The life of Ringo Starr
Who is Ringo Starr?
Ringo Starr joined the Beatles in August 1962, replacing Pete Best, and played on every record the band made. His timekeeping and his willingness to serve the song rather than display shaped how pop drumming was heard afterwards. He sang lead occasionally, on 'Yellow Submarine' and 'With a Little Help from My Friends', and wrote 'Octopus's Garden'. After the group ended in April 1970 he recorded solo and toured for decades with a rotating All-Starr Band.
Defining moments
Ringo Starr's child Zak Starkey is born
Fourteen days before the birth, Uranus sextile Sun in the sixth house signaled an inventive, joyful shift in his daily life as fatherhood approached.
The Birth in the timeline ↓Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach marry
The Marriage in the timeline ↓Ringo Starr and Nancy Lee Andrews end their relationship
The Separation in the timeline ↓Ringo Starr and Nancy Lee Andrews begin a relationship
The Partnership in the timeline ↓Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey Tigrett divorce
The Divorce in the timeline ↓Ringo Starr's birth chart
This is how a birth chart reads: the wheel plots Ringo Starr'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 Jul 7, 1940 · 12:05 AM GMT+1 · Liverpool · Birth data: A · See sources
3 placements that explain this chart
With a major fifth house stellium and a Cancer Sun in mutual reception with a Leo Moon, his chart balances warm showmanship with dependable, fixed-sign endurance.
The core drive: protective, memory-keeping, and softer than its shell suggests.
The emotional undercurrent: warm, performative, and happiest when it has an audience worth the effort.
The first impression: imaginative, absorbent, and fluent in things that can't be said outright.
How Ringo Starr's chart holds together
Twelve systems read the same birth chart twelve different ways. Match your chart to see how yours lines up with Ringo Starr'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
fixed-heavy by a wide margin, with no element standing out.
Elements × modalities
| Cardinal | Fixed | Mutable | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🜂 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 🜃 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 🜁 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 🜄 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 1 | 7 | 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
Venus conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Neptune conjunct an angle: right at the chart's most visible points
See celebrities with this pattern →Sun & Moon in mutual reception: each at home in the other's sign
See celebrities with this pattern →Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Pluto loading up one modality
See celebrities with this pattern →Frequencies are measured against the profile corpus, not asserted.
Twelve systems read Ringo Starr'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lilith | ♈︎ Aries 2°53' | 1 | - | — | — |
| Jupiter | ♉︎ Taurus 10°23' | 1 | - | — | — |
| Saturn | ♉︎ Taurus 12°35' | 1 | - | — | — |
| Uranus | ♉︎ Taurus 24°54' | 2 | - | — | — |
| Venus | ♊︎ Gemini 29°24' | 4 | ℞ | — | — |
| Sun | ♋︎ Cancer 14°41' | 4 | - | — | — |
| Chiron | ♋︎ Cancer 21°38' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Pluto | ♌︎ Leo 1°58' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Mars | ♌︎ Leo 2°15' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Moon | ♌︎ Leo 4°03' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Mercury | ♌︎ Leo 5°12' | 5 | - | — | — |
| Neptune | ♍︎ Virgo 23°01' | 6 | - | — | — |
| North node | ♎︎ Libra 15°29' | 7 | ℞ | — | — |
| South node | ♈︎ Aries 15°29' | — | - | — | — |
| House | Cusp sign | Degree | Planets |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 1 | ♓︎ Pisces | 25°03' | ⚸♃︎♄︎ |
| House 2 | ♉︎ Taurus | 16°33' | ♅︎ |
| House 3 | ♊︎ Gemini | 10°43' | - |
| House 4 | ♊︎ Gemini | 28°16' | ♀︎☉︎ |
| House 5 | ♋︎ Cancer | 15°28' | ⚷♇︎♂︎☽︎☿︎ |
| House 6 | ♌︎ Leo | 8°08' | ♆︎ |
| House 7 | ♍︎ Virgo | 25°03' | ☊ |
| House 8 | ♏︎ Scorpio | 16°33' | - |
| House 9 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 10°43' | - |
| House 10 | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 28°16' | - |
| House 11 | ♑︎ Capricorn | 15°28' | - |
| House 12 | ♒︎ Aquarius | 8°08' | - |
Full aspects · 21
Chart patterns
House system: placidus · Birth time: sourced, Rodden A · Angles trusted
Transits
Lifetime cosmic weather & power windows
- 1960s5 EVENTS
The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show
US TV debut watched by ~73 million; the start of American Beatlemania.Source ↗
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Chiron trine Sun
Chiron formed a trine to the 12th-house Sun 29 days after the broadcast, marking a powerful window of subtle artistic validation as their explosive debut settled into the cultural subconscious.
