Birth chart

Stephen Hawking

Writers1942 – 2018Born 8 January 1942 · Oxfordtime 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

Virgo → Libra

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 trine Saturn · orb 4°18′Sun trine North Node · orb 2°34′Sun sextile South Node · orb 2°34′Mercury square Mars · orb 0°16′Mercury trine Uranus · orb 1°24′Mercury trine Neptune · orb 1°49′Venus square Saturn · orb 1°04′Jupiter square North Node · orb 2°17′Jupiter square South Node · orb 2°17′Jupiter sextile Chiron · orb 0°27′Saturn conjunct Uranus · orb 4°48′Uranus trine Neptune · orb 3°13′Neptune trine Lilith · orb 4°14′Pluto sextile Lilith · orb 0°55′Sun — Capricorn 17°32′ · +1.02°/day17°32′Mercury — Capricorn 28°02′ · +1.65°/day28°02′Venus — Aquarius 20°46′ · +0.18°/day20°46′Mars — Aries 28°18′ · +0.48°/day28°18′Jupiter — Gemini 12°41′ ℞ · −0.09°/day12°41′Saturn — Taurus 21°50′ ℞ · −0.03°/day21°50′Uranus — Taurus 26°38′ ℞ · −0.02°/day26°38′Neptune — Virgo 29°51′ ℞ · −0.00°/day29°51′Pluto — Leo 5°00′ ℞ · −0.02°/day5°00′North Node — Virgo 14°58′ · +0.01°/day14°58′South Node — Pisces 14°58′ · +0.01°/day14°58′Chiron — Leo 13°07′ ℞ · −0.06°/day13°07′Lilith — Gemini 4°06′ · +0.11°/day4°06′
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°32′
MercuryCapricorn 28°02′
VenusAquarius 20°46′
MarsAries 28°18′
JupiterGemini 12°41′
SaturnTaurus 21°50′
UranusTaurus 26°38′
NeptuneVirgo 29°51′
PlutoLeo 5°00′
North NodeVirgo 14°58′
South NodePisces 14°58′
ChironLeo 13°07′
LilithGemini 4°06′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°16′
  • 1°04′
  • 2°34′
  • 0°27′
  • 4°18′
  • 2°34′
  • 1°24′
  • 1°49′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Earth57%
Air23%
Fire20%
Water0%

Leading: Earth

Modalities

Cardinal47%
Fixed37%
Mutable17%

Leading: Cardinal

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