The life of David Bowie
Who was David Bowie?
David Bowie reinvented himself more completely and more often than any other rock musician, from Ziggy Stardust in 1972 to the Berlin albums to Blackstar. The 1972 Ziggy persona remade what a pop performer could be, and he spent the following decades moving through glam, soul, krautrock and drum and bass rather than settling. He released Blackstar on his 69th birthday, 8 January 2016, and died two days later. The album had been written and recorded as a deliberate farewell.
Defining moments
David Bowie's child Lexi Jones is born
74 days after Lexi's birth, Neptune's exact opposition to his first-house Moon brought a dreamlike, tender dissolution of Bowie's old identity as he embraced fatherhood.
The Birth in the timeline ↓David Bowie and Iman marry
Exactly 45 days before his wedding, Uranus aligned with his 12th-house Sun, marking a power window of private personal reinvention before stepping into marriage with Iman.
The Marriage in the timeline ↓David Bowie dies
Uranus squared Bowie's second-house Sun 56 days before his death, marking a volatile transit window that framed the final disruption of his vital energy.
The Death in the timeline ↓David Bowie and Angela Bowie divorce
Fifty-five days before the divorce, the North Node squared seventh-house Venus, highlighting fate-driven turning points and fundamental realignments in his marital commitments.
The Divorce in the timeline ↓David Bowie and Ola Hudson end their relationship
The Separation in the timeline ↓David Bowie's birth chart
This is how a birth chart reads: the wheel plots David Bowie's placements at the moment of birth, and the three below anchor everything else on this page. Try it on your own chart to run the same read on a chart of your own.
☾ Born Jan 8, 1947 · 9:00 AM GMT+1 · London · Birth data: A · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
David Bowie balanced the solitary containment of a twelfth-house Capricorn Sun with the theatrical projection of a Leo Moon on the Descendant. His chart outlines an artist who used rigorous structural discipline to stage dramatic transformations.
The core drive: ambitious, patient, and building toward something built to last.
The emotional undercurrent: warm, performative, and happiest when it has an audience worth the effort.
The first impression: independent, idea-driven, and a little ahead of the room.
How David Bowie's chart holds together
Twelve systems read the same birth chart twelve different ways. Match your chart to see how yours lines up with David Bowie's.
This is what a whole chart looks like at once, before it breaks into individual placements: where the element and modality weight sits, and how the four quadrants divide.
Elements and modalities
Fire-led, with no modality standing out.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 🜃 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 🜁 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 🜄 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
Elements
Modalities
Some charts hold a recognizable shape across several placements at once. This is what a pattern reading looks like when one is present.
Chart patterns that stand out
Saturn conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Sun & Saturn in mutual reception: each at home in the other's sign
See celebrities with this pattern →Venus conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Jupiter unaspected: running with no major aspect to anchor it
See celebrities with this pattern →Moon conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Mercury out-of-bounds: operating outside its usual rules
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read David Bowie's chart
the full reading
13 placements in the chart signature →The same birth data, read through each system in turn: this is what a full multi-system reading looks like on one chart.
