Under Your Stars
Search
Roy Orbison
Photo credit

Famous birth charts

Roy Orbison’s birth chart

MusicianBorn April 23, 1936, Vernon, Texas, United StatesDied December 6, 1988

Steady as bedrock.

  • SunTaurusThe Gardener
  • MoonGeminior Taurus
  • VenusAriesThe Chaser

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Taurus, the Gardener

    Steady as bedrock. Takes time to decide, and once something is chosen, it is kept and looked after. Born original: his identity and his need for freedom were the same thing, and he surprised people, himself included.

    The Sun conjunction Uranus (close at 2.0°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Gemini or Taurus, the Talker

    Sorts out feelings by putting them into words. Needs company, news and a change of scene.

    For a birth before 5:38 a.m., his Moon was in Taurus.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Aries, the Chaser

    Falls quickly and wholeheartedly. Needs passion and a little challenge to stay interested. What he wanted from love and what love gave him kept needing adjustment, and he learned to see people as they were.

    Venus quincunx Neptune (close at 1.3°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Taurus, the Careful Thinker

    Thinks slowly and solidly. A mind, once made up, stays made up. A patient, exact mind: he chose every word, and his thinking got sharper with practice.

    Mercury sextile Saturn (close at 1.1°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Taurus, the Stayer

    Slow to start and impossible to stop. He worked steadily, built things to last and did not give up under pressure. He thought fast and spoke faster: his mind liked a contest, and his words had an edge.

    Mercury conjunction Mars (close at 1.6°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    Saturn is the hub of his chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so his discipline touched everything else in it. Most of his planets are in earth signs: the practical and the solid.

Your own chart, read the same way

The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Roy Orbison was born two days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 7% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Thursday, 33 days after the March equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Roy Orbison, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1966, at 29: his first Saturn return. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Taurus

You and Roy Orbison

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

Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.

The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.

Roy Orbison’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

Also in Traveling Wilburys

See all

More with the Sun in Taurus

See all

Also born on April 23

Questions about his chart

What is Roy Orbison’s zodiac sign?

Taurus. Roy Orbison was born on April 23, 1936, with the Sun in Taurus, the Gardener. Steady as bedrock. Takes time to decide, and once something is chosen, it is kept and looked after.

What is Roy Orbison’s Moon sign?

Gemini or Taurus. The Moon moved from Taurus into Gemini at 5:38 a.m. that day, local time: in Taurus for a birth before then, in Gemini for one after.

What is Roy Orbison’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 April 23, 1936. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Roy Orbison’s Venus sign?

Aries, the Chaser. Falls quickly and wholeheartedly. Needs passion and a little challenge to stay interested.

How does your chart compare with Roy Orbison’s?

Set your chart beside Roy Orbison’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 Roy Orbison’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

A correction, or a request to take this page down: hello@underyourstars.com.

To cite this page: Roy Orbison’s birth chart, Under Your Stars, https://underyourstars.com/people/roy-orbison