Burt Lancaster’s birth chart
Born 2 November 1913, in New York City, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Scorpio Sun · Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Burt Lancaster’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Burt Lancaster was born in New York City, New York, on 2 November 1913, a Sunday. The Sun was in Scorpio, so Scorpio was their zodiac sign. The Moon left Sagittarius for Capricorn at about 05:10 local time, which leaves the Moon sign open without a birth time. Burt died on 20 October 1994, aged 80. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
By element the count is four water, three air, one fire and one earth, leaving out the Moon, whose sign depends on the birth time. By modality the count is five cardinal, two fixed and two mutable. Cancer holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Neptune and Pluto. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Uranus: a sextile, about 0.7° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 13 other people born on 2 November, among them Shah Rukh Khan, Luchino Visconti and David Schwimmer.
See the sky the day Burt was born: the stars over New York City, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Burt Lancaster’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
about 9° Scorpio at midday
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Burt Lancaster, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 05:10, then Capricorn (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 05:10: Moon in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Burt, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Born after about 05:10: Moon in Capricorn
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Burt may hold themselves together for other people, and can be hard on themselves when they cannot. This Moon tends to be restored by accomplishment, by structure, and by the rare person allowed to see them tired.
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.
Burt Lancaster’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Burt 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 2 November 1913, computed for New York City, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:40 | Leo rising |
| 00:40 to 03:15 | Virgo rising |
| 03:15 to 05:45 | Libra rising |
| 05:45 to 08:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 08:15 to 10:40 | Sagittarius rising |
| 10:40 to 12:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 12:35 to 14:00 | Aquarius rising |
| 14:00 to 15:10 | Pisces rising |
| 15:10 to 16:20 | Aries rising |
| 16:20 to 17:50 | Taurus rising |
| 17:50 to 19:40 | Gemini rising |
| 19:40 to 22:05 | Cancer rising |
| 22:05 to 24:00 | Leo 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 2 November 1913, 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 | 9° Scorpio 40' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius until about 05:10, then Capricorn |
| Mercury | 3° Sagittarius 04' |
| Venus | 15° Libra 25' |
| Mars | 20° Cancer 59' |
| Jupiter | 13° Capricorn 06' |
| Saturn | 17° Gemini 13'℞ |
| Uranus | 3° Aquarius 46' |
| Neptune | 28° Cancer 14'℞ |
| Pluto | 0° Cancer 57'℞ |
| North Node | 23° Pisces 01' |
| South Node | 23° Virgo 01' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Burt Lancaster’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Burt Lancaster’s private life.
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Burt Lancaster's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn
Sagittarius until about 05:10, then Capricorn
needs and habits
Born before about 05:10: Moon in Sagittarius
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Burt edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Born after about 05:10: Moon in Capricorn
With the Moon in Capricorn, Burt's comfort probably comes from accomplishing something concrete each day, and an unproductive day can leave them oddly unsettled even on holiday. Harder feelings tend to be kept for when they are alone. Before rest is allowed there is usually one more thing to tidy, organise or finish.
Burt's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Burt probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Burt may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Burt, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Jupiter in Capricorn
13° Capricorn 06' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Burt 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.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Burt that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Uranus in Aquarius
3° Aquarius 46' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Burt's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
Neptune in Cancer
28° Cancer 14' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Burt and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Pluto in Cancer
0° Cancer 57' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Burt to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Burt Lancaster’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.
Mercury sextile Uranus
about 0.7° at midday
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Burt Lancaster, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Venus trine Saturn
about 1.8° at midday
A steady, dependable way of loving, one that people trust, is what this trine gives Burt, since affection and commitment hold each other up. Relationships built on it tend to last, often well past the point where less committed people would have moved on.
Venus square Jupiter
about 2.3° at midday
Under this square, Burt's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.
Sun sextile Jupiter
about 3.4° at midday
Optimism is part of who Burt is, and it tends to show them open doors, provided they are willing to walk through. With some deliberate effort behind it, the outlook of a Sun-Jupiter sextile becomes momentum that carries past the first burst of enthusiasm.
Mercury trine Neptune
about 4.8° at midday
Burt 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.
Venus square Mars
about 5.6° at midday
Desire and the need for harmony can clash where Venus squares Mars, and Burt 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.
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.
- Uranus opposition Neptuneabout 5.5°
- Sun square Uranusabout 5.9°
- Mars conjunction Neptuneabout 7.3°
- Mars opposition Jupiterabout 7.9°
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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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