William Gibson’s birth chart

William Gibson's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

1. ☉Sun in Pisces

   ♓ 27° Pisces 01'

   purpose and vitality

   They find purpose in imagination, compassion and things that cannot quite be measured, and their vitality ebbs and flows with their surroundings. The tension is losing their own direction inside someone else's story. It shows up as the days they feel unstoppable and the days they need to disappear for a while.

2. ☽Moon in Gemini

   ♊ 16° Gemini 46'

   needs and habits

   Their daily habits run on conversation and mental stimulation, and they settle by talking a worry through rather than sitting with it quietly. The tension is restlessness when a day has no one to talk to. It shows up as texting a friend the moment something is on their mind, before they have even decided what they think about it.

3. ☿Mercury in Aquarius

   ♒ 29° Aquarius 21'

   mind and voice

   Their thinking is original and a step removed from convention, and they communicate best through ideas rather than small talk. The tension is holding a position out of principle after the evidence has actually moved on. It shows up as being the person in the group who asks the question nobody else thought to ask.

4. ♀Venus in Taurus

   ♉ 10° Taurus 40'

   love and values

   They love steadily and show it through consistency, touch and shared comfort rather than grand gestures. They value loyalty and things built to last. The tension is holding onto a relationship past its natural end because change feels like loss. It shows up as remembering exactly how someone takes their coffee, months in.

5. ♂Mars in Leo

   ♌ 18° Leo 59' ℞

   drive and anger

   They act with confidence and want their effort to be visible, and their anger flares when their pride or their loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. It shows up as taking criticism of their work personally, even when it was not meant that way.

6. ♃Jupiter in Sagittarius

   ♐ 27° Sagittarius 41'

   growth and excess

   They grow through travel, study and direct experience of things bigger than their usual life. The overreach is promising more than circumstances can deliver, fuelled by genuine optimism rather than dishonesty. It shows up as a faith that things will work out that, more often than average, turns out to be right.

7. ♄Saturn in Leo

   ♌ 16° Leo 34' ℞

   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.

8. ♅Uranus in Gemini

   ♊ 22° Gemini 14'

   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.

9. ♆Neptune in Libra

   ♎ 12° Libra 01' ℞

   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.

10. ♇Pluto in Leo

    ♌ 12° Leo 52' ℞

    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.

Aspects

How the planets in William Gibson's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

1. Moon sextile Saturn

   0.2° separating

   Their feelings and their sense of structure cooperate, giving they a workable, grounded way of managing difficult emotions. This is quiet resilience rather than avoidance, the kind that holds up well over a genuinely long stretch of time.

2. Sun square Jupiter

   0.7° applying

   Their ambitions can outpace what their current resources or timeline can realistically support, leading to overpromising they later have to walk back. The lesson is scaling a genuinely good instinct to a size that actually holds.

3. Neptune sextile Pluto

   0.8° separating

   Shared by this generation, the placement marks collective imagination and transformation cooperating gently, with relatively little friction. Personally, it can show up as cultural belief shifting alongside deeper change with real ease.

4. Mercury sextile Jupiter

   1.7° separating

   Their thinking and their optimism cooperate easily, giving their conversation a natural, engaging breadth. Curiosity tends to serve they well without much extra effort, opening doors in conversation that a narrower focus would have missed.

• Venus square Pluto2.2°
• Moon sextile Mars2.2°
• Mars conjunction Saturn2.4°
• Mars sextile Uranus3.3°
• Saturn conjunction Pluto3.7°
• Moon sextile Pluto3.9°
• Saturn sextile Neptune4.5°
• Moon trine Neptune4.7°
• Sun square Uranus4.8°
• Jupiter opposition Uranus5.4°
• Moon conjunction Uranus5.5°
• Venus square Saturn5.9°
• Mars conjunction Pluto6.1°