The life of Ellen DeGeneres
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
American comedian and television host who began in stand-up in the early 1980s and gained national attention on The Tonight Show. Her sitcom Ellen and the long-running daytime talk show that followed made her one of the most recognisable figures in American television.
Defining moments
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi marry
Ten days before the wedding, Jupiter conjunct Mercury in the eleventh house marked a power window for joyous, shared plans and public celebrations of love.
The Marriage in the timeline ↓Ellen Degeneres and Alexandra Hedison end their relationship
The Separation in the timeline ↓Ellen Degeneres and Alexandra Hedison begin a relationship
The Partnership in the timeline ↓Finding Nemo is released
Pluto trined the tenth-house Moon 58 days before Finding Nemo arrived, marking a powerful career window for deep emotional storytelling.
The Career Milestone in the timeline ↓77th Golden Globe Awards
Saturn squaring the eleventh-house Moon sixteen days before the Golden Globes brought a sobering reality check to peer dynamics and emotional expectations ahead of the big night.
The Award in the timeline ↓Ellen DeGeneres's birth chart
☾ Born Jan 26, 1958 · 8:43 AM CDT · Metairie · Birth data: A · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
With an Aquarius Sun placed in the twelfth house and an Aries Moon in the first, her life maps a continuous dialogue between private detachment and immediate, unfiltered public reaction.
Aquarius Sun in the 12th House highlights a private, observant core operating behind a highly visible career.
Aries Moon in the 1st House provides the swift, instinctive comic timing that fueled her stand-up and daytime hosting.
Pisces Rising blurs the approach while the Aries Moon in the first house pushes straight through it. The result is a soft outline around a reflex that is anything but tentative.
How Ellen DeGeneres's chart holds together
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Elements and modalities
Fire-led and fixed by a slight margin.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 🜃 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 🜁 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 🜄 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
Elements
Modalities
No dominant planet is named because two planets score equally.
Chart patterns that stand out
Sun & Uranus in mutual reception: each at home in the other's sign
See celebrities with this pattern →Mars out-of-bounds: operating outside its usual rules
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read Ellen DeGeneres's chart
the full reading
13 placements in the chart signature →Natal Chart
placidus houses
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Exact planetary positions
● Sun, Moon or chart ruler · ℞ retrograde
| Body | Position | House | Motion | Theme | Sabian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | ♈︎ Aries 19°59' | 1 | - | — | Compassion |
| Uranus | ♌︎ Leo 9°46' | 6 | ℞ | — | Freshness |
| Pluto | ♍︎ Virgo 1°40' | 6 | ℞ | — | Consecration |
| Jupiter | ♏︎ Scorpio 1°03' | 8 | - | — | Sacrifice |
| Neptune | ♏︎ Scorpio 4°45' | 8 | - | — | Endurance |
| North node | ♏︎ Scorpio 5°40' | 8 | ℞ | — | Ambition |
| Saturn | ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°09' | 10 | - | — | Assimilation |
| Mars | ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°11' | 10 | - | — | Imagination |
| Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn 14°13' | 11 | - | — | Compassion |
| Sun | ♒︎ Aquarius 6°09' | 12 | - | — | Emergence |
| Venus | ♒︎ Aquarius 9°46' | 12 | ℞ | — | Disillusionment |
| Chiron | ♒︎ Aquarius 16°39' | 12 | - | — | Vigilance |
| Lilith | ♓︎ Pisces 27°20' | 1 | - | — | Abundance |
| South node | ♉︎ Taurus 5°40' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♓︎ Pisces | 9°52' | ☽︎⚸ |
| House 2 | ♈︎ Aries | 20°42' | - |
| House 3 | ♉︎ Taurus | 22°04' | - |
| House 4 | ♊︎ Gemini | 17°06' | - |
| House 5 | ♋︎ Cancer | 10°20' | - |
| House 6 | ♌︎ Leo | 6°04' | ♅︎♇︎ |
| House 7 | ♍︎ Virgo | 9°52' | - |
| House 8 | ♎︎ Libra | 20°42' | ♃︎♆︎☊ |
| House 9 | ♏︎ Scorpio | 22°04' | - |
| House 10 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 17°06' | ♄︎♂︎ |
| House 11 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 10°20' | ☿︎ |
| House 12 | ♒︎ Aquarius | 6°04' | ☉︎♀︎⚷ |
Full aspects · 29
