Splay shape
245° spanIrregular clumps — a chart that refuses a tidy description.
Lena Dunham Birth Chart
Born May 13, 1986 in New York City, New York. Full natal chart below: planets, houses, aspects and patterns.
- Sun Taurus22° 35'
- Moon Cancer14° 15'
- Rising Leo18° 10'
Trine / SextileSquare / OppositionConjunction℞ Retrograde
Fire Earth Air Water
- Chart ruler
- Sun
- the planet traditionally in charge of a given sign
- Sect
- Day chart
- whether the Sun was above the horizon (day) or below it (night)
- Dominant element
- Earth
- the element most of the planets fall in
- Dominant modality
- Mutable
- how the chart tends to meet change
- Most aspected
- Jupiter
- the planet with the most contacts to others
- Tightest aspect
- Venus ☍ Uranus
- the gap in degrees between the real angle and the exact one
Birth Details of Lena Dunham
- Full Name
- Lena Dunham
- Gender
- female
- Date of Birth
- May 13, 1986
- Birth Time
- Unknown
- Birth Place
- New York City, New York
- Timezone
- America/New_York
Birth time not publicly documented. The chart is cast for 12:00 PM local time, so the Ascendant, house cusps and Midheaven are approximate. Sun, Moon and the planets by sign and aspect are unaffected.
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Sarah Mitchell, M.A. in Cultural Astronomy & Astrology and Marcus Reynolds, Professional Astrologer & Astronomer
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Position of Planets
| Planet | Sign | Degree | House | Condition | What it does here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SunIdentity | Taurus | 22° 35' | 10Vocation & reputation | no special standing — neither helped nor hindered | settles into what it values and refuses to be hurried off it |
| MoonInstinct | Cancer | 14° 15' | 11Community & hopes | in its own sign — operates without translation | feels everything at full volume and remembers all of it |
| MercuryMind | Taurus | 11° 44' | 10Vocation & reputation | no special standing — neither helped nor hindered | thinks slowly on purpose and will not be rushed to a conclusion |
| VenusAttraction | Gemini | 20° 28' | 11Community & hopes | no special standing — neither helped nor hindered | is won over by wit and needs the conversation to keep moving |
| MarsDrive | Capricorn | 19° 11' | 6Work & health | honoured guest — works at full volume | works steadily toward the thing and outlasts the competition |
| JupiterExpansion | Pisces | 17° 33' | 8Depth & shared resources | in its own sign — operates without translation | expands through imagination and generosity, sometimes past its own limits |
| SaturnDiscipline | Sagittarius | 7° 27'℞ | 4Home & roots | no special standing — neither helped nor hindered | has to make its beliefs survive contact with the facts |
| UranusDisruption | Sagittarius | 21° 29'℞ | 5Pleasure & creativity | 3rd decan · Leo | independence, and the willingness to be strange about it |
| NeptuneImagination | Capricorn | 5° 28'℞ | 5Pleasure & creativity | 1st decan · Capricorn | where the outline goes soft and the feeling takes over |
| PlutoTransformation | Scorpio | 8° 58'℞ | 3Mind & siblings | 1st decan · Scorpio | what gets torn down and rebuilt rather than adjusted |
Angles & Points
| Point | Sign | Degree | House | What it marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AscendantRising sign | Leo | 18° 10' | 1 | the sign coming over the horizon at the moment of birth |
| MidheavenCareer point | Taurus | 9° 21' | 10 | the highest point of the chart, read for public standing |
| DescendantPartnership point | Aquarius | 18° 10' | 7 | the horizon opposite the Ascendant, read for close others |
| ICRoots point | Scorpio | 9° 21' | 4 | the base of the chart, opposite the Midheaven |
| North NodeDirection of growth | Aries | 28° 47'℞ | 9 | the traditional marker of what a life moves toward |
| Part of FortunePoint of ease | Libra | 9° 50' | 3 | a calculated point where Sun, Moon and Ascendant agree |
Aspects by Strength
| Pair | Aspect | Orb | Nature | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus · Uranus | Opposition | 1.02° | challenging | Attraction pulls against Disruption |
| Mars · Jupiter | Sextile | 1.64° | harmonious | Drive works with Expansion |
| Moon · Mercury | Sextile | 2.52° | harmonious | Instinct works with Mind |
| Mercury · Pluto | Opposition | 2.76° | challenging | Mind pulls against Transformation |
| Venus · Jupiter | Square | 2.92° | challenging | Attraction pulls against Expansion |
| Moon · Jupiter | Trine | 3.29° | harmonious | Instinct works with Expansion |
| Sun · Mars | Trine | 3.40° | harmonious | Identity works with Drive |
| Neptune · Pluto | Sextile | 3.51° | harmonious | Imagination works with Transformation |
| Jupiter · Uranus | Square | 3.94° | challenging | Expansion pulls against Disruption |
| Moon · Mars | Opposition | 4.93° | challenging | Instinct pulls against Drive |
| Sun · Jupiter | Sextile | 5.04° | harmonious | Identity works with Expansion |
| Moon · Pluto | Trine | 5.28° | harmonious | Instinct works with Transformation |
| Mercury · Jupiter | Sextile | 5.81° | harmonious | Mind works with Expansion |
| Mercury · Neptune | Trine | 6.27° | harmonious | Mind works with Imagination |
| Mercury · Mars | Trine | 7.45° | harmonious | Mind works with Drive |
Orb: the gap in degrees between the real angle and the exact one.
