Chuck Berry’s birth chart
Born 18 October 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, at 06:59 (Rodden B).
Libra Sun · Pisces Moon · Scorpio rising
Chuck Berry’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Chuck Berry was born on Monday, 18 October 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. That made Chuck a Libra, with the Moon in Pisces and Scorpio rising. Chuck died on 18 March 2017, aged 90. The birth time, 06:59, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of B, which means it was taken from a biography or autobiography.
By element the count is five water, three air, one fire and one earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, five and two. The tightest aspect is Venus square Pluto, 0.1° from exact. Three planets were retrograde: Mars, Uranus and Pluto. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 18 October, among them Martina Navratilova, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Zac Efron. Klaus Kinski was born on the very same day.
See the sky the night Chuck was born: the stars over St. Louis, Missouri at 06:59, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Chuck Berry’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Libra
24° Libra 23'
A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Chuck Berry'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.
Moon sign
Pisces
16° Pisces 55'
With the Moon in Pisces, Chuck may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
Rising sign
Scorpio
2° Scorpio 50'
Scorpio rising comes across as intense and self-contained. People tend to sense that there is more going on than Chuck is saying; this rising sign keeps more back than it shows.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 06:59 on 18 October 1926, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 24° Libra 23' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 16° Pisces 55' | House 5 |
| Mercury | 12° Scorpio 49' | House 1 |
| Venus | 15° Libra 48' | House 12 |
| Mars | 16° Taurus 44'℞ | House 7 |
| Jupiter | 17° Aquarius 20' | House 4 |
| Saturn | 24° Scorpio 43' | House 1 |
| Uranus | 26° Pisces 25'℞ | House 5 |
| Neptune | 26° Leo 29' | House 10 |
| Pluto | 15° Cancer 56'℞ | House 9 |
| North Node | 10° Cancer 33' | House 9 |
| South Node | 10° Capricorn 33' | House 3 |
Chuck Berry’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Chuck Berry’s private life.
With the Sun in Libra, Chuck Berry'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.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Chuck'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.
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Chuck more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
The Moon in the fifth house can let Chuck'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 Chuck keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
With Mercury in Scorpio, Chuck 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 first house belongs to someone who thinks out loud, and Chuck's thoughts often arrive first in almost any conversation. A thought is usually spoken nearly as soon as it forms, sometimes before they have fully decided what they think.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Chuck 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. Chuck may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Chuck may feel more deeply than they show to most people. The placement values quiet acts of devotion, done without an audience, over public displays or grand romantic gestures.
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Chuck may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
Mars in the seventh house is associated with directness in close relationships, and Chuck probably says what they think rather than letting things simmer. Mars here brings energy and frankness into partnership, so disagreements tend to be aired, not avoided.
Jupiter in Aquarius
17° Aquarius 20' · fourth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Chuck may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
With Jupiter in the fourth house, Chuck probably likes a home with room in it, for more people, more projects and the warmth visitors feel on coming through the door. A generous, welcoming household may matter more to Chuck than a tidy or impressive one.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Chuck letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Seriousness tends to arrive early with Saturn in the first house, and Chuck's self-confidence is the kind that comes through lived experience rather than being handed over at the start. They would rather build slowly and with care, and trust what is made that way.
Uranus in Pisces
26° Pisces 25' ℞ · fifth house
freedom, generational
Chuck has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Uranus in the fifth house gives creativity and romance a spark of the unexpected, and a predictable routine in either is apt to leave Chuck restless. The people and projects that appeal with this placement tend to be the ones that surprise, not the ones that confirm what is already known.
Neptune in Leo
26° Leo 29' · tenth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Chuck alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Neptune in the tenth house can make Chuck'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 Cancer
15° Cancer 56' ℞ · ninth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Chuck 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.
With Pluto in the ninth house, Chuck's view of the world is apt to be overturned and rebuilt at some point, an old outlook giving way to one that has been personally tested. The placement is linked with questioning a philosophy thoroughly before taking it on.
Aspects in Chuck Berry’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus square Pluto
0.1° 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 Chuck Berry chooses trust over control, that intensity becomes a strength instead of a strain.
Moon sextile Mars
0.2° separating
Chuck's feelings and drive pull together, which makes it easier to act on an emotional instinct without overthinking it. The courage involved is the everyday kind, at work in small moments nobody else notices.
Mars square Jupiter
0.6° separating
Drive can outrun capacity under Mars square Jupiter, and Chuck may overextend on a project or on a promise made in a burst of confidence. The enthusiasm is sound. It needs matching to a pace that can be sustained.
Mars sextile Pluto
0.8° applying
This sextile joins drive to depth, so resilience and follow-through are likely to be available to Chuck without constant conflict. Chuck is likely to handle pressure better than most, and at a lower cost than expected, largely because a fight is rarely needed to prove the point.
Moon trine Pluto
1.0° separating
Chuck is likely to come through even difficult emotions stronger rather than depleted, because feeling and the capacity for change support each other. The resilience of a Moon-Pluto trine is quiet, the sort that other people only notice in hindsight.
Venus trine Jupiter
1.5° applying
Affection and a sense of plenty reinforce each other in Chuck's chart, and the result is a warm, easy generosity in relationships. With this trine, goodwill in love and friendship tends to be given freely and returned in kind, without much forcing on either side.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Saturn trine Uranus1.7°
- Saturn square Neptune1.8°
- Sun sextile Neptune2.1°
- Mercury trine Pluto3.1°
- Mercury opposition Mars3.9°
- Moon trine Mercury4.1°
- Mercury square Jupiter4.5°
- Sun trine Jupiter7.0°
- Moon trine Saturn7.8°
- Mars opposition Saturn8.0°
- Sun conjunction Venus8.6°
Libra Sun and Pisces Moon, like Chuck Berry
Also born on 18 October
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 (Bio/autobiography). Birth time rated B on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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