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Analysis of the astrological chart of Romy Schneider

Astrology at the service of character analysis

Daily news regularly puts the spotlight on all sorts of famous people. Although we are not fond of juicy information, we inevitably have an idea about a given political figure, a movie star, a Royal Highness, or a skilled sportsman.

Those well-known faces draw our interest and seem familiar to us, because we watch their successes or their setbacks day by day.

Astrology may also be considered as an interesting filter to better define their personality, and to guess whether the events they experience are confirmed by their planets' activities. Astrology does not reveal everything, of course, but using the dominants and other peculiarities of the natal chart, we can see whether the astrological portrait matches the collective image or offers unsuspected additional nuances.

After Warren Beatty and Léon Marchand, here is an article about the unforgettable and endearing Romy Schneider.

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A Sensitive-Hearted Libra

Romy Schneider / Author: Unknown (Mondadori Publisher), 1955 / Public domain

The tragic destiny of Romy Schneider, the icon revealed by the Sissi movies, is almost as poignant as her roles in cinema. Her personal dramas often caught up with her, yet they didn't prevent her from leading a brilliant career.

Born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach, Romy Schneider seemed destined for easy success. Coming from a family of artists for several generations, she was immersed in the world of music and theater from an early age.

Her education, within a prestigious girls' boarding school, provided her with a solid foundation. She also inherited natural beauty, exceptional photogenic qualities, and a romantic temperament. Thus, she perfectly embodies the qualities of Libra, where her Sun is in perfect conjunction with the Moon.

This aspect, located at 0° in the sign, deserves special attention: both luminaries are positioned on the threshold of this cardinal sign, marking the autumn equinox.

Romy is therefore a "New Moon" personality, a lunar phase that implies an indistinction between the father's role and the mother's role. As she grew up, this led to confusion between masculine and feminine archetypes, which could complicate romantic relationships.

The young girl confided in her diary her desire to become an actress, and it was her mother who facilitated her first steps into film, guiding her first roles at the young age of fifteen.

Her initial small roles in Germany caught the attention of producers, who could easily imagine her in the character of Empress Sissi, thanks to her freshness, which also revealed traditional values.

At the time, Austria was seeking the European equivalent of Gone with the Wind. Thus, at 17, Romy became an international star.

The Sun and Moon in Tension Aspect with the Ascendant

With her Cancer Ascendant, Romy is deeply tied to her family roots, for better or for worse. The tensions between her luminaries and her Ascendant illustrate this inner conflict.

This primarily relates to her discovery of a close relationship between her mother and Hitler, which was a true trauma for Romy. Later, to compensate for this past, she chose to mark her difference by giving her two children Jewish names: David and Sarah.

As sometimes happens, this square between the Moon-Sun conjunction and the Ascendant in a sign known for its lack of resilience also resulted in health issues.

She suffered from excesses and even experienced several accidents, such as a fall during a thalassotherapy session that delayed an important film shoot.

The Meeting with Alain Delon and the Libra-Scorpio Influence

Arriving in Paris with her mother, Romy Schneider was welcomed by Alain Delon, an actor she had chosen as her future partner, but the chemistry did not emerge immediately; they even admitted to feeling a certain mutual antipathy at first.

However, their relationship evolved during filming into a delayed love affair, typical of a Libra-Scorpio combination, where both Alain Delon's Sun and Romy's Venus are positioned.

This planet (Venus) is also sextile to Neptune, making her sensitive to the artistic and mysterious qualities of the men who attracted her. Another sextile to Mars and Mercury makes her a passionate lover, with romance being particularly important for her sense of balance in life.

However, this Venus in the 5th house (love affairs), in a tense aspect with Jupiter in Aquarius (a sign of freedom), doesn't favor marriage: they would go no further than engagement, despite the passion.

Indeed, the opposition to Uranus predisposed her to sudden breakups, as was the case when Delon decided to end their relationship while she was on tour abroad. This separation caught her by surprise and affected her deeply.

