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Matt Busby’s birth chart

Born 26 May 1909, in Bellshill, Scotland. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Gemini Sun · Moon in Leo or Virgo

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Matt Busby’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief

Matt Busby was born in Bellshill, Scotland, on 26 May 1909, a Wednesday. Their zodiac sign was Gemini. The Moon changed sign at about 15:15, from Leo to Virgo; which of the two is the Moon sign depends on the hour of birth. Matt died on 20 January 1994, aged 84. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.

Air carries the most weight: four of the nine planets whose sign does not depend on the birth time, against earth two, water two and fire one. By modality the count is six mutable, three cardinal and no fixed. Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto all fall in Gemini. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Jupiter: a square, about 0.9° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Uranus was retrograde. Over the course of the day the Moon went from waxing crescent to first quarter.

StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 26 May, among them John Wayne, Miles Davis and Helena Bonham Carter.

See the sky the day Matt was born: the stars over Bellshill, Scotland, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.

Matt Busby’s Sun, Moon and rising sign

Sun sign

Gemini

about 4° Gemini at midday

A Gemini Sun connects. Ideas, people and conversations are its element, and Matt Busby 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

Leo or Virgo

Leo until about 15:15, then Virgo (local time). Which one depends on a birth time StarMap does not have.

Born before about 15:15: Moon in Leo

A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Matt up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.

Born after about 15:15: Moon in Virgo

A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Matt is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.

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 Bellshill, Scotland, at each hour of the day.

Matt Busby’s rising sign, by birth time

StarMap has not verified a birth time for Matt 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 26 May 1909, computed for Bellshill, Scotland.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 00:25Capricorn rising
00:25 to 01:25Aquarius rising
01:25 to 02:05Pisces rising
02:05 to 02:45Aries rising
02:45 to 03:45Taurus rising
03:45 to 05:25Gemini rising
05:25 to 08:00Cancer rising
08:00 to 11:00Leo rising
11:00 to 14:05Virgo rising
14:05 to 17:05Libra rising
17:05 to 20:05Scorpio rising
20:05 to 22:40Sagittarius rising
22:40 to 24:00Capricorn rising

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

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Placements

Matt Busby’s planets by sign
Sun4° Gemini 34'
MoonLeo until about 15:15, then Virgo
Mercury25° Gemini 42'
Venus11° Gemini 57'
Mars0° Pisces 20'
Jupiter5° Virgo 26'
Saturn19° Aries 17'
Uranus20° Capricorn 42'℞
Neptune15° Cancer 17'
Pluto24° Gemini 49'
North Node16° Gemini 43'
South Node16° Sagittarius 43'

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

Matt Busby’s planets, sign by sign

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

  1. Sun in Gemini

    4° Gemini 34' at midday

    purpose and vitality

    For Matt Busby, 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 Leo or Virgo

    Leo until about 15:15, then Virgo

    needs and habits

    Born before about 15:15: Moon in Leo

    A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Matt faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Matt did.

    Born after about 15:15: Moon in Virgo

    The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Matt's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Matt's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.

  3. Mercury in Gemini

    25° Gemini 42' at midday

    mind and voice

    Matt's Mercury in Gemini describes a mind that moves fast across many subjects at once and communicates easily in almost any setting. The tension is skimming the surface of a topic and moving on before going deep enough to be sure of it. The result is knowing a little about a great many things.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    11° Gemini 57' at midday

    love and values

    Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Matt probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    0° Pisces 20' at midday

    drive and anger

    With Mars in Pisces, Matt 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.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo

    5° Virgo 26' 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 Matt, 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.

  7. Saturn in Aries

    19° Aries 17' at midday

    discipline and doubt

    Saturn in Aries builds discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse. For Matt, that suggests a doubt that takes the form of second-guessing: too fast, or not fast enough? Confidence in their own initiative tends to come slowly, once the rush goes out of every decision.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    20° Capricorn 42' at midday ℞

    freedom, generational

    Many people within a few years of Matt's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.

  9. Neptune in Cancer

    15° Cancer 17' at midday

    imagination, generational

    Neptune in Cancer is shared by Matt and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    24° Gemini 49' at midday

    power, generational

    Matt shares Pluto in Gemini with many people born in the same long stretch of years. That generation transforms communication and collective thought, often through upheavals in how information is controlled and shared. The personal portion is an intense relationship with what counts as truth.

Aspects in Matt Busby’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 square Jupiter

    about 0.9° at midday

    Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Matt Busby may promise more than can be delivered and then walk it back. The lesson of a Sun-Jupiter square is scaling a good instinct to a size that holds.

  2. Mercury conjunction Pluto

    about 0.9° at midday

    Matt's thinking is likely to be probing and intense, drawn to what lies underneath a surface explanation. With Mercury conjunct Pluto, getting to the bottom of things comes naturally, and the caution is not to assume a hidden motive where an ordinary one will do.

  3. Saturn square Uranus

    about 1.4° at midday

    The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Matt's chart, producing either rigid routines that eventually snap or sudden breaks from commitments that were meant sincerely. Saturn square Uranus is best answered with structure loose enough to bend before it has to break.

  4. Saturn square Neptune

    about 4.0° at midday

    Practical sense and idealism can pull against each other in this square, and for Matt 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.

  5. Sun square Mars

    about 4.2° at midday

    Impatience, or a habit of picking fights that did not need picking, can come from the clash between Matt's sense of self and their drive to act. With the Sun square Mars, a pause between the impulse and the action turns this friction into determination they can use.

  6. Mercury trine Mars

    about 4.6° at midday

    Matt's thinking and drive support each other, and it shows in decisions communicated with clarity and confidence. Debate and quick thinking come easily with Mercury trine Mars, which makes Matt persuasive when the moment calls for it.

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.

  • Mars opposition Jupiterabout 5.1°
  • Uranus opposition Neptuneabout 5.4°
  • Mars trine Plutoabout 5.5°
  • Sun conjunction Venusabout 7.4°

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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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