Ringo Starr's chart on a career milestone, 1964Collapse
Dec 17Feb 9Apr 3Dec 17, 1963 – Apr 3, 1964 · 108 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron trine Sunslow
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
- Jupiter square Sunfast
Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey Tigrett marry
Wikidata P26 claim on Q2632, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 5
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Order of the British Empire 1965
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Pluto sextile Sun
Eighty-five days before the honor, Pluto sextile the sixth-house Sun marked a potent power window that quietly elevated daily dedication into lasting royal recognition.
Ringo Starr's chart on award day, 1965Collapse
Mar 19Jun 12Sep 5Mar 19 – Sep 5, 1965 · 170 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
- Chiron conjunction Ascendantslow
Ringo Starr's child Zak Starkey is born
Personal year 8 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Uranus sextile Sun
Fourteen days before the birth, Uranus sextile Sun in the sixth house signaled an inventive, joyful shift in his daily life as fatherhood approached.
Ringo Starr's chart on the day of a birth, 1965Collapse
Mar 19Sep 13Mar 10Mar 19, 1965 – Mar 10, 1966 · 356 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto sextile Sunslow
- Uranus sextile Sunslow
- Saturn trine Sunslow
- Jupiter conjunction Venusfast
- Jupiter opposition Midheavenfast
Ringo Starr's child Jason Starkey is born
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Saturn square Sun
Saturn squaring his first-house Sun 25 days before the birth signaled a heavy surge of paternal duty and personal maturity.
Ringo Starr's chart on the day of a birth, 1967Collapse
Jun 2Aug 19Nov 5Jun 2 – Nov 5, 1967 · 156 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Venusslow
- Uranus opposition Ascendantslow
- Chiron square Midheavenslow
- Saturn square Sunslow
- North Node sextile Venusfast
- North Node trine Midheavenfast
- North Node square Marsfast
- 1970s9 EVENTS
The Beatles break up
Paul McCartney announces his departure, effectively ending the band.Source ↗
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Pluto square Midheaven
Pluto squared the Midheaven from the 7th house 101 days before the split, marking a high-stakes power window that strained partnerships and heralded a permanent public fracturing.
Ringo Starr's chart on a career milestone, 1970Collapse
Oct 12Apr 10Oct 7Oct 12, 1969 – Oct 7, 1970 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto opposition Ascendantslow
- Uranus sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Jupiter square Mercuryfast
- Jupiter square Moonfast
- Jupiter square Marsfast
Ringo Starr's child Lee Starkey is born
Personal year 22 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Chiron trine Mercury
Chiron trined first-house Mercury 37 days after the birth, marking a healing power window for vocalizing new fatherhood.
Ringo Starr's chart on the day of a birth, 1970Collapse
Oct 5Nov 11Dec 18Oct 5 – Dec 18, 1970 · 74 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Chiron trine Mercuryslow
- North Node sextile Midheavenfast
- North Node trine Venusfast
43rd Academy Awards (Nominations Announced)
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Uranus square Sun
Uranus squared the Sun in the 7th house 36 days before the event, opening a volatile power window of sudden industry disruption that challenged public partnerships ahead of the nominations.