Natal Chart
placidus houses
Full natal readingCollapse
Exact planetary positions
● Sun, Moon or chart ruler · ℞ retrograde
| Body | Position | House | Motion | Theme | Sabian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North node | ♊︎ Gemini 11°18' | 4 | ℞ | — | — |
| Uranus | ♊︎ Gemini 18°41' | 4 | ℞ | — | — |
| Moon | ♌︎ Leo 3°50' | 7 | - | — | — |
| Saturn | ♌︎ Leo 6°52' | 7 | ℞ | — | — |
| Pluto | ♌︎ Leo 12°45' | 7 | ℞ | — | — |
| Neptune | ♎︎ Libra 10°48' | 8 | - | — | — |
| Chiron | ♏︎ Scorpio 6°51' | 8 | - | — | — |
| Jupiter | ♏︎ Scorpio 21°37' | 9 | - | — | — |
| Venus | ♐︎ Sagittarius 2°09' | 9 | - | — | — |
| Lilith | ♐︎ Sagittarius 27°30' | 11 | - | — | — |
| Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn 8°11' | 11 | - | — | — |
| Mars | ♑︎ Capricorn 16°44' | 12 | - | — | — |
| Sun | ♑︎ Capricorn 17°15' | 12 | - | — | — |
| South node | ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°18' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♒︎ Aquarius | 3°20' | - |
| House 2 | ♈︎ Aries | 3°20' | - |
| House 3 | ♉︎ Taurus | 10°60' | - |
| House 4 | ♊︎ Gemini | 3°57' | ☊♅︎ |
| House 5 | ♊︎ Gemini | 21°48' | - |
| House 6 | ♋︎ Cancer | 9°28' | - |
| House 7 | ♌︎ Leo | 3°20' | ☽︎♄︎♇︎ |
| House 8 | ♎︎ Libra | 3°20' | ♆︎⚷ |
| House 9 | ♏︎ Scorpio | 10°60' | ♃︎♀︎ |
| House 10 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 3°57' | - |
| House 11 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 21°48' | ⚸☿︎ |
| House 12 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 9°28' | ♂︎☉︎ |
Full aspects · 25
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden A · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
- 1970s8 EVENTS
David Bowie and Angela Bowie marry
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · Saturn square Moon
120 days before the wedding, Saturn squaring his second house Moon marked a heavy emotional window that tested his personal security.
David Bowie's chart on the wedding day, 1970Collapse
Oct 15Mar 19Aug 21Oct 15, 1969 – Aug 21, 1970 · 310 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Moonslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Moonslow
- Saturn trine Mercuryslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Ascendantfast
David Bowie's child Duncan Jones is born
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · Neptune conjunction Midheaven
85 days before his son was born, Neptune conjoined Bowie's Midheaven, reshaping his long-term aspirations as he prepared for the ideals of fatherhood.
David Bowie's chart on the day of a birth, 1971Collapse
Jan 6May 30Oct 21Jan 6 – Oct 21, 1971 · 288 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Neptune conjunction Midheavenslow
- Uranus square Mercuryslow
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
David Bowie and Ava Cherry begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q5383, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 9
No dated transit window covers this date in David Bowie's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is released
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · Uranus square Sun
Occurring 84 days before the album dropped, Uranus square the eighth-house Sun brought a power window of radical reinvention and identity disruption to Bowie's artistic evolution.
David Bowie's chart on release day, 1972Collapse
Dec 10Jun 6Dec 2Dec 10, 1971 – Dec 2, 1972 · 358 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Neptune conjunction Midheavenslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Neptune trine Moonslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
- Jupiter conjunction Mercuryfast
'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust' released
The album that defined his myth.Source ↗
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · Jupiter conjunction Mercury
The Jupiter conjunction Mercury in house 11 transit aligned with the album's message finding an expansive and positive reception among its audience.
No dated window is recorded for this transit, so it isn't among the passages drawn here.
David Bowie's chart on release day, 1972Collapse
Dec 19Jun 16Dec 13Dec 19, 1971 – Dec 13, 1972 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Midheavenslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Neptune trine Moonslow
- Neptune sextile Ascendantslow
- Uranus square Marsslow
- Chiron square Marsslow
- Neptune conjunction Venusslow
David Bowie and Ola Hudson begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q5383, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 9
No dated transit window covers this date in David Bowie's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
David Bowie and Ava Cherry end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q5383, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 4 · Pinnacle 9
No dated transit window covers this date in David Bowie's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
David Bowie and Ola Hudson end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q5383, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 9
No dated transit window covers this date in David Bowie's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
- 1980s4 EVENTS
- 4 QUIET YEARS
David Bowie and Angela Bowie divorce
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 9
Editorial note · North Node square Venus
Fifty-five days before the divorce, the North Node squared seventh-house Venus, highlighting fate-driven turning points and fundamental realignments in his marital commitments.
