Chris Rea’s birth chart
Born 4 March 1951, in Middlesbrough, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Moon in Capricorn or Aquarius
Chris Rea’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Chris Rea was born in Middlesbrough, England, on 4 March 1951, a Sunday. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces was their zodiac sign. The Moon was in Capricorn until about 12:10 and in Aquarius afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Chris died on 22 December 2025, aged 74. No verified birth time is on file for Chris; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, four are in water signs, three in fire and two in air; none is in earth. Cardinal signs hold five, mutable signs three and fixed signs one. Pisces holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury and Jupiter. The tightest aspect is Neptune sextile Pluto, about 1.0° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 11 other people born on 4 March, among them Miriam Makeba, Catherine O'Hara and Kenny Dalglish. Kenny Dalglish was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Chris was born: the stars over Middlesbrough, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Chris Rea’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 13° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Chris Rea the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Capricorn or Aquarius
Capricorn until about 12:10, then Aquarius (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 12:10: Moon in Capricorn
A Capricorn Moon feels responsibly. With it, Chris 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.
Born after about 12:10: Moon in Aquarius
An Aquarius Moon feels from a step back. Chris is likely to understand an emotion better than they inhabit it, and to need space and ideas to process. For this Moon, friends are family and freedom is security.
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 Middlesbrough, England, at each hour of the day.
Chris Rea’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Chris 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 4 March 1951, computed for Middlesbrough, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 01:15 to 03:50 | Sagittarius rising |
| 03:50 to 05:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 05:35 to 06:35 | Aquarius rising |
| 06:35 to 07:20 | Pisces rising |
| 07:20 to 08:05 | Aries rising |
| 08:05 to 09:05 | Taurus rising |
| 09:05 to 10:50 | Gemini rising |
| 10:50 to 13:25 | Cancer rising |
| 13:25 to 16:20 | Leo rising |
| 16:20 to 19:20 | Virgo rising |
| 19:20 to 22:15 | Libra rising |
| 22:15 to 24:00 | Scorpio 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 4 March 1951, 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 | 13° Pisces 06' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Capricorn until about 12:10, then Aquarius |
| Mercury | 7° Pisces 02' |
| Venus | 9° Aries 16' |
| Mars | 1° Aries 59' |
| Jupiter | 18° Pisces 34' |
| Saturn | 0° Libra 13'℞ |
| Uranus | 5° Cancer 26'℞ |
| Neptune | 19° Libra 03'℞ |
| Pluto | 18° Leo 05'℞ |
| North Node | 19° Pisces 01' |
| South Node | 19° Virgo 01' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Chris Rea’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Chris Rea’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Chris Rea's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
Moon in Capricorn or Aquarius
Capricorn until about 12:10, then Aquarius
needs and habits
Born before about 12:10: Moon in Capricorn
With the Moon in Capricorn, Chris'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.
Born after about 12:10: Moon in Aquarius
An Aquarius Moon processes daily feelings by stepping back and thinking them through rather than sitting inside them, and Chris is likely to need a degree of independence built into any close relationship. The temptation is to analyse a feeling instead of simply having it. Even after a good day with people, this Moon needs time alone to recover.
Mercury in Pisces thinks in images and impressions more than straight lines, and Chris is likely to communicate through metaphor, tone and instinct rather than clean argument. Explaining a conclusion they nonetheless feel certain about can be the struggle. It is the kind of mind that knows something is off before it can say why.
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Chris that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
For Chris, Mars in Aries points to acting immediately and decisively, with anger that tends to flare fast, hot and honest before it clears. The downside is acting before a situation has been thought all the way through. The argument or the project tends to start the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.
Jupiter in Pisces
18° Pisces 34' at midday
growth and excess
For Chris, Jupiter in Pisces means finding growth in compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things that cannot be fully explained. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. Others lean on this generosity of spirit more than they let on.
For Chris, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Cancer
5° Cancer 26' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Chris 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.
Neptune in Libra
19° Libra 03' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Chris 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.
Pluto in Leo
18° Leo 05' at midday ℞
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 Chris, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Chris Rea’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 trine Uranus
about 1.6° at midday
Insight is likely to come to Chris Rea fast and without much effort, the product of thinking and originality that flow together easily. With Mercury trine Uranus, new ideas tend to arrive when they are needed, often faster than they can be written down.
Mars opposition Saturn
about 1.8° at midday
Mars opposite Saturn can set Chris's wish to act against a fear of being blocked or criticised for it, and the result may be frustration with anything that slows them down. Working steadily around an obstacle usually gets further than fighting it head on.
Mars square Uranus
about 3.5° at midday
This square can make drive turn abrupt, leading to sudden decisions or breaks that surprise Chris as much as they surprise everyone nearby. A brief pause before the impulsive move keeps the courage and loses the recklessness.
Venus square Uranus
about 3.8° at midday
In Chris's chart the desire for closeness and the need for freedom can work against each other, and this square is known for sudden shifts in an otherwise good relationship. The remedy is to build enough independence into the relationship that none has to be created by pulling away.
Saturn square Uranus
about 5.2° at midday
The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Chris'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.
Sun conjunction Jupiter
about 5.5° at midday
Chris's identity carries a natural optimism and a generous sense of scale, so they tend to think bigger than the room requires. Confidence comes easily with the Sun conjunct Jupiter, and the discipline worth building is matching that optimism with follow-through.
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 Plutoabout 1.0°
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 6.1°
- Venus conjunction Marsabout 7.3°
Pisces Suns born within 2 years of Chris Rea
Also born on 4 March
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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