Buzz Aldrin’s birth chart
Born 20 January 1930, at Mountainside Medical Center, Montclair, New Jersey, at 14:17 (Rodden AA).
Aquarius Sun · Libra Moon · Gemini rising
Buzz Aldrin’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
20 January 1930 was a Monday: the day Buzz Aldrin was born at Mountainside Medical Center, Montclair, New Jersey. Their zodiac sign is Aquarius, with the Moon in Libra and Gemini rising. Buzz turns 96 in 2026. The birth time, 14:17, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
By element the count is four earth, four air, one fire and one water. By modality the count is six cardinal, two fixed and two mutable. Three planets stand together in Capricorn: Venus, Mars and Saturn. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Moon and Pluto: a square, 1.3° from exact. Four planets were retrograde: Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was at its last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds ten other people born on 20 January, among them Federico Fellini, David Lynch and Nikki Haley.
See the sky the night Buzz was born: the stars over Mountainside Medical Center, Montclair, New Jersey at 14:17, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Buzz Aldrin’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
0° Aquarius 01'
An Aquarius Sun sees differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence are the marks of this placement in Buzz Aldrin's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Libra
19° Libra 34'
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Buzz, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
Gemini
26° Gemini 43'
On first meeting, Buzz 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.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 14:17 on 20 January 1930, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 0° Aquarius 01' | House 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 19° Libra 34' | House 5 |
| Mercury | 2° Aquarius 49'℞ | House 8 |
| Venus | 25° Capricorn 57' | House 8 |
| Mars | 16° Capricorn 56' | House 8 |
| Jupiter | 6° Gemini 32'℞ | House 12 |
| Saturn | 5° Capricorn 59' | House 7 |
| Uranus | 7° Aries 57' | House 11 |
| Neptune | 3° Virgo 02'℞ | House 4 |
| Pluto | 18° Cancer 18'℞ | House 2 |
| North Node | 8° Taurus 17' | House 11 |
| South Node | 8° Scorpio 17' | House 5 |
Buzz Aldrin’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Buzz Aldrin’s private life.
Buzz Aldrin's purpose, with the Sun in Aquarius, probably lies in being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, with a vitality that rises around causes and communities. The tension can be detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It is the placement of the reliable one at meetings who is the hardest person to reach one to one.
Buzz is apt to go looking for what lies beneath the surface, in themselves and in the people close to them, and shallow exchanges may leave them cold. With the Sun in the eighth house, trust tends to become the ground their identity is built on, and opening up may wait until it exists.
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Buzz'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 Buzz'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 Buzz keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
In Buzz's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Mercury in the eighth house can draw Buzz's mind to what is hidden, complicated or left unsaid, and small talk may bore them within minutes. Someone with this placement is often the one who asks the question everyone else in the room was avoiding out of politeness.
For Buzz, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Venus in the eighth house wants intimacy that goes all the way down, not the kind that stays comfortably light, and Buzz is inclined to build trust slowly and value it highly once it exists. The placement suggests that whatever Buzz shares with someone means more when the bond behind it is solid.
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in Buzz's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Mars in the eighth house suggests close bonds with some heat in them, and Buzz may find the harder conversations about trust, power and vulnerability less daunting than most. With Mars here, a difficult truth is apt to be faced head-on, not stepped around.
Jupiter in Gemini
6° Gemini 32' ℞ · twelfth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Gemini grows through learning and exposure to as many ideas as can be gathered, and its optimism is contagious in conversation. Buzz may overreach by knowing a little about everything and claiming more certainty than the depth supports. This is someone who can be the best-read person in the room on subjects they have never studied closely.
Buzz probably carries a quiet trust that things make sense, and solitude is apt to bring them insight rather than loneliness. With Jupiter in the twelfth house, that trust tends to hold even in the moments when the whole picture cannot yet be seen.
Saturn is at home in Capricorn, a placement that builds discipline as naturally as breathing and often takes on responsibility earlier than most. The doubt, for Buzz, may be never quite believing that enough has been achieved to relax. Others tend to recognise this kind of authority well before it is claimed.
Saturn in the seventh house is associated with treating partnership as ongoing work and commitment as a serious matter, and in Buzz's chart it points to caution about committing quickly. The placement goes with a wish to build a relationship slowly rather than enter one lightly.
Uranus in Aries
7° Aries 57' · eleventh house
freedom, generational
Uranus spends about seven years in each sign, so Buzz shares Uranus in Aries with many people of a similar age. It marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. In one life it can appear as impatience with the slow-moving institutions older generations built.
Uranus in the eleventh house gathers an unusual, wide-ranging group of friends around Buzz, who feels most alive contributing to causes that set out to change something. Belonging matters to them, but strictly on their own terms, and they resist any group that asks them to blend in.
Neptune in Virgo
3° Virgo 02' ℞ · fourth house
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Buzz 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.
Buzz is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Cancer
18° Cancer 18' ℞ · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Buzz 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.
Pluto in the second house means Buzz holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in Buzz Aldrin’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Moon square Pluto
1.3° separating
Control can creep into emotional life when the Moon is square Pluto, which may mean testing people's loyalty or holding on to old hurts longer than is useful. Whenever Buzz Aldrin releases rather than grips, this intensity becomes a strength instead of a weight.
Mars opposition Pluto
1.4° applying
Mars opposite Pluto can draw Buzz away from simply asserting their will and into power struggles with people who seem to be testing them. Staying focused on the goal, and not on winning the confrontation, resolves more of what is at stake.
Jupiter sextile Uranus
1.4° separating
This sextile puts possibility and originality on easy terms, so Buzz can take up a fresh opportunity without much disruption. Think of it as innovation at low cost, the kind that improves something without first tearing it down.
Saturn square Uranus
2.0° applying
The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Buzz's chart, producing either rigid routines that eventually snap or sudden breaks from commitments that were meant sincerely. Saturn square Uranus is best answered with structure loose enough to bend before it has to break.
Moon square Mars
2.6° separating
Feeling and the impulse to act can clash when the Moon is square Mars, and the result is quick reactions that Buzz may later have to walk back. A breath between feeling and acting turns all that energy into something more useful.
Sun conjunction Mercury
2.8° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Buzz's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Saturn trine Neptune3.0°
- Jupiter square Neptune3.5°
- Mercury trine Jupiter3.7°
- Sun conjunction Venus4.1°
- Moon square Venus6.4°
- Sun trine Jupiter6.5°
- Mercury conjunction Venus6.9°
- Venus opposition Pluto7.7°
Aquarius Sun and Libra Moon, like Buzz Aldrin
Also born on 20 January
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 (Quoted BC/BR). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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