Pete Sampras’ birth chart
Tennis playerBorn August 12, 1971, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Warm, generous and made to be seen.
- SunLeoThe Bright One
- MoonTaurusThe Hearth
- VenusLeoThe Romantic
What his chart says about him
Who he is
Sun in Leo, the Bright One
Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too. More sensitive to criticism than it looks. He fights hard for what he wants, and his temper is part of his courage.
The Sun opposition Mars (close at 2.9°)
What he needs
Moon in Taurus, the Hearth
Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same. Feeling and thought speak the same language: he can put a mood into words, and his words carry feeling.
The Moon trine Mercury (close at 1.6°)
How he loves
Venus in Leo, the Romantic
Grand in affection and fiercely loyal. Likes to celebrate the people dearest to him. In love he wants tenderness and a chase at once, and his relationships are rarely calm.
Venus opposition Mars (close at 1.2°)
How he thinks
Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst
A careful, exact mind. Spots the flaw, fixes the plan and gets the wording just right. He doubts his own ideas before anyone else can, and so he checks every one twice.
Mercury square Saturn (wide at 5.3°)
What drives him
Mars in Aquarius, the Rebel
Driven by ideas and fairness. Fights for change and does things differently. Quick and inventive in action: he moves fast, breaks with habit and makes sudden changes work.
Mars trine Uranus (wide at 5.6°)
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Pete Sampras was born six days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 59% lit, in Taurus. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 42 days before the September equinox.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Pete Sampras was born, as it was on 61 days of 1971. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Pete Sampras, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2001, at 29: his first Saturn return. The second begins in 2030. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Leo
You and Pete Sampras
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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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What is Pete Sampras’ zodiac sign?
Leo. Pete Sampras was born on August 12, 1971, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Warm, generous and made to be seen. Makes a room feel brighter and wants the people in it to shine too.
What is Pete Sampras’ Moon sign?
Taurus, the Hearth. Calm, warm and steady. Feels safest with good food, soft things and a familiar routine, and makes everyone around him feel the same.
What is Pete Sampras’ 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 August 12, 1971. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Pete Sampras’ Venus sign?
Leo, the Romantic. Grand in affection and fiercely loyal. Likes to celebrate the people dearest to him.
How does your chart compare with Pete Sampras’?
Set your chart beside Pete Sampras’ 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 Pete Sampras’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Craig ONeal, CC BY-SA 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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