Celebrity StarMap · Comedian

Bill Maher’s birth chart
Born January 20, 1956 in New York City, birth time not public.
Capricorn Sun · Aries Moon · Earth · Cardinal
Sun
♑Capricorn
29° Capricorn 37'
You endure. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour carry you up long slopes other people give up on. A Capricorn Sun learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon
♈Aries
26° Aries 32'
You feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and you need physical outlets for feeling. You are soothed by action, not by talking it over.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
Bill Maher’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♑ 29° Capricorn 37' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♈ 26° Aries 32' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♒ 13° Aquarius 02'℞ | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♓ 3° Pisces 48' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♐ 4° Sagittarius 19' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♌ 29° Leo 44'℞ | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♐ 0° Sagittarius 39' | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♌ 0° Leo 19'℞ | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♏ 0° Scorpio 22' | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♌ 28° Leo 01'℞ | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♐ 16° Sagittarius 22' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♊ 16° Gemini 22' |
Bill Maher's full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Capricorn
♑ 29° Capricorn 37'
purpose and vitality
They find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast they, and their vitality is steady rather than showy. The tension is measuring their worth by output alone. It shows up as working through the tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
☽Moon in Aries
♈ 26° Aries 32'
needs and habits
Their day to day needs are simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. Comfort comes from action rather than discussion. It shows up as pacing the room or going for a walk instead of sitting with a feeling until it passes on its own.
☿Mercury in Aquarius
♒ 13° Aquarius 02' ℞
mind and voice
Their thinking is original and a step removed from convention, and they communicate best through ideas rather than small talk. The tension is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has actually moved on. It shows up as being the person in the group who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
♀Venus in Pisces
♓ 3° Pisces 48'
love and values
They love without much guard, and they value emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The tension is idealising a partner before they have really seen them. It shows up as giving generously to relationships and struggling to notice when Bill is giving more than Bill is getting.
♂Mars in Sagittarius
♐ 4° Sagittarius 19'
drive and anger
They act boldly and want room to move while Bill is doing it, and their anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on their freedom. The tension is speaking bluntly in the heat of the moment and smoothing it over later. It shows up as walking away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
♃Jupiter in Leo
♌ 29° Leo 44' ℞
growth and excess
They grow through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. The overreach is overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. It shows up as a natural showmanship that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
♄Saturn in Sagittarius
♐ 0° Sagittarius 39'
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around belief and meaning, often after an early experience that made a big worldview feel naive or unsafe to hold. The doubt shows up as hedging their convictions in front of people who might challenge them. It shows up as becoming, over time, a credible voice on the very questions they once felt unsure they had any right to answer.
♅Uranus in Leo
♌ 0° Leo 19' ℞
freedom, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who redefine self-expression and individuality, often through new forms of creativity and visibility unavailable to earlier generations. Personally, it can show up as comfort being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
♆Neptune in Scorpio
♏ 0° Scorpio 22'
imagination, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people whose collective imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, often through a wider cultural fascination with secrets and endings. Personally, it can show up as being pulled toward mystery for its own sake.
♇Pluto in Leo
♌ 28° Leo 01' ℞
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. Personally, it can show up as a charged relationship with authority and who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects
How the planets in Bill Maher's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Uranus square Neptune
0.1° separating
Shared across this generation, this placement marks friction between the drive for change and collective ideals. Personally, it can show up as impatience with ideas that sound good but are not yet real.
Saturn trine Uranus
0.3° separating
Their discipline and their independence support each other, letting they build lasting structures that still leave room for genuine change. Consistency and originality coexist for they with real ease, more comfortably than the usual trade-off between the two would suggest.
Venus square Mars
0.5° applying
Their desires and their need for harmony can clash, showing up as tension between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. The lesson is voicing a want directly instead of letting it leak out sideways.
Jupiter sextile Neptune
0.6° separating
Their sense of possibility and their imagination cooperate gently, giving they acces to inspired ideas without losing their footing. This is soft, workable optimism, useful for keeping a project hopeful without letting it drift too far from what is real.
- Sun opposition Uranus0.7°
- Sun square Neptune0.8°
- Jupiter square Saturn0.9°
- Sun sextile Saturn1.0°
- Moon trine Pluto1.5°
- Jupiter conjunction Pluto1.7°
- Neptune sextile Pluto2.4°
- Saturn square Pluto2.6°
- Sun square Moon3.1°
- Venus square Saturn3.1°
- Moon trine Jupiter3.2°
- Venus trine Neptune3.4°
- Mars conjunction Saturn3.7°
- Moon square Uranus3.8°
- Moon opposition Neptune3.8°
- Mars trine Uranus4.0°
- Venus opposition Jupiter4.1°
- Mars square Jupiter4.6°
- Sun sextile Mars4.7°
- Venus opposition Pluto5.8°
- Mars square Pluto6.3°
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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