Birth chart

David Bowie

Musicians1947 – 2016Born 8 January 1947 · Brixton, London, Englandtime unknown

How sure are we about this chart?S5

Time unknown — no reliable birth time, so houses and the Ascendant are left out and the Moon is shown as a range.

Every figure gets a data-confidence rating for its birth time. Where the time is unknown, we compute a partial chart rather than guess. How we build this base

Sun

Capricorn

Moon

Cancer → Leo

The Moon changed signs that day — without a birth time we show the range, not a guess.

Rising

Unknown

The Ascendant needs an exact birth time, which we don't have for this chart.

Chart wheel

Sun conjunct Mars · orb 0°33′Sun sextile Jupiter · orb 4°16′Sun square Neptune · orb 6°34′Mercury square Neptune · orb 2°25′Mercury sextile Chiron · orb 1°31′Venus trine Saturn · orb 4°36′Saturn sextile Neptune · orb 3°57′Saturn conjunct Pluto · orb 5°53′Saturn trine South Node · orb 4°26′Saturn square Chiron · orb 0°01′Neptune sextile Pluto · orb 1°56′Neptune trine North Node · orb 0°29′Neptune sextile South Node · orb 0°29′Pluto sextile North Node · orb 1°27′Pluto trine South Node · orb 1°27′Sun — Capricorn 17°22′ · +1.02°/day17°22′Mercury — Capricorn 8°23′ · +1.56°/day8°23′Venus — Sagittarius 2°15′ · +0.82°/day2°15′Mars — Capricorn 16°49′ · +0.77°/day16°49′Jupiter — Scorpio 21°38′ · +0.17°/day21°38′Saturn — Leo 6°51′ ℞ · −0.07°/day6°51′Uranus — Gemini 18°40′ ℞ · −0.04°/day18°40′Neptune — Libra 10°48′ · +0.00°/day10°48′Pluto — Leo 12°44′ ℞ · −0.02°/day12°44′North Node — Gemini 11°17′ ℞ · −0.09°/day11°17′South Node — Sagittarius 11°17′ ℞ · −0.09°/day11°17′Chiron — Scorpio 6°51′ · +0.08°/day6°51′Lilith — Sagittarius 27°30′ · +0.11°/day27°30′
AspectsAngles (ASC/MC)· Hover a planet or aspect for details

Positions from a Swiss-ephemeris engine · houses & angles omitted (time unknown)

Reading the placements

These notes describe the chart, not the person — a lens for reflection.

Sun in Capricorn

In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Capricorn it grows through purpose, patience, and building something real over time. There's a pull toward responsibility and mastery — a willingness to climb slowly and carry weight others put down. People often experience this as capable and steady, and sometimes as too hard on themselves, measuring worth by output. The theme worth exploring is where the mountain came from — whose summit you're climbing, and whether reaching it still feels like yours. Rest can be pictured without first earning it, once the climb stops standing in for proof and the drive reads as a resource to aim rather than a debt that keeps coming due.

The astronomy

The raw computed positions behind this chart — the same numbers any ephemeris would give.

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunCapricorn 17°22′
MercuryCapricorn 8°23′
VenusSagittarius 2°15′
MarsCapricorn 16°49′
JupiterScorpio 21°38′
SaturnLeo 6°51′
UranusGemini 18°40′
NeptuneLibra 10°48′
PlutoLeo 12°44′
North NodeGemini 11°17′
South NodeSagittarius 11°17′
ChironScorpio 6°51′
LilithSagittarius 27°30′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°01′
  • 0°33′
  • 0°29′
  • 0°29′
  • 1°27′
  • 6°34′
  • 4°16′
  • 2°25′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Earth47%
Fire30%
Air13%
Water10%

Leading: Earth

Modalities

Cardinal53%
Fixed27%
Mutable20%

Leading: Cardinal

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