Eric Clapton's Birth Chart
Eric Clapton was born on March 30, 1945 in Ripley, UK. The chart has the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Libra or Scorpio. No birth time is on record for Eric Clapton, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
| Born | March 30, 1945 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Ripley, UK |
Eric Clapton's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Aries: First Through the Door
You come alive at the start of things. Your sense of who you are is built from the moments you acted first, said the thing nobody else would say, or walked into a room already decided. Energy arrives in bursts and others feel it as heat. You are at your best when something needs a push and nobody is giving it, and restless when a plan asks you to wait. Follow-through is where the light thins out, and people learn to catch you early rather than late.
No birth time is on record for Eric Clapton, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
Planet positions in Eric Clapton's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 8°53′ to 9°52′ |
| Moon | Libra or Scorpio | 22°10′ to 4°02′ |
| Mercury | Aries | 26°41′ to 27°11′ |
| Venus (retrograde) | Taurus | 3°10′ to 2°58′ |
| Mars | Pisces | 3°44′ to 4°31′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Virgo | 20°30′ to 20°23′ |
| Saturn | Cancer | 4°22′ to 4°25′ |
| Uranus | Gemini | 9°52′ to 9°54′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Libra | 4°58′ to 4°56′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 8°01′ to 8°00′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Cancer | 14°11′ to 13°58′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Virgo | 29°32′ to 29°28′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting nine planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 3, Earth 2, Air 2, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 2, Mutable 3.
A cardinal emphasis
A cardinal emphasis makes you an initiator: you start things, push for change, and prefer to lead rather than wait.
The tightest aspects in Eric Clapton's chart
- Saturn square Neptune, orb 0°36′
- Mars trine Saturn, orb 0°38′
- Sun sextile Uranus, orb 0°59′
- Venus sextile Saturn, orb 1°27′
- Venus sextile Mars, orb 1°33′
- Sun trine Pluto, orb 1°52′
- Sun opposite Neptune, orb 4°56′
- Saturn square Chiron, orb 4°57′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn square Neptune: Structure Versus Fog
You build something solid, then a part of you quietly wants to dissolve it. Deadlines, rules and reputation press against a side of you that runs on dreams, drift and faith, and neither one backs down. What comes out of that grind is unusual: real discipline applied to intangible things, or endless plans for a life that keeps changing shape.
Mars trine Saturn: Endurance Runs Itself
Stamina is the word people use about you, and you rarely notice it. Effort flows into structure without resistance, so you sustain training, careers, projects long past the point most quit. Because the flow amplifies whatever it carries, a bad regimen or a joyless obligation lasts just as long as a good one.
Sun sextile Uranus: Play With Circuits
Nothing here happens automatically. Your creative side and your inventive side are friendly, not fused, so you have to actually enter the room, join the group, ship the weird idea. When you do, your play acquires a technical or futuristic edge and your friends become the audience that makes your work possible.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Eric Clapton's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.