Lena Dunham Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Lena Dunham is a Taurus, born May 13, 1986.
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Taurus
- Moon
- Moon in Cancer
- Rising
- Leo
- Chinese zodiac
- Tiger
- BaZi day master
- Fire
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
Western + Eastern: Taurus Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Lena Dunham's Taurus Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Tiger adds a year based cycle and Fire names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
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Earth placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer, born on May 13, 1986 in New York City, United States.
Lena Dunham's Sun sign is Taurus, a Earth sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in New York City because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Taurus | 22.60° | No |
| moon | Cancer | 14.26° | No |
| mercury | Taurus | 11.75° | No |
| venus | Gemini | 20.47° | No |
| mars | Capricorn | 19.19° | No |
| jupiter | Pisces | 17.56° | No |
| saturn | Sagittarius | 7.46° | Yes |
| uranus | Sagittarius | 21.50° | Yes |
| neptune | Capricorn | 5.47° | Yes |
| pluto | Scorpio | 5.50° | Yes |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Leo
House 1: Leo · House 2: Virgo · House 3: Libra · House 4: Scorpio · House 5: Sagittarius · House 6: Capricorn · House 7: Aquarius · House 8: Pisces · House 9: Aries · House 10: Taurus · House 11: Gemini · House 12: Cancer
Strongest aspects
Neptune + Pluto sextile · 0.02° orb
Neptune (imagination and ideals) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Jupiter + Neptune quintile · 0.08° orb
Jupiter (growth and perspective) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a quintile: Their themes link, bringing attention to the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Uranus opposition · 1.02° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Uranus (change and independence) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Mars + Jupiter sextile · 1.64° orb
Mars (drive and action) and Jupiter (growth and perspective) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Mercury sextile · 2.51° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Mercury (mind and communication) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Jupiter square · 2.92° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Jupiter (growth and perspective) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 2 · Earth 4 · Air 1 · Water 3
Modalities: Cardinal 3 · Fixed 3 · Mutable 4
Detected patterns: T-square
Sun and Moon relationship
The Taurus Sun and Cancer Moon form a sextile by sign: their intentions and instincts can support one another. In traditional astrology, this describes a link between outward purpose and immediate emotional responses.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Lena Dunham's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Lena Dunham's Sun in Taurus. They become more recognizably themselves by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Lena Dunham's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 11th house
Lena Dunham's Moon in Cancer. Their emotional system settles by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Lena Dunham's Moon in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Mercury in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 10th house
Lena Dunham's Mercury in Taurus. Their mind becomes clear by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Lena Dunham's Mercury in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Venus in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 11th house
Lena Dunham's Venus in Gemini. Love and self worth deepen by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Lena Dunham's Venus in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Mars in Capricorn
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 6th house
Lena Dunham's Mars in Capricorn. Their drive becomes clean by taking responsibility for what can be built over time; this makes discipline, integrity, authority, and lasting achievement central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Lena Dunham's Mars in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice.
Jupiter in Pisces
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 8th house
Lena Dunham's Jupiter in Pisces. Growth becomes meaningful by making room for mystery without losing contact with reality; this makes imagination, empathy, creativity, and permeable awareness central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Lena Dunham's Jupiter in House 8 touches intimacy, shared resources, loss, trust, and taboo. It asks them to choose honest exchange over control.
Saturn in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 4th house · Retrograde
Lena Dunham's Saturn in Sagittarius. Maturity develops by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Lena Dunham's Saturn in House 4 touches home, ancestry, family, and private foundations. It asks them to make an inner base beyond inherited expectations. Retrograde makes their Saturn's authority self-defined. The rules they actually live by are the ones they tested themselves, not the ones they were handed. Mastery here comes from the inside out.
Uranus in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 5th house · Retrograde
Lena Dunham's Uranus in Sagittarius. Freedom becomes real by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Lena Dunham's Uranus in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure. Retrograde keeps their Uranus's originality private at first. Their most independent ideas develop internally before the world ever sees them. What looks sudden to others was actually years in the making.
Neptune in Capricorn
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 5th house · Retrograde
Lena Dunham's Neptune in Capricorn. Their sensitivity becomes creative by taking responsibility for what can be built over time; this makes discipline, integrity, authority, and lasting achievement central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Lena Dunham's Neptune in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure. Retrograde turns their Neptune's imagination inward. Their inner world runs deeper than what they show, and their sensitivity works best as a private compass, not a performance.
Pluto in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 3rd house · Retrograde
Lena Dunham's Pluto in Scorpio. Transformation begins by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Lena Dunham's Pluto in House 3 touches learning, language, local life, and daily perception. It asks them to practice this energy through clear exchange. Retrograde makes their Pluto's transformation an inside job. Their greatest power shifts happen through self-mastery, not through changing what's around they. The deepest change in their life starts with them.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Lena Dunham's rising sign?
Lena Dunham's Rising sign is Leo, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Lena Dunham's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Lena Dunham a Taurus?
Yes. Lena Dunham's Sun sign is Taurus in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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