Ronnie James Dio’s birth chart
Heavy metal singerBorn July 10, 1942, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United StatesDied May 16, 2010
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonGeminiThe Talker
- VenusGeminiThe Charmer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong.
What he needed
Moon in Gemini, the Talker
Light on his feet emotionally. Feels at home in a good conversation and gets restless in silence. His feelings turned straight into action: when something mattered, he did something about it.
The Moon sextile Mars (almost exact at 0.3°)
How he loved
Venus in Gemini, the Charmer
Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match. Charm and desire worked together: he knew what he wanted in love and how to win it.
Venus sextile Mars (close at 1.4°)
How he thought
Mercury in Gemini, the Quick Wit
Fast, curious and funny. Thinks out loud and collects ideas from everywhere. Facts and dreams blurred together in his mind: wonderful for stories, harder when details mattered.
Mercury square Neptune (almost exact at 0.2°)
What drove him
Mars in Leo, the Leader
Full of fire and pride. Works hardest for a cause close to his heart and wants the effort to be seen.
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his feelings, his mind, his heart, his discipline and his independence (the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Uranus) gather in Gemini, and that part of life drew his attention first. Most of his planets are in air signs: ideas and people.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Ronnie James Dio was born three days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 7% lit, in Gemini. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Friday, eighteen days after the June solstice.
Saturn return
For Ronnie James Dio, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2001, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1972. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Ronnie James Dio
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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.
Ronnie James Dio’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is Ronnie James Dio’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Ronnie James Dio was born on July 10, 1942, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Remembers birthdays, old jokes and who needed help. Loyalty runs deep, and so does the need to belong.
What is Ronnie James Dio’s Moon sign?
Gemini, the Talker. Light on his feet emotionally. Feels at home in a good conversation and gets restless in silence.
What is Ronnie James Dio’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 July 10, 1942. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Ronnie James Dio’s Venus sign?
Gemini, the Charmer. Playful, curious and charming in love. Wants variety, banter and a mind to match.
How does your chart compare with Ronnie James Dio’s?
Set your chart beside Ronnie James Dio’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 Ronnie James Dio’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Fredamas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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