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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen’s birth chart

Born 23 September 1949, in Long Branch, New Jersey, at 22:50 (Rodden AA).

Libra Sun · Libra Moon · Gemini rising

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Bruce Springsteen’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

23 September 1949 was a Friday: the day Bruce Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. That makes Bruce a Libra, with the Moon in Libra and Gemini rising. Bruce turns 77 in 2026. The birth time, 22:50, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.

Air carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against fire two, earth two and water two. By modality the count is six cardinal, three fixed and one mutable. Libra holds a stellium, four planets in one sign: Sun, Moon, Mercury and Neptune. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Venus and Mars: a square, 0.5° from exact. Mercury was retrograde. The Moon was a waxing crescent.

StarMap's dataset holds 17 other people born on 23 September, among them Ray Charles, Julio Iglesias and Paolo Rossi.

See the sky the night Bruce was born: the stars over Long Branch, New Jersey at 22:50, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

Bruce Springsteen’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Libra

0° Libra 43'

A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Bruce Springsteen's decisions, and this is a placement that can see both sides of almost anything. The growth lies in choosing a side when it counts.

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Moon sign

Libra

23° Libra 25'

A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Bruce, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.

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Rising sign

Gemini

23° Gemini 07'

On first meeting, Bruce probably seems curious, quick and easy to talk to. People with Gemini rising tend to look younger than their years and to be hard to pin down, and a conversation with them usually goes somewhere.

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The chart wheel

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Touch a planet to see its aspects; houses are numbered inside the ring.

Drawn for 22:50 on 23 September 1949, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel

Placements

Bruce Springsteen’s planets by sign and house
Sun0° Libra 43'House 4
Moon23° Libra 25'House 5
Mercury18° Libra 37'℞House 5
Venus11° Scorpio 03'House 5
Mars10° Leo 31'House 3
Jupiter22° Capricorn 22'House 8
Saturn12° Virgo 16'House 4
Uranus4° Cancer 53'House 1
Neptune14° Libra 22'House 5
Pluto17° Leo 28'House 3
North Node16° Aries 40'House 11
South Node16° Libra 40'House 5

Bruce Springsteen’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Bruce Springsteen’s private life.

  1. Sun in Libra

    0° Libra 43' · fourth house

    purpose and vitality

    With the Sun in Libra, Bruce Springsteen's vitality is likely to rise in good company, and purpose to feel real when they are creating balance or beauty with other people. The risk is losing their own direction while managing everyone else's. Deciding alone is probably harder for them than deciding with a second opinion in the room.

    The Sun in the fourth house places home and family at the centre of a person's sense of self, and for Bruce it points to roots that may matter more than any job title or public reputation. People with this placement tend to think best within four walls they have made their own.

  2. Moon in Libra

    23° Libra 25' · fifth house

    needs and habits

    A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Bruce'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.

    The Moon in the fifth house can let Bruce's feelings out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and without an outlet somewhere those feelings may quietly build up. Play is probably part of how Bruce keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.

  3. Mercury in Libra

    18° Libra 37' ℞ · fifth house

    mind and voice

    Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Bruce tends to communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. Settling on an opinion can take so long that the moment for it passes. They may change their mind in the middle of a conversation because the other point had merit.

    Creative projects, playful banter and whatever happens to be interesting at the moment are apt to light up Bruce's mind. Mercury in the fifth house flirts with ideas the way other people flirt with each other, testing an idea, turning it over and seeing whether it talks back.

  4. Venus in Scorpio

    11° Scorpio 03' · fifth house

    love and values

    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.

    Venus in the fifth house can bring romance, creativity and pure enjoyment alive for Bruce, and is associated with falling for people and projects with visible enthusiasm. Playfulness may well be one of Bruce's most attractive qualities, drawing people in without much effort.

  5. Mars in Leo

    10° Leo 31' · third house

    drive and anger

    Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Bruce its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.

    Mars in the third house makes words come out fast, with a sharp edge under frustration, and Bruce probably enjoys a good, direct debate more than most. Directness is how they communicate by default, even when a gentler approach might land better.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn

    22° Capricorn 22' · eighth house

    growth and excess

    Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Bruce would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.

    Jupiter in the eighth house brings a quiet trust to intimacy and to whatever is held in common, and for Bruce it suggests an expectation that things will be fair with the people closest to them. The placement goes with meeting deep change openly, not warily.

  7. Saturn in Virgo

    12° Virgo 16' · fourth house

    discipline and doubt

    Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Bruce 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.

    Saturn sits in the fourth house of Bruce's chart, a placement linked with the weight of home and family responsibility on a person's shoulders, often from early on. With this placement, a stable home is apt to be built by sustained effort, and the security created there tends to mean more because of the work it takes.

  8. Uranus in Cancer

    4° Cancer 53' · first house

    freedom, generational

    Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Bruce 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.

    With Uranus in the first house, Bruce is likely to come across as unconventional and hard to define, even by their own account, with labels fitting loosely at best. The placement goes with a presence that shifts the energy of a room by being unpredictable in a way people cannot quite place.

  9. Neptune in Libra

    14° Libra 22' · fifth house

    imagination, generational

    A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Bruce 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.

    For Bruce, romance and creativity may carry a dreamlike, sometimes idealised quality, and Neptune in the fifth house can fall for a fantasy as easily as for an actual person. Artistic expression, in whatever form, probably gives Bruce's imagination somewhere solid to go.

  10. Pluto in Leo

    17° Leo 28' · third 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.

    With Pluto in the third house, Bruce's mind is drawn to what lies underneath a conversation, and they rarely settle for the tidy, surface version of an explanation. Words can be a way of exposing what other people would rather leave hidden, even when that makes things briefly uncomfortable.

Aspects in Bruce Springsteen’s chart

How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.

  1. Venus square Mars

    0.5° separating

    Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Bruce Springsteen may be caught between wanting something and wanting to keep the peace. What the aspect asks for is a want voiced directly, before it leaks out sideways.

  2. Moon square Jupiter

    1.0° separating

    Emotional generosity can run ahead of what can be sustained when the Moon is square Jupiter, and Bruce may end up overcommitting their time or their care. Generosity with limits lasts longer, for them and for everyone else, than generosity offered with no limits at all.

  3. Mercury sextile Pluto

    1.1° applying

    Bruce'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.

  4. Venus sextile Saturn

    1.2° applying

    This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to Bruce's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once Bruce decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.

  5. Mercury square Jupiter

    3.8° separating

    Thinking can run ahead of the evidence when Mercury is square Jupiter, leading to overconfident claims or promises made faster than Bruce can check them. Matching enthusiasm to what has been verified makes their confidence more durable, not less.

  6. Mars sextile Neptune

    3.9° applying

    In Bruce's chart, drive and imagination help each other along gently, so inspired action is possible before everything has been mapped out. The motivation is soft but workable, and it keeps a creative or compassionate project moving without forcing it.

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 Pluto3.1°
  • Sun square Uranus4.2°
  • Mercury conjunction Neptune4.2°
  • Moon conjunction Mercury4.8°
  • Moon sextile Pluto5.9°
  • Venus trine Uranus6.2°
  • Venus square Pluto6.4°
  • Mars conjunction Pluto7.0°

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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; 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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