Musician · Capricorn Sun

David Bowie birth chart

January 8, 1947
Brixton, United Kingdom
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunCapricorn

☽︎MoonCancerorLeo

Main elementEarth 65%

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Only in this chart

By sign alone David Bowie has look-alikes, so degrees do the splitting: Saturn at 6° Leo and Jupiter at 21° Scorpio, and no other chart here sits within a degree or so on both. Patti Smith misses by one planet.

Venus in Sagittarius with Saturn in Leo. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 212 here, Giacomo Puccini and Lara Raj among them.
Sun and Saturn swap signs. Sun in Capricorn and Saturn in Leo each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Patti Smith's chart, 1 chart in 120 here.
Three planets retrograde: Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Patti Smith and Donna Summer have the same set, 1 chart in 115 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Capricorn Sun reads as ambitious and long-term, with the Moon in Cancer or Leo depending on birth hour. By the book, Mars in Capricorn + Venus in Sagittarius + Jupiter in Scorpio reads as someone who climbs without drama, needs room to roam and grows through hard truths. Elements run earth 65%, fire 23%, air 6%, water 6%, cardinal first at 68%, the nearest mix to Alexander Hamilton.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun conjunct Mars (1.0°), Sun sextile Jupiter (4.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♑︎ Capricorn 17°plays the long gamenearest chart: Lamar Jackson 17°
☽︎Moon · emotions♋︎ / ♌︎Cancer or Leodepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♑︎ Capricorn 8°plans in five-year chunksnearest chart: Denzel Washington 8°
♀︎Venus · taste♐︎ Sagittarius 2°needs room to roamnearest chart: Margaret Thatcher 2°
♂︎Mars · drive♑︎ Capricorn 16°climbs without dramanearest chart: Buzz Aldrin 16°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♏︎ Scorpio 21°grows through hard truthsnearest chart: Julie Andrews 22°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♌︎ Leo 6° ^℞learns to shine without applausenearest chart: Gukesh D 6°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♊︎Uranus in Gemini5% of charts here

♆︎ ♎︎Neptune in Libra6% of charts here

♇︎ ♌︎Pluto in Leo8% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Sun conjunct Mars (0.5°). The ego and drive act as one, as tight as Jay Chou’s.
Mercury square Neptune (2.4°). The mind keeps colliding with the dreamer side, as tight as Doris Lessing’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Rubeus Hagrid
Marvel: Black Panther
Star Wars: Mace Windu
KPop Demon Hunters: Gwi-Ma
Haikyuu!!: Wakatoshi Ushijima
Frieren: Eisen
Fairy Tail: Gray Fullbuster

Famous people whose charts click with David Bowie

Anne Hathaway leads at 96%, Jennifer Lawrence closes the list at 91%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Patti Smith, born 9 days earlier: Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Mercury splits, Capricorn here against Sagittarius.
Stan Lee, 25 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury and Jupiter signs, average gap 27°.
Donna Summer is the nearest in music (1948): same Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars, split on Jupiter and Saturn.

Born on January 8

January 8 also belongs to Damiano David (1999, music), Noah Cyrus (2000, music) and Elvis Presley (1935, history). Brixton is also the birthplace of AJ Tracey. January 8, 1947 was a Wednesday, and the Moon was waning gibbous.

Among musicians

Of this chart's placements, Saturn in Leo is the rarest among musicians (6%), closest to Megan Skiendiel and Patti Smith. Capricorn ranks 6th of 12 Suns here, with Patti Smith and Donna Summer nearest on the same Sun.