Sugar Ray Leonard’s birth chart
BoxerBorn May 17, 1956, Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Steady as bedrock.
- SunTaurusThe Gardener
- MoonVirgoor Leo
- VenusCancerThe Nurturer
What his chart says about him
Who he is
Sun in Taurus, the Gardener
Steady as bedrock. Takes time to decide, and once something is chosen, it is kept and looked after. Nothing about him is halfway: he insists on running his own life, and the struggle makes him formidable.
The Sun square Pluto (almost exact at 0.6°)
What he needs
Moon in Virgo or Leo, the Mender
Shows feeling in practical ways: a fixed problem, a remembered detail, a cup of tea at the right time.
For a birth before 7:40 a.m., his Moon was in Leo.
How he loves
Venus in Cancer, the Nurturer
Loves tenderly and protectively. Wants closeness, family and a feeling of belonging.
How he thinks
Mercury in Gemini, the Quick Wit
Quick, witty and endlessly curious. Picks up a subject fast and can talk about ten things at once.
What drives him
Mars in Aquarius, the Rebel
Driven by ideas and causes. Breaks with convention and pushes for something new. He takes on more than any one person can, and his boldness runs ahead of his plans.
Mars opposition Jupiter (close at 2.5°)
The shape of his chart
The Sun is the hub of his chart: it takes part in six of its aspects, more than any other body, so his identity touches everything else in it.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Sugar Ray Leonard was born seven days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 55% lit. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 34 days before the June solstice.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Sugar Ray Leonard was born, as it was on 66 days of 1956. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Sugar Ray Leonard, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2014 and 2015, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1985. The third begins in 2044. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Taurus
You and Sugar Ray Leonard
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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.
Sugar Ray Leonard’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is Sugar Ray Leonard’s zodiac sign?
Taurus. Sugar Ray Leonard was born on May 17, 1956, 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 Sugar Ray Leonard’s Moon sign?
Virgo or Leo. The Moon moved from Leo into Virgo at 7:40 a.m. that day, local time: in Leo for a birth before then, in Virgo for one after.
What is Sugar Ray Leonard’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 May 17, 1956. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Sugar Ray Leonard’s Venus sign?
Cancer, the Nurturer. Loves tenderly and protectively. Wants closeness, family and a feeling of belonging.
How does your chart compare with Sugar Ray Leonard’s?
Set your chart beside Sugar Ray Leonard’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 Sugar Ray Leonard’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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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