Rory McIlroy's Birth Chart
Rory McIlroy was born on May 4, 1989 in Holywood, UK. The chart has the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Aries or Taurus. No birth time is on record for Rory McIlroy, 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 | May 4, 1989 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Holywood, UK |
Rory McIlroy's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Taurus: What Stays Built
Your identity is built from what lasts. You become yourself slowly, through the things you keep and the ground you refuse to give up, and people experience you as settled. You are at ease in a body and in the physical world, and your warmth comes out as food, comfort and reliable presence rather than speeches. Change that is forced on you meets a quiet, total resistance, and a life that moves too fast leaves you feeling like a guest in it. What you build stays built.
No birth time is on record for Rory McIlroy, 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 Rory McIlroy's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 13°28′ to 14°26′ |
| Moon | Aries or Taurus | 21°54′ to 6°57′ |
| Mercury | Gemini | 3°44′ to 4°26′ |
| Venus | Taurus | 21°00′ to 22°14′ |
| Mars | Cancer | 2°57′ to 3°34′ |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 10°12′ to 10°25′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Capricorn | 13°50′ to 13°49′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Capricorn | 5°05′ to 5°04′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Capricorn | 12°17′ to 12°16′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Scorpio | 13°49′ to 13°47′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Pisces | 2°13′ to 2°04′ |
| Chiron | Cancer | 3°34′ to 3°38′ |
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 0, Earth 5, Air 2, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 2.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
The tightest aspects in Rory McIlroy's chart
- Saturn sextile Pluto, orb 0°02′
- Mars conjunct Chiron, orb 0°37′
- Sun trine Saturn, orb 0°38′
- Sun opposite Pluto, orb 0°39′
- Mars trine North Node, orb 1°29′
- Uranus opposite Chiron, orb 1°31′
- Saturn conjunct Neptune, orb 1°33′
- Mars opposite Uranus, orb 2°08′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn sextile Pluto: Research Into Legacy
Digging and building are separate skills that happen to be friends in you. The investigative side finds what's hidden, the structural side turns it into something with a shape and a deadline. Neither one starts automatically, so this stays quiet until you deliberately point one at the other, and then the results compound over years.
Mars conjunct Chiron: Fighting From The Wound
Your drive fires straight out of the sore spot. Every push, every fast reaction, every fight you pick carries the ache of something that never fully set, so your courage and your injury are the same muscle. It makes you unusually good at pushing other people forward through pain you already know by heart.
Sun trine Saturn: Natural Gravity
Authority sits on you so easily you probably never noticed acquiring it. Play, romance, and creative expression all flow through a filter of consequence and timing, so people read you as older and steadier than you are. The flow runs regardless of whether the structure is a good one, which means an inherited rulebook gets amplified just as smoothly as a chosen one.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Rory McIlroy'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.