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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz (born April 28, 1974, Alcobendas, Spain, 07:00), aged 52, is a Spanish actress. Notable films include Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Vanilla Sky and All About My Mother. Cruz's honours include Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

Penélope Cruz’s zodiac sign is Taurus, Chinese zodiac is Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.

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Penélope Cruz’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Scholar

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.

What Penélope’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

3

Expression · expression and voice

6

Soul Urge · being needed

6

Personality · caring, responsible

The name opens on P (7) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Penélope’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

8 · 1 · 3 · 4

Lucky colours

Green & Teal

Lucky day

Friday

Direction

→ East

Season

spring

Stones

Diamond, Diamond, Green Aventurine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌹 Blush Rose · 🌿 Fern

White · Blush · Forest

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1974, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as female. Work out your own →

The record

What sets Penélope apart

The Goya Awards came in 1999, when Penélope Cruz was 25.

Penélope Cruz was taught at Madrid Royal Conservatory.

Penélope Cruz was 15 when the work began in 1989.

Penélope Cruz was born to Encarna Sánchez and Eduardo Cruz, married Javier Bardem and raised 2 children.

Wikipedia files Penélope Cruz under Best Supporting Actress Goya Award winners, Bardem family and Converts to Buddhism from Roman Catholicism.

Kurt Gödel (1906) and Jessica Alba (1981) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Madrid Royal Conservatory
Awards
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (2009), César Award (2018) and Goya Awards (1999)
Nominated for
Forqué Award for the best female performance and Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers for the best actress
Working from
1989
Citizenship
Spain
Languages
English and Spanish
Wikipedia editions
119

What the chart says

Penélope, according to the stars

Core essence

Penélope is the steady one, the person whose yes means yes and whose Sunday looks the same as it did last year because it was a good Sunday. The core of Penélope is a deep loyalty to what is real: good food, a good bed, people who show up. They move slowly on purpose. Once they have decided something, it is decided, and that is a comfort to everyone around them.

The vibe

Underneath, Penélope is all feeling, tide in and tide out. The Moon in Cancer means moods are weather, real and passing, and memory is long: they keep every kindness and, quietly, every slight. What Penélope needs to feel safe is a soft place to land that is not going anywhere. Give them that and they give you everything.

How Penélope wants to be loved

Penélope wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Penélope, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Penélope creates

How Penélope makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Penélope creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Penélope is bold, a Tiger year, and their gut reaction is to leap. Brave, generous, a bit dramatic, magnetic to be around, and never boring for a second. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Penélope is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.

Triggers

Triggers: feeling unsafe, or seeing their people treated badly. Mars in Cancer means Penélope does not fight for themselves easily but will go to war for someone they love. The anger comes out sideways at first, then all at once. Protectiveness is the whole engine.

Computed from Penélope's birth date. Working below.

Where Penélope sits

Six lines

Penélope’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Penélope

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Penélope

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Penélope

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Penélope

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Penélope

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Penélope

You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.

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✦ A real star from their birth sky

Dedicate a star to Penélope Cruz

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Alcobendas on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Penélope’s birth-sky starVegablue-white · LyraVega, in Lyra. A blue-white star, 83.5° above the horizon at the birth hour, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Vega →The warmest lightAntaresdeep red · ScorpiusAntares, in Scorpius. A deep red star, 13.4° above the horizon at the birth hour, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Antares →

Read from the sky above Alcobendas at 07:00, Penélope Cruz’s documented birth time. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Alcobendas that night

Computed for 40.53°N, at the documented birth time.

Vega stood nearest the zenith over Alcobendas at the birth hour, 83.5° above the horizon in Lyra.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 85 catalog stars were up in all.

Alcobendas sits at 40.5°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Alcobendas at all: they sit past the −49.5° declination limit this latitude imposes.

The Moon was at first quarter, 38% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 3° down.

What Penélope's birth time unlocks

Two systems need the hour and cannot be computed without it.

Zi Wei Dou Shu · Life Palace

The Solar Star 太陽, The Lunar Star 太陰 in 丑

Bureau 水二局 · Body Palace in Wealth

Zi Wei Dou Shu explained →

Human Design

Generator, profile 6/3

Emotional authority · Single definition

Human Design explained →

Chart pattern score

40 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Cancer · 2 planets at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart.

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If you only read one paragraph

Taurus Sun

Comfort first, then everything else.

Penélope Cruz's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time.

What Taurus means →

Wood Tiger

Leads by moving.

Penélope Cruz was born on April 28, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Tiger means →

Life Path 8

Ambition with a spreadsheet.

