Celebrity StarMap · Actor

Stephen King’s birth chart
Born September 21, 1947 in Portland at 01:30.
Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Cancer rising · Earth · Mutable
Sun
♍Virgo
27° Virgo 23'
You refine. You notice what could be better and quietly make it so, and your standards are highest for yourself. The art of a Virgo Sun is knowing when good enough is the wiser choice.
Moon
♐Sagittarius
16° Sagittarius 14'
You feel best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter lift you, and being fenced in by other people's moods weighs you down. You need room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising
♋Cancer
29° Cancer 51'
You come across as approachable and a little guarded. People confide in you early and notice that you notice them; the shell opens on your schedule.
Placements
| ☉ | Sun | ♍ 27° Virgo 23' | House 3 |
| ☽ | Moon | ♐ 16° Sagittarius 14' | House 5 |
| ☿ | Mercury | ♎ 15° Libra 02' | House 4 |
| ♀ | Venus | ♎ 2° Libra 09' | House 3 |
| ♂ | Mars | ♋ 24° Cancer 10' | House 12 |
| ♃ | Jupiter | ♏ 23° Scorpio 48' | House 5 |
| ♄ | Saturn | ♌ 18° Leo 06' | House 1 |
| ♅ | Uranus | ♊ 26° Gemini 07' | House 11 |
| ♆ | Neptune | ♎ 10° Libra 03' | House 3 |
| ♇ | Pluto | ♌ 14° Leo 14' | House 1 |
| ☊ | North Node | ♉ 25° Taurus 10' | House 11 |
| ☋ | South Node | ♏ 25° Scorpio 10' | House 5 |
Stephen King's full reading
Each planet by sign and house. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.
☉Sun in Virgo
♍ 27° Virgo 23' · third house
purpose and vitality
They find purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and their energy is steady as long as there is a task worth doing well. The tension is feeling like they have not earned rest until everything is fixed. It shows up in the way they keep tweaking something long after everyone else would call it finished.
Stephen is energized by talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around they that day. Curiosity is not a side interest for they, it sits close to the core of who Stephen is, and a good conversation can genuinely change their mood.
☽Moon in Sagittarius
♐ 16° Sagittarius 14' · fifth house
needs and habits
They need room to move and a bit of novelty in their routine to feel emotionally well. A schedule with no give in it makes they edgy faster than most people expect. It shows up as planning the next trip before the current one has even finished.
Their feelings come out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and they need a genuine outlet for them somewhere or they quietly build up. Being playful is part of how they stay emotionally well, not a luxury they can easily skip for long.
☿Mercury in Libra
♎ 15° Libra 02' · fourth house
mind and voice
They think by weighing both sides, and they communicate diplomatically, often finding the version of an idea that will land well with whoever is listening. The tension is taking so long to land on an opinion that the moment for it passes. It shows up as genuinely changing their mind mid conversation because the other point had merit.
They think a great deal about home, family and where they originally come from, and conversations with family tend to carry more weight for they than they might for others. Their childhood shaped how their mind works in ways Stephen is still discovering as an adult.
♀Venus in Libra
♎ 2° Libra 09' · third house
love and values
They love with an instinct for balance and partnership, and they value harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The tension is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. It shows up as compromising on their own preference before anyone has even asked they to.
They charm people through conversation and have a real knack for saying difficult things in a way that lands gently instead of landing hard. Words, for they, are one of the clearest ways they show affection, sometimes more than gestures or gifts.
♂Mars in Cancer
♋ 24° Cancer 10' · twelfth house
drive and anger
They act to protect the people and things they care about, and their anger is usually about feeling hurt more than feeling wronged. The tension is going quiet or indirect instead of naming what upset they. It shows up as a mood shift that takes people a while to trace back to its actual cause.
Their drive often works behind the scenes, and frustration they cannot easily name can build up if they do not find a private, physical outlet for it. Solitary activity, done away from an audience, helps release tension that they rarely let other people see directly.
♃Jupiter in Scorpio
♏ 23° Scorpio 48' · fifth house
growth and excess
They grow through facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, which tends to pay off later even when it costs something now. The overreach is an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. It shows up as a resilience people notice only after they have already come through the hard part.
Creativity, romance and play come with a real sense of abundance for they, and they tend to enjoy these parts of life fully rather than cautiously holding back. Good fortune often shows up around the things they genuinely love doing, almost without they chasing it directly.
♄Saturn in Leo
♌ 18° Leo 06' · first house
discipline and doubt
They build discipline around genuine self-expression, often held back early by a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt shows up as downplaying their own achievements before anyone else can. It shows up as a hard-won, unshowy confidence that arrives once they stop waiting for permission to be seen.
They may have felt older than their years growing up, and self-confidence for they tend to come through real, lived experience rather than being given freely at the start. What they build here lasts precisely because they built it slowly and carefully over time.
♅Uranus in Gemini
♊ 26° Gemini 07' · eleventh house
freedom, generational
Shared by an entire generational span, this placement marks people who come of age alongside a communication revolution, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. Personally, it can show up as a restless need for new information.
They gather an unusual, wide-ranging group of friends around they and feel most alive contributing to causes focused on real change. Belonging matters to they, but strictly on their own terms, and they resist any group that asks they to blend in completely.
♆Neptune in Libra
♎ 10° Libra 03' · third house
imagination, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span, this placement marks a generation that idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by media images of love that outpace real relationships. Personally, it can show up as a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
Their thoughts and words carry a poetic, sometimes imprecise quality, and they may communicate as much through feeling and tone as through plain fact. Creative or intuitive expression suits they noticeably better than rigid logic ever does, especially when the subject matters to they.
♇Pluto in Leo
♌ 14° Leo 14' · first house
power, generational
Shared by everyone born in this span of years, this placement marks a generation that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. Personally, it can show up as a charged relationship with authority and who gets to hold the spotlight.
They carry an intensity that people sense even when they say very little in the room, and their sense of self may have gone through real transformation more than once. Stephen is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.
Aspects
How the planets in Stephen King's chart talk to each other, tightest first.
Mars trine Jupiter
0.4° separating
Their drive and their sense of possibility support each other, giving they confident, well-timed action toward goals that matter to they. Opportunities tend to open up when they make a move, more often than sheer luck alone would explain.
Mercury sextile Pluto
0.8° separating
Their thinking and their depth cooperate, giving they useful access to insight without unnecessary intensity. They notice what others miss, without much extra effort, which makes they a genuinely useful person to have in a hard conversation.
Moon sextile Mercury
1.2° separating
Their feelings and their thoughts cooperate nicely, making it easier than average to talk through what is going on inside they. This is a useful, low-effort kind of self-awareness that pays off most in ordinary, everyday conversations.
Sun square Uranus
1.3° separating
Their identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people around they. The lesson is choosing their disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them for they.
- Moon trine Saturn1.9°
- Moon trine Pluto2.0°
- Mercury sextile Saturn3.1°
- Sun sextile Mars3.2°
- Sun sextile Jupiter3.6°
- Saturn conjunction Pluto3.9°
- Neptune sextile Pluto4.2°
- Sun conjunction Venus4.8°
- Mercury conjunction Neptune5.0°
- Jupiter square Saturn5.7°
- Venus square Uranus6.0°
- Venus conjunction Neptune7.9°
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Birth data: Wikidata, Astro-Databank (From memory). Confidence A. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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