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Bill Gates’s birth chart

Born 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington, at 22:00 (Rodden A).

Scorpio Sun · Aries Moon · Cancer rising

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Bill Gates’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

Bill Gates was born on Friday, 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington. That makes Bill a Scorpio, with the Moon in Aries and Cancer rising. Bill turns 71 in 2026. The birth time, 22:00, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.

By element the count is four fire, three air, three water and no earth. By modality the count is six fixed, four cardinal and no mutable. Three planets stand together in Scorpio: Sun, Venus and Saturn. Three planets stand together in Libra: Mercury, Mars and Neptune. Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto all fall in Leo. They are slow planets, so the grouping is shared with people born around the same time. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Neptune and Pluto, 0.1° from exact. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.

StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 28 October, among them Julia Roberts, Joaquin Phoenix and Garrincha. Wikidata links Bill with one person in the dataset: Melinda French Gates (married in 1994, marriage ended in 2021).

See the sky the night Bill was born: the stars over Seattle, Washington at 22:00, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

Bill Gates’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Scorpio

5° Scorpio 02'

A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Bill Gates, 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.

All Scorpio Suns

Moon sign

Aries

8° Aries 14'

With the Moon in Aries, Bill 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.

Everyone with the Moon in Aries

Rising sign

Cancer

26° Cancer 58'

With Cancer rising, Bill tends to come across as approachable and a little guarded. People often confide in a Cancer rising early and find that they are noticed in return; the shell opens on its own schedule.

Everyone who is Cancer rising

The chart wheel

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Touch a planet to see its aspects; houses are numbered inside the ring.

Drawn for 22:00 on 28 October 1955, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel

Placements

Bill Gates’s planets by sign and house
Sun5° Scorpio 02'House 4
Moon8° Aries 14'House 10
Mercury16° Libra 36'House 4
Venus20° Scorpio 13'House 5
Mars10° Libra 07'House 4
Jupiter27° Leo 47'House 2
Saturn21° Scorpio 35'House 5
Uranus2° Leo 17'House 1
Neptune28° Libra 14'House 4
Pluto28° Leo 20'House 2
North Node18° Sagittarius 07'House 5
South Node18° Gemini 07'House 11

Bill Gates’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Bill Gates’s private life.

  1. Sun in Scorpio

    5° Scorpio 02' · fourth house

    purpose and vitality

    The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Bill Gates'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.

    The Sun in the fourth house places home and family at the centre of a person's sense of self, and for Bill it points to roots that may matter more than any job title or public reputation. People with this placement tend to think best within four walls they have made their own.

  2. Moon in Aries

    8° Aries 14' · tenth house

    needs and habits

    The Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Bill, 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 the Moon in the tenth house, Bill's emotional security may be tangled up with how work is going and whether it is respected. A setback at work can land harder on someone with this placement than it appears to from the outside.

  3. Mercury in Libra

    16° Libra 36' · fourth house

    mind and voice

    Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Bill tends to communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. Settling on an opinion can take so long that the moment for it passes. They may change their mind in the middle of a conversation because the other point had merit.

    Mercury in the fourth house turns the mind towards home, family and origins, and for Bill conversations with family may carry more weight than usual. Mercury here is associated with a way of thinking shaped early, in ways a person goes on discovering as an adult.

  4. Venus in Scorpio

    20° Scorpio 13' · fifth house

    love and values

    Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Bill 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.

    Venus in the fifth house can bring romance, creativity and pure enjoyment alive for Bill, and is associated with falling for people and projects with visible enthusiasm. Playfulness may well be one of Bill's most attractive qualities, drawing people in without much effort.

  5. Mars in Libra

    10° Libra 07' · fourth house

    drive and anger

    In Bill'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.

    Mars in the fourth house puts a lot of energy into home and family, and in Bill's chart it points to a protective instinct towards the people close to them. The placement is also linked with an urge to build, repair and rearrange, so that home is rarely a place that stands still.

  6. Jupiter in Leo

    27° Leo 47' · second house

    growth and excess

    Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Bill the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.

    Open-handedness is the mark of Jupiter in the second house, and Bill would probably rather share a good thing than guard it. Their values widen as more of the world is seen, and rarely stay fixed for long.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio

    21° Scorpio 35' · fifth house

    discipline and doubt

    Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Bill 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.

    Saturn in the fifth house can make self-expression and romance feel risky or quietly judged, so that for Bill playfulness is something to be practised rather than something that comes easily. Creative confidence is likely to be something grown into over time, arriving later than it does for most people.

  8. Uranus in Leo

    2° Leo 17' · first house

    freedom, generational

    Bill shares Uranus in Leo with a generation, one that redefines self-expression and individuality, often through forms of creativity and visibility that were not available before. Closer to home, it suggests being comfortable with being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.

    With Uranus in the first house, Bill is likely to come across as unconventional and hard to define, even by their own account, with labels fitting loosely at best. The placement goes with a presence that shifts the energy of a room by being unpredictable in a way people cannot quite place.

  9. Neptune in Libra

    28° Libra 14' · fourth house

    imagination, generational

    A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Bill among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.

    Bill is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.

  10. Pluto in Leo

    28° Leo 20' · second house

    power, generational

    Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Bill, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.

    Pluto in the second house means Bill holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.

Aspects in Bill Gates’s chart

How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.

  1. Jupiter sextile Neptune

    0.5° applying

    Inspired ideas are within Bill Gates's reach without any loss of footing, since possibility and imagination are gently linked by this sextile. The optimism is soft and workable, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift far from what is real.

  2. Jupiter conjunction Pluto

    0.6° applying

    Jupiter conjunct Pluto describes growth that is intense and transformative, and Bill is likely to pursue opportunities that change their circumstances outright instead of merely improving them. Ambition comes with it, and the skill is pacing that intensity so that it builds and does not flare and fade.

  3. Venus conjunction Saturn

    1.4° applying

    Venus conjunct Saturn describes a serious, committed way of loving, and Bill is likely to treat a relationship as something to build, not simply to enjoy. Loyalty comes with it. So does the harder task of trusting that affection can be deserved before it has been worked for.

  4. Moon opposition Mars

    1.9° applying

    For Bill, the need for emotional safety pulls one way and an urge to assert themselves pulls the other, and the strain can come out as friction with people close to them. Stating a need directly, before frustration builds, keeps this from turning into recurring conflict.

  5. Sun square Uranus

    2.8° separating

    When the Sun is square Uranus, Bill's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.

  6. Moon trine Uranus

    6.0° separating

    Bill's feelings and independence are at ease with each other, so staying emotionally open need not feel like a trap. With this aspect, closeness and freedom coexist, where many people feel they have to pick one.

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.

  • Neptune sextile Pluto0.1°
  • Uranus square Neptune4.0°
  • Jupiter square Saturn6.2°
  • Mercury conjunction Mars6.5°
  • Saturn square Pluto6.8°
  • Sun conjunction Neptune6.8°
  • Moon opposition Mercury8.4°

Bill Gates in couples

Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.

Scorpio Sun and Aries Moon, like Bill Gates

Also born on 28 October

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; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its 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, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).

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