Vanessa-Mae’s birth chart
Born 27 October 1978, in Singapore. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Scorpio Sun · Virgo Moon
Vanessa-Mae’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Vanessa-Mae was born in Singapore on 27 October 1978, a Friday. That makes Vanessa-Mae a Scorpio, with the Moon in Virgo. Vanessa-Mae turns 48 in 2026. StarMap has no verified birth time for Vanessa-Mae, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Water carries the most weight: five of the ten planets, against fire two, earth two and air one. Fixed signs hold six, mutable signs three and cardinal signs one. Scorpio holds a stellium, five planets in one sign: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Uranus. Closest of the aspects is the sextile between Neptune and Pluto, about 0.8° 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: Venus. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 13 other people born on 27 October, among them Roberto Benigni, John Cleese and Dylan Thomas.
See the sky the day Vanessa-Mae was born: the stars over Singapore, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Vanessa-Mae’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Scorpio
about 3° Scorpio at midday
A Scorpio Sun goes deep. Surface answers are unlikely to satisfy Vanessa-Mae, and with this Sun, loyalty, once given, tends to be total. This placement is built for transformation: it ends chapters fully so the next one can begin.
Moon sign
Virgo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Vanessa-Mae is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
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 Singapore at each hour of the day.
Vanessa-Mae’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Vanessa-Mae 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 27 October 1978, computed for Singapore.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 00:25 | Cancer rising |
| 00:25 to 02:25 | Leo rising |
| 02:25 to 04:15 | Virgo rising |
| 04:15 to 06:10 | Libra rising |
| 06:10 to 08:10 | Scorpio rising |
| 08:10 to 10:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 10:15 to 12:25 | Capricorn rising |
| 12:25 to 14:25 | Aquarius rising |
| 14:25 to 16:15 | Pisces rising |
| 16:15 to 18:05 | Aries rising |
| 18:05 to 20:05 | Taurus rising |
| 20:05 to 22:10 | Gemini rising |
| 22:10 to 24:00 | Cancer 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 27 October 1978, 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 | 3° Scorpio 24' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Virgo |
| Mercury | 19° Scorpio 49' |
| Venus | 21° Scorpio 10'℞ |
| Mars | 25° Scorpio 48' |
| Jupiter | 7° Leo 39' |
| Saturn | 10° Virgo 59' |
| Uranus | 15° Scorpio 53' |
| Neptune | 16° Sagittarius 29' |
| Pluto | 17° Libra 15' |
| North Node | 26° Virgo 17' |
| South Node | 26° Pisces 17' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Vanessa-Mae’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Vanessa-Mae’s private life.
The Sun in Scorpio finds purpose in going past the surface of things, and Vanessa-Mae's vitality tends to be fuelled by intensity rather than ease. The catch can be needing a crisis or a deep dive before they feel fully engaged. Small talk tends to bore them; a subject that interests them absorbs them completely.
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Vanessa-Mae's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Vanessa-Mae's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
With Mercury in Scorpio, Vanessa-Mae tends to think in layers, looking for what is not being said as much as what is spoken aloud. Once they have decided to speak they can be very direct, and until then, silent. The tension is suspecting a hidden motive where there is only an ordinary one.
Venus in Scorpio loves intensely and privately, and Vanessa-Mae 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.
In Vanessa-Mae's chart, Mars in Scorpio acts with focus and intensity, and its anger, when it surfaces, tends to be controlled, cutting and hard to forget. The risk with this Mars is holding on to a grievance well past its useful life. A calm exterior gives little warning before a sharp response.
Jupiter in Leo
7° Leo 39' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Leo grows through creative confidence and a willingness to take up space. For Vanessa-Mae 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.
Competence is what Saturn in Virgo builds discipline around, often driven by a fear of not yet having done enough to deserve rest. Vanessa-Mae may feel like a fraud even when the track record says otherwise. The usual result is someone quietly excellent at something long before they will admit it out loud.
Uranus in Scorpio
15° Scorpio 53' at midday
freedom, generational
Much of Vanessa-Mae'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.
Neptune in Sagittarius
16° Sagittarius 29' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Sagittarius is the dream of a generation: grand systems of belief and utopian journeys. What belongs to Vanessa-Mae in it may be a hopeful conviction that the right philosophy will resolve a practical problem.
Pluto in Libra
17° Libra 15' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Libra is the signature of the generation Vanessa-Mae 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.
Aspects in Vanessa-Mae’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 Venus
about 1.4° at midday
Mercury conjunct Venus ties Vanessa-Mae's thinking closely to what they love, so they probably talk about affection and beauty with ease. It lends a diplomatic, pleasant way of putting things, especially when the subject is close to the heart.
Mercury conjunction Uranus
about 3.9° at midday
Vanessa-Mae's thinking is likely to be quick, original and a step ahead of convention, with insights that arrive suddenly rather than through slow reasoning. Mercury conjunct Uranus makes for inventive thinking, and the courtesy worth learning is explaining the leap so that other people can follow it too.
Sun square Jupiter
about 4.3° at midday
Ambition can outpace what time and energy will realistically support, and with this aspect Vanessa-Mae 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.
Venus conjunction Mars
about 4.6° at midday
With Venus conjunct Mars, affection and drive are closely linked, so, for Vanessa-Mae, wanting something and going after it are likely to feel like one impulse. The aspect brings plenty of romantic and creative energy; its test is letting the wanting outlast the first chase.
Saturn sextile Uranus
about 4.9° at midday
Discipline and independence combine in this sextile to give Vanessa-Mae a workable way of keeping a routine while leaving room to change it. The flexibility is quiet and sustainable, and it keeps a good habit from calcifying into an unquestioned rule.
Venus conjunction Uranus
about 5.3° at midday
Affection runs independent and a little unpredictable with Venus conjunct Uranus, and Vanessa-Mae is likely to be drawn to people and situations that keep them interested more than settled. There is romantic excitement in that. The difficulty is letting closeness deepen without the urge to bolt from it.
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 Plutoabout 0.8°
- Saturn square Neptuneabout 5.5°
- Mercury conjunction Marsabout 6.0°
Scorpio Sun and Virgo Moon, like Vanessa-Mae
Also born on 27 October
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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