Celebrity StarMap · Songwriter

Brendan Behan’s birth chart
Born February 9, 1923 in Dublin, birth time not public.
Aquarius Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Air · Fixed
Sun
♒Aquarius
19° Aquarius 43'
You see differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence define you. Your growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon
♐Sagittarius
4° Sagittarius 01'
You feel best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter lift you, and being fenced in by other people's moods weighs you down. You need room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.
Rising
Brendan Behan’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♒ 19° Aquarius 43' | |
| ☽ | Moon | ♐ 4° Sagittarius 01' | |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♑ 29° Capricorn 13'℞ | |
| ♀ | Venus | ♑ 2° Capricorn 59' | |
| ♂ | Mars | ♈ 13° Aries 51' | |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♏ 18° Scorpio 01' | |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♎ 20° Libra 00'℞ | |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♓ 12° Pisces 12' | |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♌ 16° Leo 43'℞ | |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♋ 9° Cancer 25'℞ | |
| ☊ | North Node | ♍ 21° Virgo 00' | |
| ☋ | South Node | ♓ 21° Pisces 00' |
Brendan Behan's full reading
Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Aquarius
♒ 19° Aquarius 43'
purpose and vitality
Their purpose is tied to being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, and their vitality rises around causes and communities. The tension is detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It shows up as being the reliable one at meetings and the hardest person to reach one on one.
☽Moon in Sagittarius
♐ 4° Sagittarius 01'
needs and habits
They need room to move and a bit of novelty in their routine to feel emotionally well. A schedule with no give in it makes they edgy faster than most people expect. It shows up as planning the next trip before the current one has even finished.
☿Mercury in Capricorn
♑ 29° Capricorn 13' ℞
mind and voice
They think methodically and communicate in a measured, practical way that people tend to trust. The tension is being so focused on the useful conclusion that they dismis ideas that have not yet proven their worth. It shows up as getting straight to the point in a conversation that other people expected to be casual.
♀Venus in Capricorn
♑ 2° Capricorn 59'
love and values
They love in a measured, committed way and value stability, ambition and someone they can build a life with. The tension is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. It shows up as showing love through providing and planning more easily than through saying it out loud.
♂Mars in Aries
♈ 13° Aries 51'
drive and anger
They act immediately and decisively, and their anger flares fast, hot and honest before it clears. The tension is acting before they have thought a situation all the way through. It shows up as starting the argument or the project the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.
♃Jupiter in Scorpio
♏ 18° Scorpio 01'
growth and excess
They grow through facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, which tends to pay off later even when it costs something now. The overreach is an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. It shows up as a resilience people notice only after they have already come through the hard part.
♄Saturn in Libra
♎ 20° Libra 00' ℞
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around relationships, often after early experiences that made fairness and commitment feel harder to trust than they should have been. The doubt shows up as overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. It shows up as becoming, with time, someone people rely on to negotiate and hold agreements fairly.
♅Uranus in Pisces
♓ 12° Pisces 12'
freedom, generational
Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who transform spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries earlier generations kept firm. Personally, it can show up as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
♆Neptune in Leo
♌ 16° Leo 43' ℞
imagination, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. Personally, it can show up as a pull toward performance as a way of feeling real.
♇Pluto in Cancer
♋ 9° Cancer 25' ℞
power, generational
Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. Personally, it can show up as intensity around questions of belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects
How the planets in Brendan Behan's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Sun trine Saturn
0.3° applying
Their sense of self and their capacity for discipline reinforce each other, so effort and identity feel like the same project. They build things that last because their ambition and their patience are already in agreement.
Jupiter square Neptune
1.3° separating
Their optimism can drift into wishful thinking, leading to plans built more on hope than on a clear read of the situation. The lesson is pairing genuine faith with an honest look at the details.
Sun square Jupiter
1.7° separating
Their ambitions can outpace what their current resources or timeline can realistically support, leading to overpromising they later have to walk back. The lesson is scaling a genuinely good instinct to a size that actually holds.
Uranus trine Pluto
2.8° separating
Shared by this generation, the placement marks innovation and deep transformation moving together with relative ease. Personally, it can show up as an unusual comfort with technological and structural change alike.
- Mars trine Neptune2.9°
- Sun opposition Neptune3.0°
- Saturn sextile Neptune3.3°
- Mars square Pluto4.4°
- Moon sextile Mercury4.8°
- Jupiter trine Uranus5.8°
- Sun sextile Mars5.9°
- Mars opposition Saturn6.1°
- Venus opposition Pluto6.4°
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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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