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden A · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q483325, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Moon dasha · Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 4
2 passages in force · Uranus conjunction Sun · Pluto sextile Sun
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on the start of a partnership, 1997Collapse
Oct 26Jan 1Mar 9Oct 26, 1996 – Mar 9, 1997 · 134 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus conjunction Sunslow
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche end their relationship
Moon dasha · Personal year 11 · Pinnacle 4
7 passages in force · Neptune conjunction Sun · Uranus sextile Moon · Pluto square Ascendant · Pluto sextile Venus · Chiron square Ascendant · Chiron sextile Venus · Jupiter trine Sun
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on the day of the separation, 2000Collapse
Apr 10Aug 1Nov 22Apr 10 – Nov 22, 2000 · 226 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
- Uranus sextile Moonslow
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- Pluto sextile Venusslow
- Chiron square Ascendantslow
- Chiron sextile Venusslow
- Jupiter trine Sunfast
Ellen Degeneres and Alexandra Hedison begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q483325, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Moon dasha · Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 4
5 passages in force · Neptune conjunction Sun · Uranus sextile Midheaven · Uranus sextile Moon · Chiron conjunction Mars · North Node opposition Mercury
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on the start of a partnership, 2001Collapse
Jul 5Jan 1Jun 30Jul 5, 2000 – Jun 30, 2001 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
- Uranus sextile Midheavenslow
- Uranus sextile Moonslow
- Chiron conjunction Marsslow
- North Node opposition Mercuryfast
Finding Nemo is released
Moon dasha · Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
Pluto trined the tenth-house Moon 58 days before Finding Nemo arrived, marking a powerful career window for deep emotional storytelling.
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on a career milestone, 2003Collapse
Nov 21May 20Nov 16Nov 21, 2002 – Nov 16, 2003 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter opposition Venusfast
Ellen Degeneres and Alexandra Hedison end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q483325, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Moon dasha · Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 4
5 passages in force · Chiron square Moon · Pluto trine Moon · Saturn trine Ascendant · Neptune conjunction Venus · Jupiter square Midheaven
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on the day of the separation, 2004Collapse
Oct 23Jan 1Mar 11Oct 23, 2003 – Mar 11, 2004 · 140 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Saturn trine Ascendantslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Jupiter square Midheavenfast
31st Annie Awards
Moon dasha · Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Pluto trine Moon
Pluto trined the tenth house Moon 51 days before the event, opening a power window that deepened their public emotional resonance ahead of the 31st Annie Awards.
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on award day, 2004Collapse
Dec 18Feb 7Mar 29Dec 18, 2003 – Mar 29, 2004 · 102 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Pluto conjunction Marsslow
- Jupiter square Midheavenfast
- North Node trine Mercuryfast
- 4 QUIET YEARS
Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi marry
Mars dasha · Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 6
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Mercury
Ten days before the wedding, Jupiter conjunct Mercury in the eleventh house marked a power window for joyous, shared plans and public celebrations of love.
- 4 QUIET YEARS
Hollywood Walk of Fame 2012
Rahu dasha · Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 6
Editorial note · Jupiter opposition Midheaven
Ten days after the honor, Jupiter opposing the Midheaven in the third house marked a potent peak of public acclaim and celebrated status.
- 4 QUIET YEARS
Finding Dory is released
Rahu dasha · Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 6
Editorial note · Saturn square Ascendant
Saturn squared the Ascendant 48 days after the release, marking a demanding power window of sustained scrutiny and structural pressure.
