Anthony Bourdain Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Anthony Bourdain is a Cancer, born June 25, 1956.
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Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Cancer
- Moon
- Moon in Aquarius
- Rising
- Virgo
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkey
- BaZi day master
- Water
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
Western + Eastern: Cancer Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Anthony Bourdain's Cancer Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Monkey adds a year based cycle and Water names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
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Air placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was an American chef and television personality, born on June 25, 1956 in New York City, United States.
Anthony Bourdain's Sun sign is Cancer, a Water sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in New York City because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Cancer | 4.04° | No |
| moon | Aquarius | 0.28° | No |
| mercury | Gemini | 12.32° | No |
| venus | Gemini | 28.67° | Yes |
| mars | Pisces | 11.48° | No |
| jupiter | Leo | 27.89° | No |
| saturn | Scorpio | 27.11° | Yes |
| uranus | Leo | 0.83° | No |
| neptune | Libra | 27.69° | Yes |
| pluto | Leo | 26.65° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Virgo
House 1: Virgo · House 2: Libra · House 3: Scorpio · House 4: Sagittarius · House 5: Capricorn · House 6: Aquarius · House 7: Pisces · House 8: Aries · House 9: Taurus · House 10: Gemini · House 11: Cancer · House 12: Leo
Strongest aspects
Jupiter + Neptune sextile · 0.20° orb
Jupiter (growth and perspective) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Saturn + Pluto square · 0.46° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Uranus opposition · 0.55° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Uranus (change and independence) form an opposition: Their themes mark two poles to balance across the relationship between these functions.
Jupiter + Saturn square · 0.78° orb
Jupiter (growth and perspective) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Jupiter sextile · 0.78° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Jupiter (growth and perspective) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Mercury + Mars square · 0.84° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Mars (drive and action) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 3 · Earth 0 · Air 4 · Water 3
Modalities: Cardinal 2 · Fixed 5 · Mutable 3
Detected patterns: Stellium in Leo · T-square
Sun and Moon relationship
The Cancer Sun and Aquarius Moon do not form a major classical aspect by sign; their themes can still be read together as separate parts of the chart.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Anthony Bourdain's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Anthony Bourdain's Sun in Cancer. They become more recognizably themselves by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Anthony Bourdain's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Aquarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 5th house
Anthony Bourdain's Moon in Aquarius. Their emotional system settles by remaining loyal to an original mind under social pressure; this makes freedom, innovation, friendship, and a future facing vision central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Anthony Bourdain's Moon in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure.
Mercury in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 9th house
Anthony Bourdain's Mercury in Gemini. Their mind becomes clear by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Anthony Bourdain's Mercury in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Venus in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 10th house · Retrograde
Anthony Bourdain's Venus in Gemini. Love and self worth deepen by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Anthony Bourdain's Venus in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity. Retrograde turns their Venus inward. They re-examine what they love and what they're worth before they commit to it. What survives that second look tends to last.
Mars in Pisces
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 6th house
Anthony Bourdain's Mars in Pisces. Their drive becomes clean by making room for mystery without losing contact with reality; this makes imagination, empathy, creativity, and permeable awareness central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Anthony Bourdain's Mars in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice.
Jupiter in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 12th house
Anthony Bourdain's Jupiter in Leo. Growth becomes meaningful by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Anthony Bourdain's Jupiter in House 12 touches solitude, dreams, unconscious patterns, and compassion. It asks them to reflect until this energy becomes conscious.
Saturn in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 3rd house · Retrograde
Anthony Bourdain's Saturn in Scorpio. Maturity develops by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Anthony Bourdain's Saturn in House 3 touches learning, language, local life, and daily perception. It asks them to practice this energy through clear exchange. Retrograde makes their Saturn's authority self-defined. The rules they actually live by are the ones they tested themselves, not the ones they were handed. Mastery here comes from the inside out.
Uranus in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 11th house
Anthony Bourdain's Uranus in Leo. Freedom becomes real by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Anthony Bourdain's Uranus in House 11 touches friendship, groups, collective projects, and the future. It asks them to place this energy in a community that can use it.
Neptune in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 2nd house · Retrograde
Anthony Bourdain's Neptune in Libra. Their sensitivity becomes creative by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Anthony Bourdain's Neptune in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde turns their Neptune's imagination inward. Their inner world runs deeper than what they show, and their sensitivity works best as a private compass, not a performance.
Pluto in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 12th house
Anthony Bourdain's Pluto in Leo. Transformation begins by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Anthony Bourdain's Pluto in House 12 touches solitude, dreams, unconscious patterns, and compassion. It asks them to reflect until this energy becomes conscious.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Anthony Bourdain's rising sign?
Anthony Bourdain's Rising sign is Virgo, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Anthony Bourdain's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Anthony Bourdain a Cancer?
Yes. Anthony Bourdain's Sun sign is Cancer in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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