Richard Attenborough’s birth chart
Born 29 August 1923, in Cambridge, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Virgo Sun · Aries Moon
Richard Attenborough’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Richard Attenborough was born on Wednesday, 29 August 1923, in Cambridge, England. That made Richard a Virgo, with the Moon in Aries. Richard died on 24 August 2014, aged 90. StarMap has no verified birth time for Richard, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three fire, three water, two earth and two air. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, three and three. The tightest aspect is Jupiter trine Pluto, about 1.0° 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: Uranus. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 18 other people born on 29 August, among them Michael Jackson, John McCain and Ingrid Bergman.
See the sky the day Richard was born: the stars over Cambridge, England, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Richard Attenborough’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
about 5° Virgo at midday
A Virgo Sun refines. Richard Attenborough 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
Aries
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
With the Moon in Aries, Richard is likely to feel fast and forgive fast. Anger comes up quickly and passes just as quickly, and feeling needs a physical outlet. This is a Moon soothed by action, not by talking it over.
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 Cambridge, England, at each hour of the day.
Richard Attenborough’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for 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 29 August 1923, computed for Cambridge, England.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:20 | Gemini rising |
| 00:20 to 02:50 | Cancer rising |
| 02:50 to 05:40 | Leo rising |
| 05:40 to 08:35 | Virgo rising |
| 08:35 to 11:25 | Libra rising |
| 11:25 to 14:15 | Scorpio rising |
| 14:15 to 16:50 | Sagittarius rising |
| 16:50 to 18:35 | Capricorn rising |
| 18:35 to 19:40 | Aquarius rising |
| 19:40 to 20:30 | Pisces rising |
| 20:30 to 21:25 | Aries rising |
| 21:25 to 22:30 | Taurus rising |
| 22:30 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 29 August 1923, 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 | 5° Virgo 04' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Aries |
| Mercury | 1° Libra 45' |
| Venus | 1° Virgo 48' |
| Mars | 28° Leo 21' |
| Jupiter | 12° Scorpio 59' |
| Saturn | 17° Libra 25' |
| Uranus | 16° Pisces 00'℞ |
| Neptune | 18° Leo 33' |
| Pluto | 11° Cancer 59' |
| North Node | 11° Virgo 28' |
| South Node | 11° Pisces 28' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Richard Attenborough’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Richard Attenborough’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Richard Attenborough'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 Aries keeps day-to-day needs simple: something to do right now, and permission to feel it and move on. For Richard, comfort probably comes from action rather than discussion. The instinct of this Moon is to pace the room or go for a walk rather than sit with a feeling until it passes on its own.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Richard 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.
With Venus in Virgo, Richard is likely to love through small, practical acts of service and to value competence and reliability in a partner. People with this Venus tend to be hardest on those they love most, and can mistake giving notes for giving care. They may try to fix a partner's problem before simply listening to it.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Richard 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.
Jupiter in Scorpio
12° Scorpio 59' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Richard, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Richard, 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 Pisces
16° Pisces 00' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Richard has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
18° Leo 33' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Richard alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
11° Cancer 59' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates 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 Richard Attenborough’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.
Jupiter trine Pluto
about 1.0° at midday
In this trine, Richard Attenborough's optimism and capacity for transformation feed each other, and the combination can give them the power to turn a big vision into lasting change. The growth it brings tends to be deep as well as broad, which is why the bigger changes usually stick.
Saturn sextile Neptune
about 1.1° at midday
Richard's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Jupiter trine Uranus
about 3.0° at midday
Jupiter trine Uranus gives Richard a knack for spotting unconventional opportunities before other people do, which is what a sense of possibility and originality produce together. Growth arrives through new directions, ones a more cautious approach would probably have missed.
Sun conjunction Venus
about 3.3° at midday
Who Richard is and what they love are likely to be closely bound, so their identity has relationships and beauty at its centre rather than at its edge. People with the Sun conjunct Venus tend to give affection openly, and their sense of self can rise and fall a little with how appreciated they feel.
Venus conjunction Mars
about 3.4° at midday
With Venus conjunct Mars, affection and drive are closely linked, so, for Richard, wanting something and going after it are likely to feel like one impulse. The aspect brings plenty of romantic and creative energy; its test is letting the wanting outlast the first chase.
Saturn square Pluto
about 5.4° at midday
Saturn square Pluto sets the need for control against the instinct for transformation, and Richard 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.
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 trine Plutoabout 4.0°
- Jupiter square Neptuneabout 5.6°
- Sun conjunction Marsabout 6.7°
Virgo Sun and Aries Moon, like Richard Attenborough
Also born on 29 August
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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