Gianluigi Buffon’s birth chart
Born 28 January 1978, in Carrara, Italy, at 08:30 (Rodden AA).
Aquarius Sun · Virgo Moon · Aquarius rising
Gianluigi Buffon’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Gianluigi Buffon was born in Carrara, Italy, on 28 January 1978, a Saturday. That makes Gianluigi an Aquarius, with the Moon in Virgo and Aquarius rising. Gianluigi turns 48 in 2026. The birth time, 08:30, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was taken from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, four are in air signs, two in fire, two in earth and two in water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is three, four and three. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Neptune and Pluto: a sextile, 0.9° from exact. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 28 January, among them Elijah Wood, Carlos Slim and Alan Alda. Jamie Carragher was born on the very same day.
See the sky the night Gianluigi was born: the stars over Carrara, Italy at 08:30, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Gianluigi Buffon’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
8° 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 Gianluigi Buffon's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Virgo
23° Virgo 17'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Gianluigi is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Rising sign
Aquarius
24° Aquarius 03'
With Aquarius rising, Gianluigi tends to come across as friendly, unusual and slightly detached. People remember an Aquarius rising as the one who thought differently, and who kept the crowd at arm's length while liking it.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 08:30 on 28 January 1978, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 8° Aquarius 01' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 23° Virgo 17' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 19° Capricorn 00' | House 11 |
| Venus | 9° Aquarius 28' | House 12 |
| Mars | 29° Cancer 08'℞ | House 6 |
| Jupiter | 26° Gemini 55'℞ | House 4 |
| Saturn | 28° Leo 36'℞ | House 7 |
| Uranus | 16° Scorpio 10' | House 8 |
| Neptune | 17° Sagittarius 35' | House 10 |
| Pluto | 16° Libra 40'℞ | House 8 |
| North Node | 7° Libra 28' | House 7 |
| South Node | 7° Aries 28' | House 1 |
Gianluigi Buffon’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Gianluigi Buffon’s private life.
Sun in Aquarius
8° Aquarius 01' · twelfth house
purpose and vitality
Gianluigi Buffon'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.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Gianluigi'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.
Moon in Virgo
23° Virgo 17' · seventh house
needs and habits
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Gianluigi's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Gianluigi's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
With the Moon in the seventh house, Gianluigi is likely to feel most themselves inside a close partnership, reading the emotional temperature of a relationship constantly and by instinct. Too long alone can leave them unmoored, even when nothing is wrong.
Mercury in Capricorn
19° Capricorn 00' · eleventh house
mind and voice
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Gianluigi tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Gianluigi will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Gianluigi thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Gianluigi's best thinking happens.
Venus in Aquarius
9° Aquarius 28' · twelfth house
love and values
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Gianluigi may keep just enough distance that closeness feels slightly out of reach, even to them. This Venus can prize a partner's individuality more than the intimacy between them.
Venus in the twelfth house keeps affections private and sometimes idealised, and Gianluigi 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 Cancer
29° Cancer 08' ℞ · sixth house
drive and anger
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Gianluigi, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Mars in the sixth house works with drive and stamina, and a repetitive task frustrates Gianluigi unless there is a way to get through it fast. They like to be on the move, and physical effort is where tension from other parts of life gets used up.
Jupiter in Gemini
26° Gemini 55' ℞ · fourth 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. Gianluigi 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.
With Jupiter in the fourth house, Gianluigi 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 Gianluigi than a tidy or impressive one.
Saturn in Leo
28° Leo 36' ℞ · seventh house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Gianluigi's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Saturn in the seventh house is associated with treating partnership as ongoing work and commitment as a serious matter, and in Gianluigi'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 Scorpio
16° Scorpio 10' · eighth house
freedom, generational
Much of Gianluigi's age group has Uranus in Scorpio. It changes attitudes to power, secrecy and what is held in common, often while living through upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. In an individual it tends to be a low tolerance for hidden agendas.
Intimacy is something Gianluigi is likely to approach in their own particular way, sometimes resisting the usual expectations about how far two lives should merge. With Uranus in the eighth house, sudden insights about the self tend to arrive through close, unguarded relationships rather than in solitude.
Neptune in Sagittarius
17° Sagittarius 35' · tenth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Gianluigi in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Neptune in the tenth house can make Gianluigi'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 Libra
16° Libra 40' ℞ · eighth house
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Gianluigi belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
The eighth house is Pluto's natural home, and for Gianluigi questions of trust, power and what is truly shared between people can matter enormously. Pluto here wants to understand what most people are too afraid to look at directly, even about themselves.
Aspects in Gianluigi Buffon’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Sun conjunction Venus
1.5° separating
Who Gianluigi Buffon is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.
Jupiter sextile Saturn
1.7° separating
A workable, grounded kind of optimism comes from this sextile, in which Gianluigi's sense of possibility and sense of structure assist each other. The plans they make tend to hold together, even under the sort of pressure that scatters looser ones.
Mercury square Pluto
2.3° separating
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Gianluigi looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Mercury sextile Uranus
2.8° separating
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Gianluigi, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Moon square Jupiter
3.6° applying
Emotional generosity can run ahead of what can be sustained when the Moon is square Jupiter, and Gianluigi may end up overcommitting their time or their care. Generosity with limits lasts longer, for them and for everyone else, than generosity offered with no limits at all.
Moon trine Mercury
4.3° separating
Gianluigi can probably explain what they feel almost as soon as they feel it, because feeling and thinking flow together easily here. A Moon-Mercury trine makes for a comforting voice in emotional moments, and people with it are often the ones others call first when something has gone wrong.
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 Pluto0.9°
- Moon square Neptune5.7°
- Moon sextile Mars5.9°
- Venus square Uranus6.7°
- Sun opposition Mars8.9°
Aquarius Sun and Virgo Moon, like Gianluigi Buffon
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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; 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 (BC/BR in hand). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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