David Bowie Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
David Bowie is a Capricorn, born January 8, 1947.
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Capricorn
- Moon
- Moon in Leo
- Rising
- Taurus
- Chinese zodiac
- Dog
- BaZi day master
- Fire
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Brixton, United Kingdom
Western + Eastern: Capricorn Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. David Bowie's Capricorn Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Dog adds a year based cycle and Fire 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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Fire placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About David Bowie
David Bowie was an English musician and actor, born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, United Kingdom.
David Bowie's Sun sign is Capricorn, a Earth sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Brixton because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Capricorn | 17.37° | No |
| moon | Leo | 5.70° | No |
| mercury | Capricorn | 8.39° | No |
| venus | Sagittarius | 2.25° | No |
| mars | Capricorn | 16.83° | No |
| jupiter | Scorpio | 21.64° | No |
| saturn | Leo | 6.85° | Yes |
| uranus | Gemini | 18.67° | Yes |
| neptune | Libra | 10.80° | No |
| pluto | Leo | 12.74° | Yes |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Taurus
House 1: Taurus · House 2: Gemini · House 3: Gemini · House 4: Cancer · House 5: Leo · House 6: Virgo · House 7: Scorpio · House 8: Sagittarius · House 9: Sagittarius · House 10: Capricorn · House 11: Aquarius · House 12: Pisces
Strongest aspects
Sun + Mars conjunction · 0.55° orb
Sun (identity) and Mars (drive and action) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Saturn conjunction · 1.15° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Neptune + Pluto sextile · 1.94° orb
Neptune (imagination and ideals) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Mercury + Neptune square · 2.42° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Venus trine · 3.45° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Venus (affection and values) form a trine: Their themes flow together, easing the relationship between these functions.
Saturn + Neptune sextile · 3.95° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 4 · Earth 3 · Air 2 · Water 1
Modalities: Cardinal 4 · Fixed 4 · Mutable 2
Detected patterns: Stellium in Capricorn · Stellium in Leo
Sun and Moon relationship
The Capricorn Sun and Leo 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 David Bowie's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Capricorn
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
David Bowie's Sun in Capricorn. They become more recognizably themselves by taking responsibility for what can be built over time; this makes discipline, integrity, authority, and lasting achievement central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
David Bowie's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 4th house
David Bowie's Moon in Leo. Their emotional system settles by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue emotional safety.
David Bowie's Moon in House 4 touches home, ancestry, family, and private foundations. It asks them to make an inner base beyond inherited expectations.
Mercury in Capricorn
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 9th house
David Bowie's Mercury in Capricorn. Their mind becomes clear by taking responsibility for what can be built over time; this makes discipline, integrity, authority, and lasting achievement central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
David Bowie's Mercury in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Venus in Sagittarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 7th house
David Bowie's Venus in Sagittarius. Love and self worth deepen by letting direct experience enlarge the map of their life; this makes exploration, meaning, conviction, and a wider horizon central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
David Bowie's Venus in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Mars in Capricorn
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 10th house
David Bowie's Mars in Capricorn. Their drive becomes clean by taking responsibility for what can be built over time; this makes discipline, integrity, authority, and lasting achievement central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
David Bowie's Mars in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Jupiter in Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 7th house
David Bowie's Jupiter in Scorpio. Growth becomes meaningful by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
David Bowie's Jupiter in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
Saturn in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 5th house · Retrograde
David Bowie's Saturn in Leo. Maturity develops by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
David Bowie's Saturn in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure. 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 Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 2nd house · Retrograde
David Bowie's Uranus in Gemini. Freedom becomes real by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
David Bowie's Uranus in House 2 touches resources, skill, money, and self worth. It asks them to build value that survives changing circumstances. Retrograde keeps their Uranus's originality private at first. Their most independent ideas develop internally before the world ever sees them. What looks sudden to others was actually years in the making.
Neptune in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 6th house
David Bowie'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.
David Bowie's Neptune in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice.
Pluto in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 5th house · Retrograde
David Bowie'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.
David Bowie's Pluto in House 5 touches creativity, romance, play, children, and visible joy. It asks them to risk authorship and pleasure. Retrograde makes their Pluto's transformation an inside job. Their greatest power shifts happen through self-mastery, not through changing what's around they. The deepest change in their life starts with them.
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Frequently asked questions
What is David Bowie's rising sign?
David Bowie's Rising sign is Taurus, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is David Bowie's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is David Bowie a Capricorn?
Yes. David Bowie's Sun sign is Capricorn 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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