Ava Gardner's Birth Chart
Ava Gardner was born on December 24, 1922 in Grabtown, NC. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Pisces. No birth time is on record for Ava Gardner, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | December 24, 1922 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Grabtown, NC |
Ava Gardner's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Pisces: Porous to Everything
You absorb the feeling of a room without meaning to, and by evening you can be carrying moods that started in other people. Comfort is softness, music, water, sleep, anything that blurs the edges. Boundaries do not come naturally, so you give more than you have and need long stretches alone to find your own shape again. Your imagination is vivid enough to be a refuge and, on bad days, a hiding place. People confide in you because you never seem shocked, and they are usually right.
No birth time is on record for Ava Gardner, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Ava Gardner's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 1°37′ to 2°38′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 9°29′ to 21°26′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 11°26′ to 13°02′ |
| Venus | Scorpio | 25°54′ to 26°13′ |
| Mars | Pisces | 9°18′ to 10°02′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 11°54′ to 12°04′ |
| Saturn | Libra | 18°57′ to 19°00′ |
| Uranus | Pisces | 10°11′ to 10°12′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Leo | 17°53′ to 17°52′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Cancer | 10°20′ to 10°19′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 24°18′ to 24°17′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Aries | 12°58′ to 12°58′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 2, Air 1, Water 6. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 3.
A water emphasis
A water emphasis makes you emotional, intuitive, and sensitive: you feel deeply, attune to others, and navigate life through instinct and empathy.
A cardinal emphasis
A cardinal emphasis makes you an initiator: you start things, push for change, and prefer to lead rather than wait.
The tightest aspects in Ava Gardner's chart
- Mars conjunct Uranus, orb 0°53′
- Mercury sextile Jupiter, orb 0°58′
- Mars trine Pluto, orb 1°02′
- Saturn sextile Neptune, orb 1°08′
- Mercury square Chiron, orb 1°32′
- Jupiter trine Pluto, orb 1°46′
- Jupiter trine Uranus, orb 1°52′
- Venus sextile North Node, orb 1°56′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars conjunct Uranus: Live Wire Drive
Your body moves before the plan exists. Action and innovation are fused here, so any push you make comes out unconventional, fast, and slightly wired, never plain force. Deadlines get hit in bursts nobody else can time, and physical energy runs on a switch that flips without warning rather than a dial you turn.
Mercury sextile Jupiter: Curious Mind, Wide Search
Detail work and big-picture thinking sit next to each other in you, close enough to trade but not fused. One side pushes for scope: more reading, farther travel, a bigger theory. The other has to actually do the writing, the note-taking, the plan. Nothing happens between them unless you pick up both ends.
Mars trine Pluto: Effortless Intensity
Intensity moves through you without any friction, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. Effort feeds obsession and obsession feeds effort, so whatever you're into gets pursued to the bottom automatically. That runs healthy work and toxic cycles with the same smoothness, and neither one announces itself as extreme from the inside.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Ava Gardner's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.