Jody Scheckter’s birth chart
Born 29 January 1950, in East London, South Africa. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Aquarius Sun · Gemini Moon
Jody Scheckter’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Jody Scheckter was born on Sunday, 29 January 1950, in East London, South Africa. The Sun was in Aquarius, so Aquarius is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Gemini. Jody turns 76 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Jody, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Air carries the most weight: six of the ten planets, against earth two, fire one and water one. Cardinal signs hold four, fixed signs four and mutable signs two. Aquarius holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Venus and Jupiter. The tightest aspect is Neptune sextile Pluto, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Five planets were retrograde all day: Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Mercury changed direction that day, turning direct, so whether it was retrograde at the birth depends on the hour. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 29 January, among them Oprah Winfrey, Olga Tokarczuk and Germaine Greer.
See the sky the day Jody was born: the stars over East London, South Africa, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Jody Scheckter’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
about 8° Aquarius at midday
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 Jody Scheckter's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Gemini
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Gemini processes feeling by naming it. For Jody, talking, writing and switching perspective are likely ways to settle, and silence can make small worries loud. They probably need people who let them think out loud.
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 East London, South Africa, at each hour of the day.
Jody Scheckter’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Jody 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 29 January 1950, computed for East London, South Africa.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:35 | Scorpio rising |
| 00:35 to 02:35 | Sagittarius rising |
| 02:35 to 04:50 | Capricorn rising |
| 04:50 to 07:15 | Aquarius rising |
| 07:15 to 09:35 | Pisces rising |
| 09:35 to 12:00 | Aries rising |
| 12:00 to 14:25 | Taurus rising |
| 14:25 to 16:40 | Gemini rising |
| 16:40 to 18:40 | Cancer rising |
| 18:40 to 20:15 | Leo rising |
| 20:15 to 21:35 | Virgo rising |
| 21:35 to 22:55 | Libra rising |
| 22:55 to 24:00 | Scorpio 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 29 January 1950, 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 | 8° Aquarius 56' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Gemini |
| Mercury | 18° Capricorn 03'turned direct that day |
| Venus | 11° Aquarius 59'℞ |
| Mars | 9° Libra 56' |
| Jupiter | 13° Aquarius 07' |
| Saturn | 18° Virgo 37'℞ |
| Uranus | 1° Cancer 35'℞ |
| Neptune | 17° Libra 19'℞ |
| Pluto | 17° Leo 11'℞ |
| North Node | 9° Aries 32' |
| South Node | 9° Libra 32' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Jody Scheckter’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Jody Scheckter’s private life.
Jody Scheckter'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.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Jody is likely to settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. A day with no one to talk to can leave them restless. The habit is to message a friend the moment something comes to mind, before deciding what to think about it.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Jody 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. Jody will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
Venus in Aquarius loves as a friend first, and values independence, shared ideas and a partner who allows plenty of room. Jody 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.
In Jody's chart, Mars in Libra acts diplomatically and prefers negotiation to confrontation, and its anger tends to stay buried until it is too big to ignore. Avoided consistently, conflict leaves resentment building underneath the calm surface. The pattern is saying yes to something that rankled, then feeling it later.
Jupiter in Aquarius
13° Aquarius 07' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Jody 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.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Jody may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Cancer
1° Cancer 35' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Jody alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Neptune in Libra
17° Libra 19' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Jody 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
17° Leo 11' 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 Jody, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Jody Scheckter’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 Saturn
about 0.6° at midday
Jody Scheckter's thinking has discipline behind it, which gives them a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. With Mercury trine Saturn, conclusions can be trusted because they have usually been tested already, often more thoroughly than anyone nearby realises.
Mercury square Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Jody is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
Sun trine Mars
about 1.0° at midday
Confidence and drive move in the same direction for Jody, so they are likely to act on their goals with very little inner resistance. The energy of a Sun-Mars trine is uncomplicated, and other people notice it and often want to be near it.
Venus conjunction Jupiter
about 1.1° at midday
Venus conjunct Jupiter tends to make Jody's capacity for love and pleasure generous and expansive, and it usually comes with a warm enjoyment of life. The result is naturally good company; the thing to watch is the point where generosity has quietly become excess.
Venus trine Mars
about 2.1° at midday
Jody is likely to have a warm, confident way of going after what, and who, they want, since affection and drive back each other up. Romance and creative work tend to come without strain under this trine, in a manner other people find refreshingly straightforward.
Sun conjunction Venus
about 3.0° at midday
Who Jody 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.
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 0.1°
- Mars trine Jupiterabout 3.2°
- Jupiter opposition Plutoabout 4.1°
- Jupiter trine Neptuneabout 4.2°
- Sun conjunction Jupiterabout 4.2°
- Venus opposition Plutoabout 5.2°
- Venus trine Neptuneabout 5.3°
- Mars conjunction Neptuneabout 7.4°
- Sun opposition Plutoabout 8.3°
Aquarius Sun and Gemini Moon, like Jody Scheckter
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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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