The Strength of Earth Signs

Romy was also a pragmatic woman, in the best sense of the term, with that typical Germanic rigor. She overcame her disappointments by continuously working on films and choosing her roles wisely.

A trio of planets in Virgo, an Earth sign, in the 4th house — the house of origins — indicates a certain stubbornness. Mercury and Neptune even form a beautiful trine with Uranus in Taurus, giving her great tenacity in pursuit of her ideal.

Moreover, Neptune rules the Midheaven, the career sector, enhancing her intuition and seductive power in this field.

Thus, she managed to establish herself in French cinema by breaking away from her previous image. By freeing herself from the Sissi stereotype, she then brilliantly portrayed strong female characters, representative of the 1970s.

Under the direction of Sautet or Chabrol, she became an essential actress, without losing her modesty, despite likely achieving this through relentless hard work.

Does Her Premature Death Have an Astrological Explanation?

Venus, positioned in the 5th house and in Scorpio, is also conjunct the North Node. For karmic astrologers, this is a sign of an artistic destiny.

However, as we've seen, despite the support from the trio of Mars, Mercury, and Neptune, Venus is challenged by Uranus (primarily) and Jupiter (to a lesser extent). Despite these promises, happiness for her was always fleeting.

Her death at 43 from heart failure is considered natural or possibly caused by weakness from a kidney surgery she had a few months prior. The theory of suicide, although suggested by some due to the period of deep sorrow she was going through — especially after the tragic death of her 14-year-old son, David, the previous year — has been dismissed.

Can we find clues in Romy Schneider's astrological chart to explain such a premature death? It's important to note that astrology cannot predict a person's death. At best, it can reveal signs of vulnerability or potential danger, and fortunately so.

In Romy Schneider's case, two aspects stand out: the square between the Sun-Moon duo and her Cancer Ascendant, as well as the opposition between Venus and Uranus, placed along the axis of the 5th and 11th houses in Taurus and Scorpio, connected to the emotional sphere.

These configurations suggest a life marked by constant tension between her inner self, her deep emotional needs, and the image she had to project to the outside world.

The instability in her relationships, combined with difficulty in fully living according to her emotions and expressing her true self, likely created immense psychological pressure.

It is this inner struggle, amplified by these tensions, that could explain why her life was punctuated by intense emotional crises and why she died so young, exhausted by this ongoing conflict.

Romy Schneider
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Date of birth
Friday, September 23, 1938
City of birth
Vienna (Austria)
Libra
Virgo
Cancer
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DominantDom. Planets
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9
5
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Height
5' 4" (1m63) tall
Biography of Romy Schneider (excerpt)
Romy Schneider (born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig...

