Little Richard’s birth chart
Born 5 December 1932, in Macon, Georgia. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Pisces Moon
Little Richard’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Little Richard was born in Macon, Georgia, on 5 December 1932, a Monday. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Pisces. They died on 9 May 2020, aged 87. No verified birth time is on file for them; the chart is cast for midday, without houses.
Of the ten planets, three are in fire signs, three in earth, three in water and one in air. Mutable signs hold six, cardinal signs two and fixed signs two. Virgo holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mars and Neptune: a conjunction, about 0.5° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Mercury, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from first quarter to waxing gibbous.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 5 December, among them Walt Disney, José Carreras and Ronnie O'Sullivan.
See the sky the day Little Richard was born: the stars over Macon, Georgia, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Little Richard’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 13° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Little Richard forward, and the honesty of this placement is a kind of generosity. Its lesson is that the journey also needs somewhere to land.
Moon sign
Pisces
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Pisces, Little Richard may well pick up the mood of a whole room. Music, water, sleep and imagination tend to restore them, and it matters whose moods they carry home. The empathy of this Moon is a gift that needs a door.
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 Macon, Georgia, at each hour of the day.
Little Richard’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Little Richard 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 5 December 1932, computed for Macon, Georgia.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:40 | Virgo rising |
| 01:40 to 04:00 | Libra rising |
| 04:00 to 06:25 | Scorpio rising |
| 06:25 to 08:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:45 to 10:40 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:40 to 12:15 | Aquarius rising |
| 12:15 to 13:40 | Pisces rising |
| 13:40 to 15:00 | Aries rising |
| 15:00 to 16:35 | Taurus rising |
| 16:35 to 18:30 | Gemini rising |
| 18:30 to 20:50 | Cancer rising |
| 20:50 to 23:15 | Leo rising |
| 23:15 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 5 December 1932, 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 | 13° Sagittarius 22' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Pisces |
| Mercury | 10° Sagittarius 57'℞ |
| Venus | 10° Scorpio 41' |
| Mars | 9° Virgo 42' |
| Jupiter | 21° Virgo 32' |
| Saturn | 1° Aquarius 18' |
| Uranus | 19° Aries 40'℞ |
| Neptune | 10° Virgo 10' |
| Pluto | 23° Cancer 06'℞ |
| North Node | 12° Pisces 31' |
| South Node | 12° Virgo 31' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Little Richard’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Little Richard’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Little Richard's Sagittarius Sun finds purpose, and their energy tends to lift the moment there is somewhere new to go. Familiarity is what wears on this placement. A few months into any routine, however good it is, restlessness usually sets in.
The Moon in Pisces makes for a porous daily mood, one that picks up the emotional temperature of a room without choosing to. Quiet, music or time near water probably restores Little Richard more than talking things out. It can be easy for them to miss how much of what they feel belongs to someone else.
Little Richard'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 Little Richard 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 Virgo acts carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and its anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. When upset, Little Richard is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Virgo
21° Virgo 32' 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 Little Richard, 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.
With Saturn in Aquarius, Little Richard's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
Uranus in Aries
19° Aries 40' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Uranus spends about seven years in each sign, so Little Richard shares Uranus in Aries with many people of a similar age. It marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. In one life it can appear as impatience with the slow-moving institutions older generations built.
Neptune in Virgo
10° Virgo 10' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Little Richard shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
Pluto in Cancer
23° Cancer 06' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Little Richard to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Little Richard’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.
Mars conjunction Neptune
about 0.5° at midday
Drive is idealistic and imaginative where Mars meets Neptune, and Little Richard is likely to act most powerfully in the service of something they believe in. The energy is inspired. What it wants is a big vision grounded in a plan specific enough to carry out.
Venus sextile Neptune
about 0.5° at midday
Romance and creative warmth tend to be within easy reach for Little Richard, thanks to a gentle working link between affection and imagination. The tenderness is soft and pleasant, not an intense longing, and it is the sort that makes ordinary moments with someone feel a little more meaningful.
Mercury square Neptune
about 0.8° at midday
Wishful assumptions, or a compelling but unverified story, can blur thinking when Mercury is square Neptune. What helps Little Richard is pairing imagination with a habit of checking the details before repeating the story as though it were settled fact.
Venus sextile Mars
about 1.0° at midday
A sextile between Venus and Mars tends to let Little Richard go after what they like without much inner conflict, because affection and drive are pulling the same way. It is a pleasant, workable confidence, at its most useful in the early stages of anything new.
Mercury square Mars
about 1.3° at midday
With Mercury square Mars, thought and impulse can clash, and sharp words get said before Little Richard has fully thought them through. The remedy is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.
Jupiter sextile Pluto
about 1.6° at midday
Meaningful growth without constant upheaval is what Jupiter sextile Pluto describes, with Little Richard's sense of possibility and depth working in concert. The opportunities that matter tend to come at a manageable pace, not all at once in a way that would be hard to absorb.
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.
- Sun conjunction Mercuryabout 2.4°
- Sun square Neptuneabout 3.2°
- Uranus square Plutoabout 3.4°
- Sun square Marsabout 3.7°
- Sun trine Uranusabout 6.3°
Sagittarius Sun and Pisces Moon, like Little Richard
Also born on 5 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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