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on a career milestone, 2016Collapse
Feb 29Jun 16Oct 2Feb 29 – Oct 2, 2016 · 216 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Ascendantslow
- Saturn square Ascendantslow
- Uranus trine Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Pluto conjunction Mercuryslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Midheavenfast
- North Node square Midheavenfast
- 4 QUIET YEARS
77th Golden Globe Awards
Rahu dasha · Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 6
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
Saturn squaring the eleventh-house Moon sixteen days before the Golden Globes brought a sobering reality check to peer dynamics and emotional expectations ahead of the big night.
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on award day, 2020Collapse
Sep 18Jan 5Apr 23Sep 18, 2019 – Apr 23, 2020 · 218 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Moonslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node trine Ascendantfast
62nd Annual Grammy Awards
Rahu dasha · Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 6
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Mercury
Nine days after the Grammys, Jupiter conjunct Mercury in the eleventh house marked expanding industry recognition and celebratory dialogue across wider networks.
Ellen DeGeneres's chart on award day, 2020Collapse
Sep 18Jan 26Jun 4Sep 18, 2019 – Jun 4, 2020 · 260 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune square Midheavenslow
- North Node trine Ascendantfast
- Jupiter conjunction Mercuryfast
Human Design
5/1 Emotional Generator on the Left Angle Cross of The Alpha
Her 5/1 profile carries strong public projections, demanding clear emotional clarity before responding to major commitments.
The Left Angle Cross of The Alpha
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Centers · 5 defined / 4 open
| Centre | State | What it governs |
|---|---|---|
| Head | Open | — |
| Ajna | Open | — |
| Throat | Open | — |
| G identity | Open | — |
| Heart will | Defined | — |
| Sacral | Defined | — |
| Solar plexus | Defined | — |
| Spleen | Defined | — |
| Root | Defined | — |
Chart properties
Signature
When the strategy is working
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Not-self theme
When it isn't
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Personality activations · 12
| Planet | Gate.Line |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | 41.5 |
| · Earth | 31.5 |
| ☽︎ Moon | 51.6 |
| ☊ North node | 28.5 |
| ☋ South node | 27.5 |
| ☿︎ Mercury | 38.6 |
| ♀︎ Venus | 19.3 |
| ♂︎ Mars | 11.2 |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | 50.5 |
| ♄︎ Saturn | 26.6 |
| ♅︎ Uranus | 33.3 |
| ♇︎ Pluto | 59.2 |
Design activations · 10
| Planet | Gate.Line |
|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | 44.1 |
| · Earth | 24.1 |
| ☽︎ Moon | 49.6 |
| ♀︎ Venus | 11.2 |
| ♂︎ Mars | 32.5 |
| ♃︎ Jupiter | 57.3 |
| ♄︎ Saturn | 5.2 |
| ♅︎ Uranus | 33.5 |
| ♆︎ Neptune | 28.1 |
| ♇︎ Pluto | 59.3 |
Defined channels · 4
Centres and channels derive from the combined design (88° solar arc pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set; lines come from planetary longitude.
Gene Keys
Gene Key 41 Life's Work moving from Fantasy to Anticipation
Gene Key 41 channels imaginative pressure into focused creative expression, while Gene Key 31 in Evolution challenges collective leadership styles.
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Hologenetic Profile
Activation Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Life's Work | Gene Key 41 Conscious Sun | |
| Evolution | Gene Key 31 Conscious Earth | |
| Radiance | Gene Key 44 Unconscious Sun | |
| Purpose | Gene Key 24 Unconscious Earth |
Venus Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Attraction | Gene Key 49 | |
| IQ | Gene Key 19 | |
| EQ | Gene Key 11 | |
| SQ | Gene Key 11 |
Pearl Sequence
| Sphere | Key | Shadow → Gift → Siddhi |
|---|---|---|
| Vocation | Gene Key 32 | |
| Culture | Gene Key 57 | |
| Pearl | Gene Key 50 |
Rings, codons & partners
Gene Keys derive from the same combined design (88 days pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set as Human Design, read through the shadow → gift → siddhi spectrum rather than defined/undefined centres.
