Bruce Springsteen's Birth Chart

Motion fills the first three places: Jupiter and Mercury had both changed direction in the week before the birth, and Mercury's retrograde ranks separately. Three debilities follow, then six cardinal planets and nine below the horizon. Of the eight, five hold at any hour, the other three for at least 3 hours 13 minutes either side of the recorded time.

Michel and Françoise Gauquelin gathered birth certificates for their 1982 study of 1,398 successful Americans (Series D, volume 10), whose hour column is the certificate hour; the entry, spelled 'Sprinsteen', reads 22:50 with a four-hour zone. This page relies on that transcription, not an image of the certificate. Astrotheme repeats the hour from Gauquelin; astro-charts.com credits it to Scholfield, a compiler not identified further. A rival hour in print cannot be ruled out.

The Gauquelin entry names Freehold, where he grew up; Wikipedia, citing Charles R. Cross's Backstreets, puts the birth at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, used here. Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4, ran until September 25, 1949: the moment is 02:50 UTC on September 24, 1949.

The Sun sits 0°40′ short of the Placidus 5th-house cusp: born before 10:47:51 PM, it would fall in the 5th, its Whole Sign house. Venus reaches the 6th with a birth 6 minutes earlier, and the Midheaven turns Pisces at 10:53:51 PM. The Sun's entry into Libra at 5:05 AM, a same-day sign change seen in about one chart in 30, came long before the birth.

Jupiter, at 22°22′ Capricorn in the 8th house, had turned direct about 5.0 days earlier and was gaining about one arc-minute a day, as close to a station as about one chart in 11. Mercury, 17°53′ from the Sun, went retrograde roughly three days before the birth and was sliding back 0°20′ a day: that near a station in about one chart in 7, retrograde at all in about one chart in 5 (calendar).

Uranus, in the 1st house, is the one planet out of bounds, 0°08′ past the Sun's farthest declination.

Mercury in Libra squares Jupiter in Capricorn at 3°45′ all day long, and Jupiter squares the Moon at 1°02′. Venus in Scorpio square Mars in Leo, 0°32′, is the tightest planetary pair. Only the Moon's trine to the Ascendant is closer, 0°17′, and it is within half a degree only from 10:49 PM to 10:53 PM.

Below the horizon, nine planets fit inside 126°10′, from Uranus in Cancer to Venus in Scorpio; eight or more on that side turn up in about one chart in 6. Jupiter, alone above, turns the shape into a bucket and is its handle (chart pattern analyzer). Cardinal signs hold six planets, a weighting found in about one chart in 18, and air leads the elements, the Gemini Ascendant and Aquarius Midheaven joining four Libra planets.

The Sun was 41°49′ below the horizon: a night chart (sect) for any birth from 6:47 PM until 6:49 AM. Hellenistic rules then favor Venus, in detriment in Scorpio (about one chart in 6); Jupiter, the benefic out of sect, is in its fall in Capricorn (about one chart in 12), as is the Sun in Libra (about one chart in 12; dignities). No traditional planet holds its own sign or exaltation.

Strength scores put Jupiter last at 35 and Saturn and Uranus level at the top on 65, both angular and swift; Saturn is also lord of the geniture.

Kamala Harris comes nearest, with the Libra Sun and Gemini rising; Serena Williams shares the Sun, Leonardo DiCaprio the Moon, and Vladimir Putin the Sun and a Venus within a degree. Nobody else here was born on September 23, 1949.

Lahiri's ayanamsa, 23°09′, puts the Sun, Mercury and Neptune in Kanya (Virgo). The Moon, 0°16′ into Tula (Libra), entered it only at 10:24 PM, and the Vrishabha (Taurus) lagna gives way to Mithuna (Gemini) at 10:50:06 PM, seconds after the recorded minute. Jupiter, Venus and Mercury sit in their own signs; Mars is in Cancer, its neecha sign.

Saturn's first return took three crossings of its natal degree, on November 11, 1978, February 6, 1979 (retrograde) and July 31, 1979; its second came on September 6, 2008, and Jupiter's sixth was complete by November 9, 2020.

Each placement was worked out with precise astronomical calculations for the moment above, at the hospital's coordinates (40°17′ N, 73°59′ W), tropical zodiac, Placidus houses. Rates compare random births of the 1940s worldwide.