David Bowie's Birth Chart
David Bowie was born on January 8, 1947 at 09:00 in London, UK. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Leo, with Aquarius rising.
| Born | January 8, 1947 |
| Time | 09:00 |
| Place | London, UK |
David Bowie's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Leo: Warmth Needs Witness
You feel things at full volume and want them seen. Being noticed is how care lands for you, a compliment, a remembered birthday, someone's whole attention across a table. You give warmth generously and expect it back in kind, and a lukewarm response reads as a small rejection. Pride keeps you from asking for comfort, so you perform fine while waiting to be asked. When the audience is absent the mood can go flat and sulky, which surprises people who only know the glow.
Aquarius rising: Friendly From a Distance
You arrive as the person slightly apart from the group, friendly to everyone and belonging to no one in particular. Strangers meet a level gaze, an even voice, and an interest that treats them as one more specimen of a fascinating species. Your body keeps its own temperature in a room that is heating up, which makes you the one people turn to when things go wrong and the one they find hard to read when things go right. Being different is how you look, not something you decided.
Planet positions in David Bowie's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 17°15′ |
| Moon | Leo | 3°50′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 8°11′ |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 2°09′ |
| Mars | Capricorn | 16°44′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 21°37′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Leo | 6°52′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Gemini | 18°41′ |
| Neptune | Libra | 10°48′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 12°45′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Gemini | 11°18′ |
| Chiron | Scorpio | 6°51′ |
| Ascendant | Aquarius | 3°19′ |
| Midheaven | Sagittarius | 3°56′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 4, Earth 3, Air 2, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
A fire emphasis
A fire emphasis makes you energetic, expressive, and action-oriented: you lead with enthusiasm, inspiration, and a need to act and create.
The tightest aspects in David Bowie's chart
- Saturn square Chiron, orb 0°01′
- Neptune trine North Node, orb 0°30′
- Sun conjunct Mars, orb 0°31′
- Mercury sextile Chiron, orb 1°20′
- Pluto sextile North Node, orb 1°27′
- Moon trine Venus, orb 1°41′
- Mercury square Neptune, orb 2°37′
- Moon square Chiron, orb 3°01′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn square Chiron: Rules Against Wound
Discipline keeps colliding with a sore spot that discipline cannot fix. One side wants the timeline, the standard, the rule that finally proves competence; the other keeps flinching at the exact place where competence was never taught. What comes out of that grinding is a person who builds real structures around other people's pain, often before their own is settled.
Neptune trine North Node: Unnoticed Guidance
Sensitivity flows straight into your growth direction without any effort, which is exactly the risk. You absorb, you feel, you follow the current, and it carries you forward whether the current is healthy or not. Wishful thinking gets the same easy passage as real inspiration here, so this asks for calibration rather than trust.
Sun conjunct Mars: Fused Into Heat
You run hot as a baseline setting, not a mood. Vitality and action sit in the same spot here, so wanting something and moving on it happen almost simultaneously, with no gap for second thoughts. Play turns competitive, hobbies turn physical, and pride and impulse fire off the same trigger, which makes you fast and occasionally scorched.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for David Bowie's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.