Dolly Parton's Birth Chart
Dolly Parton was born on January 19, 1946 at 20:25 in Sevierville, TN. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Virgo, with Virgo rising.
| Born | January 19, 1946 |
| Time | 20:25 |
| Place | Sevierville, TN |
Dolly Parton'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 Virgo: Care in Small Things
Order settles you, and the first sign that something is wrong arrives as a fretful need to fix, sort or check. You feel cared for when someone notices the small things, the tea made the way you like it, the errand done without being asked, and that is also how you care for others. Your body keeps a close account of itself, so a mood often shows up as a symptom before it shows up as a feeling. Being useful is your way of being close.
Virgo rising: Smudge on the Sleeve
You arrive noticing what is wrong with the room. Strangers meet a tidy body, a watchful face, and a manner that offers help before it offers warmth. People trust you with detail early and hand you the thing that needs fixing, then wonder why you seem tired. Your own appearance is checked and rechecked, and a smudge on your sleeve occupies more of your attention than the person across the table would guess. You remember the one error in a day that went well.
Planet positions in Dolly Parton's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 29°24′ |
| Moon | Virgo | 0°25′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 15°26′ |
| Venus | Capricorn | 26°23′ |
| Mars (retrograde) | Cancer | 20°54′ |
| Jupiter | Libra | 26°36′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Cancer | 20°48′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Gemini | 13°50′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Libra | 8°36′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 10°54′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Gemini | 29°40′ |
| Chiron | Libra | 21°06′ |
| Ascendant | Virgo | 2°21′ |
| Midheaven | Taurus | 28°45′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 4, Air 3, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 7, Fixed 1, Mutable 2.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
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 Dolly Parton's chart
- Mars conjunct Saturn, orb 0°06′
- Mars square Chiron, orb 0°12′
- Venus square Jupiter, orb 0°13′
- Saturn square Chiron, orb 0°18′
- Moon sextile North Node, orb 0°45′
- Sun square Jupiter, orb 2°48′
- Sun conjunct Venus, orb 3°00′
- Jupiter trine North Node, orb 3°04′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars conjunct Saturn: Controlled Force
Effort and structure fuse here, so nothing you do comes out raw. Your physical drive arrives already rationed, timed, aimed at something that lasts, which is why you can grind through work that burns other people out. The cost is that spontaneity feels almost illegal, and starting something takes longer than finishing it.
Mars square Chiron: Fighting The Wound
You go hard at the exact thing that hurt you. Mars and Chiron squared means your drive keeps colliding with an old broken place, usually something a parent never fixed in themselves, so your effort carries a limp and your courage carries a grudge. It shows up as fierce competence in the very arena where you were once left defenseless, and as a temper that flares when someone touches the scar.
Venus square Jupiter: Taste Versus Scale
Something in you wants the beautiful, well-made, exactly-right version, and something else wants more of it, bigger, further out. One side pushes for growth and possibility, the other has to answer with actual worth, actual price, actual taste. That grinding is why your standards are expensive and your generosity occasionally outruns what you own.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Dolly Parton's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.