Penélope Cruz's birth date, April 28, 1974, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 8 means →

What stands out in Penélope’s chart

Penélope’s birth chart

Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mars grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.1° orbMoon flows with Venus · Trine, 0.2° orbMercury opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 0.7° orbJupiter grinds against Neptune · Square, 1.7° orbMoon grinds against Uranus · Square, 2.4° orbSun opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 2.8° orbSun opens doors for Jupiter · Sextile, 3.3° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 3.8° orbSun in Taurus · 7°32′ · house 2☉7°Moon in Cancer · 22°53′ · house 4☽22°Mercury in Taurus · 0°09′ · house 2☿0°Venus in Pisces · 22°42′ · house 12♀22°Mars in Cancer · 4°42′ · house 4♂4°Jupiter in Pisces · 10°48′ · house 12♃10°Saturn in Cancer · 0°50′ · house 4♄0°Uranus in Libra · 25°14′ · house 7 · retrograde♅℞25°Neptune in Sagittarius · 9°03′ · house 9 · retrograde♆℞9°Pluto in Libra · 4°38′ · house 7 · retrograde♇℞4°Ascendant, the sign rising in the east at your birth: how you meet the worldASCAri 28°48′Descendant · opposite the Ascendant: what you meet in othersDSCLib 28°48′Midheaven (Medium Coeli), the top of your sky: public direction, career, reputationMCCap 15°49′Imum Coeli, the bottom of your sky: home, roots, private foundationsICCnc 15°49′

Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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AscendantAries
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects, tightest first

  • MarssquarePlutoseparating · 0.1° orb

    Penélope’s drive grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • MoontrineVenusseparating · 0.2° orb

    Penélope’s feelings flow straight into their affections. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • MercurysextileSaturnapplying · 0.7° orb

    Penélope’s mind opens doors for their discipline.

  • JupitersquareNeptuneseparating · 1.7° orb

  • MoonsquareUranusapplying · 2.4° orb

  • SunsextileMarsseparating · 2.8° orb

  • SunsextileJupiterapplying · 3.3° orb

  • SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 3.8° orb

  • MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 3.9° orb

  • NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.4° orb

  • MercurysextileMarsapplying · 4.5° orb

  • MercuryoppositionUranusseparating · 4.9° orb

  • SaturntrineUranusseparating · 5.6° orb

  • MarstrineJupiterapplying · 6.1° orb

  • SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.4° orb

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire1 of 10
  • Earth2 of 10
  • Air2 of 10
  • Water5 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable3 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Water leads this chart.

Penélope’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five.

  • ⚷ ChironAries 21°24′ · House 1

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresPisces 2°47′ · House 12

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 17°03′ · House 12

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaAries 12°05′ · House 1

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°28′ · House 10

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Black Moon Lilith square Ascendant 0.3°
  • Chiron square Moon 1.5°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Mercury 1.7°
  • Ceres trine Mars 1.9°
  • Ceres trine Saturn 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Mercury 2.6°

Penélope’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☽ Moon10 pts

    rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Ascendant, Aries; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects

  3. 3. ♀ Venus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Penélope’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Cancer · Moon, Mars, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Sun semi-square Venus 0.2°
  • Moon quintile Pluto 0.2°
  • Jupiter sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.6°
  • Moon sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.2°
  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 1.2°
  • Sun quincunx Neptune 1.5°

Penélope’s houses

Penélope’s houses
HouseSignRulerPlanetsThemes
1AriesMars in Cancer, house 4emptyself, body, how you arrive
2TaurusVenus in Pisces, house 12Sun, Mercurymoney, possessions, self-worth
3GeminiMercury in Taurus, house 2emptymind, siblings, the local world
4CancerMoon in Cancer, house 4Moon, Mars, Saturnhome, family, roots
5LeoSun in Taurus, house 2emptycreativity, romance, play
6VirgoMercury in Taurus, house 2emptywork, habits, health
7LibraVenus in Pisces, house 12Uranus, Plutopartnership, marriage, open rivals
8ScorpioPluto in Libra, house 7emptyshared resources, intimacy, transformation
9SagittariusJupiter in Pisces, house 12Neptunebelief, travel, higher learning
10CapricornSaturn in Cancer, house 4emptycareer, reputation, public life
11AquariusUranus in Libra, house 7emptyfriends, community, the future
12PiscesNeptune in Sagittarius, house 9Venus, Jupiterthe inner world, rest, what is hidden

Penélope’s family here

One relative of Penélope Cruz also has a chart on AsterNym.

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Penélope’s cards

Computed from April 28, 1974. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

Strength

AsterNym identity card

The Steadfast Scholar

Western zodiac

Taurus

Chinese zodiac

Tiger 寅

Life Path

8 · Achiever

♀ Ruled by Venus

Copper Cu

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

甲

yang Wood

寅

Tiger

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

亥

Pig

Water

you & partnership

Hour

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

later life & legacy

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Penélope’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39666 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. The birth time is rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. From Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, angularity, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Penélope Cruz at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Penélope Cruz.

Quick answers about Penélope Cruz’s chart

How old is Penélope Cruz?
Penélope Cruz is 52 years old, born April 28, 1974 in Alcobendas, Spain.
What zodiac sign is Penélope Cruz?
Penélope Cruz is a Taurus: born April 28, 1974, which puts the Sun in Taurus at the documented birth time.
What is Penélope Cruz's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Tiger, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 28, 1974 birth.
What time was Penélope Cruz born?
07:00 local time in Alcobendas, Spain, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
What is Penélope Cruz's rising sign?
Aries rising, calculated from the documented 07:00 birth time in Alcobendas, Spain (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
How tall is Penélope Cruz?
Penélope Cruz is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Penélope Cruz's Life Path number?
Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
What is Penélope Cruz's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 21°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Penélope Cruz's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn at 28°, in the tenth house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Penélope Cruz's dominant planet?
Moon, on AsterNym's dominance score (10 points: rules the Moon sign, Cancer; in its own sign, Cancer; disposes Mars, Saturn; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Venus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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