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Bill Russell’s birth chart

Basketball playerBorn February 12, 1934, Monroe, Louisiana, United StatesDied July 31, 2022

A free mind with a strong sense of fairness.

  • SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
  • MoonAquariusor Capricorn
  • VenusAquariusThe Kindred Spirit

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker

    A free mind with a strong sense of fairness. Friendly to everyone and hard to pin down. His confidence came easily and spread: he thought big, and other people wanted to come along.

    The Sun trine Jupiter (almost exact at 0.2°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Aquarius or Capricorn, the Cool Head

    Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them.

    For a birth before 2:58 a.m., his Moon was in Capricorn.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit

    Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully his own person. What he wanted from love and what love gave him kept needing adjustment, and he learned to see people as they were.

    Venus quincunx Neptune (almost exact at 0.2°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Pisces, the Poet

    An intuitive, imaginative mind. Thinks in images and picks up what is left unsaid. Facts and dreams blurred together in his mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details mattered.

    Mercury opposition Neptune (close at 1.6°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior

    Gentle on the surface and quietly strong. Works best for a cause worth believing in. He thought fast and spoke faster: his mind liked a contest, and his words had an edge.

    Mercury conjunction Mars (wide at 3.2°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    Most of his planets are in air signs: ideas and people.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Bill Russell was born the day before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 2% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Monday, 36 days before the March equinox.

  • Venus retrograde

    Venus was retrograde all the day Bill Russell was born, as it was on 42 days of 1934. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Bill Russell, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2022, at 88: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1993. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Aquarius

You and Bill Russell

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.

Bill Russell’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is Bill Russell’s zodiac sign?

Aquarius. Bill Russell was born on February 12, 1934, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. A free mind with a strong sense of fairness. Friendly to everyone and hard to pin down.

What is Bill Russell’s Moon sign?

Aquarius or Capricorn. The Moon moved from Capricorn into Aquarius at 2:58 a.m. that day, local time: in Capricorn for a birth before then, in Aquarius for one after.

What is Bill Russell’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 February 12, 1934. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Bill Russell’s Venus sign?

Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit. Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully his own person.

How does your chart compare with Bill Russell’s?

Set your chart beside Bill Russell’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 Bill Russell’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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