Alex Trebek’s birth chart
Game show hostBorn July 22, 1940, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, CanadaDied November 8, 2020
Tender under a careful shell.
- SunCanceror Leo
- MoonPiscesThe Tide
- VenusGeminiThe Charmer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer or Leo, the Protector
Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. His mind and his identity were close together: he spoke as he thought, and his ideas were part of who he was.
The Sun conjunction Mercury (almost exact at 0.8°) · For a birth after 8:35 p.m., his Sun was in Leo.
What he needed
Moon in Pisces, the Tide
Soaks up the feelings around him. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to himself.
How he loved
Venus in Gemini, the Charmer
Falls for a clever mind. Needs conversation, laughter and variety in love. He loved the dream of a person, and the real one had to compete with it.
Venus square Neptune (wide at 3.8°)
How he thought
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and he saw answers others missed.
Mercury sextile Uranus (wide at 3.4°)
What drove him
Mars in Leo, the Leader
Confident, dramatic and courageous. Puts heart into every effort and likes to lead from the front. He took on more than any one person could, and his boldness ran ahead of his plans.
Mars square Jupiter (almost exact at 0.5°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his optimism, his discipline and his independence (Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus) gather in Taurus, and that part of life drew his attention first. In his chart, earth signs hold the most planets: the practical and the solid.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Alex Trebek was born three days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 90% lit, in Pisces. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Monday, 31 days after the June solstice.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Alex Trebek was born, as it was on 67 days of 1940. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Alex Trebek, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1999 and 2000, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1970. When is yours?
You and Alex Trebek
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.
Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts
The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
Questions about his chart
What is Alex Trebek’s zodiac sign?
Cancer or Leo. The Sun moved from Cancer into Leo at 8:35 p.m. that day, local time: in Cancer for a birth before then, in Leo for one after.
What is Alex Trebek’s Moon sign?
Pisces, the Tide. Soaks up the feelings around him. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to himself.
What is Alex Trebek’s rising sign?
The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 22, 1940. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Alex Trebek’s Venus sign?
Gemini, the Charmer. Falls for a clever mind. Needs conversation, laughter and variety in love.
How does your chart compare with Alex Trebek’s?
Set your chart beside Alex Trebek’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.
Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Alex Trebek’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: The Peabody Awards, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
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The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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