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Bill Cosby

1937-07-12 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA· birth time unknown

☉ Cancer Sun☽ Virgo Moon↑ Libra Rising(est.)Entertainer

Earth dominantCancer stelliumSun conjunct Mercury

Note: Bill Cosby's exact birth time isn't on record. Planetary signs are calculated for noon on his birth date and are likely accurate, but the rising sign and house placements are unknown... and the Moon sign should be treated as approximate if he was born near a sign change.

Once beloved comedian whose legacy was destroyed by sexual assault convictions.

Astrology doesn't explain talent — but Bill Cosby's chart does illuminate the qualities that shaped his creative life and the nature behind the art...

A Cancer Sun is the foundation of Bill Cosby's chart — a nature that moves in cycles — inward and outward, open and closed, expressive and retreating. This isn't inconsistency. It's the rhythm of something alive. The tide comes in and the tide goes out, and both are necessary.

The private register of the chart is a Virgo Moon — The emotional life is expressed through acts of service more often than words — Virgo Moon shows up in concrete, specific ways and expects to be understood through those acts. The language of care here is practical, and it is sincere.

Away from the spotlight, Bill's Venus in Gemini can love two contradictory things about a person simultaneously, which is the Gemini gift — the ability to hold multiple truths at once extends into relationship. The complexity of real people is not a problem. It is the point.

The way Bill processes ideas and communicates carries the signature of Mercury in Cancer. Communication is most honest when it's emotionally direct — Cancer Mercury can be indirect when the feeling is unresolved, circling the thing rather than saying it. When it speaks from a settled place, the expression is genuine and sometimes surprising.

In the realm of ambition and action, Bill plays the long game with an intuitive understanding of power — when to press, when to wait, when to reveal, when to conceal. The strategic patience is not calculation. It's perception.

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Birth time unknown. The Rising sign, house placements, and Midheaven shown below are estimated using noon. Only the Sun and Moon positions are reliable.

Planetary Positions

Rising: Libra (est.) · Midheaven: Cancer (est.)

☉Sun

Cancer

19° · House 10 (est.)

☽Moon

Virgo

18° · House 12 (est.)

☿Mercury

Cancer

24° · House 10 (est.)

♀Venus

Gemini

4° · House 9 (est.)

♂Mars

Scorpio

21° · House 2 (est.)

♃Jupiter

Capricorn

22° · House 4 (est.)℞

♄Saturn

Aries

5° · House 7 (est.)

♅Uranus

Taurus

13° · House 8 (est.)

♆Neptune

Virgo

16° · House 12 (est.)

♇Pluto

Cancer

28° · House 10 (est.)

☊North Node

Sagittarius

14° · House 3 (est.)℞

⚷Chiron

Gemini

26° · House 9 (est.)

Chart Interpretations

Birth time unknown. Sign placements (Sun, Moon, planets) are accurate. House placements and Rising sign are estimated from noon and may not reflect the actual chart.

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Sun in CancerHouse 10 (est.)

Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and the Sun is in its fall here ... the solar drive for distinct self-expression meeting Water's instinct to merge, protect, and retreat. Your identity forms through feeling, belonging, and the quality of your emotional bonds rather than through outward assertion. Cardinal modality gives you an initiating instinct, but it moves toward nurturing rather than leading. A concrete behavioral tendency is building your strongest sense of self around home and close relationships ... the people and spaces that feel like yours are genuinely where you live from the inside out.

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Moon in VirgoHouse 12 (est.)

Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and the Moon here finds emotional security through practical usefulness, organized environments, and the care of attending to the small things. Earth makes your feelings tangible and action-oriented ... when something is wrong emotionally, your instinct is to fix it. Mutable modality keeps your inner life responsive and analytically flexible. You show love through doing rather than declaring. A concrete tendency is emotional anxiety that manifests as bodily symptoms or relentless mental chatter ... the productive response is recognizing that the same attentiveness that creates this inner noise can also be the thing that heals it, once redirected with compassion rather than criticism.

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Mercury in CancerHouse 10 (est.)

Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and Mercury here thinks through feeling, memory, and emotional association more than through logical sequence. Water gives the mind an intuitive, imagistic quality ... you often know something before you can explain why, and your ideas arrive as impressions as much as arguments. Cardinal modality means your thinking naturally orients toward care, protection, and the people who matter to you. A concrete tendency is a long and vivid emotional memory: you retain the feeling of experiences with unusual clarity, which makes you a perceptive reader of people but can also make it difficult to separate what you remember from what is actually in front of you now.

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Venus in GeminiHouse 9 (est.)

Gemini is a Mutable Air sign, and Venus here falls in love with minds ... with wit, unexpected ideas, and the pleasure of a conversation that could go anywhere. Air makes your love nature social, curious, and communicatively alive; Mutable modality keeps attraction multi-directional and resistant to the fixity that deep commitment can feel like. You are charming, playful, and genuinely interesting to be around. A concrete tendency is a restlessness that can read as inconsistency: you are not fickle so much as genuinely stimulated by variety, and the relational work is finding a partner whose range is wide enough to keep your interest engaged at the depth you are actually capable of.

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Mars in ScorpioHouse 2 (est.)

Scorpio is a Fixed Water sign, and Mars is in its traditional domicile here ... the planet of drive in the sign of deep, strategic, psychologically focused will. Water makes your motivation private and emotionally fueled; Fixed modality gives you extraordinary patience and the capacity to sustain effort across very long timelines when you are genuinely committed. You rarely show your hand. A concrete tendency is holding on past the point of usefulness: this placement's formidable persistence can pursue objectives ... including grievances ... long after the productive moment has passed, and learning to distinguish purposeful endurance from the refusal to let go is one of the most important practical distinctions this energy requires.

