John Legend’s birth chart
Born 28 December 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Capricorn Sun · Sagittarius Moon
John Legend’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
John Legend was born on Thursday, 28 December 1978, in Springfield, Ohio. The Sun was in Capricorn, so Capricorn is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Sagittarius. John turns 48 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for John, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is four fire, three earth, two water and one air. Mutable signs hold four, cardinal signs three and fixed signs three. Three planets stand together in Sagittarius: Moon, Mercury and Neptune. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Neptune and Pluto, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Jupiter and Saturn were retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waning crescent to new.
StarMap's dataset holds 21 other people born on 28 December, among them Linus Torvalds, Denzel Washington and Stan Lee.
See the sky the day John was born: the stars over Springfield, Ohio, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
John Legend’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
about 6° Capricorn at midday
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry John Legend up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
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 John, 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 Springfield, Ohio, at each hour of the day.
John Legend’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for John 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 December 1978, computed for Springfield, Ohio.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:10 | Virgo rising |
| 00:10 to 02:40 | Libra rising |
| 02:40 to 05:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 05:10 to 07:35 | Sagittarius rising |
| 07:35 to 09:30 | Capricorn rising |
| 09:30 to 10:55 | Aquarius rising |
| 10:55 to 12:10 | Pisces rising |
| 12:10 to 13:20 | Aries rising |
| 13:20 to 14:50 | Taurus rising |
| 14:50 to 16:45 | Gemini rising |
| 16:45 to 19:05 | Cancer rising |
| 19:05 to 21:35 | Leo rising |
| 21:35 to 24:00 | Virgo 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 December 1978, 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 | 6° Capricorn 36' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius |
| Mercury | 15° Sagittarius 01' |
| Venus | 21° Scorpio 39' |
| Mars | 12° Capricorn 10' |
| Jupiter | 7° Leo 20'℞ |
| Saturn | 13° Virgo 55'℞ |
| Uranus | 19° Scorpio 32' |
| Neptune | 18° Sagittarius 42' |
| Pluto | 19° Libra 03' |
| North Node | 20° Virgo 36' |
| South Node | 20° Pisces 36' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
John Legend’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about John Legend’s private life.
With the Sun in Capricorn, John Legend is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
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 John edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
John's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and John 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.
Mars in Capricorn acts with discipline and patience, playing a longer game than most, and in John's case its anger tends to be controlled, arriving as coldness rather than heat. The tendency is to go quiet and distant instead of saying what is wrong. A frustration is something to outwork rather than voice.
Jupiter in Leo
7° Leo 20' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For John 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.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. John 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 Scorpio
19° Scorpio 32' at midday
freedom, generational
Much of John'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.
Neptune in Sagittarius
18° Sagittarius 42' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to John in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
19° Libra 03' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation John 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.
Aspects in John Legend’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 square Saturn
about 1.1° at midday
Self-doubt can get into thinking when Mercury is square Saturn, in the form of over-editing or delaying a decision that was ready. Sharing the unfinished thought anyway, again and again, is what loosens the doubt's hold over what John Legend is willing to say out loud.
Mars trine Saturn
about 1.8° at midday
Staying power on long, difficult goals is what Mars trine Saturn offers, with drive and discipline reinforcing each other. John is likely to get more done, more consistently, than the visible effort would suggest, which is a quiet advantage over time.
Venus conjunction Uranus
about 2.1° at midday
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and John is likely to be drawn to people and situations that keep them interested more than settled. There is romantic excitement in that. The difficulty is letting closeness deepen without the urge to bolt from it.
Mercury conjunction Neptune
about 3.7° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Neptune, John's thinking is likely to be imaginative and impressionistic, working through images and instinct as much as straight logic. It is a creative and intuitive strength, at its best when a compelling idea has been held up against the facts before being embraced.
Mercury sextile Pluto
about 4.0° at midday
John'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.
Saturn square Neptune
about 4.8° at midday
Practical sense and idealism can pull against each other in this square, and for John that may mean either an uninspired routine or a dream with no realistic plan behind it. The way through is to build the structure and protect the dream at the same time, without sacrificing one for the other.
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 0.3°
- Sun conjunction Marsabout 5.6°
- Sun trine Saturnabout 7.3°
Capricorn Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like John Legend
Also born on 28 December
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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