Ed Sullivan’s birth chart
Born 28 September 1901, in Harlem, New York. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Libra Sun · Aries Moon
Ed Sullivan’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Ed Sullivan was born in Harlem, New York, on 28 September 1901, a Saturday. That made Ed a Libra, with the Moon in Aries. Ed died on 13 October 1974, aged 73. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the ten planets, three are in air signs, three in water, two in fire and two in earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is six, two and two. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Jupiter: a square, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Pluto was retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from full to waning gibbous.
StarMap's dataset holds 25 other people born on 28 September, among them Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni and Naomi Watts.
See the sky the day Ed was born: the stars over Harlem, New York, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Ed Sullivan’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Libra
about 4° Libra at midday
A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Ed Sullivan'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
Aries
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Aries, Ed is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
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 Harlem, New York, at each hour of the day.
Ed Sullivan’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Ed 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 28 September 1901, computed for Harlem, New York.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:25 | Cancer rising |
| 00:25 to 03:00 | Leo rising |
| 03:00 to 05:30 | Virgo rising |
| 05:30 to 08:00 | Libra rising |
| 08:00 to 10:35 | Scorpio rising |
| 10:35 to 12:55 | Sagittarius rising |
| 12:55 to 14:50 | Capricorn rising |
| 14:50 to 16:15 | Aquarius rising |
| 16:15 to 17:30 | Pisces rising |
| 17:30 to 18:40 | Aries rising |
| 18:40 to 20:05 | Taurus rising |
| 20:05 to 22:00 | Gemini rising |
| 22:00 to 24:00 | Cancer 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 28 September 1901, 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 | 4° Libra 51' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aries |
| Mercury | 26° Libra 38' |
| Venus | 13° Scorpio 22' |
| Mars | 18° Scorpio 51' |
| Jupiter | 4° Capricorn 30' |
| Saturn | 9° Capricorn 56' |
| Uranus | 13° Sagittarius 27' |
| Neptune | 1° Cancer 28' |
| Pluto | 18° Gemini 40'℞ |
| North Node | 14° Scorpio 04' |
| South Node | 14° Taurus 04' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Ed Sullivan’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Ed Sullivan’s private life.
With the Sun in Libra, Ed Sullivan'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 Moon in Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Ed, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Ed 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.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Ed 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.
In Ed's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Jupiter in Capricorn
4° Capricorn 30' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Ed 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 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 Ed, 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.
Uranus in Sagittarius
13° Sagittarius 27' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Sagittarius is less about Ed than about the years around their birth. People of that age transform belief and access to knowledge, often through unprecedented exposure to other cultures and ideas. The personal trace is a restlessness with any single worldview presented as the only one.
Neptune in Cancer
1° Cancer 28' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Ed 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 Gemini
18° Gemini 40' at midday ℞
power, generational
Ed shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.
Aspects in Ed Sullivan’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.
Sun square Jupiter
about 0.3° at midday
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Ed Sullivan may promise more than can be delivered and then walk it back. The lesson of a Sun-Jupiter square is scaling a good instinct to a size that holds.
Jupiter opposition Neptune
about 3.0° at midday
The choice, as this opposition frames it for Ed, is between pursuing a real opportunity and getting lost chasing an idealised version that does not quite exist. Testing an exciting idea against the plain facts protects the optimism; it does not undermine it.
Sun square Neptune
about 3.4° at midday
A Sun-Neptune square can blur Ed's sense of who they are under the pull of an ideal, a cause or someone else's story, until it is unclear where they end and the dream begins. The task is staying inspired without losing their own outline.
Venus sextile Saturn
about 3.4° at midday
This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to Ed's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once Ed decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.
Mercury trine Neptune
about 4.8° at midday
Ed 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.
Sun square Saturn
about 5.1° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Ed pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
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 Plutoabout 5.2°
- Jupiter conjunction Saturnabout 5.4°
- Venus conjunction Marsabout 5.5°
Libra Sun and Aries Moon, like Ed Sullivan
Also born on 28 September
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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