Aspect Grid
| Moon | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | sextile, 2.52° | ||||||||
| Venus | |||||||||
| Mars | trine, 3.40° | opposition, 4.93° | trine, 7.45° | ||||||
| Jupiter | sextile, 5.04° | trine, 3.29° | sextile, 5.81° | square, 2.92° | sextile, 1.64° | ||||
| Saturn | |||||||||
| Uranus | opposition, 1.02° | square, 3.94° | |||||||
| Neptune | trine, 6.27° | ||||||||
| Pluto | trine, 5.28° | opposition, 2.76° | sextile, 3.51° | ||||||
| Sun | Moon | Mercury | Venus | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune |
The Twelve Houses
| House | Covers | Cusp | Planets in it | Ruled by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IangularAscendant | Self & bodyappearance, manner, and the first thing people register | Leo18° 10' | no planet | Sunin Taurus, house 10 |
| IIsuccedent | Money & valueswhat is owned, earned, and counted as solid ground | Virgo9° 57' | no planet | Mercuryin Taurus, house 10 |
| IIIcadent | Mind & siblingstalking, writing, and the everyday traffic of information | Libra6° 45' | Pluto | Venusin Gemini, house 11 |
| IVangularIC | Home & rootsthe family line, and the house it was lived in | Scorpio9° 21' | Saturn | Plutoin Scorpio, house 3 |
| Vsuccedent | Pleasure & creativityromance, performance, and the appetite for being delighted | Sagittarius15° 12' | Uranus Neptune | Jupiterin Pisces, house 8 |
| VIcadent | Work & healththe working day, and the discipline of keeping things going | Capricorn18° 59' | Mars | Saturnin Sagittarius, house 4 |
| VIIangularDescendant | Partnershipone-to-one dealings, in agreement and in conflict | Aquarius18° 10' | no planet | Uranusin Sagittarius, house 5 |
| VIIIsuccedent | Depth & shared resourcesdebt, desire, and the things that change a person | Pisces9° 57' | Jupiter | Neptunein Capricorn, house 5 |
| IXcadent | Belief & distancehigher study, foreign places, and the questions without local answers | Aries6° 45' | no planet | Marsin Capricorn, house 6 |
| XangularMidheaven | Vocation & reputationthe professional life and how it is judged from outside | Taurus9° 21' | Sun Mercury | Venusin Gemini, house 11 |
| XIsuccedent | Community & hopesfriendship, networks, and the causes someone signs up to | Gemini15° 12' | Moon Venus | Mercuryin Taurus, house 10 |
| XIIcadent | Retreat & the unseensolitude, and what is withheld, including from the self | Cancer18° 59' | no planet | Moonin Cancer, house 11 |
- angular:
- houses 1, 4, 7 and 10 — the four loudest positions in a chart
- succedent:
- houses 2, 5, 8 and 11 — positions that hold and consolidate
- cadent:
- houses 3, 6, 9 and 12 — quieter positions that adjust and absorb
Chart Patterns
T-Square
pattern- Jupiter
- Venus
- Uranus
Two squares converging on an opposition — the chart’s engine room.
Chart Signature
Element Distribution
Fire
2
Earth
4
Air
1
Water
3
Modality Distribution
Cardinal
3
Fixed
3
Mutable
4
- Dominant element: Earth
- Dominant modality: Mutable
Above the horizon 5 · below 5 · east 5 · west 5
Hemisphere: which half of the wheel the planets fall in.
Crescent
19% lit · 52° from the Sun
4Public & outwardhouses 10-12
1Others & exchangehouses 7-9
1Self & beginningshouses 1-3
4Roots & routinehouses 4-6
Quadrant: one of the four quarters of the wheel, three houses each.
Notable Features
Saturn stands unaspected
No major contact to any other planet — it operates alone.
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4 of ten planets retrograde
Retrograde: appearing to move backwards from Earth, an effect of our own orbit.
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Mercury on the Midheaven
Within 2.4° of the chart's highest point.
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Day chart
whether the Sun was above the horizon (day) or below it (night)
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Lena Dunham: Common Questions
What is Lena Dunham's rising sign?
Lena Dunham has Leo rising, at 18° 10'. The rising sign is the one on the eastern horizon at birth.
What is Lena Dunham's Moon sign?
Lena Dunham's Moon is in Cancer, in the 11th house of the chart.
Which planet rules Lena Dunham's chart?
Sun rules the chart, because Sun governs the rising sign Leo, and it sits in the 10th house in Taurus.
Which element is strongest in Lena Dunham's chart?
Earth, with 4 of the ten planets in Earth signs.