William Shakespeare's Birth Chart
William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 at 11:00 in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. The chart has the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Libra, with Leo rising.
| Born | April 23, 1564 |
| Time | 11:00 |
| Place | Stratford-upon-Avon, UK |
William Shakespeare'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.
Moon in Libra: Peace at a Price
Your mood tracks the mood of whoever is in the room, and harmony is a physical need, not a taste. Conflict sits in your stomach, and you will smooth, defer and rephrase to keep the air clear. Comfort is company, beauty and being half of a pair. You read what others need and lose track of your own wants in the process, and resentment surfaces late. Alone, you often do not know what you feel until someone else is there to feel it with.
Leo rising: The Room Was Waiting
You arrive as if the room had been waiting. Strangers meet a straight back, a warm face, a voice that carries without trying, and they tend to look at you whether or not you are saying anything. People expect generosity from you and usually get it, along with a need to be seen giving it. Being overlooked lands in the body as a real injury, and a flat greeting can sour a whole evening. You are loyal in public and wounded in private, and the difference rarely shows.
Planet positions in William Shakespeare's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 12°49′ |
| Moon | Libra | 9°11′ |
| Mercury | Aries | 16°47′ |
| Venus | Gemini | 13°40′ |
| Mars | Cancer | 7°40′ |
| Jupiter | Leo | 0°31′ |
| Saturn | Cancer | 27°41′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 6°53′ |
| Neptune | Gemini | 6°39′ |
| Pluto | Pisces | 15°25′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 29°44′ |
| Ascendant | Leo | 14°45′ |
| Midheaven | Aries | 26°49′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 3, Earth 1, Air 3, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 2, Mutable 4.
The tightest aspects in William Shakespeare's chart
- Moon square Mars, orb 1°32′
- Venus square Pluto, orb 1°45′
- Moon sextile Uranus, orb 2°19′
- Moon trine Neptune, orb 2°32′
- Sun sextile Pluto, orb 2°36′
- Jupiter conjunct Saturn, orb 2°50′
- Mercury sextile Venus, orb 3°06′
- Moon trine Venus, orb 4°29′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Moon square Mars: Comfort Versus Heat
Anger arrives with the emotional weather attached, so a bad mood turns into a fight and a fight leaves you needing your own room afterward. One side wants safety, familiarity, the known house; the other wants to start something, and neither backs off. The pressure builds real fight in you, plus a body that registers stress fast, in the stomach, the sleep, the temper.
Venus square Pluto: Beauty Under Pressure
Money, attraction and comfort in this chart never stay light. One side wants harmony and fair exchange; the other keeps pulling toward control, intensity, and what's hidden in the transaction. It shows up in relationships that go deep fast, in an all-or-nothing relationship with spending, and in an aesthetic sense that finds the ordinary pretty thing boring. The friction produces real staying power in anything you actually value.
Moon sextile Uranus: Comfort Likes Experiments
You can feel safe around things that haven't been done before, but that link switches on when you use it. Your gut and your appetite for the odd, the new, the unproven sit next to each other and trade: a hunch tells you something is off, and the fixer in you starts rewiring the setup. In people who work it, home life gets redesigned instead of endured.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for William Shakespeare'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.