Fred Rogers’ birth chart
Television personalityBorn March 20, 1928, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United StatesDied February 27, 2003
Soft-hearted and full of imagination.
- SunPiscesor Aries
- MoonPiscesThe Tide
- VenusPiscesThe Tender Heart
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Pisces or Aries, the Dreamer
Soft-hearted and full of imagination. Picks up on feelings nobody has said out loud. He kept redrawing the line between the life he had and the life he imagined.
The Sun quincunx Neptune (close at 2.9°) · For a birth after 3:45 p.m., his Sun was in Aries.
What he needed
Moon in Pisces, the Tide
Sensitive to everything and quick to sympathise. Finds rest in art, water, dreams and kind company. His feelings ran deep and held steady: he came through hard times with more strength than he went in with.
The Moon trine Pluto (almost exact at 0.8°)
How he loved
Venus in Pisces, the Tender Heart
Loves with compassion and imagination. Wants a romantic, gentle bond. Words with charm in them: he had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to him.
Mercury conjunction Venus (close at 1.0°)
How he thought
Mercury in Pisces, the Poet
Dreamy and perceptive. Remembers how a moment felt better than what was said in it. Facts and dreams blurred together in his mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details mattered.
Mercury opposition Neptune (wide at 5.2°)
What drove him
Mars in Aquarius, the Rebel
Driven by ideas and fairness. Fights for change and does things differently. Force and restraint kept trading places, and he learned when to let go.
Mars quincunx Pluto (close at 1.3°)
The shape of his chart
No earth at all, so the practical, settled side was the one he had to find.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Fred Rogers was born the day before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 2% lit, in Pisces. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Tuesday, the day of the March equinox.
Saturn return
For Fred Rogers, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1987, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1957. When is yours?
You and Fred Rogers
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 Fred Rogers’ zodiac sign?
Pisces or Aries. The Sun moved from Pisces into Aries at 3:45 p.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.
What is Fred Rogers’ Moon sign?
Pisces, the Tide. Sensitive to everything and quick to sympathise. Finds rest in art, water, dreams and kind company.
What is Fred Rogers’ 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 March 20, 1928. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Fred Rogers’ Venus sign?
Pisces, the Tender Heart. Loves with compassion and imagination. Wants a romantic, gentle bond.
How does your chart compare with Fred Rogers’?
Set your chart beside Fred Rogers’ 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 Fred Rogers’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Walt Seng; Distributed by PBS, 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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