Fred Hoyle’s birth chart
Born 24 June 1915, in Bingley, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Cancer Sun · Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius
Fred Hoyle’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Fred Hoyle was born on Thursday, 24 June 1915, in Bingley, England. The Sun was in Cancer, so Cancer was their zodiac sign. The Moon was in Scorpio until about 21:45 and in Sagittarius afterwards, so the Moon sign turns on the birth time. Fred died on 20 August 2001, aged 86. StarMap has no verified birth time for Fred, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Water carries the most weight: six of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, against air two, earth one and fire none. By modality the count is five cardinal, two fixed and two mutable. Cancer holds a stellium, five planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. The tightest aspect is Sun conjunction Pluto, about 0.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Mercury and Uranus. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 24 June, among them Lionel Messi, Juan Manuel Fangio and David Alaba.
See the sky the day Fred was born: the stars over Bingley, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Fred Hoyle’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Cancer
about 1° Cancer at midday
A Cancer Sun protects. For Fred Hoyle, home, memory and the people they have decided are theirs tend to sit at the centre of things, and they probably read a room before anyone speaks. Care is the strength of this Sun, and their task is to include themselves in it.
Moon sign
Scorpio or Sagittarius
Scorpio until about 21:45, then Sagittarius (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.
Born before about 21:45: Moon in Scorpio
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Fred that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Born after about 21:45: Moon in Sagittarius
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Fred, 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.
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 Bingley, England, at each hour of the day.
Fred Hoyle’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Fred 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 24 June 1915, computed for Bingley, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:05 | Pisces rising |
| 00:05 to 00:50 | Aries rising |
| 00:50 to 01:55 | Taurus rising |
| 01:55 to 03:35 | Gemini rising |
| 03:35 to 06:10 | Cancer rising |
| 06:10 to 09:05 | Leo rising |
| 09:05 to 12:00 | Virgo rising |
| 12:00 to 14:55 | Libra rising |
| 14:55 to 17:55 | Scorpio rising |
| 17:55 to 20:25 | Sagittarius rising |
| 20:25 to 22:10 | Capricorn rising |
| 22:10 to 23:15 | Aquarius rising |
| 23:15 to 23:55 | Pisces rising |
| 23:55 to 24:00 | Aries 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 24 June 1915, 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 | 1° Cancer 53' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Scorpio until about 21:45, then Sagittarius |
| Mercury | 6° Cancer 02'℞ |
| Venus | 10° Gemini 16' |
| Mars | 21° Taurus 35' |
| Jupiter | 27° Pisces 31' |
| Saturn | 5° Cancer 21' |
| Uranus | 15° Aquarius 13'℞ |
| Neptune | 29° Cancer 06' |
| Pluto | 1° Cancer 43' |
| North Node | 18° Aquarius 19' |
| South Node | 18° Leo 19' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Fred Hoyle’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Fred Hoyle’s private life.
With the Sun in Cancer, Fred Hoyle is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.
Moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius
Scorpio until about 21:45, then Sagittarius
needs and habits
Born before about 21:45: Moon in Scorpio
For Fred, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Born after about 21:45: 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 Fred edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Mercury in Cancer thinks in terms of memory and feeling as much as logic, and Fred probably communicates best when there is emotional trust in the room. Mood can colour how a fact gets delivered or received. Years after the details have faded, this is a mind that remembers exactly how a conversation felt.
Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Fred probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.
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 Fred 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.
Jupiter in Pisces
27° Pisces 31' at midday
growth and excess
For Fred, 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.
Emotional security is where Fred's Saturn in Cancer builds discipline; it is a placement often associated with learning early to be the steady one. Asking for care tends to be difficult with this Saturn, even when care is clearly needed. Over time, people with this placement often become the dependable anchor for others, including some who never quite return the favour.
Uranus in Aquarius
15° Aquarius 13' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Fred'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
29° Cancer 06' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Fred 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
1° Cancer 43' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Fred 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 Fred Hoyle’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 conjunction Pluto
about 0.2° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Pluto, Fred Hoyle's identity is likely to be intense and transformative, with feelings that run at full volume rather than in moderation. Depth and staying power are the reward, and the thing to outgrow is needing a situation to become a crisis before it feels meaningful.
Mercury conjunction Saturn
about 0.7° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Saturn, Fred's thinking is likely to be careful and structured, and they tend to say only what they are sure of. That makes their word worth taking, and the risk is that caution keeps an idea back until it feels perfectly finished.
Jupiter trine Neptune
about 1.6° at midday
Optimism and imagination tend to flow together for Fred, and what comes of it is an inspired, generous vision of what is possible. Hope and creativity tend to serve them well under this trine, especially when both are allowed to guide a project and neither is second-guessed.
Sun conjunction Saturn
about 3.5° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Saturn, identity is built through discipline and steady effort, often with an early sense that a place has to be worked for rather than assumed. It tends to make Fred reliable and serious, and the growth comes from believing that they have done enough to rest.
Saturn conjunction Pluto
about 3.6° at midday
Saturn conjunct Pluto describes discipline forged through intensity, often after a period that asked for more endurance than seemed fair at the time. For Fred the aspect suggests serious, hard-won resilience, and the remaining step is trusting that what needed proving has been proved.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 4.2° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Fred'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.
- Jupiter square Plutoabout 4.2°
- Mercury conjunction Plutoabout 4.3°
- Sun square Jupiterabout 4.4°
- Venus trine Uranusabout 4.9°
- Mars square Uranusabout 6.4°
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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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