David Bowie's chart on the day of the divorce, 1980Collapse
Dec 15Feb 8Apr 3Dec 15, 1979 – Apr 3, 1980 · 110 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
- North Node square Venusfast
- 5 QUIET YEARS
Live Aid
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 11
Editorial note · Pluto square Ascendant
Pluto squaring the Ascendant from the eighth house 72 days after the show signaled an intense personal transformation following the triumph.
David Bowie's chart on a career milestone, 1985Collapse
Jan 14Jul 13Jan 9Jan 14, 1985 – Jan 9, 1986 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
- North Node trine Marsfast
Live Aid
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 11
Editorial note · Pluto square Ascendant
Pluto squaring the Ascendant 72 days after Live Aid marked an intense power window of public reinvention following the monumental festival appearance.
David Bowie's chart on a festival appearance, 1985Collapse
Jan 14Jul 13Jan 9Jan 14, 1985 – Jan 9, 1986 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- North Node trine Sunfast
- North Node trine Marsfast
Labyrinth is released
Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 11
Editorial note · Pluto square Moon
Eighteen days after Labyrinth hit theaters, Pluto formed a square to the eighth-house Moon, marking an intense emotional reckoning over the fantasy film's commercial impact during a powerful transit window.
David Bowie's chart on release day, 1986Collapse
Apr 14Jun 27Sep 9Apr 14 – Sep 9, 1986 · 148 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn sextile Ascendantslow
- Saturn trine Moonslow
- Saturn conjunction Midheavenslow
- Pluto square Moonslow
- Saturn conjunction Venusslow
- Pluto square Ascendantslow
- 1990s2 EVENTS
- 6 QUIET YEARS
David Bowie and Iman marry
Personal year 3 · Pinnacle 2
Editorial note · Uranus conjunction Sun
Exactly 45 days before his wedding, Uranus aligned with his 12th-house Sun, marking a power window of private personal reinvention before stepping into marriage with Iman.
David Bowie's chart on the wedding day, 1992Collapse
Oct 27Apr 24Oct 21Oct 27, 1991 – Oct 21, 1992 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune conjunction Marsslow
- Chiron opposition Ascendantslow
- Chiron trine Midheavenslow
- Uranus conjunction Sunslow
- Neptune conjunction Marsslow
- Neptune conjunction Sunslow
- Uranus conjunction Marsslow
- Chiron conjunction Moonslow
- Chiron trine Venusslow
- Jupiter square Midheavenfast
- Jupiter square Venusfast
- 5 QUIET YEARS
Hollywood Walk of Fame 1997
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 2
Editorial note · Jupiter sextile Midheaven
Five days before the Walk of Fame honor, Jupiter sextile the Midheaven from the first house signaled a powerful window of soaring career prestige and public recognition.
David Bowie's chart on award day, 1997Collapse
Oct 18Feb 12Jun 9Oct 18, 1996 – Jun 9, 1997 · 234 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Saturn sextile Ascendantslow
- Pluto conjunction Midheavenslow
- Uranus conjunction Ascendantslow
- Uranus opposition Moonslow
- Pluto trine Moonslow
- Uranus sextile Midheavenslow
- Saturn trine Midheavenslow
- Saturn trine Moonslow
- Chiron square Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Moonslow
- Jupiter opposition Moonfast
- Jupiter conjunction Ascendantfast
- Jupiter sextile Midheavenfast
- 2000s2 EVENTS
David Bowie's child Lexi Jones is born
Personal year 11 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Neptune opposition Moon
74 days after Lexi's birth, Neptune's exact opposition to his first-house Moon brought a dreamlike, tender dissolution of Bowie's old identity as he embraced fatherhood.
