Billy Joel’s birth chart
Born 9 May 1949, in New York City, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Taurus Sun · Libra Moon
Billy Joel’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
9 May 1949 was a Monday: the day Billy Joel was born in New York City, New York. That makes Billy a Taurus, with the Moon in Libra. Billy turns 77 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Billy, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Air carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against earth three, fire two and water none. Fixed signs hold six, cardinal signs two and mutable signs two. Taurus holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Venus and Mars. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Saturn and Uranus, about 1.1° 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: Neptune. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 13 other people born on 9 May, among them Glenda Jackson, Albert Finney and Candice Bergen.
See the sky the day Billy was born: the stars over New York City, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Billy Joel’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Taurus
about 18° Taurus at midday
A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to Billy Joel than novelty, and people tend to trust someone who does not change their mind for show. The growth edge is letting go before something stops working.
Moon sign
Libra
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Billy, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
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 New York City, New York, at each hour of the day.
Billy Joel’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Billy 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 9 May 1949, computed for New York City, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:10 | Capricorn rising |
| 01:10 to 02:40 | Aquarius rising |
| 02:40 to 03:50 | Pisces rising |
| 03:50 to 05:00 | Aries rising |
| 05:00 to 06:25 | Taurus rising |
| 06:25 to 08:20 | Gemini rising |
| 08:20 to 10:45 | Cancer rising |
| 10:45 to 13:15 | Leo rising |
| 13:15 to 15:45 | Virgo rising |
| 15:45 to 18:20 | Libra rising |
| 18:20 to 20:50 | Scorpio rising |
| 20:50 to 23:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 23:15 to 24:00 | Capricorn 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 9 May 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 | 18° Taurus 40' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Libra |
| Mercury | 10° Gemini 01' |
| Venus | 24° Taurus 38' |
| Mars | 7° Taurus 08' |
| Jupiter | 1° Aquarius 58' |
| Saturn | 29° Leo 22' |
| Uranus | 28° Gemini 16' |
| Neptune | 12° Libra 54'℞ |
| Pluto | 14° Leo 11' |
| North Node | 25° Aries 33' |
| South Node | 25° Libra 33' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Billy Joel’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Billy Joel’s private life.
A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and Billy Joel's vitality probably runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The drawback is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. People with this Sun can stay in one job or one home long after part of them knows it is time to move.
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Billy's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
Billy's Mercury in Gemini describes a mind that moves fast across many subjects at once and communicates easily in almost any setting. The tension is skimming the surface of a topic and moving on before going deep enough to be sure of it. The result is knowing a little about a great many things.
Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in Billy's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Billy may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
Jupiter in Aquarius
1° Aquarius 58' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Billy 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.
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Billy's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Uranus in Gemini
28° Gemini 16' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Billy and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Neptune in Libra
12° Libra 54' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Billy 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
14° Leo 11' 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 Billy, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Billy Joel’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.
Saturn sextile Uranus
about 1.1° at midday
Discipline and independence combine in this sextile to give Billy Joel a workable way of keeping a routine while leaving room to change it. The flexibility is quiet and sustainable, and it keeps a good habit from calcifying into an unquestioned rule.
Mercury trine Neptune
about 2.9° at midday
Billy probably has a natural gift for metaphor, storytelling and intuitive leaps, the work of thinking and imagination in easy partnership. With Mercury trine Neptune, communicating something hard to put into words comes easily, in a way that other people often find memorable.
Mercury sextile Pluto
about 4.2° at midday
Billy's thinking can reach their depth when it needs to, which gives them insight without unnecessary intensity. With this aspect they are likely to notice what others miss, which makes them a useful person to have in a hard conversation.
Sun square Pluto
about 4.5° at midday
With this aspect, Billy's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Billy chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Venus square Saturn
about 4.7° at midday
Venus square Saturn can pair the desire for closeness with a fear of not being quite enough to keep it. For Billy that may mean self-doubt in relationships that have given no reason for it, and the fear can ease each time they let themselves be loved without first having to deserve it.
Mars square Jupiter
about 5.2° at midday
Drive can outrun capacity under Mars square Jupiter, and Billy may overextend on a project or on a promise made in a burst of confidence. The enthusiasm is sound. It needs matching to a pace that can be sustained.
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 1.3°
- Sun conjunction Venusabout 6.0°
Taurus Sun and Libra Moon, like Billy Joel
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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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