Robert Noyce’s birth chart
Born 12 December 1927, in Burlington, Iowa. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Sagittarius Sun · Leo Moon
Robert Noyce’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
12 December 1927 was a Monday: the day Robert Noyce was born in Burlington, Iowa. The Sun was in Sagittarius, so Sagittarius was their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Leo. Robert died on 3 June 1990, aged 62. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
By element the count is six fire, four water, no earth and no air. Mutable signs hold six, fixed signs three and cardinal signs one. Sagittarius holds a stellium, four planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Mercury and Mars: a conjunction, about 1.9° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 20 other people born on 12 December, among them Frank Sinatra, Chinghiz Aitmatov and Jennifer Connelly.
See the sky the day Robert was born: the stars over Burlington, Iowa, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Robert Noyce’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Sagittarius
about 19° Sagittarius at midday
A Sagittarius Sun seeks. Meaning, distance and the bigger picture are likely to pull Robert Noyce 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
Leo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Robert up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.
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 Burlington, Iowa, at each hour of the day.
Robert Noyce’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Robert 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 12 December 1927, computed for Burlington, Iowa.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:45 | Virgo rising |
| 00:45 to 03:15 | Libra rising |
| 03:15 to 05:50 | Scorpio rising |
| 05:50 to 08:10 | Sagittarius rising |
| 08:10 to 10:05 | Capricorn rising |
| 10:05 to 11:30 | Aquarius rising |
| 11:30 to 12:45 | Pisces rising |
| 12:45 to 13:55 | Aries rising |
| 13:55 to 15:20 | Taurus rising |
| 15:20 to 17:15 | Gemini rising |
| 17:15 to 19:35 | Cancer rising |
| 19:35 to 22:10 | Leo rising |
| 22:10 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 12 December 1927, 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 | 19° Sagittarius 43' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Leo |
| Mercury | 4° Sagittarius 57' |
| Venus | 4° Scorpio 18' |
| Mars | 3° Sagittarius 02' |
| Jupiter | 24° Pisces 30' |
| Saturn | 11° Sagittarius 17' |
| Uranus | 29° Pisces 29' |
| Neptune | 29° Leo 09'℞ |
| Pluto | 16° Cancer 36'℞ |
| North Node | 18° Gemini 41' |
| South Node | 18° Sagittarius 41' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Robert Noyce’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Robert Noyce’s private life.
Growth, travel and ideas bigger than daily life are where Robert Noyce'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.
A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Robert faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Robert did.
Robert'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 Robert 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 Sagittarius acts boldly and wants room to move while doing it, and its anger flares fast over anything that feels like a limit on freedom. Robert may speak bluntly in the heat of the moment and smooth it over later. Given the choice, this placement walks away from a fight rather than staying to work it out.
Jupiter in Pisces
24° Pisces 30' at midday
growth and excess
For Robert, Jupiter in Pisces means finding growth in compassion, imagination and a willingness to trust things that cannot be fully explained. The overreach is an idealism about people or situations that the facts do not quite support. Others lean on this generosity of spirit more than they let on.
Saturn in Sagittarius builds discipline around belief and meaning, testing a big idea hard before committing to it. In front of people who might challenge a conviction, Robert is likely to hedge. Over time, someone with this Saturn often becomes a credible voice on the very questions they once felt they had no right to answer.
Uranus in Pisces
29° Pisces 29' at midday
freedom, generational
Robert 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
29° Leo 09' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Robert 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
16° Cancer 36' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Robert 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 Robert Noyce’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.
Mercury conjunction Mars
about 1.9° at midday
With Mercury conjunct Mars, thinking and the drive to act are closely linked, so ideas turn into words and decisions almost immediately. It makes Robert Noyce quick and direct in conversation, and the discipline is letting a thought settle before saying it out loud.
Mars trine Uranus
about 3.5° at midday
Robert's drive and originality tend to run together easily, which allows fast, inventive action when a situation calls for something different. Mars trine Uranus can make a bold move look natural, and it is carried off more often than the risk would seem to justify.
Mars square Neptune
about 3.9° at midday
Under this square, drive can dissolve into confusion or self-doubt just when clarity matters most, especially around goals that involve other people's expectations. It helps Robert to separate the plan itself from the feeling of overwhelm that surrounds it.
Sun square Jupiter
about 4.8° at midday
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Robert 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.
Jupiter conjunction Uranus
about 5.0° at midday
Growth comes suddenly and by unconventional routes with Jupiter conjunct Uranus, and Robert is likely to be drawn to opportunities that break from the expected path. Openness to change is the strength. Following through on one bold idea before moving on to the next is the discipline.
Mercury trine Uranus
about 5.5° at midday
Insight is likely to come to Robert fast and without much effort, the product of thinking and originality that flow together easily. With Mercury trine Uranus, new ideas tend to arrive when they are needed, often faster than they can be written down.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Mercury square Neptuneabout 5.8°
- Mercury conjunction Saturnabout 6.3°
- Sun conjunction Saturnabout 8.4°
Sagittarius Sun and Leo Moon, like Robert Noyce
Also born on 12 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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