Rick James’ birth chart
SingerBorn February 1, 1948, Buffalo, New York, United StatesDied August 6, 2004
A free mind with a strong sense of fairness.
- SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
- MoonScorpioThe Vault
- VenusPiscesThe Tender Heart
What his chart says about him
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. Imagination and identity worked together: he could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.
The Sun trine Neptune (close at 1.1°)
What he needed
Moon in Scorpio, the Vault
Feels everything strongly and privately. Needs trust, loyalty and honesty above all.
How he loved
Venus in Pisces, the Tender Heart
Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it. He kept weighing pleasure against duty, and joy came once the work was done.
Venus quincunx Saturn (close at 2.0°)
How he thought
Mercury in Aquarius or Pisces, the Inventor
An inventive, independent mind. Sees patterns others miss and questions the usual way of doing things. Sharp words and a sharp mind: he argued well, sometimes too well, and a debate was a kind of sport to him.
Mercury opposition Mars (wide at 4.2°) · For a birth after 7:46 p.m., his Mercury was in Pisces.
What drove him
Mars in Virgo, the Craftsperson
Works carefully and precisely. Gets results through skill and attention to detail.
The shape of his chart
Saturn is the hub of his chart: it takes part in six of its aspects, more than any other body, so his discipline touched everything else in it. Most of his planets are in air signs: ideas and people.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Rick James was born six days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 53% lit, in Scorpio. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Sunday, 41 days after the December solstice.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Rick James was born, as it was on 81 days of 1948. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Rick James, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1977, at 29: his first Saturn return. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aquarius
You and Rick James
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
More with the Sun in Aquarius
See allQuestions about his chart
What is Rick James’ zodiac sign?
Aquarius. Rick James was born on February 1, 1948, 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 Rick James’ Moon sign?
Scorpio, the Vault. Feels everything strongly and privately. Needs trust, loyalty and honesty above all.
What is Rick James’ 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 1, 1948. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Rick James’ Venus sign?
Pisces, the Tender Heart. Gentle, devoted and full of feeling. Wants a love with a little magic in it.
How does your chart compare with Rick James’?
Set your chart beside Rick James’ 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 Rick James’ Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Leach Entertainment Features, 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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