Leslie Cheung’s birth chart
Born 12 September 1956, in British Hong Kong, United Kingdom. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon
Leslie Cheung’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
12 September 1956 was a Wednesday: the day Leslie Cheung was born in British Hong Kong, United Kingdom. The Sun was in Virgo, so Virgo was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Sagittarius. They died on 1 April 2003, aged 46. StarMap has no verified birth time for them, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Fire carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against earth two, air two and water two. Fixed signs hold four, mutable signs four and cardinal signs two. Three planets stand together in Leo: Venus, Uranus and Pluto. The tightest aspect is Neptune sextile 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. One planet was retrograde: Mars. The Moon was at its first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 25 other people born on 12 September, among them Stanisław Lem, Paul Walker and Jesse Owens.
See the sky the day Leslie Cheung was born: the stars over British Hong Kong, United Kingdom, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Leslie Cheung’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 19° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Leslie Cheung 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 Leslie Cheung, 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 British Hong Kong, United Kingdom, at each hour of the day.
Leslie Cheung’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Leslie Cheung 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 12 September 1956, computed for British Hong Kong, United Kingdom.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:20 | Gemini rising |
| 01:20 to 03:35 | Cancer rising |
| 03:35 to 05:50 | Leo rising |
| 05:50 to 08:00 | Virgo rising |
| 08:00 to 10:10 | Libra rising |
| 10:10 to 12:25 | Scorpio rising |
| 12:25 to 14:40 | Sagittarius rising |
| 14:40 to 16:40 | Capricorn rising |
| 16:40 to 18:25 | Aquarius rising |
| 18:25 to 20:00 | Pisces rising |
| 20:00 to 21:30 | Aries rising |
| 21:30 to 23:15 | Taurus rising |
| 23:15 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 12 September 1956, 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 | 19° Virgo 19' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Sagittarius |
| Mercury | 12° Libra 04' |
| Venus | 3° Leo 49' |
| Mars | 17° Pisces 48'℞ |
| Jupiter | 13° Virgo 42' |
| Saturn | 27° Scorpio 38' |
| Uranus | 5° Leo 23' |
| Neptune | 28° Libra 42' |
| Pluto | 28° Leo 59' |
| North Node | 2° Sagittarius 04' |
| South Node | 2° Gemini 04' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Leslie Cheung’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Leslie Cheung’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Leslie Cheung'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 Leslie Cheung 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 Leslie Cheung 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.
Venus in Leo loves generously and openly, and values being someone's clear favourite above almost anything else on offer. For Leslie Cheung, the tension this suggests is needing steady reassurance of still being adored. Their gestures tend to be grand and thoughtful, and it can sting when those go unnoticed.
With Mars in Pisces, Leslie Cheung is likely to act indirectly, often through avoidance or quiet withdrawal rather than confrontation, and anger can turn into sadness before it has even been named as anger. The habit is to absorb conflict rather than address it. Often they need to leave a tense room before they can work out what they feel.
Jupiter in Virgo
13° Virgo 42' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Virgo finds its growth in mastering a craft in unglamorous detail, one small correction at a time. For Leslie Cheung, perfectionism may be the excess, turning growth into an endless list of corrections. People with this Jupiter are often trusted with more responsibility than they feel they deserve, usually because the care in the work shows.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Leslie Cheung letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Leo
5° Leo 23' at midday
freedom, generational
Leslie Cheung shares Uranus in Leo with a generation, one that redefines self-expression and individuality, often through forms of creativity and visibility that were not available before. Closer to home, it suggests being comfortable with being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.
Neptune in Libra
28° Libra 42' at midday
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Leslie Cheung 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
28° Leo 59' 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 Leslie Cheung, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Leslie Cheung’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.
Saturn square Pluto
about 1.3° at midday
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Leslie Cheung may grip a structure most tightly at the very moment it needs to change. Each old form that is let go leaves a strength behind that is more real than the grip was.
Sun opposition Mars
about 1.5° at midday
The Sun opposite Mars pits self-assertion against putting other people's wishes first, and for Leslie Cheung that can play out as a tug of war with partners or rivals. Learning to want things directly, without needing a fight to justify the wanting, settles more than it stirs up.
Venus conjunction Uranus
about 1.6° at midday
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and Leslie Cheung 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.
Mars opposition Jupiter
about 4.1° at midday
Mars opposite Jupiter pits Leslie Cheung's own direct action against other people's grander plans or expectations, which can end in overcommitting to someone else's vision. Leslie Cheung's own sense of scale is usually a better guide than anyone else's.
Venus square Neptune
about 5.1° at midday
Under Venus square Neptune, affection can blur into an idealised picture of love, and disappointment follows when a real person or relationship falls short of the dream. Leslie Cheung's task is to love what is there, which tends to prove more durable than loving the fantasy.
Sun conjunction Jupiter
about 5.6° at midday
Leslie Cheung's identity carries a natural optimism and a generous sense of scale, so they tend to think bigger than the room requires. Confidence comes easily with the Sun conjunct Jupiter, and the discipline worth building is matching that optimism with follow-through.
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°
- Venus trine Saturnabout 6.2°
- Uranus square Neptuneabout 6.7°
Virgo Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Leslie Cheung
Also born on 12 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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