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Hugh Hefner.

9 April 1926 · 16:20 · Chicago, Illinois

Hugh Hefner's birth chart: Sun in Aries, Moon in Pisces, Virgo rising. Born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois.

About this chart

What is Hugh Hefner's sun sign?

Hugh Hefner's sun is in Aries.

What is Hugh Hefner's moon sign?

Hugh Hefner's moon is in Pisces.

What is Hugh Hefner's rising sign?

Hugh Hefner's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Hugh Hefner born?

Hugh Hefner was born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois.

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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 Aries is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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.

SunAries · 7th house

The self proves itself by what it begins. Direct, competitive, allergic to anything that smells like waiting. The pioneer, the fighter, the one who needs the friction of pushback to feel real. Lesson: you exist before you act. You become visible through the mirror of the other. Significant relationships are not optional here. They are the field where the self does its real work.

MoonPisces · 6th house

Feeling is oceanic. Boundaryless, mystical, deeply absorbent, soothed by art, music, water and dissolution. The shadow is being unable to tell which feelings are yours and which belong to the field. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Aries in the 7th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo 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 NodeCancer · 10th house

The pull is toward Cancer: feeling, care, belonging, letting yourself be held rather than only holding. The familiar groove is Capricorn: control, achievement as identity, carrying it alone. Growth is letting tenderness count as strength.

South NodeCapricorn · 4th house

The South Node in Capricorn (4th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Pisces, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury 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.

Mercury · the chart rulerAries · 7th house

Thought is fast, direct and impatient. The mind works in headlines and wants the point now. Excellent at quick decisions, weaker on slow consideration, and the speech tends to be blunt.

Where it drives. Thinking happens in dialogue. Communication is the medium of relationship, the partner often mirrors your mind, and negotiation sits at the centre.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Pluto) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

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 water and fixed signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusPisces · 7th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 7th house (partnership and one-to-one bonds), 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 7th houseIn partnership, the other, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Pisces

A generation that disrupts the spiritual, reinventing mysticism, dissolution and the collective unconscious.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoCancer · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 woundAries · 8th house

The wound is the right to exist as yourself: set early by invalidation or conflict, it can turn anger inward and whisper that you must earn your place. You may fight for visibility while secretly doubting you deserve the room you take. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  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 act, not to rehearse courage forever.
  4. You need soft edges, music for the soul, and rest from absorbing everyone else.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

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 water, mutable chart led by the Sun in Aries. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

a water-dominant chart, which means you run on feeling, intuition, and depth. You sense what others miss, you bond deeply, and you live close to your emotions, though you can get overwhelmed, moody, or lost in what you feel.

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

Your Sun is the loudest force in your chart, which doubles down on identity, will, and the drive to be fully yourself. You are solar, centered on who you are and the need to shine, more than most people are. That force expresses through Aries, so its tone colors the whole chart, the dominant note played in a Aries key.

The spine, your Big Three

Aries Sun · Pisces Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Aries is the core self, your Moon in Pisces is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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
26%
Earth
15%
Air
26%
Water
33%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

Stellium in Piscescommon
three or more planets clustered in Pisces: Moon, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Moon, Uranus, Venus gather in Pisces. A stellium in Pisces concentrates the chart on feeling, imagination, and the thin wall between selves. You absorb and dream at high volume: compassion, art, and the unseen define more of the story than hard edges do.

gift

Tremendous focus through Pisces: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Pisces energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Pisces stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Pisces is also a discharge valve.

T-Square · apex Saturncommon
an opposition under pressure from Saturn (Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn)

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn form a T-square with Saturn 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 Saturn: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Saturn 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.

Moon trine Plutoorb 0.99°

In you, the Moon flows together with Pluto, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Sun sextile Jupiterorb 1.38°

In you, the Sun works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will and your faith, growth, and excess. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Jupiter opposition Neptuneorb 1.46°

In you, Jupiter sits opposite Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Saturn trine Uranusorb 1.67°

In you, Saturn flows together with Uranus, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 2.84°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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
Sun trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.9°

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

Moon trine Plutoorb 1.0°

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

Sun exalted in Arieslifted

Sun is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

Venus is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Sun sextile Jupiterorb 1.4°

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

Saturn trine Uranusorb 1.7°

A natural, flowing ease: Saturn and Uranus 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.

Jupiter opposition Part of Fortuneorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter opposition Neptuneorb 1.5°

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

Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

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

Sun square North Nodeorb 2.0°

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

Jupiter opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 2.5°

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

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Chart data for Hugh Hefner
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun19°18' Aries7th houseexaltation
Moon13°36' Pisces6th house·
Mercury3°15' Aries7th houseretrograde, chart ruler
Venus3°21' Pisces6th houseexaltation
Mars12°48' Aquarius5th house·
Jupiter20°40' Aquarius5th house·
Saturn25°06' Scorpio3rd houseretrograde
Uranus26°46' Pisces7th house·
Neptune22°08' Leo11th houseretrograde
Pluto12°37' Cancer10th house·
Chiron27°20' Aries8th house·
North Node21°16' Cancer10th houseretrograde
South Node21°16' Capricorn4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith23°11' Leo11th house·
Part of Fortune20°12' Leo11th house·
Vertex19°00' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
jupiteroppositionpart-of-fortune0.48°separating
suntrinepart-of-fortune0.90°applying
moontrinepluto0.99°separating
neptuneconjunctionlilith1.05°separating
sunsextilejupiter1.38°applying
jupiteroppositionneptune1.46°applying
saturntrineuranus1.67°separating
saturnsquarelilith1.91°applying
neptuneconjunctionpart-of-fortune1.94°applying
sunsquarenorth-node1.97°applying
north-nodetrinevertex2.26°applying
jupiteroppositionlilith2.51°applying
suntrineneptune2.84°applying
saturnsquareneptune2.96°applying
lilithconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.99°separating
saturntrinenorth-node3.83°separating
suntrinelilith3.89°applying
chirontrinelilith4.15°applying
jupitersquaresaturn4.43°applying
saturnsquarepart-of-fortune4.90°applying
neptunetrinechiron5.20°separating
moonconjunctionvertex5.40°applying
uranustrinenorth-node5.50°separating
sunsquarepluto6.68°separating
moontrinenorth-node7.66°applying
mercurysemisextilevenus0.09°separating
marsquincunxpluto0.19°separating
sunbiquintilesaturn0.20°separating
sunsemisextilevertex0.29°separating
uranussemisextilechiron0.56°separating
uranusbiquintilepart-of-fortune0.57°separating
jupiterquincunxnorth-node0.60°applying
moonsemisextilemars0.80°separating
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.87°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.95°separating
marssemisquareuranus1.03°separating
north-nodesemisextilepart-of-fortune1.07°applying
part-of-fortunequincunxvertex1.19°separating
moonsemisquarechiron1.27°separating
uranusbiquintileneptune1.37°applying
jupitersemisextilevertex1.66°separating
north-nodesemisextilelilith1.92°separating
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.94°separating
saturnquincunxchiron2.24°separating