Vedic Nakshatras
revati Moon nakshatra
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Nakshatra placements · 14
● shown in snapshot · scrolls →
| Body | Nakshatra | Pada | Sidereal | Ruler | Deity | Animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uranus | Pushya | 4 | Cancer 16° | Saturn | Brihaspati | Male Goat |
| Pluto | Magha | 3 | Leo 8° | Ketu | Pitris | Male Rat |
| Jupiter | Swati | 1 | Libra 7° | Rahu | Vayu | Male Buffalo |
| Neptune | Swati | 2 | Libra 11° | Rahu | Vayu | Male Buffalo |
| North node | Swati | 2 | Libra 12° | Rahu | Vayu | Male Buffalo |
| Saturn | Jyeshtha | 4 | Scorpio 28° | Mercury | Indra | Male Deer |
| Mars | Mula | 1 | Sagittarius 0° | Ketu | Nirrti | Male Dog |
| Mercury | Purva ashadha | 3 | Sagittarius 20° | Venus | Apas | Male Monkey |
| Sun | Shravana | 1 | Capricorn 12° | Moon | Vishnu | Female Monkey |
| Venus | Shravana | 2 | Capricorn 16° | Moon | Vishnu | Female Monkey |
| Chiron | Dhanishta | 1 | Capricorn 23° | Mars | Vasus | Female Lion |
| Ascendant | Shatabhisha | 3 | Aquarius 16° | Rahu | Varuna | Female Horse |
| Lilith | Uttara bhadrapada | 1 | Pisces 4° | Saturn | Ahir Budhnya | Female Cow |
| Moon | Revati | 4 | Pisces 26° | Mercury | Pushan | Male Elephant |
Maha Dasha timeline · 9
| Ruler | Span | Flag |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury | Jan 26, 1958 → Apr 3, 1962 | - |
| Ketu | Apr 3, 1962 → Apr 3, 1969 | - |
| Venus | Apr 3, 1969 → Apr 3, 1989 | - |
| Sun | Apr 3, 1989 → Apr 3, 1995 | - |
| Moon | Apr 3, 1995 → Apr 3, 2005 | - |
| Mars | Apr 3, 2005 → Apr 3, 2012 | - |
| Rahu | Apr 3, 2012 → Apr 3, 2030 | Now |
| Jupiter | Apr 3, 2030 → Apr 3, 2046 | - |
| Saturn | Apr 3, 2046 → Apr 3, 2065 | - |
Antardashas within Rahu
Sub-periods exist only for the running maha dasha; the other eight rows carry none by design, so they show none.
| Ruler | Span |
|---|---|
| Rahu | Apr 3, 2012 → Dec 15, 2014 |
| Jupiter | Dec 15, 2014 → May 9, 2017 |
| Saturn | May 9, 2017 → Mar 15, 2020 |
| Mercury | Mar 15, 2020 → Oct 2, 2022 |
| Ketu | Oct 2, 2022 → Oct 21, 2023 |
| Venus | Oct 21, 2023 → Oct 20, 2026 |
| Sun | Oct 20, 2026 → Sep 14, 2027 |
| Moon | Sep 14, 2027 → Mar 15, 2029 |
| Mars | Mar 15, 2029 → Apr 3, 2030 |
Ayanamsa: 23.2714 · Dasha system: Vimshottari
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 147 · Yellow Star · Self-Existing
Lamat · Self-Existing tone
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Seal & tone
Oracle relations
Kin from birth date against the 260-day count, Dreamspell correlation · Seal = kin mod 20, tone = kin mod 13
Numerology
Life Path 5 centered on freedom and versatility
Life Path 5 aligns with her varied career transitions from stand-up clubs and sitcom acting to daytime hosting and producing.
