B. B. King’s birth chart
Born 16 September 1925, in Itta Bena, Mississippi. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Virgo Moon
B. B. King’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
B. B. King was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on 16 September 1925, a Wednesday. The Sun was in Virgo, so Virgo was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Virgo. They died on 14 May 2015, aged 89. No verified birth time is on file for them; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
By element the count is five earth, four water, one fire and no air. Mutable signs hold five, fixed signs three and cardinal signs two. Four planets stand together in Virgo: Sun, Moon, Mercury and Mars. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Uranus: an opposition, about 0.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. One planet was retrograde: Uranus. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 16 September, among them Lauren Bacall, David Copperfield and Nick Jonas.
See the sky the day B. B. King was born: the stars over Itta Bena, Mississippi, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
B. B. King’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 23° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. B. B. King is likely to notice what could be better and quietly make it so, keeping the highest standards for themselves. The art of this placement is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon sign
Virgo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, B. B. King is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
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 Itta Bena, Mississippi, at each hour of the day.
B. B. King’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for B. B. King 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 16 September 1925, computed for Itta Bena, Mississippi.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:15 | Gemini rising |
| 00:15 to 02:35 | Cancer rising |
| 02:35 to 05:00 | Leo rising |
| 05:00 to 07:20 | Virgo rising |
| 07:20 to 09:45 | Libra rising |
| 09:45 to 12:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 12:10 to 14:30 | Sagittarius rising |
| 14:30 to 16:25 | Capricorn rising |
| 16:25 to 18:00 | Aquarius rising |
| 18:00 to 19:20 | Pisces rising |
| 19:20 to 20:40 | Aries rising |
| 20:40 to 22:15 | Taurus rising |
| 22:15 to 24:00 | Gemini 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 16 September 1925, 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 | 23° Virgo 17' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo |
| Mercury | 7° Virgo 05' |
| Venus | 0° Scorpio 44' |
| Mars | 22° Virgo 12' |
| Jupiter | 12° Capricorn 46' |
| Saturn | 11° Scorpio 00' |
| Uranus | 23° Pisces 29'℞ |
| Neptune | 23° Leo 27' |
| Pluto | 14° Cancer 34' |
| North Node | 3° Leo 44' |
| South Node | 3° Aquarius 44' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
B. B. King’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about B. B. King’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and B. B. King's energy tends to stay steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. Rest is the hard part, because it can feel undeserved until everything is fixed. Typically a piece of work is still being adjusted long after everyone else would call it finished.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle B. B. King's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when B. B. King's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
For B. B. King, Mercury in Virgo points to thinking that is precise and attentive to detail, and to clear communication, because the facts have usually been checked first. The catch is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. This is the placement that edits a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and B. B. King is likely to value depth and total honesty over ease. Testing loyalty can create the very distance this placement fears most. There is an all-or-nothing quality to how this Venus commits, with little interest in anything in between.
Mars in Virgo acts carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and its anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. When upset, B. B. King is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Capricorn
12° Capricorn 46' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and B. B. King would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for B. B. King letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Pisces
23° Pisces 29' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
B. B. King 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
23° Leo 27' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of B. B. King 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
14° Cancer 34' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates B. B. King 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 B. B. King’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.
Sun opposition Uranus
about 0.2° at midday
With the Sun opposite Uranus, B. B. King's loyalty to their own path tends to bring them into collision with people or situations that expect conformity. Learning to be themselves without needing the collision gives them a quieter, more durable kind of independence.
Sun conjunction Mars
about 1.1° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mars, B. B. King's will and identity are fused, which makes for strong, immediate drive and a low tolerance for sitting still. They probably act on impulse more often than most, and aiming that energy at a goal of their own serves them better than using it up on the first thing in front of them.
Mars opposition Uranus
about 1.3° at midday
When B. B. King acts on their own terms, it can bring them up against people or systems that expect the usual process to be followed; this opposition lives in that clash. Rebellion chosen deliberately, moment by moment, tends to serve them better than a reaction to every restriction.
Jupiter sextile Saturn
about 1.8° at midday
A workable, grounded kind of optimism comes from this sextile, in which B. B. King's sense of possibility and sense of structure assist each other. The plans they make tend to hold together, even under the sort of pressure that scatters looser ones.
Jupiter opposition Pluto
about 1.8° at midday
In this opposition, the urge to expand outward meets a need to control the process so tightly that it limits the very growth being sought. When B. B. King loosens their grip on the outcome, the opportunity itself tends to get through.
Saturn trine Pluto
about 3.6° at midday
Discipline and the capacity for transformation work together under Saturn trine Pluto, so B. B. King can rebuild after a setback with a strength that outlasts the difficulty. Such endurance is quiet and formidable, and other people tend to notice it only in hindsight, once the hard period has passed.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Mercury sextile Saturnabout 3.9°
- Mercury trine Jupiterabout 5.7°
Virgo Sun and Virgo Moon, like B. B. King
Also born on 16 September
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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