Johnny Depp and Amber Heard: What Went Wrong, Read in Their Charts
A wedding in 2015, a divorce in 2016, two trials, and the whole world watching. Scroll: only public dates, and their two real charts.
Her birth chart ID
Johnny Depp
9 June 19638:44 amOwensboro, Kentucky
- ☉︎Sun Gemini
- ACRising Leo
- ☽︎Moon Capricorn
Her birth chart ID
Amber Heard
22 April 1986Austin, Texas
- ☉︎Sun Taurus
Amber Heard's birth time is not public, so her chart shows signs only, and no Moon.
Their story in 8 dates
Scroll down, the years slide by.
2009
They meet on the set of The Rum Diary.
3 February 2015
A small private wedding in Los Angeles.
23 May 2016
She files for divorce and accuses him of abuse, which he denies.
13 January 2017
The divorce is final.
December 2018
Her opinion piece in The Washington Post, without naming him. He sues her in Virginia.
2 November 2020
In London, he loses his libel case against The Sun.
11 April 2022
The Virginia trial opens, on live TV.
1 June 2022
The jury finds for him on his three claims, and for her on one of her three. They settle in December.
Their two charts, one on the other
The attraction.
Step 1
Johnny has Leo rising, at 0°. His Venus (26° Taurus) and his Mercury (25° Taurus) sit in his 10th house, the house of public image.
Amber's Venus, at 25° Taurus, lands 1° from his. Same taste, same pleasures. A first meeting that feels like recognition.
His real chart
The fire.
Step 1
His Moon, his emotional core, sits at 13° Capricorn.
Her Mars, planet of drive and anger, sits at 12° Capricorn: less than 2° from his Moon. Passion, and sparks that turn into fires.
Her Uranus, planet of sudden breaks, at 22° Sagittarius, faces his Sun at 18° Gemini.
And his Saturn, at 23° Aquarius in his 7th house of partners, squares his own Venus and hers. Love under pressure.
The sky around his chart
A wedding inside the Uranus and Pluto square.
Step 1
5 January 2015: Pluto, planet of crises and rebirth, sits exactly on his Moon. Uranus is closing in from Aries.
3 February 2015, their wedding day: Uranus squares his Moon to a tenth of a degree, Pluto still sits on it. The same point as her Mars.
Her chart (birth time unknown, so signs only)
Amber Heard's Saturn return, 29 years in a few seconds.
Step 1
She was born with Saturn at 9° Sagittarius.
Saturn goes once around the zodiac and comes back to that exact degree on 12 December 2015. She is 29.
22 April 2016: she turns 30, a 7th house year (marriage, and open conflicts). 23 May 2016: she files for divorce.
His real chart
His second Saturn return, in his house of open enemies.
Step 1
His Saturn sits at 23° Aquarius, in his 7th house: partners, contracts, and in traditional astrology, open enemies and lawsuits.
From his first Saturn return (February 1993) to the second: exact on 14 April 2022, three days after the trial opens in Virginia.
1 June 2022, the verdict: Saturn at 25° Aquarius squares his Mercury to the minute, and his Venus. The same Taurus point as Amber's Venus.
April 2022
3 days after the trial opens
His second Saturn return is exact on 14 April 2022. Saturn sits in Aquarius, his 7th house: partners, and open enemies in court.
Three layers, two trials
2020 to 2023: watch the clocks meet.
Profection, 57
10th house, reputation: he loses in London (2 Nov 2020)
Profection, 58
11th house: friends, allies, the public
Saturn
In Aquarius, his 7th house; back on its birth degree 14 Apr 2022
1 June 2022 Where all three meet: from 11 April 2022, the first day of the trial, to 1 June 2022, the verdict. The verdict goes his way on all three of his claims, one week before the end of his 11th house year.
A strong pull is not the same thing as a strong bond.
Your turn: read your own couple
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- 2
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- 3
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Questions people ask
When did Johnny Depp and Amber Heard marry and divorce?
They married on 3 February 2015 in Los Angeles. She filed for divorce on 23 May 2016, and the divorce was final on 13 January 2017. They had met in 2009 on the set of The Rum Diary.
Who won, Johnny Depp or Amber Heard?
It depends on the court. In London, on 2 November 2020, he lost his libel case against The Sun. In Virginia, on 1 June 2022, the jury found for him on his three defamation claims and for her on one of her three counterclaims. They settled in December 2022.
What does the astrology of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard show?
The same Venus in Taurus (a strong attraction) and her Mars on his Moon (heat and conflict). They married while Pluto and Uranus were hitting his Moon, she filed for divorce after her first Saturn return in a 7th house year, and his US trial opened three days before his second Saturn return.
What is Johnny Depp's rising sign?
Leo, at 0°, with the birth time of 8:44 am on 9 June 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky. Because it is the very first degree of Leo, a birth time a few minutes earlier would give Cancer rising.
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Photos, Wikimedia Commons: Johnny Depp (Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0); Amber Heard (Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0); Jennifer Aniston (Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0); Brad Pitt (Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0); Bill Gates (Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union, 2025, CC BY 4.0); Melinda French Gates (Chris Kleponis / European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0); Angelina Jolie (Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0); Vanessa Paradis (Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0)