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John Newcombe

John Newcombe’s birth chart

Born 23 May 1944, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Gemini Sun · Gemini Moon

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John Newcombe’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

23 May 1944 was a Tuesday: the day John Newcombe was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Sun was in Gemini, so Gemini is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Gemini. John turns 82 in 2026. No verified birth time is on file for John; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.

By element the count is five air, two fire, two earth and no water, leaving out Mars, whose sign depends on the birth time. By modality the count is four fixed, four mutable and one cardinal. Four planets stand together in Gemini: Sun, Moon, Saturn and Uranus. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Neptune: a trine, about 0.2° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Neptune was retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from new to waxing crescent.

StarMap's dataset holds 15 other people born on 23 May, among them Anatoly Karpov, Lena Meyer-Landrut and Rubens Barrichello.

See the sky the day John was born: the stars over Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

John Newcombe’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Gemini

about 1° Gemini at midday

A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and John Newcombe probably learns by talking things through. This placement is happiest with two projects and a question nobody has answered yet.

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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 John, 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.

Everyone with the Moon in Gemini

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 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at each hour of the day.

John Newcombe’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 23 May 1944, computed for Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 01:55Pisces rising
01:55 to 04:20Aries rising
04:20 to 06:45Taurus rising
06:45 to 09:00Gemini rising
09:00 to 11:00Cancer rising
11:00 to 12:35Leo rising
12:35 to 13:55Virgo rising
13:55 to 15:15Libra rising
15:15 to 16:45Scorpio rising
16:45 to 18:45Sagittarius rising
18:45 to 21:05Capricorn rising
21:05 to 23:30Aquarius rising
23:30 to 24:00Pisces rising

Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.

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Placements

John Newcombe’s planets by sign
Sun1° Gemini 48'
MoonGemini
Mercury8° Taurus 45'
Venus22° Taurus 17'
MarsCancer until about 00:15, then Leo
Jupiter19° Leo 22'
Saturn26° Gemini 23'
Uranus8° Gemini 29'
Neptune1° Libra 34'℞
Pluto6° Leo 39'
North Node29° Cancer 08'
South Node29° Capricorn 08'

Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.

John Newcombe’s planets, sign by sign

Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about John Newcombe’s private life.

  1. Sun in Gemini

    1° Gemini 48' at midday

    purpose and vitality

    For John Newcombe, the Sun in Gemini means vitality that comes from variety, and purpose that feels most real when they are learning or explaining something new. What suffers is focus, with energy scattered across too many half-finished things at once. Several projects and three hobbies on the go at the same time would be in character.

  2. Moon in Gemini

    Gemini, all day

    needs and habits

    The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and John 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.

  3. Mercury in Taurus

    8° Taurus 45' at midday

    mind and voice

    With Mercury in Taurus, John is likely to think slowly and thoroughly, and a conclusion once reached is rarely revisited without good reason. The communication style is plain and practical rather than showy. A new idea that clashes with what they already believe may have to wait a while for a hearing.

  4. Venus in Taurus

    22° Taurus 17' at midday

    love and values

    Venus in Taurus loves steadily and shows it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures, and in John's chart it is likely to value loyalty and things built to last. Because change feels like loss, this Venus can hold on to a relationship past its natural end. Months in, people with this placement tend to remember exactly how someone takes their coffee.

  5. Mars in Cancer or Leo

    Cancer until about 00:15, then Leo

    drive and anger

    Born before about 00:15: Mars in Cancer

    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 John, 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.

    Born after about 00:15: Mars in Leo

    Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for John its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.

  6. Jupiter in Leo

    19° Leo 22' 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.

  7. Saturn in Gemini

    26° Gemini 23' at midday

    discipline and doubt

    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 John 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.

  8. Uranus in Gemini

    8° Gemini 29' at midday

    freedom, generational

    Uranus in Gemini is shared by John 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.

  9. Neptune in Libra

    1° Libra 34' at midday ℞

    imagination, generational

    A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, John 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.

  10. Pluto in Leo

    6° Leo 39' 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 John, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.

Aspects in John Newcombe’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.

  1. Sun trine Neptune

    about 0.2° at midday

    John Newcombe's identity and imagination flow together easily, giving them an intuitive, artistic quality that feels natural rather than performed. With the Sun trine Neptune, compassion comes without much effort, and other people often sense it before a word has been said.

  2. Mars sextile Neptune

    about 1.3° at midday

    In John's chart, drive and imagination help each other along gently, so inspired action is possible before everything has been mapped out. The motivation is soft but workable, and it keeps a creative or compassionate project moving without forcing it.

  3. Sun sextile Mars

    about 1.5° at midday

    John's identity and energy work together, giving them an easy confidence that is there when they decide to use it. With this aspect, taking the initiative comes more naturally than might be expected, especially when the stakes are theirs to own.

  4. Mercury square Pluto

    about 2.1° at midday

    A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as John 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.

  5. Venus square Jupiter

    about 2.9° at midday

    Under this square, John's generosity can run past what is sustainable, whether in time, affection or promises made in a warm moment. The warmth is sincere; the work is matching it to a scale that can be kept up over the months that follow the excitement, not only the first one.

  6. Sun sextile Pluto

    about 4.9° at midday

    John's identity and depth are allies, which gives them resilience without constant upheaval. They probably handle intensity better than most, and it takes less out of them than it looks from outside, especially once they trust their own steadiness.

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 1.8°
  • Saturn square Neptuneabout 5.2°
  • Mars conjunction Plutoabout 6.4°
  • Sun conjunction Uranusabout 6.7°
  • Uranus trine Neptuneabout 6.9°

Gemini Sun and Gemini Moon, like John Newcombe

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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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