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, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Taurus, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Tiger, with 
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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.
Penélope’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
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
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
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, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
You may build trust slowly, letting closeness earn its way in.
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Taurus Sun
Taurus SunComfort first, then everything else.
Penélope Cruz's Sun was in Taurus at the documented birth time. Traditional Taurus readings associate the sign with steadiness, sensory pleasure and things that last. Astrologers describe it as the fixed earth sign, ruled by Venus, and read it for loyalty, routine and a slow, deliberate pace. The corresponding tension is resistance to change, described in the tradition as stubbornness that presents itself as principle.
Wood Tiger
Wood TigerLeads by moving.
Penélope Cruz was born on April 28, 1974, which falls in a Wood Tiger year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Tiger readings emphasise courage, presence and the willingness to go first. The Chinese almanacs describe the Tiger as the sign others follow, bright and impulsive, at its best when the stakes are high. The corresponding caution in the tradition is burnout: a sign that burns brightly and, without pacing, burns out, with little left in reserve for the long middle of things.
Life Path 8
Life Path 8Ambition with a spreadsheet.
Penélope Cruz's birth date, April 28, 1974, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 8 readings associate the number with ambition, authority and material results: turning sustained effort into visible achievement. Numerologists describe it as the path of the executive. The corresponding tension is control, with the caution that a number this good at managing outcomes can begin managing people the same way.
What stands out in Penélope’s chart
- Five of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Penélope Cruz's timed chart: Moon in the 4th house, Mars in the 4th house, Saturn in the 4th house, Uranus in the 7th house and Pluto in the 7th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Penélope Cruz's timed chart is Mars square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Three planets, Moon, Mars and Saturn, sit together in Cancer, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Penélope Cruz combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Scholar.
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.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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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
Penélope’s growth grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MoonsquareUranusapplying · 2.4° orb
Penélope’s feelings grind against their need for freedom.
SunsextileMarsseparating · 2.8° orb
Penélope’s core identity opens doors for their drive.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 3.3° orb
Penélope’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
SaturnsquarePlutoapplying · 3.8° orb
Penélope’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
MarsconjunctionSaturnseparating · 3.9° orb
Penélope’s drive and discipline act as one.
NeptunesextilePlutoapplying · 4.4° orb
Penélope’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercurysextileMarsapplying · 4.5° orb
Penélope’s mind opens doors for their drive. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercuryoppositionUranusseparating · 4.9° orb
Penélope’s mind pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
SaturntrineUranusseparating · 5.6° orb
Penélope’s discipline flows straight into their need for freedom.
MarstrineJupiterapplying · 6.1° orb
Penélope’s drive flows straight into their growth. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
SunconjunctionMercuryapplying · 7.4° orb
Penélope’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
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
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s.
⚷ ChironAries 21°24′ · House 1
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Penélope may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresPisces 2°47′ · House 12
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Pisces is read as nurture without a boundary: Penélope is read as someone who feels what others need before they say it, and can give past the point of sense.
♡ ErosPisces 17°03′ · House 12
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Pisces is read as desire as dissolving: the wish to merge, and the trouble that follows. Penélope is read as easily moved and hard to pin.
⚕ HygieaAries 12°05′ · House 1
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Aries is read as health kept through action and short bursts. The reading has Penélope feeling well when moving and poorly when made to wait.
⚸ Black Moon LilithCapricorn 28°28′ · House 10
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn is read as ambition that does not ask to be liked. Penélope is read as someone who takes the authority rather than waiting for it.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- 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°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Penélope’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
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. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Ascendant, Aries; angular in the fourth house; 5 major aspects
3. ♀ Venus8 pts
rules the Sun sign, Taurus; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus, Pluto; 1 major aspect
A Moon-led chart is read as feeling first: Penélope is read as steered by mood, memory and what feels safe.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Penélope’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
Stellium 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 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated.
- 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
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aries | Mars in Cancer, house 4 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Taurus | Venus in Pisces, house 12 | Sun, Mercury | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Gemini | Mercury in Taurus, house 2 | empty | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Cancer | Moon in Cancer, house 4 | Moon, Mars, Saturn | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Leo | Sun in Taurus, house 2 | empty | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Virgo | Mercury in Taurus, house 2 | empty | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Libra | Venus in Pisces, house 12 | Uranus, Pluto | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Scorpio | Pluto in Libra, house 7 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Pisces, house 12 | Neptune | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Capricorn | Saturn in Cancer, house 4 | empty | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Aquarius | Uranus in Libra, house 7 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Pisces | Neptune in Sagittarius, house 9 | Venus, Jupiter | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Penélope’s cards
Every card is computed from April 28, 1974, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
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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 data comes from
Penélope’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q39666, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
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. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
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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. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Tiger.
- 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 from the April 28, 1974 birth date.
- What is Penélope Cruz's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 21°, in the first house. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 28, 1974 birth time.
- 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.