David Bowie's chart on the day of a birth, 2000Collapse
May 22Aug 15Nov 8May 22 – Nov 8, 2000 · 170 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Midheavenslow
- Neptune opposition Moonslow
- Neptune conjunction Ascendantslow
- Saturn opposition Venusslow
- 6 YEARS UNRECORDED
48th Annual Grammy Awards
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 4
9 passages in force · Chiron conjunction Ascendant · Chiron opposition Moon · Uranus sextile Mercury · Chiron sextile Midheaven · Jupiter sextile Mars · Jupiter sextile Sun · North Node square Mercury · North Node trine Midheaven · North Node trine Moon
David Bowie's chart on award day, 2006Collapse
Sep 16Feb 8Jul 3Sep 16, 2005 – Jul 3, 2006 · 290 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron conjunction Ascendantslow
- Chiron opposition Moonslow
- Uranus sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Midheavenslow
- Jupiter sextile Marsfast
- Jupiter sextile Sunfast
- North Node square Mercuryfast
- North Node trine Midheavenfast
- North Node trine Moonfast
- 2010s2 EVENTS
- 10 QUIET YEARS
Blackstar released
Released on his 69th birthday, two days before his death.Source ↗
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Neptune sextile Mercury
The release of Blackstar highlighted a harmonious flow of imaginative and spiritual communication in its public presentation.
David Bowie's chart on release day, 2016Collapse
Sep 9Jan 8May 8Sep 9, 2015 – May 8, 2016 · 242 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Sunslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
David Bowie dies
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 4
Editorial note · Uranus square Sun
Uranus squared Bowie's second-house Sun 56 days before his death, marking a volatile transit window that framed the final disruption of his vital energy.
David Bowie's chart on the day of death, 2016Collapse
Sep 9Jan 10May 12Sep 9, 2015 – May 12, 2016 · 246 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron sextile Sunslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Chiron sextile Marsslow
Human Design
manifesting_generator · 3_5 · sacral
This chart doesn't include centre data, so the bodygraph and the centres list aren't shown.
Full Human Design readingCollapse
This chart doesn't include centre data, so the bodygraph and the centres list aren't shown.
Chart properties
Signature
When the strategy is working
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Not-self theme
When it isn't
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Incarnation crossThe Right Angle Cross of Penetration
Centres and channels derive from the combined design (88° solar arc pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set; lines come from planetary longitude.
Gene Keys
Hologenetic profile & activation sequence
Hologenetic profile & activation sequence
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Hologenetic Profile
Gene Keys derive from the same combined design (88 days pre-birth) and personality (natal) gate set as Human Design, read through the shadow → gift → siddhi spectrum rather than defined/undefined centres.
Vedic Nakshatras
Sidereal lunar mansions & dashas
Full Vedic readingCollapse
Ayanamsa: 23.1171 · Dasha system: Vimshottari · Ascendant nakshatra omitted: no trusted birth time
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 14 · Blue Eagle · Magnetic
Men · Magnetic tone
Full Mayan Tzolkin readingCollapse
Seal & tone
Oracle relations
Kin from birth date against the 260-day count, Dreamspell correlation · Seal = kin mod 20, tone = kin mod 13
Numerology
Life Path 3
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Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
dog · fire
Full Chinese Zodiac readingCollapse
| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 丙 | 戌 |
| Month | 辛 | 丑 |
| Day | 丁 | 未 |
| Hour | 乙 | 巳 |
Day master
丁 anchors this Four Pillars reading: the Day pillar's Heavenly Stem, and the one value here that never depends on a recorded birth time.
Inner animals
Solar calendar; year boundary at the start of spring, not January 1.
Feng Shui
Kua 8
Favorable: Southwest, Northwest, West, Northeast
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Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
Ask the Sage about David Bowie
The Sage reads every placement on this page in context. Ask what David Bowie's chart means, or bring your own.
Begin your journeyQuestions about David Bowie's birth chart
What is David Bowie's zodiac sign?
David Bowie's Sun sign is Capricorn.
What is David Bowie's moon and rising sign?
David Bowie has a Leo Moon and a Aquarius rising.
When was David Bowie born?
David Bowie was born on Jan 8, 1947.
How reliable is this birth data?
This chart carries a Rodden rating of A: the standard scale astrologers use to grade how well-documented a birth time is. Confirmed by the person or someone close to them: full chart shown, including houses and the rising sign.
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