Bruce Lee’s birth chart
Born 27 November 1940, at San Francisco Chinese Hospital, California, at 07:12 (Rodden AA).
Sagittarius Sun · Scorpio Moon · Sagittarius rising
Bruce Lee’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
27 November 1940 was a Wednesday: the day Bruce Lee was born at San Francisco Chinese Hospital, California. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Scorpio and Sagittarius rising. Bruce died on 20 July 1973, aged 32. The birth time, 07:12, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, four are in earth signs, four in water and two in fire; none is in air. Fixed signs hold eight, mutable signs two and cardinal signs none. Four planets stand together in Scorpio: Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars. Three planets stand together in Taurus: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. They are slow planets, so the grouping is shared with people born around the same time. The tightest aspect is Mars square Pluto, 0.3° from exact. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 27 November, among them Jimi Hendrix, Yulia Tymoshenko and Kathryn Bigelow.
See the sky the night Bruce was born: the stars over San Francisco Chinese Hospital, California at 07:12, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Bruce Lee’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
5° Sagittarius 14'
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Bruce Lee 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
Scorpio
11° Scorpio 23'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Bruce that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Sagittarius
6° Sagittarius 12'
With Sagittarius rising, Bruce probably comes across as open, frank and optimistic. Around a Sagittarius rising, people feel that anything might happen, and this is often the one who says the thing everyone was thinking.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 07:12 on 27 November 1940, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 5° Sagittarius 14' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 11° Scorpio 23' | House 11 |
| Mercury | 15° Scorpio 16' | House 11 |
| Venus | 1° Scorpio 21' | House 11 |
| Mars | 4° Scorpio 33' | House 11 |
| Jupiter | 7° Taurus 32'℞ | House 5 |
| Saturn | 9° Taurus 29'℞ | House 5 |
| Uranus | 23° Taurus 40'℞ | House 6 |
| Neptune | 27° Virgo 24' | House 10 |
| Pluto | 4° Leo 13'℞ | House 8 |
| North Node | 9° Libra 39' | House 10 |
| South Node | 9° Aries 39' | House 4 |
Bruce Lee’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Bruce Lee’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Bruce Lee'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.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Bruce's identity may be quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is probably where they recharge the parts of themselves that rarely get seen. The Sun here treats rest as the fuel the rest of life runs on, not as wasted time.
For Bruce, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
With the Moon in the eleventh house, Bruce feels most at ease among friends who see the world the same way and share a sense of what matters in it. Not belonging anywhere can quietly unsettle a person with this placement, while a steady circle feels like part of their foundation.
With Mercury in Scorpio, Bruce tends to think in layers, looking for what is not being said as much as what is spoken aloud. Once they have decided to speak they can be very direct, and until then, silent. The tension is suspecting a hidden motive where there is only an ordinary one.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Bruce thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Bruce's best thinking happens.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Bruce 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.
Friendship matters enormously with Venus in the eleventh house, a placement that tends to gather a warm, easygoing circle around Bruce without any effort to draw it. With Venus here, the instinct is to keep the peace in a group, often smoothing over tension before anyone else has noticed it.
In Bruce's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Mars in the eleventh house puts energy into friendships and causes, and Bruce is often the one who gets a whole group moving. Friction in a group probably does not scare them off, and they would rather push through a disagreement than step around it.
Jupiter in Taurus
7° Taurus 32' ℞ · fifth house
growth and excess
In Bruce's chart, Jupiter in Taurus grows through patience, and what it builds tends to come together slowly and steadily rather than in one leap. Taken too far, that can become excess: holding on to more comfort or more stuff than serves them. They are probably generous with food, gifts and shared pleasures, and now and then generosity tips into indulgence.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Bruce's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Bruce is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Taurus gathers its discipline around security and the things a person relies on, and Bruce is likely to take very little for granted. The doubt is a fear that stability could disappear, even when it clearly has not. This placement likes to know what things cost before committing, and tends to stay careful even in steady times.
Saturn in the fifth house can make self-expression and romance feel risky or quietly judged, so that for Bruce 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.
Uranus in Taurus
23° Taurus 40' ℞ · sixth house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Taurus is a generational placement that Bruce shares with many people born within a few years. That generation rethinks ownership, land and what security means, often through technology that unsettles older arrangements. Personally, that may be a reluctance to prize things simply because an older generation did.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Bruce is often the inventive one at work, finding shortcuts or better systems that other people miss. A rigid, unchanging routine is apt to wear on Bruce faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Virgo
27° Virgo 24' · tenth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Bruce shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
Neptune in the tenth house can make Bruce's public image harder to pin down than most, shifting as other people project hopes onto it. Creative or compassionate work is apt to suit this placement better than a rigid, conventional structure.
Pluto in Leo
4° Leo 13' ℞ · eighth 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 Bruce, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
The eighth house is Pluto's natural home, and for Bruce questions of trust, power and what is truly shared between people can matter enormously. Pluto here wants to understand what most people are too afraid to look at directly, even about themselves.
Aspects in Bruce Lee’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars square Pluto
0.3° separating
With Mars square Pluto, Bruce Lee's drive can turn into a fight for control, whether the opponent is within them or is someone who resists them. When they redirect that intensity into the work itself, the friction becomes lasting strength.
Sun trine Pluto
1.0° separating
Bruce'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.
Moon opposition Saturn
1.9° separating
Under the Moon opposite Saturn, the wish for emotional closeness comes with a wariness that can keep Bruce guarded, even with people who have shown they can be trusted. Letting the guard down gradually, rather than all at once, tends to work better than either extreme.
Jupiter conjunction Saturn
1.9° separating
Growth and discipline are unusually well matched when Jupiter is conjunct Saturn, so Bruce's optimism tends to come with a realistic plan attached. It is an effective combination for building things that last, with vision balanced by the patience to see it through.
Venus square Pluto
2.9° applying
Where Venus squares Pluto, the desire for closeness can get tangled with control, and the aspect is associated with jealousy, possessiveness or testing a partner's loyalty. Whenever Bruce chooses trust over control, that intensity becomes a strength instead of a strain.
Mars opposition Jupiter
3.0° applying
Mars opposite Jupiter pits Bruce's own direct action against other people's grander plans or expectations, which can end in overcommitting to someone else's vision. Bruce's own sense of scale is usually a better guide than anyone else's.
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.
- Venus conjunction Mars3.2°
- Jupiter square Pluto3.3°
- Uranus trine Neptune3.7°
- Moon opposition Jupiter3.9°
- Moon conjunction Mercury3.9°
- Mars opposition Saturn4.9°
- Saturn square Pluto5.3°
- Mercury opposition Saturn5.8°
- Venus opposition Jupiter6.2°
- Moon conjunction Mars6.8°
- Moon square Pluto7.2°
- Mercury opposition Jupiter7.7°
Sagittarius Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Bruce Lee
Also born on 27 November
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 (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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