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Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
Fire Rooster characterized by performance and punctuality
The Fire Rooster brings showmanship and direct candor, reinforcing an outspoken public presence on camera.
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| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 丁 | 酉 |
| Month | 癸 | 丑 |
| Day | 癸 | 亥 |
| Hour | 丙 | 辰 |
Day master
癸 anchors this Four Pillars reading: the Day pillar's Heavenly Stem, and the one value here that never depends on a recorded birth time.
Inner animals
Solar calendar; year boundary at the start of spring, not January 1.
Tarot Birth Cards
The Hierophant
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The reduction
| Card | Title | Keywords | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personality & Soul | The Hierophant | tradition, conformity, institutions, belief | Inherited wisdom and shared belief systems — the structures that bind a community together. |
Year card for 2026 · turns over 1 Jan 2027
Birth-date reduction against the 22 Major Arcana; year card recomputed for the current calendar year at each rebuild
Arabic Parts
Lots, formulas & sensitive points
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Lots on the wheel
Lots · 8
The body and worldly fortune; where material and emotional well-being converge. Reveals how you attract abundance and physical vitality.
The mind and spiritual purpose; the inverse of Fortune. Reveals conscious intent, vocation, and the soul's directional momentum.
Triumph through sustained effort; favorable outcomes earned by aligning ambition with discipline and structure.
Binding obligation and fated constraint; the circumstances that must be endured or worked through rather than chosen.
Reckoning and karmic consequence; the area of life where past choices return to be faced directly.
Desire, passion, and erotic magnetism; where attraction and creative drive merge. Reveals the nature of what you most deeply crave.
Partnership destiny and the nature of committed bonds; reveals the quality and karma of your most significant unions.
Boldness, daring, and the warrior spirit; where you find the nerve to act and the audacity to lead.
Sabian Symbols
A child is seen being born out of an egg
Her Sun Sabian symbol emphasizes self-emergence and reinvention, reflecting her repeated public breakthroughs.
Sun · Aquarius 6°09'
A child is seen being born out of an egg
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A young girl feeding birds in winter
"Compassion"
Early morning dew sparkles as sunlight floods the field
"Freshness"
A large white cross dominates the landscape
"Consecration"
A broken bottle and spilled perfume
"Sacrifice"
A massive rocky shore resists the pounding of the sea
"Endurance"
The gold rush tears men away from their native soil
"Ambition"
A group of immigrants as they fulfill the requirements of entrance into the new country
"Assimilation"
A chubby boy on a hobby-horse
"Imagination"
In a hospital the children's ward is filled with toys
"Compassion"
A child is seen being born out of an egg
"Emergence"
A man who had for a time become the embodiment of a popular ideal is made to realize that as a person he is not this ideal
"Disillusionment"
A watchdog stands guard protecting his master and his possessions
"Vigilance"
An aviator pursues his journey, flying through ground-obscuring clouds
"Perseverance"
A fertile garden under the full moon reveals a variety of full-grown vegetables
"Abundance"
Feng Shui
Kua 9
Favorable: East, Southeast, North, South
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Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
Ask the Sage about Ellen DeGeneres
The Sage reads every placement on this page in context. Ask what Ellen DeGeneres's chart means, or bring your own.
Begin your journeyQuestions about Ellen DeGeneres's birth chart
What is Ellen DeGeneres's zodiac sign?
Ellen DeGeneres's Sun sign is Aquarius.
What is Ellen DeGeneres's moon and rising sign?
Ellen DeGeneres has a Aries Moon and a Pisces rising.
When was Ellen DeGeneres born?
Ellen DeGeneres was born on Jan 26, 1958.
How reliable is this birth data?
This chart carries a Rodden rating of A: the standard scale astrologers use to grade how well-documented a birth time is. Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
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