Alan Shepard’s birth chart
Born 18 November 1923, in Derry, New Hampshire. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Scorpio Sun · Moon in Pisces or Aries
Alan Shepard’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Alan Shepard was born on Sunday, 18 November 1923, in Derry, New Hampshire. Their zodiac sign was Scorpio. The Moon was in Pisces until about 06:25 and in Aries afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Alan died on 21 July 1998, aged 74. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, five are in water signs, two in fire and two in air; none is in earth. Fixed signs hold four, cardinal signs three and mutable signs two. Sun, Mercury and Jupiter all fall in Scorpio. The tightest aspect is Mars sextile Neptune, about 0.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 11 other people born on 18 November, among them Owen Wilson, Peter Schmeichel and Kirk Hammett.
See the sky the day Alan was born: the stars over Derry, New Hampshire, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Alan Shepard’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
about 25° Scorpio at midday
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Alan Shepard, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 06:25, then Aries (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 06:25: Moon in Pisces
With the Moon in Pisces, Alan may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Born after about 06:25: Moon in Aries
With the Moon in Aries, Alan is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Derry, New Hampshire, at each hour of the day.
Alan Shepard’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Alan yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 18 November 1923, computed for Derry, New Hampshire.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:00 | Virgo rising |
| 02:00 to 04:35 | Libra rising |
| 04:35 to 07:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 07:10 to 09:35 | Sagittarius rising |
| 09:35 to 11:30 | Capricorn rising |
| 11:30 to 12:50 | Aquarius rising |
| 12:50 to 14:00 | Pisces rising |
| 14:00 to 15:05 | Aries rising |
| 15:05 to 16:30 | Taurus rising |
| 16:30 to 18:25 | Gemini rising |
| 18:25 to 20:45 | Cancer rising |
| 20:45 to 23:20 | Leo rising |
| 23:20 to 24:00 | Virgo rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 18 November 1923, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 25° Scorpio 20' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces until about 06:25, then Aries |
| Mercury | 26° Scorpio 53' |
| Venus | 13° Sagittarius 05' |
| Mars | 20° Libra 08' |
| Jupiter | 28° Scorpio 39' |
| Saturn | 26° Libra 52' |
| Uranus | 13° Pisces 38'℞ |
| Neptune | 20° Leo 23' |
| Pluto | 12° Cancer 08'℞ |
| North Node | 8° Virgo 26' |
| South Node | 8° Pisces 26' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Alan Shepard’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Alan Shepard’s private life.
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Alan Shepard's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
Moon in Pisces or Aries
Pisces until about 06:25, then Aries
needs and habits
Born before about 06:25: Moon in Pisces
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Alan more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Born after about 06:25: Moon in Aries
The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Alan, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
With Mercury in Scorpio, Alan tends to think in layers, looking for what is not being said as much as what is spoken aloud. Once they have decided to speak they can be very direct, and until then, silent. The tension is suspecting a hidden motive where there is only an ordinary one.
Venus in Sagittarius loves with enthusiasm and a need for shared adventure, and Alan probably values a partner who gives them room to roam. When things get serious, this placement can confuse freedom with distance. The pattern with this Venus is to plan the next trip together before settling into the current one.
In Alan's chart, Mars in Libra acts diplomatically and prefers negotiation to confrontation, and its anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. Avoided consistently, conflict leaves resentment building underneath the calm surface. The pattern is saying yes to something that rankled, then feeling it later.
Jupiter in Scorpio
28° Scorpio 39' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Alan, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Alan, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
13° Pisces 38' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Alan has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
20° Leo 23' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Alan alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
12° Cancer 08' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Alan to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Alan Shepard’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Mars sextile Neptune
about 0.2° at midday
In Alan Shepard's chart, drive and imagination help each other along gently, so inspired action is possible before everything has been mapped out. The motivation is soft but workable, and it keeps a creative or compassionate project moving without forcing it.
Venus square Uranus
about 0.6° at midday
In Alan's chart the desire for closeness and the need for freedom can work against each other, and this square is known for sudden shifts in an otherwise good relationship. The remedy is to build enough independence into the relationship that none has to be created by pulling away.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 1.5° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Alan's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter
about 1.8° at midday
Alan's thinking is likely to be expansive and enthusiastic, connecting ideas across subjects other people keep separate. It makes for lively conversation, and the habit worth adding is checking the details behind a big idea before committing to it fully.
Sun conjunction Jupiter
about 3.3° at midday
Alan's identity carries a natural optimism and a generous sense of scale, so they tend to think bigger than the room requires. Confidence comes easily with the Sun conjunct Jupiter, and the discipline worth building is matching that optimism with follow-through.
Sun square Neptune
about 4.9° at midday
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Alan's sense of who they are under the pull of an ideal, a cause or someone else's story, until it is unclear where they end and the dream begins. The task is staying inspired without losing their own outline.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus trine Plutoabout 1.5°
- Mars conjunction Saturnabout 6.7°
Scorpio Suns born within 2 years of Alan Shepard
Also born on 18 November
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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