Stephen King’s birth chart
Born 21 September 1947, in Portland, Maine, at 01:30 (Rodden A).
Virgo Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Cancer rising
Stephen King’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on 21 September 1947, a Sunday. Their zodiac sign is Virgo, with the Moon in Sagittarius and Cancer rising. Stephen turns 79 in 2026. The birth time, 01:30, 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 four air, three fire, two water and one earth. Cardinal signs hold four, fixed signs three and mutable signs three. Libra holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mercury, Venus and Neptune. Closest of the aspects is the trine between Mars and Jupiter, 0.4° from exact. Every planet was moving direct. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 19 other people born on 21 September, among them Leonard Cohen, Kareena Kapoor and Bill Murray.
See the sky the night Stephen was born: the stars over Portland, Maine at 01:30, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Stephen King’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Virgo
27° Virgo 23'
A Virgo Sun refines. Stephen King 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.
Moon sign
Sagittarius
16° Sagittarius 14'
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Stephen, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising sign
Cancer
29° Cancer 51'
With Cancer rising, Stephen tends to come across as approachable and a little guarded. People often confide in a Cancer rising early and find that they are noticed in return; the shell opens on its own schedule.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 01:30 on 21 September 1947, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
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 planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Stephen King’s private life.
A Virgo Sun finds purpose in being useful and doing a job properly, and Stephen King'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.
What energises Stephen is talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around that day. With the Sun in the third house, curiosity is not a side interest but close to the core of who they are, and a good conversation can change their whole mood.
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Stephen edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
The Moon in the fifth house can let Stephen's feelings out most freely through creativity, romance and play, and without an outlet somewhere those feelings may quietly build up. Play is probably part of how Stephen keeps their balance, not a luxury to be skipped for long.
Mercury in Libra thinks by weighing both sides, and Stephen 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.
Mercury in the fourth house turns the mind towards home, family and origins, and for Stephen conversations with family may carry more weight than usual. Mercury here is associated with a way of thinking shaped early, in ways a person goes on discovering as an adult.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Stephen probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Stephen may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Venus in the third house puts Stephen's charm into conversation, with a knack for saying a difficult thing so that it lands gently. Words are often one of the clearest ways of showing affection, sometimes clearer than gestures or gifts.
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 Stephen, 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.
Stephen probably lets go of tension through something active and solitary, away from an audience. Mars in the twelfth house puts drive to work behind the scenes, and frustration that is hard to name can build up when it has no private, physical outlet.
Jupiter in Scorpio
23° Scorpio 48' · fifth house
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 Stephen, 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.
Jupiter in the fifth house brings a sense of plenty to Stephen's creativity, romance and play, and the placement enjoys these parts of life fully, without holding back. Stephen is likely to be at their most generous and most confident around the things they love doing.
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Stephen's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Seriousness tends to arrive early with Saturn in the first house, and Stephen's self-confidence is the kind that comes through lived experience rather than being handed over at the start. They would rather build slowly and with care, and trust what is made that way.
Uranus in Gemini
26° Gemini 07' · eleventh house
freedom, generational
Uranus in Gemini is shared by Stephen and many people born in the same few years. These are people who come of age alongside a revolution in communication, fluent in tools older generations learned later in life. The personal version is a restless need for new information.
Uranus in the eleventh house gathers an unusual, wide-ranging group of friends around Stephen, who feels most alive contributing to causes that set out to change something. Belonging matters to them, but strictly on their own terms, and they resist any group that asks them to blend in.
Neptune in Libra
10° Libra 03' · third house
imagination, generational
A whole generation has Neptune in Libra, Stephen among them. It idealises romantic partnership, often shaped by images of love on screen that outpace real relationships. The personal echo is a dreamy standard for what a relationship should feel like.
With Neptune in the third house, a poetic, sometimes imprecise quality runs through Stephen's thoughts and words, which carry as much through feeling and tone as through plain fact. Creative or intuitive expression suits this mind better than rigid logic, especially when the subject matters.
Pluto in Leo
14° Leo 14' · first house
power, generational
Pluto in Leo is held by a whole generation, one that transforms ideas of individual power, leadership and fame. At a personal scale, for Stephen, it can be a charged relationship with authority and with who gets to hold the spotlight.
Stephen probably carries an intensity that people sense even when very little is said, and Pluto in the first house suggests a sense of self that can be remade more than once. Stephen is not easily changed by outside pressure, and other people tend to notice that quickly.
Aspects in Stephen King’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Mars trine Jupiter
0.4° separating
Mars trine Jupiter lets drive and a sense of possibility work as one, and in Stephen King's chart the pattern favours confident, well-timed action towards the goals that matter to them. A first move under this trine tends to open a door, largely because it is made with conviction and at a sensible moment.
Mercury sextile Pluto
0.8° separating
Stephen's thinking can reach their depth when it needs to, which gives them insight without unnecessary intensity. With this aspect they are likely to notice what others miss, which makes them a useful person to have in a hard conversation.
Moon sextile Mercury
1.2° separating
Feelings and thoughts are on speaking terms for Stephen, so talking through whatever is going on inside comes more easily than average. Think of it as self-awareness without the hard work, at its most useful in ordinary, everyday conversations.
Sun square Uranus
1.3° separating
When the Sun is square Uranus, Stephen's identity keeps bumping against a need to break from convention, which can look like sudden changes of direction that surprise the people nearby. The skill is choosing those disruptions rather than letting restlessness choose them.
Moon trine Saturn
1.9° applying
Stephen is likely to manage difficult emotions with maturity and without much drama, because feeling and discipline support each other here. The steadiness of a Moon-Saturn trine is a strength, especially under pressure, and it is often the quality people trust most.
Moon trine Pluto
2.0° separating
Stephen is likely to come through even difficult emotions stronger rather than depleted, because feeling and the capacity for change support each other. The resilience of a Moon-Pluto trine is quiet, the sort that other people only notice in hindsight.
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.
- 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°
Virgo Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Stephen King
Also born on 21 September
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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