Marlene Dietrich's Birth Chart
Marlene Dietrich was born on December 27, 1901 in Berlin, Germany. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Cancer or Leo. No birth time is on record for Marlene Dietrich, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
| Born | December 27, 1901 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Berlin, Germany |
Marlene Dietrich'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.
No birth time is on record for Marlene Dietrich, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
Planet positions in Marlene Dietrich's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 4°31′ to 5°32′ |
| Moon | Cancer or Leo | 24°24′ to 8°44′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 0°53′ to 2°28′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 19°43′ to 20°31′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 25°16′ to 26°03′ |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 20°14′ to 20°27′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 17°07′ to 17°14′ |
| Uranus | Sagittarius | 18°09′ to 18°12′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Gemini | 29°58′ to 29°56′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Gemini | 17°22′ to 17°21′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Scorpio | 12°15′ to 12°06′ |
| Chiron | Capricorn | 6°58′ to 7°04′ |
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 nine planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 5, Air 3, Water 0. By modality: Cardinal 5, Fixed 1, Mutable 3.
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 Marlene Dietrich's chart
- Venus sextile Uranus, orb 2°18′
- Sun conjunct Chiron, orb 2°27′
- Mercury opposite Neptune, orb 2°32′
- Venus trine Pluto, orb 3°10′
- Jupiter conjunct Saturn, orb 3°14′
- Sun conjunct Mercury, orb 3°38′
- Mars conjunct Jupiter, orb 5°36′
- Sun opposite Neptune, orb 5°36′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Venus sextile Uranus: Taste With Wiring
Beauty and the odd idea sit next to each other here, willing to work together the moment you put them on the same table. It looks like taste that runs ahead of the room, money handled in ways your friends would call weird, art built out of tools and tech. The pair cooperates on request, not by default, so in people who never make the ask it stays a quiet preference for unusual things.
Sun conjunct Chiron: Shining From The Scar
Your sense of self grew up fused with a sore spot, so the two are no longer separable. Attention, praise, and creative expression all run through the place where something was never quite made whole, usually around a father or how you were seen as a kid. What comes out is a warmth other people trust, because it obviously cost you something.
Mercury opposite Neptune: Ledger And Ocean
There is a permanent standoff between what can be documented and what can only be sensed, and neither backs down. You over-explain a feeling until it dies, or float on a hunch and skip the paperwork. This works when each stays in its own lane, sharp analysis kept sharp, and the formless left formless.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Marlene Dietrich'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.