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Astrology: horoscope and birth chart of Romy Schneider (Placidus) Image taken from the horoscope, birth chart and astrological portrait of Romy Schneider, born September 23, 1938, 10:05 PM, Vienna (Austria) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 09' 23° 26' 42' 15° 44' 17° 26' 31' 03' 20' 11' 10° 10' 16° 54' 21° 14' 10' 27' 15° 41' 18° 45' 20° 23'
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Pisces
Sun 0°10' Libra, in House IV
Sun Aspects
Sun conjunction Moon orb 0°17'
Sun square Ascendant orb 3°10'
Sun sextile Pluto orb 1°00'
Sun semi-square Venus orb 0°30'
Sun conjunction Neptune orb 8°55'
Sun bi-quintile Jupiter orb 0°43'
Sun inconjunction Midheaven orb 2°32'
Sun sesqui-quadrate Uranus orb 2°16'
Moon 0°27' Libra, in House IV
Moon Aspects
Sun conjunction Moon orb 0°17'
Moon square Ascendant orb 2°53'
Moon sextile Pluto orb 0°43'
Moon semi-square Venus orb 0°13'
Moon conjunction Neptune orb 9°12'
Moon inconjunction Midheaven orb 2°14'
Moon sesqui-quadrate Uranus orb 1°58'
Moon bi-quintile Jupiter orb 1°00'
Mercury 16°54' Virgo, in House IV
Mercury Aspects
Mercury trine Uranus orb 0°32'
Mercury conjunction Neptune orb 4°20'
Mercury sextile Venus orb 1°13'
Mercury conjunction Mars orb 6°44'
Mercury inconjunction Saturn orb 1°10'
Mercury semi-square Pluto orb 0°43'
Venus 15°41' Scorpio, in House V
Venus Aspects
Venus opposite Uranus orb 1°45'
Mercury sextile Venus orb 1°13'
Moon semi-square Venus orb 0°13'
Venus inconjunction Saturn orb 0°03'
Sun semi-square Venus orb 0°30'
Venus sextile Mars orb 5°30'
Venus sextile Neptune orb 5°33'
Venus square Jupiter orb 7°45'
Mars 10°10' Virgo, in House IV
Mars Aspects
Mercury conjunction Mars orb 6°44'
Mars opposite Midheaven orb 7°27'
Mars bi-quintile Saturn orb 0°25'
Mars trine Uranus orb 7°16'
Venus sextile Mars orb 5°30'
Jupiter 23°26' Я Aquarius, in House IX
Jupiter Aspects
Sun bi-quintile Jupiter orb 0°43'
Jupiter square Uranus orb 6°00'
Jupiter conjunction Midheaven orb 9°15'
Moon bi-quintile Jupiter orb 1°00'
Jupiter inconjunction Neptune orb 2°12'
Venus square Jupiter orb 7°45'
Saturn 15°44' Я Aries, in House XI
Saturn Aspects
Venus inconjunction Saturn orb 0°03'
Mercury inconjunction Saturn orb 1°10'
Mars bi-quintile Saturn orb 0°25'
Uranus 17°26' Я Taurus, in House XI
Uranus Aspects
Mercury trine Uranus orb 0°32'
Venus opposite Uranus orb 1°45'
Uranus trine Neptune orb 3°48'
Jupiter square Uranus orb 6°00'
Moon sesqui-quadrate Uranus orb 1°58'
Uranus semi-square Ascendant orb 0°54'
Mars trine Uranus orb 7°16'
Sun sesqui-quadrate Uranus orb 2°16'
Neptune 21°14' Virgo, in House IV
Neptune Aspects
Mercury conjunction Neptune orb 4°20'
Uranus trine Neptune orb 3°48'
Moon conjunction Neptune orb 9°12'
Sun conjunction Neptune orb 8°55'
Jupiter inconjunction Neptune orb 2°12'
Venus sextile Neptune orb 5°33'
Pluto 1°11' Leo, in House II
Pluto Aspects
Moon sextile Pluto orb 0°43'
Sun sextile Pluto orb 1°00'
Mercury semi-square Pluto orb 0°43'
Pluto inconjunction Midheaven orb 1°31'
North Node 18°45' Я Scorpio, in House V
Lilith 9°09' Я Aquarius, in House IX
Fortune 3°03' Cancer, in House I
Vertex 20°23' Scorpio, in House V
East Point 6°31' Gemini, in House XII
Ascendant 3°20' Cancer
House II 20°45' Cancer
House III 9°18' Leo
House IV 2°42' Virgo
House V 6°03' Libra
House VI 21°25' Scorpio
House VII 3°20' Capricorn
House VIII 20°45' Capricorn
House IX 9°18' Aquarius
Midheaven 2°42' Pisces
House XI 6°03' Aries
House XII 21°25' Taurus
Ascendant 3°20' Cancer
Ascendant Aspects
Moon square Ascendant orb 2°53'
Sun square Ascendant orb 3°10'
Uranus semi-square Ascendant orb 0°54'
Midheaven 2°42' Pisces
Midheaven Aspects
Mars opposite Midheaven orb 7°27'
Moon inconjunction Midheaven orb 2°14'
Pluto inconjunction Midheaven orb 1°31'
Jupiter conjunction Midheaven orb 9°15'
Sun inconjunction Midheaven orb 2°32'
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