Mike Oldfield’s birth chart
Born 15 May 1953, in Reading, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Taurus Sun · Gemini Moon
Mike Oldfield’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Mike Oldfield was born in Reading, England, on 15 May 1953, a Friday. Their zodiac sign is Taurus, with the Moon in Gemini. Mike turns 73 in 2026. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
Of the ten planets, five are in air signs, two in fire, two in earth and one in water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, three and three. Gemini holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Moon, Mars and Jupiter. The tightest aspect is Saturn conjunction Neptune, about 0.1° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Saturn and Neptune. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 12 other people born on 15 May, among them Layal Abboud, Andy Murray and Ousmane Dembélé.
See the sky the day Mike was born: the stars over Reading, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Mike Oldfield’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Taurus
about 24° Taurus at midday
A Taurus Sun builds. Comfort, steadiness and things that last probably matter more to Mike Oldfield than novelty, and people tend to trust someone who does not change their mind for show. The growth edge is letting go before something stops working.
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 Mike, 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.
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 Reading, England, at each hour of the day.
Mike Oldfield’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Mike 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 15 May 1953, computed for Reading, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 01:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 01:35 to 02:40 | Aquarius rising |
| 02:40 to 03:35 | Pisces rising |
| 03:35 to 04:25 | Aries rising |
| 04:25 to 05:35 | Taurus rising |
| 05:35 to 07:20 | Gemini rising |
| 07:20 to 09:50 | Cancer rising |
| 09:50 to 12:40 | Leo rising |
| 12:40 to 15:30 | Virgo rising |
| 15:30 to 18:25 | Libra rising |
| 18:25 to 21:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 21:10 to 23:45 | Sagittarius rising |
| 23:45 to 24:00 | Capricorn 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 15 May 1953, 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 | 24° Taurus 18' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Gemini |
| Mercury | 13° Taurus 42' |
| Venus | 17° Aries 08' |
| Mars | 9° Gemini 51' |
| Jupiter | 1° Gemini 21' |
| Saturn | 21° Libra 45'℞ |
| Uranus | 15° Cancer 39' |
| Neptune | 21° Libra 40'℞ |
| Pluto | 20° Leo 50' |
| North Node | 5° Aquarius 50' |
| South Node | 5° Leo 50' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Mike Oldfield’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Mike Oldfield’s private life.
A Taurus Sun finds purpose in building something that lasts, and Mike Oldfield's vitality probably runs slow and steady rather than in bursts. The drawback is a reluctance to change course even when the plan is clearly not working. People with this Sun can stay in one job or one home long after part of them knows it is time to move.
The Moon in Gemini runs its daily habits on conversation and mental stimulation, and Mike 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.
With Mercury in Taurus, Mike 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.
Venus in Aries loves with immediacy and pursues what it wants without much hesitation, and it values a partner who can keep up. For Mike that suggests an interest that can fade once the chase is over. The pattern is to fall fast and to need a relationship to keep feeling like a choice, not a routine.
With Mars in Gemini, Mike is likely to act through words, argument and quick manoeuvring rather than force, and anger to come out sharp and verbal. Arguments can be won without the conflict underneath ever being resolved. A disagreement can still be under debate long after the other person just wants it to end.
Jupiter in Gemini
1° Gemini 21' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Gemini grows through learning and exposure to as many ideas as can be gathered, and its optimism is contagious in conversation. Mike may overreach by knowing a little about everything and claiming more certainty than the depth supports. This is someone who can be the best-read person in the room on subjects they have never studied closely.
For Mike, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Cancer
15° Cancer 39' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus in Cancer belongs to an age group rather than to Mike alone. Its mark is a generation that redefines home and family, departing from the structures the previous generation grew up inside. At the personal level it is read as a pull to build family life differently.
Neptune in Libra
21° Libra 40' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Mike 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
20° Leo 50' 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 Mike, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Aspects in Mike Oldfield’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 conjunction Neptune
about 0.1° at midday
Mike Oldfield tends to give a vague dream a workable shape, because Saturn conjunct Neptune ties discipline closely to imagination. It makes them unusually able to turn inspiration into something lasting, provided doubt is not allowed to talk them out of an idea before it has been tested.
Saturn sextile Pluto
about 0.9° at midday
No crisis is needed to bring out Mike's resilience, because discipline and depth are on working terms in this sextile. Long, steady effort tends to be rewarded in ways that build quietly over time, not all at once.
Venus square Uranus
about 1.5° at midday
In Mike's chart the desire for closeness and the need for freedom can work against each other, and this square is known for sudden shifts in an otherwise good relationship. The remedy is to build enough independence into the relationship that none has to be created by pulling away.
Mercury sextile Uranus
about 1.9° at midday
Fresh angles on ordinary problems come easily to Mike, because thinking and originality are friends here. Inventiveness takes little effort with this aspect, and it makes routine problems more interesting than they first appear.
Sun square Pluto
about 3.5° at midday
With this aspect, Mike's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Mike chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Venus trine Pluto
about 3.7° at midday
With Venus trine Pluto, affection and the capacity for change tend to strengthen each other in Mike's chart, the kind of pairing that gives relationships staying power through hard times. Depth can arrive here without constant upheaval, and that is rarer, and more durable, than the intensity some people mistake for closeness.
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 0.8°
- Venus opposition Neptuneabout 4.5°
- Venus opposition Saturnabout 4.6°
- Uranus square Neptuneabout 6.0°
- Saturn square Uranusabout 6.1°
- Sun conjunction Jupiterabout 7.1°
Taurus Sun and Gemini Moon, like Mike Oldfield
Also born on 15 May
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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