Coco Chanel's Birth Chart: How an Orphan Built an Empire, Year by Year
Born in a charity hospital, raised in an orphanage, the most famous perfume in the world at 37. Scroll: three clocks met for Chanel No. 5.
Her birth chart ID
Coco Chanel
19 August 18834:00 pmSaumur
- ☉︎Sun Leo
- ACRising Sagittarius
- ☽︎Moon Pisces
Birth time rated AA. Sagittarius rising at its very last degree: 90 seconds later, it would be Capricorn.
Her life in 8 dates
Scroll down, the years slide by.
1895
At 11, she loses her mother. Her father leaves her at the orphanage of Aubazine.
1909
She makes hats in a Paris apartment lent by Étienne Balsan.
1910
With Boy Capel's money, she opens Chanel Modes at 21 rue Cambon.
1913
A boutique in Deauville, the seaside town of rich Parisians.
1915
Her first couture house, in Biarritz.
1918
She moves into 31 rue Cambon, still Chanel's address today.
5 May 1921
Chanel No. 5.
1924
Les Parfums Chanel, with Pierre and Paul Wertheimer.
Her real chart
The same signature as Warren Buffett.
Sagittarius rising
Sagittarius rising
29°, the very last degree. Sagittarius is her 1st house.
Jupiter in the 8th
Her chart ruler Jupiter is exalted at 23° Cancer, in her 8th house: other people's money. Exactly like Buffett, born 47 years later.
Sun and Venus in Leo
In her 9th house: style, pride, a name that travels.
Her 10th house
Mercury and Uranus in Virgo, in her house of career: craft, detail, a revolution in clothes. Jersey, trousers, the little black dress.
For years, her empire grows on other people's money.
Saturn comes home
1913, in her house of partners.
Her Saturn
Her Saturn
9° Gemini, in her 7th house: partners, contracts, the people you build with.
Saturn return, 1913
Keep scrolling. 11 June 1913: Saturn is home. That year, with Boy Capel's money, she opens in Deauville. A serious partner, a real debt, and she pays it back.
Her real chapters
Her success chapter: Cancer, from 19 to 44.
Zodiacal releasing cuts a life into chapters, one sign each, counted from the Lot of Spirit. Hers is in Gemini. Scroll to live them.
Leo, from December 1927: the queen of rue Cambon.
- 1895Aubazine
- 1909Hats
- 191021 rue Cambon
- 1913Deauville
- 1915Biarritz
- 191831 rue Cambon
- 1921No. 5
- 1924Les Parfums Chanel
Three clocks, one perfume
1921: watch the clocks meet.
Zodiacal releasing
Loosing of the bond: her chapter jumps to Capricorn (Sept 1920 to Nov 1922)
Profection
Age 37: a 2nd house year, the house of money
Transit
Jupiter and Saturn in Virgo, her 10th house; they meet on 10 Sept 1921
5 May 1921 A turning point in her chapters, a year of money, and the two big planets in her house of career. She launches Chanel No. 5.
The fifth day of the fifth month
No. 5 a century later, still on sale
Born at the meeting of three clocks. Still one of the best known perfumes in the world.
A chart is not a destiny, it is a calendar. She used hers well.
Your turn: find your success chapter
- 1
Find the ruler of your chart (the planet of your rising sign) and the house it sits in: that is where your life puts its energy.
- 2
Find your profection year: your age divided by 12, keep the remainder, add 1.
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With your birth time, find your Lot of Spirit and the sign of your career chapter today.
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Questions people ask
What is Coco Chanel's zodiac sign?
Leo. She was born on 19 August 1883 at 4:00 pm in Saumur, France, with the Sun at 26° Leo, the Moon in Pisces and Sagittarius rising at 29°.
What does Coco Chanel's birth chart show?
Her chart ruler Jupiter is exalted in Cancer in the 8th house of other people's money, Mercury and Uranus sit in Virgo in her 10th house of career, and the Sun and Venus are in Leo in the 9th. Her Saturn return in June 1913 fell in her 7th house of partners, the year of her Deauville boutique.
When was Chanel No. 5 launched, astrologically?
On 5 May 1921, in her 2nd house profection year (money), during the loosing of the bond of her zodiacal releasing from Spirit, while Jupiter and Saturn were both crossing her 10th house of career. They met there on 10 September 1921.
Do Coco Chanel and Warren Buffett have the same chart?
Not the same chart, but the same signature: both have Sagittarius rising and their chart ruler Jupiter exalted in Cancer in the 8th house, the house of other people's money. Both built their fortunes with outside capital: lovers and the Wertheimers for her, insurance float for him.
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Photos, Wikimedia Commons: Coco Chanel (Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0); Warren Buffett (USA International Trade Administration, Public domain); Rihanna (SIGMA, CC BY 3.0)