Bill Nighy’s birth chart
Born 12 December 1949, in Caterham, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Virgo Moon
Bill Nighy’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Bill Nighy was born in Caterham, England, on 12 December 1949, a Monday. That makes Bill a Sagittarius, with the Moon in Virgo. Bill turns 77 in 2026. No verified birth time is on file for Bill; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the ten planets, four are in earth signs, three in air, two in fire and one in water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, three and four. Moon, Mars and Saturn all fall in Virgo. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Saturn: a square, about 1.0° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waning gibbous to last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 12 December, among them Frank Sinatra, Chinghiz Aitmatov and Jennifer Connelly. Marc Ravalomanana was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Bill was born: the stars over Caterham, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Bill Nighy’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 20° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Bill Nighy forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
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, Bill 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 Caterham, England, at each hour of the day.
Bill Nighy’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Bill 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 12 December 1949, computed for Caterham, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:40 | Virgo rising |
| 00:40 to 03:30 | Libra rising |
| 03:30 to 06:20 | Scorpio rising |
| 06:20 to 08:50 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:50 to 10:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:35 to 11:45 | Aquarius rising |
| 11:45 to 12:35 | Pisces rising |
| 12:35 to 13:30 | Aries rising |
| 13:30 to 14:40 | Taurus rising |
| 14:40 to 16:25 | Gemini rising |
| 16:25 to 18:55 | Cancer rising |
| 18:55 to 21:45 | Leo rising |
| 21:45 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 12 December 1949, 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 | 20° Sagittarius 08' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo |
| Mercury | 1° Capricorn 27' |
| Venus | 5° Aquarius 13' |
| Mars | 24° Virgo 07' |
| Jupiter | 2° Aquarius 17' |
| Saturn | 19° Virgo 09' |
| Uranus | 3° Cancer 30'℞ |
| Neptune | 16° Libra 57' |
| Pluto | 18° Leo 04'℞ |
| North Node | 14° Aries 09' |
| South Node | 14° Libra 09' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Bill Nighy’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Bill Nighy’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Bill Nighy's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Bill's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Bill's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Bill tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Bill will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Bill may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
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, Bill is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Aquarius
2° Aquarius 17' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Bill may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Bill may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Cancer
3° Cancer 30' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Bill alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Neptune in Libra
16° Libra 57' at midday
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.
Pluto in Leo
18° Leo 04' at midday ℞
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.
Aspects in Bill Nighy’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 square Saturn
about 1.0° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Bill Nighy pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Sun trine Pluto
about 2.1° at midday
Bill's sense of self and capacity for change support each other, so they are likely to meet hard periods with resilience and come out of them still themselves. A Sun-Pluto trine is deep strength, and it does not need to be loud.
Mercury opposition Uranus
about 2.1° at midday
With Mercury opposite Uranus, Bill's unconventional ideas meet other people's fixed positions, which can turn a good insight into an unnecessary standoff. Presenting the idea as an option rather than a challenge tends to land better.
Venus conjunction Jupiter
about 2.9° at midday
Venus conjunct Jupiter tends to make Bill's capacity for love and pleasure generous and expansive, and it usually comes with a warm enjoyment of life. The result is naturally good company; the thing to watch is the point where generosity has quietly become excess.
Sun sextile Neptune
about 3.2° at midday
Creativity and empathy are there when Bill makes room for them, because identity and imagination work gently together in this aspect. The sensitivity is soft, and people notice it without it having to be announced.
Sun square Mars
about 4.0° at midday
Impatience, or a habit of picking fights that did not need picking, can come from the clash between Bill's sense of self and their drive to act. With the Sun square Mars, a pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into determination they can use.
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 Plutoabout 1.1°
- Mars conjunction Saturnabout 5.0°
Sagittarius Sun and Virgo Moon, like Bill Nighy
Also born on 12 December
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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