Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her portraits and self-portraits. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938, and in 1939 the Louvre bought her painting The Frame, the first work by a Mexican artist in its collection. The Two Fridas dates from 1939 and The Broken Column from 1944. In 1953 she had her first solo exhibition in Mexico. La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacán, opened as a museum in 1958. She died on July 13, 1954.
A biography, then a registry entry
The Astro-Databank note says LMR quotes Hayden Herrera's biography "Frida," "where she pictures her B.C." Later Sy Scholfield provided the birth registry entry from the Distrito Federal archives, and the entry was upgraded to AA. Both give 8:30 a.m.
"Local mean time" here is the time of Coyoacán itself, set by the Sun's position over the village. Mexico had no standard time zones then, so the clock behind the chart runs 6 hours 36 minutes 40 seconds behind Greenwich.
| Birth time | Where it came from | Rising sign | Moon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | birth registry entry (Sy Scholfield, Distrito Federal archives); rated AA | ♌︎ Leo 23°31′ | Taurus |
| 8:30 a.m. (1910) | the same clock time on July 6, 1910, the year she gave later | ♌︎ Leo 23°46′ | Cancer |
| Point | Sign at birth | In that sign | Before and after |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rising sign | ♌︎ Leo | 6:46 a.m. to 8:58 a.m. | Cancer before, Virgo after |
| Midheaven | ♉︎ Taurus | 6:59 a.m. to 8:57 a.m. | Aries before, Gemini after |
| Moon | ♉︎ Taurus | midnight to 9:04 a.m. | Gemini after |
Rising sign, midheaven and Moon calculated by us, Coyoacán, local mean time (UTC-6:36:40). The second row is the same clock time on July 6, 1910, a year she gave later in life.
Cancer, Taurus and Leo, read as a set
A Cancer Sun at 13°23′ is tied in the tradition to memory, home and protectiveness. The Taurus Moon at 29°43′ points to a need for steadiness and physical comfort, and the Leo ascendant at 23°31′ Leo to a warm, visible first impression.
Taurus and Leo are both fixed signs, which tradition links with persistence. Cancer is cardinal and starts things.
Our pages: Cancer · Moon in Taurus · Leo rising · Sun, Moon and rising together.
Sun and Mars face each other at 0°01′
Cancer and Capricorn lie six signs apart, so the Sun at 13°23′ and Mars at 13°24′ make an opposition, 0°01′ from exact. Mars is retrograde. An opposition pulls two drives from opposite ends of one line, here the Sun for identity and Mars for will and action.
Cancer looks after what it loves and Capricorn builds what lasts, so the pair stands for protection set against ambition, each side asking the other to hold its ground.
Our pages: Mars in Capricorn · Capricorn · Cancer.
Neptune beside the Sun, Uranus beside Mars
Neptune at 12°24′ of Cancer joins the Sun, 0°59′ apart, and opposes Mars, 1°00′ off. Uranus, retrograde at 10°37′ of Capricorn, joins Mars, 2°47′ apart, and opposes the Sun, 2°46′ off. Uranus and Neptune oppose each other, 1°47′ from exact.
Neptune blurs outlines and Uranus breaks patterns, so a Sun and Mars wrapped in both suggest a line of tension with an imaginative edge. The Cancer end falls in the 11th house of friends and audiences under Placidus, the Capricorn end in the 5th, where creative work lives. Counting whole signs moves them to the 12th and the 6th.
Our pages: Uranus in Capricorn · Jupiter in Cancer · 5th house · 11th house.
The last degree of Taurus, and a Moon that leaves at 9:05 a.m.
The Moon is at 29°43′ of Taurus. It entered the sign at 10:20 p.m. on July 3 and leaves for Gemini at 9:05 a.m., 35 minutes after the recorded time. It stands in the 10th house, the public-standing house, under both systems.
Taurus is the sign of the senses, so its Moon wants things solid and tangible. The sextile to Saturn, 2°16′ off, steadies it. Kahlo later gave 1910 as her birth year. The same clock time on July 6, 1910 puts the Moon in Cancer, while the registry year, 1907, keeps it in Taurus.
Our pages: Moon in Taurus · Saturn in Pisces · moon sign calculator · 10th house.
Leo on the horizon until 8:58 a.m., Taurus overhead
Leo came over the Coyoacán horizon at 6:46 a.m. and holds it until 8:58 a.m., and the birth falls 104 minutes in, with Virgo due at 8:59 a.m. Mercury at 6°20′ of Leo lies behind the ascendant, in the 12th house or the 1st, depending on the system.
The midheaven is 23°20′ Taurus, kept by Taurus from 6:59 a.m. to 8:57 a.m. Venus at 24°20′ and Pluto at 23°45′, both in Gemini, stand 0°36′ apart, in the 10th house or the 11th. Tradition gives Venus with Pluto a pull toward depth in whatever one values.
Our pages: Leo rising · Mercury in Leo · Venus in Gemini · Midheaven in Taurus · rising sign calculator.
All major aspects between the planets in Frida Kahlo's chart
- Sun opposition Mars orb 0°01′
- Venus conjunction Pluto orb 0°36′
- Sun conjunction Neptune orb 0°59′
- Mars opposition Neptune orb 1°00′
- Uranus opposition Neptune orb 1°47′
- Moon sextile Saturn orb 2°16′
- Sun opposition Uranus orb 2°46′
- Mars conjunction Uranus orb 2°47′
- Venus square Saturn orb 3°06′
- Saturn square Pluto orb 3°42′
- Moon sextile Mercury orb 6°37′
- Jupiter trine Saturn orb 7°01′
- Mars opposition Jupiter orb 7°02′
- Sun conjunction Jupiter orb 7°04′
Orbs: 8° for conjunction, opposition, square and trine, 6° for sextile, 2° more when the Sun or Moon is involved; Node, Lilith, Ascendant and Midheaven not counted. Same rules as our birth chart calculator.
Questions about Frida Kahlo's chart
Which sign was rising when Frida Kahlo was born?
Leo, at 23°31′ Leo. It rose at 6:46 a.m. and gave way at 8:58 a.m.
Which sign holds her Moon?
Taurus, at 29°43′, until it moves into Gemini at 9:05 a.m.
What is Frida Kahlo's Sun sign?
Cancer. The Sun stood at 13°23′ of the sign on July 6, 1907.
What time was Frida Kahlo born?
8:30 a.m. local mean time in Coyoacán, Mexico, according to the birth registry entry.
Which aspect comes closest to exact?
The Sun and Mars opposition, at 0°01′.
Which sign is on her midheaven?
Taurus, at 23°20′ Taurus, until 8:57 a.m.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Astro-Databank (Astrodienst): published birth charts we test the calculation against
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
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Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science. This page explains what the tradition says about the placements in a published chart; it makes no claims about Frida Kahlo's character, health or private life. Birth data: Astro-Databank (Astrodienst), checked October 20, 2026. Positions: our calculation with the astronomy-engine ephemeris; it matches the Sun, Moon and ascendant degrees Astro-Databank publishes for this chart to within one arc minute.