ease: Part of Fortune and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Neptune sextile Plutoorb 3.1°

An easy, available link: Neptune and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Moon sextile Chironorb 3.3°

An easy, available link: Moon and Chiron feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Black Moon Lilith sextile Part of Fortuneorb 3.6°

An easy, available link: Black Moon Lilith and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Venus opposition Uranusorb 0.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Venus and Uranus never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square North Nodeorb 0.5°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Saturn square Vertexorb 0.9°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Neptuneorb 1.4°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Ellen DeGeneres
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun6°09' Aquarius12th housedetriment
Moon19°59' Aries1st house·
Mercury14°13' Capricorn11th house·
Venus9°45' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
Mars24°11' Sagittarius10th house·
Jupiter1°02' Scorpio8th housechart ruler
Saturn22°08' Sagittarius10th house·
Uranus9°46' Leo6th houseretrograde
Neptune4°45' Scorpio8th house·
Pluto1°40' Virgo6th houseretrograde
Chiron16°39' Aquarius12th house·
North Node5°40' Scorpio8th houseretrograde
South Node5°40' Taurus2nd houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith27°20' Pisces1st house·
Part of Fortune23°41' Taurus3rd house·
Vertex21°16' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venusoppositionuranus0.00°separating
sunsquarenorth-node0.49°separating
jupitersextilepluto0.63°applying
saturnsquarevertex0.86°separating
neptuneconjunctionnorth-node0.91°applying
sunsquareneptune1.40°separating
marsconjunctionsaturn2.04°separating
moontrinesaturn2.15°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex2.42°separating
marssquarevertex2.90°separating
neptunesextilepluto3.08°separating
marssquarelilith3.15°applying
moonsextilechiron3.34°separating
sunconjunctionvenus3.61°applying
sunoppositionuranus3.61°applying
lilithsextilepart-of-fortune3.64°separating
jupiterconjunctionneptune3.71°applying
plutosextilenorth-node3.99°separating
venussquarenorth-node4.10°applying
uranussquarenorth-node4.10°applying
moontrinemars4.20°applying
jupiterconjunctionnorth-node4.63°applying
venussquareneptune5.01°applying
uranussquareneptune5.02°applying
sunsquarejupiter5.11°separating
saturnsquarelilith5.19°separating
moonsquaremercury5.77°separating
sunsesquiquadratevertex0.13°applying
marsquincunxpart-of-fortune0.49°separating
venussemisquaremars0.58°applying
marssesquiquadrateuranus0.58°applying
north-nodesemisquarevertex0.62°separating
sunsemisquaresaturn0.99°applying
mercuryquintilelilith1.11°applying
mercuryquintilejupiter1.18°separating
moonquincunxvertex1.29°applying
chironbiquintilevertex1.37°separating
neptunebiquintilelilith1.42°applying
saturnsemisquarenorth-node1.48°separating
neptunesemisquarevertex1.53°applying
saturnquincunxpart-of-fortune1.56°applying