Roger Federer’s birth chart
Born 8 August 1981, in Basel, Switzerland, at 08:40 (Rodden A).
Leo Sun · Scorpio Moon · Virgo rising
Roger Federer’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Roger Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland, on 8 August 1981, a Saturday. The Sun was in Leo, so Leo is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Scorpio and Virgo rising. Roger turns 45 in 2026. The birth time, 08:40, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of A, which means it was given from memory by the person or someone close to them.
By element the count is three fire, three air, three water and one earth. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, four and two. Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto all fall in Libra. They are slow planets, so the grouping is shared with people born around the same time. The tightest aspect is Neptune sextile Pluto, 0.3° from exact. One planet was retrograde: Neptune. The Moon was at its first quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 14 other people born on 8 August, among them Dustin Hoffman, Jostein Gaarder and Louis van Gaal.
See the sky the night Roger was born: the stars over Basel, Switzerland at 08:40, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Roger Federer’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Leo
15° Leo 37'
A Leo Sun shines. For Roger Federer that suggests warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who they really are, running through much of what they do. This placement grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon sign
Scorpio
20° Scorpio 44'
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Roger that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
Rising sign
Virgo
11° Virgo 00'
Virgo rising gives Roger a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 08:40 on 8 August 1981, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 15° Leo 37' | House 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 20° Scorpio 44' | House 3 |
| Mercury | 13° Leo 27' | House 11 |
| Venus | 17° Virgo 41' | House 1 |
| Mars | 13° Cancer 56' | House 11 |
| Jupiter | 7° Libra 18' | House 2 |
| Saturn | 6° Libra 12' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 26° Scorpio 03' | House 3 |
| Neptune | 22° Sagittarius 15'℞ | House 4 |
| Pluto | 21° Libra 55' | House 2 |
| North Node | 1° Leo 36' | House 11 |
| South Node | 1° Aquarius 36' | House 5 |
Roger Federer’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Roger Federer’s private life.
Purpose for Roger Federer is probably tied to creating and being seen doing it, and a Leo Sun's vitality rises the moment there is an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. The giveaway is often the extra effort that goes into something the moment someone notices them making it.
With the Sun in the twelfth house, Roger's identity may be quieter and more private than it looks from the outside, and solitude is probably where they recharge the parts of themselves that rarely get seen. The Sun here treats rest as the fuel the rest of life runs on, not as wasted time.
For Roger, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
The Moon in the third house suggests someone who talks or writes a feeling through until it makes sense, and Roger may find silence around an unspoken worry deeply unsettling. A conversation with the right person at the right moment is often how Roger finds their footing again.
Mercury in Leo gives Roger a mind that thinks in confident, story-shaped terms and communicates with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. Attachment to being right can make Roger more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.
Mercury in the eleventh house means Roger thinks in terms of the whole group, coming up with ideas for the causes and communities they care about rather than only for themselves. Brainstorming with friends, informally and without pressure, is probably where much of Roger's best thinking happens.
With Venus in Virgo, Roger 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.
Venus in the first house is associated with warmth and charm in a person's manner, and Roger is likely to come across as easy to like before much else is known. Personal style, whatever form it takes, is part of the appeal with this placement and not an accessory to it.
Mars in Cancer acts to protect the people and things that matter, and its anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The habit to watch, for Roger, may be going quiet or indirect instead of naming the upset. Other people tend to notice a shift of mood and take a while to trace it back to its cause.
Mars in the eleventh house puts energy into friendships and causes, and Roger is often the one who gets a whole group moving. Friction in a group probably does not scare them off, and they would rather push through a disagreement than step around it.
Jupiter in Libra
7° Libra 18' · second house
growth and excess
In Roger's chart, Jupiter in Libra suggests growth through partnership and a gift for bringing people together. Excess here looks like pleasing people so broadly that every expectation becomes a commitment. Someone with this Jupiter is often the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.
Open-handedness is the mark of Jupiter in the second house, and Roger would probably rather share a good thing than guard it. Their values widen as more of the world is seen, and rarely stay fixed for long.
For Roger, 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.
With Saturn in the second house, Roger takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Scorpio
26° Scorpio 03' · third house
freedom, generational
Much of Roger's age group has Uranus in Scorpio. It changes attitudes to power, secrecy and what is held in common, often while living through upheavals in institutions once considered permanent. In an individual it tends to be a low tolerance for hidden agendas.
Uranus in the third house works in sudden leaps rather than tidy steps, and Roger often says the thing nobody expected, in exactly the way nobody expected. New ideas excite them far more than familiar ones, and hearing the same thought twice bores them fast.
Neptune in Sagittarius
22° Sagittarius 15' ℞ · fourth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Roger in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Roger is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Libra
21° Libra 55' · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Roger belongs to, because Pluto moves so slowly. That generation transforms ideas of partnership, fairness and what people owe one another. Personally it can be an intense need for relationships to be fundamentally fair.
Pluto in the second house means Roger holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in Roger Federer’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Jupiter conjunction Saturn
1.1° separating
Growth and discipline are unusually well matched when Jupiter is conjunct Saturn, so Roger Federer's optimism tends to come with a realistic plan attached. It is an effective combination for building things that last, with vision balanced by the patience to see it through.
Sun conjunction Mercury
2.2° applying
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Roger's sense of self and way of thinking are fused, so an opinion can feel like a statement of who they are. They are likely to speak their mind readily, and telling a passing thought apart from their identity is a practice worth keeping up.
Moon sextile Venus
3.1° separating
Warmth and emotional generosity are likely to come naturally to Roger, because feeling and affection get along in this aspect. There is a gentle, likeable tenderness in it, the sort that makes people comfortable saying how they feel.
Venus sextile Mars
3.7° separating
A sextile between Venus and Mars tends to let Roger go after what they like without much inner conflict, because affection and drive are pulling the same way. It is a pleasant, workable confidence, at its most useful in the early stages of anything new.
Venus square Neptune
4.6° applying
Under Venus square Neptune, affection can blur into an idealised picture of love, and disappointment follows when a real person or relationship falls short of the dream. Roger's task is to love what is there, which tends to prove more durable than loving the fantasy.
Sun square Moon
5.1° separating
With the Sun square the Moon, who Roger is trying to be and what comforts them can tug in different directions, and that friction sharpens self-awareness. Working through it teaches them to want things in a way their feelings can live with.
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 Pluto0.3°
- Moon conjunction Uranus5.3°
- Sun trine Neptune6.6°
- Mars square Jupiter6.6°
- Moon trine Mars6.8°
- Moon square Mercury7.3°
Leo Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Roger Federer
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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; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its 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, Astro-Databank (From memory). Birth time rated A on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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