Stephen Hawking's Birth Chart
Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942 at 08:18 in Oxford, UK. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Virgo, with Capricorn rising.
| Born | January 8, 1942 |
| Time | 08:18 |
| Place | Oxford, UK |
Stephen Hawking'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 Virgo: Care in Small Things
Order settles you, and the first sign that something is wrong arrives as a fretful need to fix, sort or check. You feel cared for when someone notices the small things, the tea made the way you like it, the errand done without being asked, and that is also how you care for others. Your body keeps a close account of itself, so a mood often shows up as a symptom before it shows up as a feeling. Being useful is your way of being close.
Capricorn rising: Older Than Your Years
You arrive older than you are. Strangers meet a composed face, a dry manner, a body held carefully, and they assume competence before you have shown any. People give you responsibility early and keep giving it, because you look like someone who carries things to the end. Warmth is there but arrives late, and many people decide you are cold before they reach it. Youth sits awkwardly on you, and age suits you better.
Planet positions in Stephen Hawking's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 17°23′ |
| Moon | Virgo | 23°05′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 27°48′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 20°45′ |
| Mars | Aries | 28°14′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Gemini | 12°42′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Taurus | 21°51′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 26°39′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Virgo | 29°52′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 5°01′ |
| North Node | Virgo | 14°58′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Leo | 13°08′ |
| Ascendant | Capricorn | 1°56′ |
| Midheaven | Scorpio | 7°50′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 6, Air 2, Water 0. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 4, Mutable 3. No planet falls in a Water sign.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
A fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Stephen Hawking's chart
- Jupiter sextile Chiron, orb 0°26′
- Mercury square Mars, orb 0°27′
- Venus square Saturn, orb 1°06′
- Mercury trine Uranus, orb 1°09′
- Moon trine Saturn, orb 1°14′
- Mercury trine Neptune, orb 2°04′
- Jupiter square North Node, orb 2°16′
- Sun trine North Node, orb 2°25′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Jupiter sextile Chiron: Wisdom On Request
Nothing here happens by itself. The hurt sits quietly in one place and the wide view sits in another, and they only cooperate when you actually put them in the same room. When you do, hard experience turns into something teachable, funny even, and other people take it in without feeling lectured at.
Mercury square Mars: Sharp Tongue Pressure
You think faster than most people can respond, and that speed comes out with an edge. Mercury under this square pushes words into the space where action should be, so arguments start before you meant to start one, and decisions get made at a run. The friction sharpens your reflexes and your aim, at the cost of things you said too quickly.
Venus square Saturn: Worth Under Pressure
There's a hard bargaining that happens between what you enjoy and what you think you're allowed. One side pushes for pleasure, ease, affection, a beautiful thing, and the other side answers with rules, delay, or a bill. It shows up as tight spending followed by an expensive splurge, or affection that arrives late and formal. The friction is what builds real taste and real financial spine.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Stephen Hawking'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.