Sally Rooney’s birth chart
Born 20 February 1991, in Castlebar, Ireland. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Pisces Sun · Taurus Moon
Sally Rooney’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Sally Rooney was born on Wednesday, 20 February 1991, in Castlebar, Ireland. The Sun was in Pisces, so Pisces is their zodiac sign, with the Moon in Taurus. Sally turns 35 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Sally, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three earth, three air, three water and one fire. By modality the count is five fixed, three mutable and two cardinal. The tightest aspect is Mercury square Pluto, about 3.3° 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: Jupiter. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 22 other people born on 20 February, among them Rihanna, Kurt Cobain and Sidney Poitier.
See the sky the day Sally was born: the stars over Castlebar, Ireland, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Sally Rooney’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Pisces
about 1° Pisces at midday
A Pisces Sun feels it all. Imagination, empathy and a porous sense of where the self ends and others begin tend to make Sally Rooney the kind of person people confide in. This placement needs boundaries as much as it needs the sea.
Moon sign
Taurus
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Taurus Moon feels through the body and its surroundings. On this reading, good food, familiar places and slow evenings are what restore Sally, and sudden change lands hard. Once they feel safe, they can be the steadiest person in the room.
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 Castlebar, Ireland, at each hour of the day.
Sally Rooney’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Sally 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 20 February 1991, computed for Castlebar, Ireland.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:30 | Scorpio rising |
| 02:30 to 05:05 | Sagittarius rising |
| 05:05 to 06:50 | Capricorn rising |
| 06:50 to 07:50 | Aquarius rising |
| 07:50 to 08:40 | Pisces rising |
| 08:40 to 09:25 | Aries rising |
| 09:25 to 10:30 | Taurus rising |
| 10:30 to 12:10 | Gemini rising |
| 12:10 to 14:45 | Cancer rising |
| 14:45 to 17:40 | Leo rising |
| 17:40 to 20:35 | Virgo rising |
| 20:35 to 23:30 | Libra rising |
| 23:30 to 24:00 | Scorpio 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 20 February 1991, 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 | 1° Pisces 20' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Taurus |
| Mercury | 23° Aquarius 39' |
| Venus | 27° Pisces 41' |
| Mars | 10° Gemini 00' |
| Jupiter | 5° Leo 45'℞ |
| Saturn | 1° Aquarius 32' |
| Uranus | 12° Capricorn 29' |
| Neptune | 15° Capricorn 53' |
| Pluto | 20° Scorpio 22' |
| North Node | 27° Capricorn 30' |
| South Node | 27° Cancer 30' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Sally Rooney’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Sally Rooney’s private life.
The Sun in Pisces finds purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and Sally Rooney's vitality tends to ebb and flow with their surroundings. The thing to watch is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. There may be days when they feel unstoppable, and others when they need to disappear for a while.
A Taurus Moon needs routine, familiar food and physical comfort to feel steady from day to day. A sudden change of schedule probably unsettles Sally more than they let on. A good bed, a favourite mug or the same coffee order can turn an unsteady morning around.
In Sally's chart, Mercury in Aquarius describes thinking that is original and a step removed from convention, and communication that works best through ideas rather than small talk. The stubborn streak is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has moved on. In a group, this is the person who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.
Venus in Pisces loves without much guard, and Sally probably values emotional and even spiritual connection over anything practical. The temptation can be to idealise a partner before really seeing them. Generosity in relationships comes easily here, and so does missing the moment when giving starts to outweigh getting.
With Mars in Gemini, Sally 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 Leo
5° Leo 45' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Sally the overreach may be overselling their own contribution or expecting more credit than a situation calls for. There is a natural showmanship here that lifts a room, and occasionally a story that grows a little in the retelling.
With Saturn in Aquarius, Sally's discipline probably gathers around belonging to a group on their own terms; it is the placement of the one-time outsider. The doubt means holding back the stranger ideas until there is no risk of mockery. The outsider often ends up as a trusted voice in exactly the kind of community that once seemed unlikely to accept them.
Uranus in Capricorn
12° Capricorn 29' at midday
freedom, generational
Many people within a few years of Sally's age share Uranus in Capricorn, the mark of a generation that dismantles and rebuilds old institutions and structures of authority. Personally, that can mean scepticism towards any system that asks for trust without having shown why it deserves it.
Neptune in Capricorn
15° Capricorn 53' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Capricorn is shared by Sally and about fourteen years of births. The imagination of the generation questions or idealises authority and ambition, often shaped by wide disillusionment with institutions. The personal version may be an uneasy relationship with conventional success.
Pluto in Scorpio
20° Scorpio 22' at midday
power, generational
Pluto is at home in Scorpio, and the generation born with it lives through profound upheavals in power, secrecy and shared taboos. Sally's own share may be an unusually deep comfort with intensity that others would find overwhelming.
Aspects in Sally Rooney’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 square Pluto
about 3.3° at midday
A simple disagreement can turn into something more charged when Mercury is square Pluto, as Sally Rooney looks for motives that may not be there. The lesson is trusting a straightforward answer when the evidence supports one, rather than assuming the deeper explanation is always the true one.
Venus sextile Saturn
about 3.9° at midday
This sextile tends to lend a workable, grounded steadiness to Sally's relationships, since affection and a sense of structure get along. Once Sally decides a commitment is right, it usually comes naturally, without the drama that faster, less considered relationships sometimes carry.
Jupiter opposition Saturn
about 4.2° at midday
Sally is likely to feel two instincts at once: to expand into new opportunities, and to consolidate what is already in hand. Neither is wrong, and with Jupiter opposite Saturn a deliberate alternation between them tends to work better than treating it as a permanent choice.
Mars sextile Jupiter
about 4.2° at midday
There is confident, well-aimed energy in this sextile, and not much wasted effort, since Sally's drive and optimism pull together. Taking the initiative suits Sally, above all when they commit to one goal and do not scatter their energy across several.
Sun conjunction Mercury
about 7.7° at midday
With the Sun conjunct Mercury, Sally'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.
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 conjunction Neptuneabout 3.4°
- Neptune sextile Plutoabout 4.5°
Pisces Sun and Taurus Moon, like Sally Rooney
Also born on 20 February
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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