Gloria Gaynor’s birth chart
Born 7 September 1943, in Newark, New Jersey. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon
Gloria Gaynor’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Gloria Gaynor was born on Tuesday, 7 September 1943, in Newark, New Jersey. That makes Gloria a Virgo, with the Moon in Sagittarius. Gloria turns 83 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Gloria, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Of the ten planets, five are in air signs, three in fire and two in earth; none is in water. Mutable signs hold six, cardinal signs two and fixed signs two. Gemini holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Saturn and Uranus. The tightest aspect is Mercury trine Uranus, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Venus was retrograde. The Moon was at its first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 7 September, among them Elia Kazan, Buddy Holly and Julie Kavner.
See the sky the day Gloria was born: the stars over Newark, New Jersey, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Gloria Gaynor’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 14° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Gloria Gaynor is likely to notice what could be better and quietly make it so, keeping the highest standards for themselves. The art of this placement is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon sign
Sagittarius
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Gloria, 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 Newark, New Jersey, at each hour of the day.
Gloria Gaynor’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Gloria 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 7 September 1943, computed for Newark, New Jersey.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:30 | Gemini rising |
| 00:30 to 02:50 | Cancer rising |
| 02:50 to 05:25 | Leo rising |
| 05:25 to 07:55 | Virgo rising |
| 07:55 to 10:25 | Libra rising |
| 10:25 to 13:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 13:00 to 15:20 | Sagittarius rising |
| 15:20 to 17:15 | Capricorn rising |
| 17:15 to 18:40 | Aquarius rising |
| 18:40 to 19:50 | Pisces rising |
| 19:50 to 21:05 | Aries rising |
| 21:05 to 22:30 | Taurus rising |
| 22:30 to 24:00 | Gemini 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 7 September 1943, 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 | 14° Virgo 09' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius |
| Mercury | 8° Libra 43' |
| Venus | 11° Virgo 30'℞ |
| Mars | 7° Gemini 46' |
| Jupiter | 14° Leo 56' |
| Saturn | 25° Gemini 42' |
| Uranus | 8° Gemini 49' |
| Neptune | 1° Libra 08' |
| Pluto | 7° Leo 54' |
| North Node | 15° Leo 35' |
| South Node | 15° Aquarius 35' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Gloria Gaynor’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Gloria Gaynor’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Gloria Gaynor's energy tends to stay steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. Rest is the hard part, because it can feel undeserved until everything is fixed. Typically a piece of work is still being adjusted long after everyone else would call it finished.
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 Gloria edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Gloria 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.
With Venus in Virgo, Gloria is likely to love through small, practical acts of service and to value competence and reliability in a partner. People with this Venus tend to be hardest on those they love most, and can mistake giving notes for giving care. They may try to fix a partner's problem before simply listening to it.
With Mars in Gemini, Gloria is likely to act through words, argument and quick manoeuvring rather than force, and anger to come out sharp and verbal. Arguments can be won without the conflict underneath ever being resolved. A disagreement can still be under debate long after the other person just wants it to end.
Jupiter in Leo
14° Leo 56' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Gloria the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Gloria that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
Uranus in Gemini
8° Gemini 49' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Gloria and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Neptune in Libra
1° Libra 08' at midday
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Gloria 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
7° Leo 54' 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 Gloria, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Gloria Gaynor’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 0.1° at midday
Insight is likely to come to Gloria Gaynor 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 sextile Pluto
about 0.1° at midday
This sextile joins drive to depth, so resilience and follow-through are likely to be available to Gloria without constant conflict. Gloria 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.
Mercury sextile Pluto
about 0.8° at midday
Gloria's thinking can reach their depth when it needs to, which gives them insight without unnecessary intensity. With this aspect they are likely to notice what others miss, which makes them a useful person to have in a hard conversation.
Mercury trine Mars
about 1.0° at midday
Gloria's thinking and drive support each other, and it shows in decisions communicated with clarity and confidence. Debate and quick thinking come easily with Mercury trine Mars, which makes Gloria persuasive when the moment calls for it.
Mars conjunction Uranus
about 1.1° at midday
Mars conjunct Uranus makes for a sudden, independent drive, and Gloria probably acts fastest at the exact moment someone says it cannot be done. Courage and originality come with the aspect, and so does the need to check an impulsive decision against longer-term goals before committing to it.
Sun conjunction Venus
about 2.6° at midday
Who Gloria 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.
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 sextile Plutoabout 0.9°
- Venus square Uranusabout 2.7°
- Venus square Marsabout 3.7°
- Sun square Uranusabout 5.3°
- Saturn square Neptuneabout 5.4°
- Sun square Marsabout 6.4°
- Mars trine Neptuneabout 6.6°
- Jupiter conjunction Plutoabout 7.0°
- Mercury conjunction Neptuneabout 7.6°
Virgo Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Gloria Gaynor
Also born on 7 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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