Burt Bacharach’s birth chart
PianistBorn May 12, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, United StatesDied February 8, 2023
Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle.
- SunTaurusThe Gardener
- MoonAquariusThe Cool Head
- VenusTaurusThe Keeper
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Taurus, the Gardener
Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle. Has a gift for comfort, beauty and making things that last. 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 1.9°)
What he needed
Moon in Aquarius, the Cool Head
Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them.
How he loved
Venus in Taurus, the Keeper
Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year.
How he thought
Mercury in Gemini, the Quick Wit
Fast, curious and funny. Thinks out loud and collects ideas from everywhere. A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and he saw answers others missed.
Mercury sextile Uranus (wide at 3.5°)
What drove him
Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior
Works from instinct and compassion. Fights for others more easily than for himself. His drive and his imagination spoke different languages: he went after something before he could say what it was.
Mars quincunx Neptune (almost exact at 0.4°)
The shape of his chart
The Sun is the hub of his chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so his identity touched everything else in it. Most of his planets are in fire signs: instinct and enthusiasm.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Burt Bacharach was born seven days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 52% lit, in Aquarius. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Saturday, 39 days before the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Burt Bacharach, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2016, at 88: his third Saturn return, after the second in 1987. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Taurus
You and Burt Bacharach
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.
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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.
Burt Bacharach’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Taurus
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What is Burt Bacharach’s zodiac sign?
Taurus. Burt Bacharach was born on May 12, 1928, with the Sun in Taurus, the Gardener. Unhurried, warm and hard to rattle. Has a gift for comfort, beauty and making things that last.
What is Burt Bacharach’s Moon sign?
Aquarius, the Cool Head. Needs freedom, friendship and room to think. Handles feelings by stepping back and making sense of them.
What is Burt Bacharach’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 May 12, 1928. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Burt Bacharach’s Venus sign?
Taurus, the Keeper. Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year.
How does your chart compare with Burt Bacharach’s?
Set your chart beside Burt Bacharach’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 Burt Bacharach’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: ABC Television, 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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