Samuel Beckett’s birth chart
WriterBorn April 13, 1906, Foxrock, IrelandDied December 22, 1989
Happiest going first.
- SunAriesThe Pioneer
- MoonSagittariusThe Free Spirit
- VenusTaurusThe Keeper
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Aries, the Pioneer
Happiest going first. Starts things with real nerve and loves a challenge that needs someone brave. His purpose and his feelings were on the same side: the life he chose and the comfort he needed went together.
The Sun trine the Moon (almost exact at 0.4°)
What he needed
Moon in Sagittarius, the Free Spirit
Restless and good-humoured. Feels best with a plan for the next adventure and the freedom to change it. He loved hard and held on hard, and letting go took him a long time.
The Moon opposition Pluto (close at 1.3°)
How he loved
Venus in Taurus, the Keeper
Slow to fall and slow to leave. Wants a love that feels safe, warm and real. A romantic with an artist’s eye: he saw the beauty in people and made it visible to others.
Venus sextile Neptune (almost exact at 0.7°)
How he thought
Mercury in Aries, the Spark
Thinks fast and speaks plainly. Ideas arrive whole and leave his mouth a second later. His mind ran ahead of the conversation: he said the unexpected thing, and not everyone was ready to hear it.
Mercury square Uranus (almost exact at 0.3°)
What drove him
Mars in Taurus, the Stayer
Steady, strong and very patient. He kept going long after others stopped.
The shape of his chart
Uranus is the hub of his chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so his independence touched everything else in it.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Samuel Beckett was born four days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 75% lit, in Sagittarius. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Friday, twenty-two days after the March equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Samuel Beckett was born, as it was on 67 days of 1906. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Samuel Beckett, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1965, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1936. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aries
You and Samuel Beckett
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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.
Samuel Beckett’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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Questions about his chart
What is Samuel Beckett’s zodiac sign?
Aries. Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, with the Sun in Aries, the Pioneer. Happiest going first. Starts things with real nerve and loves a challenge that needs someone brave.
What is Samuel Beckett’s Moon sign?
Sagittarius, the Free Spirit. Restless and good-humoured. Feels best with a plan for the next adventure and the freedom to change it.
What is Samuel Beckett’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 13, 1906. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Samuel Beckett’s Venus sign?
Taurus, the Keeper. Slow to fall and slow to leave. Wants a love that feels safe, warm and real.
How does your chart compare with Samuel Beckett’s?
Set your chart beside Samuel Beckett’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 Samuel Beckett’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Roger Pic, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. 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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