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Jupiter in CapricornHouse 4 (est.)

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Capricorn is a Cardinal Earth sign, and Jupiter is in its fall here ... the planet of expansive faith and generous optimism in the sign of strategic restraint and earned reward. Earth roots your growth in what is durable and practically achievable; Cardinal modality means expansion comes through deliberate, well-timed initiative rather than spontaneous leaps. Your fortune rewards patience and the long view. A concrete tendency is the risk not taken: this placement can mistake a worthy leap for recklessness, and the growth is developing enough trust in abundance to invest before the outcome is already guaranteed ... because the return on that kind of faith is often larger than anything the cautious path could have produced.

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Saturn in AriesHouse 7 (est.)

Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign, and Saturn is in its fall here ... the planet of patient, earned mastery in the sign of impulsive, immediate self-assertion. Fire wants to act now; Saturn asks whether the foundation is in place. This tension means asserting yourself or acting on your own behalf requires more effort than it appears to for others, and confidence is something you build rather than simply assume. Cardinal modality means the lessons arrive most sharply at beginnings ... starting is where Saturn's demand lives. A concrete tendency is the overcorrection into hesitation: the fear of acting impulsively can produce a chronic waiting that ultimately costs you more than the impulsive action ever would have.

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Uranus in TaurusHouse 8 (est.)

Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign, and Uranus here (2018–2026) disrupts through seismic upheaval in the material world ... economic systems, agriculture, the body, technology's relationship to land and value. Earth makes Uranus's disruption slow, stubborn, and permanent when it finally arrives; Fixed modality means resistance to change is strong, producing a tension that accumulates until the ground actually shifts. Your generation is rethinking the foundations of how value is created, stored, and distributed. A concrete tendency is the revolution that does not announce itself loudly but quietly replaces the previous order's infrastructure ... the change is less visible than Aries and more lasting than almost any other sign.

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Neptune in VirgoHouse 12 (est.)

Virgo is a Mutable Earth sign, and Neptune is in its detriment here (1928–1943) ... the planet of transcendence in the sign of practical, critical discernment. Earth makes Neptune's idealism reach for something useful and corrective; Mutable modality keeps the dissolution adaptive and health-oriented. This generation's idealism often appeared in the sacrifices of the Depression and World War II ... a longing for order, healing, and right service that found expression in genuine collective effort. The shadow is a confusion about what true wellness and right service actually mean ... the perfectionism of Virgo applied to an unreachable Neptunian ideal.

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Pluto in CancerHouse 10 (est.)

Cancer is a Cardinal Water sign, and Pluto here (1913–1939) brought profound transformation to home, family, national identity, and the structures of belonging. Water makes Pluto's transformation deeply personal and emotionally irreversible; Cardinal modality means the destruction arrived at foundational, initiating moments in collective life. This generation lived through two World Wars and the Great Depression, experiencing the total destruction and partial rebuilding of what home, nation, and security could mean. The shadow is a compulsive attachment to the past ... a defensive tribalism organized around protecting the familiar version of belonging at tremendous cost to everything outside it.

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North Node in SagittariusHouse 3 (est.)

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Your North Node in Sagittarius calls you toward philosophical expansion, genuine faith in a larger meaning, and the willingness to trust the journey rather than requiring certainty about the destination. Sagittarius is a Mutable Fire sign ... the evolutionary direction here is toward adventure, synthesis, and the courage to commit to a worldview broad enough to live from. The corresponding South Node in Gemini suggests an ingrained ease with data, analysis, and the comfort of knowing many particular things without necessarily being asked to synthesize them into a coherent orientation. A concrete tendency from the South Node is perpetual research as an avoidance of conclusion. The medicine is the moment you stop gathering information and launch ... trusting that the accumulated understanding is enough to navigate from.

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Chiron in GeminiHouse 9 (est.)

Your Chiron in Gemini places your core wound in the realm of communication, being heard, and the trust that your thoughts and perceptions are worth expressing. Gemini is a Mutable Air sign ... the wound lives in the territory of language, exchange, and the circulation of ideas. You may have struggled early with being misunderstood, dismissed for how you expressed yourself, or made to feel that your particular way of thinking was wrong or insufficient. A concrete tendency is over-explanation as preemptive defense ... saying more than necessary in hopes of finally being understood, or saying nothing in anticipation of the familiar dismissal. The gift is a profound sensitivity to language and an extraordinary capacity to help others find and trust their own voice.

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Ascendant (Rising) in Libra(est.)

With Libra rising, you project grace, diplomacy, and social intelligence. People experience you as balanced and fair... the person who sees both sides naturally. There's an aesthetic sensibility to how you present yourself, and your ability to create harmony in any situation is your defining trait.

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Descendant in Aries(est.)

With your Descendant in Aries, you're drawn to partners who are bold, direct, and action-oriented. You seek relationships that challenge you to be more assertive and independent... even if that energy feels uncomfortable at first.

Midheaven in Cancer(est.)

With your Midheaven in Cancer, your career is deeply connected to nurturing, protecting, and creating emotional safety. You're drawn to work that feels like home... where you can care for others or build something that provides comfort and belonging.

Imum Coeli in Capricorn(est.)

With your IC in Capricorn, your roots are shaped by responsibility, discipline, and emotional reserve. Your private life is more structured than people realize. You recharge through quiet achievement and building something lasting in your personal world.