PROFILE · ENTREPRENEURS
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III
entrepreneur and philanthropist
Born 28 October 1955 · Seattle, Washington, United States · 47.61° N, 122.33° WX
Source: Birth time not documented in publicly accessible records
About this chart
No birth time is documented for this person. The chart therefore shows planetary positions in their signs, the slow aspects between them, and the generational context — but not house placements, the Ascendant, or the Midheaven, which require an accurate birth time. The Moon's sign carries a ±6° margin: if it falls near a sign boundary, the sign could vary. Positions for all other planets are reliable.
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The sky at birth
No birth time is documented for Bill Gates. The Ascendant, Midheaven, and house positions cannot be determined. The planetary positions below are calculated for noon local time and are accurate to within a fraction of a degree for the slow-moving planets. The Moon's position carries a margin of approximately ±7°.
The Sun is at 4°37' Scorpio. The Moon is at 2°26' Aries (noon position, ±7° margin). Mercury is at 16°12' Libra. Venus is at 19°42' Scorpio. Mars is at 9°51' Libra. Jupiter is at 27°43' Leo. Saturn is at 21°32' Scorpio. Uranus is at 2°17' Leo. Neptune is at 28°13' Libra. Pluto is at 28°20' Leo.
Neptune at 28°13' Libra sextiles Pluto at 28°20' Leo (0°07') — functionally exact and the tightest aspect in the chart, though this is a generational configuration. The Moon at 2°26' Aries trines Uranus at 2°17' Leo (0°09') — the tightest personal aspect, also functionally exact, though it carries the Moon's ±7° uncertainty. Jupiter at 27°43' Leo sextiles Neptune at 28°13' Libra (0°30'). Jupiter at 27°43' Leo conjoins Pluto at 28°20' Leo (0°37'). Venus at 19°42' Scorpio conjoins Saturn at 21°32' Scorpio (1°50'). The Sun at 4°37' Scorpio squares Uranus at 2°17' Leo (2°20').
The engine also identifies the following tight minor aspects involving asteroids and calculated points: venus sextile ceres (0.06° app); sun semi-square northNode (0.13° sep); moon trine uranus (0.15° sep); jupiter trine pallas (0.15° app).
The tightest major aspects between planets: Neptune sextile Pluto (0°07'), Moon trine Uranus (0°09'), Jupiter sextile Neptune (0°30'), Jupiter conjunct Pluto (0°37'), Venus conjunct Saturn (1°50'), Sun square Uranus (2°20').
Astronomical context
Those born between approximately 1939 and 1957 carried Pluto in Leo. This generation arrived during or immediately after the Second World War and came of age as the structures of postwar prosperity — mass consumption, suburban expansion, television, the nuclear family as economic unit — reached their fullest expression. They inherited the world the war had broken and rebuilt it according to new scales of ambition, consumption, and individual visibility.
In astrological tradition, Pluto in Leo is associated with collective transformation of the domains that sign governs: individual identity, creative authority, self-expression, performance, and the display of power. Leo is the sign of the singular figure, of the one who stands at the centre of the stage and demands to be seen. Pluto's transit through Leo coincided with the emergence of television, the cult of celebrity, the cold-war nuclear standoff that placed individual leaders at the centre of existential risk, and the first generation of mass consumer culture that measured worth by visibility and accumulation. The symbolic reading is correlative, not causal.
Other profiles in the Astrian collection born under this configuration include John Lennon (1940) and David Bowie (1947). Bill Gates, born in 1955, belongs to the final years of this generational wave.
Other profiles from this Pluto in Leo generation
Symbolic reading
The following describes what classical astrological tradition associates with these configurations. Astrian does not apply these descriptions to the person's biography.
The Sun at 4°37' Scorpio is the most prominent structural feature of this chart. Without a documented birth time, there is no Ascendant or Midheaven — the reading is confined to planetary positions by sign and the aspects between planets.
The Moon at 2°26' Aries represents the noon position; the actual placement falls within approximately 7° on either side. If born early in the day, the Moon could have been in late Pisces; if born later, securely in early Aries. Mercury at 16°12' Libra, Venus at 19°42' Scorpio, and Mars at 9°51' Libra complete the personal planet picture. Sun and Venus in Scorpio, Mercury and Mars in Libra — a configuration that concentrates the personal energies between signs of strategic depth (Scorpio) and relational calculation (Libra).
### Venus conjunct Saturn: desire bound to structure
Venus at 19°42' Scorpio conjoins Saturn at 21°32' Scorpio, orb 1°50'. Venus governs value, desire, and the aesthetic sense — what one finds worth pursuing. Saturn governs structure, discipline, limitation, and the long-term framework within which things are built. Their conjunction in Scorpio fuses these faculties: the capacity to desire (Venus) is inseparable from the capacity to structure (Saturn), and both operate through the register of Scorpio — concentrated, strategic, concerned with what is beneath the surface.
In the tradition, Venus-Saturn conjunctions are read as configurations where pleasure is deferred, where value is measured not by immediacy but by durability, and where the aesthetic sense tends toward the functional rather than the decorative. In Scorpio, this conjunction adds a layer of depth: the structures built are not visible from the outside but operate at the level of the system itself — the architecture that other people use without seeing who designed it.
### