Whitney Houston Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Whitney Houston is a Leo, born August 9, 1963.
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Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Leo
- Moon
- Moon in Aries
- Rising
- Libra
- Chinese zodiac
- Rabbit
- BaZi day master
- Wood
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Newark, United States
Western + Eastern: Leo Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Whitney Houston's Leo Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Rabbit adds a year based cycle and Wood 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 Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston was an American singer, actress, and film producer, born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, United States.
Whitney Houston's Sun sign is Leo, a Fire sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Newark because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Leo | 16.34° | No |
| moon | Aries | 11.79° | No |
| mercury | Virgo | 9.71° | No |
| venus | Leo | 10.74° | No |
| mars | Libra | 8.27° | No |
| jupiter | Aries | 19.48° | Yes |
| saturn | Aquarius | 20.03° | Yes |
| uranus | Virgo | 4.42° | No |
| neptune | Scorpio | 12.95° | No |
| pluto | Virgo | 11.00° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Libra
House 1: Libra · House 2: Scorpio · House 3: Sagittarius · House 4: Aquarius · House 5: Pisces · House 6: Aries · House 7: Aries · House 8: Taurus · House 9: Gemini · House 10: Leo · House 11: Virgo · House 12: Libra
Strongest aspects
Jupiter + Saturn sextile · 0.54° orb
Jupiter (growth and perspective) and Saturn (structure and responsibility) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Venus trine · 1.04° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Venus (affection and values) form a trine: Their themes flow together, easing the relationship between these functions.
Mercury + Pluto conjunction · 1.29° orb
Mercury (mind and communication) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Neptune + Pluto sextile · 1.95° 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.
Venus + Neptune square · 2.20° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Venus + Mars sextile · 2.48° orb
Venus (affection and values) and Mars (drive and action) 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 3 · Fixed 4 · Mutable 3
Detected patterns: Stellium in Virgo
Sun and Moon relationship
The Leo Sun and Aries Moon form a trine by sign: their intentions and instincts can work in an easy rhythm. In traditional astrology, this describes a link between outward purpose and immediate emotional responses.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Whitney Houston's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Whitney Houston's Sun in Leo. They become more recognizably themselves by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Whitney Houston's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 6th house
Whitney Houston's Moon in Aries. Their emotional system settles by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Whitney Houston's Moon in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice.
Mercury in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 11th house
Whitney Houston's Mercury in Virgo. Their mind becomes clear by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Whitney Houston's Mercury 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.
Venus in Leo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 10th house
Whitney Houston's Venus in Leo. Love and self worth deepen by risking visible, wholehearted self expression; this makes creative authorship, warmth, and the right to take up space central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Whitney Houston's Venus in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Mars in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 12th house
Whitney Houston's Mars in Libra. Their drive becomes clean by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Whitney Houston's Mars in House 12 touches solitude, dreams, unconscious patterns, and compassion. It asks them to reflect until this energy becomes conscious.
Jupiter in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 6th house · Retrograde
Whitney Houston's Jupiter in Aries. Growth becomes meaningful by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Whitney Houston's Jupiter in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice. Retrograde turns their Jupiter's growth inward. They expand through reflection and re-evaluated belief, not through external validation. Their confidence is self-built, not borrowed.
Saturn in Aquarius
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 4th house · Retrograde
Whitney Houston's Saturn in Aquarius. Maturity develops 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 earned security and authority.
Whitney Houston's Saturn in House 4 touches home, ancestry, family, and private foundations. It asks them to make an inner base beyond inherited expectations. 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 Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 11th house
Whitney Houston's Uranus in Virgo. Freedom becomes real by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Whitney Houston'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 Scorpio
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 1st house
Whitney Houston's Neptune in Scorpio. Their sensitivity becomes creative by choosing depth over appearances and honesty over control; this makes intimacy, emotional courage, and the capacity to regenerate central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Whitney Houston's Neptune in House 1 touches identity, body, first impressions, and beginnings. It asks them to embody this energy directly.
Pluto in Virgo
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 11th house
Whitney Houston's Pluto in Virgo. Transformation begins by making life more workable through attention and craft; this makes discernment, useful skill, and faithful refinement central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Whitney Houston's Pluto 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Whitney Houston's rising sign?
Whitney Houston's Rising sign is Libra, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Whitney Houston's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Whitney Houston a Leo?
Yes. Whitney Houston's Sun sign is Leo 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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