Ringo Starr's chart on award day, 1971Collapse
Oct 19Feb 23Jun 30Oct 19, 1970 – Jun 30, 1971 · 254 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Neptune trine Moonslow
- Uranus square Sunslow
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
- Jupiter trine Moonfast
43rd Academy Awards
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Jupiter trine Moon
Peaking 18 days after the awards, a powerful Jupiter trine to the eighth-house Moon extended a period of emotional triumph and shared recognition.
Ringo Starr's chart on award day, 1971Collapse
Oct 19Apr 15Oct 10Oct 19, 1970 – Oct 10, 1971 · 356 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Pluto square Midheavenslow
- Neptune trine Moonslow
- Pluto opposition Ascendantslow
- Jupiter trine Moonfast
- Jupiter trine Mercuryfast
The Concert for Bangladesh
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 5
Editorial note · Saturn sextile Moon
Five days before the historic benefit concert, Saturn formed a sextile to the second-house Moon, anchoring the logistical resolve and emotional duty needed to fund relief efforts.
Ringo Starr's chart on a festival appearance, 1971Collapse
Feb 2Aug 1Jan 28Feb 2, 1971 – Jan 28, 1972 · 360 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Pluto square Venusslow
- Neptune trine Marsslow
- Saturn sextile Moonslow
- Saturn sextile Mercuryslow
- Chiron square Sunslow
- Pluto opposition Ascendantslow
- Jupiter trine Ascendantfast
- 4 QUIET YEARS
Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey Tigrett divorce
Wikidata P26 claim on Q2632, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 5
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Ringo Starr and Shelley Duvall begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q2632, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 9 · Pinnacle 5
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Ringo Starr and Nancy Lee Andrews begin a relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q2632, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 5
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Ringo Starr and Shelley Duvall end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q2632, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 1 · Pinnacle 5
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
- 1980s2 EVENTS
- 4 QUIET YEARS
Ringo Starr and Nancy Lee Andrews end their relationship
Wikidata P451 claim on Q2632, P582 end time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 5 · Pinnacle 3
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach marry
Wikidata P26 claim on Q2632, P580 start time qualifier at year precision.
Personal year 6 · Pinnacle 3
No dated transit window covers this date in Ringo Starr's chart.
A quiet chart is a reading, not a gap.
- 2010s1 EVENTS
- 37 QUIET YEARS
knighthood 2018
Personal year 7 · Pinnacle 3
Editorial note · Chiron square Midheaven
Chiron squaring the first-house Midheaven two days before the knighthood brought a moment of personal vulnerability to the surface just ahead of this public honor.
Ringo Starr's chart on award day, 2018Collapse
Feb 18Mar 20Apr 19Feb 18 – Apr 19, 2018 · 60 days
Birth time recorded to the minute · all contacts shown
- Chiron square Venusslow
- Chiron square Midheavenslow
- Uranus trine Midheavenslow
Human Design
projector · 6_2 · splenic
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 Left Angle Cross of Individualism
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: 23.0262 · Dasha system: Vimshottari · Ascendant nakshatra omitted: no trusted birth time
Mayan Tzolkin
Kin 239 · Yellow Sun · Overtone
Ahau · Overtone tone
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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 1
Full Numerology readingCollapse
Core numbers
Chinese Zodiac
dragon · metal
Full Chinese Zodiac readingCollapse
| Pillar | Stem | Branch |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 庚 | 辰 |
| Month | 癸 | 未 |
| Day | 辛 | 未 |
| Hour | 戊 | 子 |
Day master
辛 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 6
Favorable: West, Northeast, Southwest, Northwest
Full Feng Shui readingCollapse
Supportive directions
Directions to avoid
Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) method · Kua number from birth year and gender
The Sage
Ask the Sage about Ringo Starr
The Sage reads every placement on this page in context. Ask what Ringo Starr's chart means, or bring your own.
Begin your journeyQuestions about Ringo Starr's birth chart
What is Ringo Starr's zodiac sign?
Ringo Starr's Sun sign is Cancer.
What is Ringo Starr's moon and rising sign?
Ringo Starr has a Leo Moon and a Pisces rising.
When was Ringo Starr born?
Ringo Starr was born on Jul 7, 1940.
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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Sources
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Birth data
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