Bill Withers’ birth chart
MusicianBorn July 4, 1938, Slab Fork, West Virginia, United StatesDied March 30, 2020
Tender under a careful shell.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonLibraThe Peacemaker
- VenusLeoThe Romantic
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. The self he showed the world and the self he came home to wanted different things, and he made room for both.
The Sun square the Moon (close at 1.1°)
What he needed
Moon in Libra, the Peacemaker
Feels most at peace when the people around him are at peace. Needs beauty, balance and someone to share things with.
How he loved
Venus in Leo, the Romantic
Loves with warmth, pride and a generous heart. Wants romance, admiration and loyalty in return. Loyal in love: he chose carefully, and what he built with people lasted.
Venus trine Saturn (close at 1.4°)
How he thought
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. He thought like a detective: nothing was taken at face value, and he remembered everything.
Mercury conjunction Pluto (wide at 3.8°)
What drove him
Mars in Cancer, the Defender
Driven by feeling. Goes the furthest for something personal, and guards home fiercely. He worked for ideals: his drive came alive for a cause, a role or a dream.
Mars sextile Neptune (almost exact at 0.5°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind, his drive and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Pluto) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. In his chart, water signs hold the most planets: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Bill Withers was born seven days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 51% lit, in Libra. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Monday, twelve days after the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Bill Withers, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1997 and 1998, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1968. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Bill Withers
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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
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See allQuestions about his chart
What is Bill Withers’ zodiac sign?
Cancer. Bill Withers was born on July 4, 1938, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it.
What is Bill Withers’ Moon sign?
Libra, the Peacemaker. Feels most at peace when the people around him are at peace.
What is Bill Withers’ 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 4, 1938. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Bill Withers’ Venus sign?
Leo, the Romantic. Loves with warmth, pride and a generous heart. Wants romance, admiration and loyalty in return.
How does your chart compare with Bill Withers’?
Set your chart beside Bill Withers’ 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 Withers’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Columbia Records, 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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