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Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough’s birth chart

Born 29 August 1923, in Cambridge, England. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.

Virgo Sun · Aries Moon

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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.

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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.

Everyone with the Moon in Aries

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.

Rising sign by time of birth, local time
Born around (local time)Rising sign
00:00 to 00:20Gemini rising
00:20 to 02:50Cancer rising
02:50 to 05:40Leo rising
05:40 to 08:35Virgo rising
08:35 to 11:25Libra rising
11:25 to 14:15Scorpio rising
14:15 to 16:50Sagittarius rising
16:50 to 18:35Capricorn rising
18:35 to 19:40Aquarius rising
19:40 to 20:30Pisces rising
20:30 to 21:25Aries rising
21:25 to 22:30Taurus rising
22:30 to 24:00Gemini rising

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

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Placements

Richard Attenborough’s planets by sign
Sun5° Virgo 04'
MoonAries
Mercury1° Libra 45'
Venus1° Virgo 48'
Mars28° Leo 21'
Jupiter12° Scorpio 59'
Saturn17° Libra 25'
Uranus16° Pisces 00'℞
Neptune18° Leo 33'
Pluto11° Cancer 59'
North Node11° Virgo 28'
South Node11° 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.

  1. Sun in Virgo

    5° Virgo 04' at midday

    purpose and vitality

    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.

  2. Moon in Aries

    Aries, all day

    needs and habits

    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.

  3. Mercury in Libra

    1° Libra 45' at midday

    mind and voice

    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.

  4. Venus in Virgo

    1° Virgo 48' at midday

    love and values

    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.

  5. Mars in Leo

    28° Leo 21' at midday

    drive and anger

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. Saturn in Libra

    17° Libra 25' at midday

    discipline and doubt

    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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

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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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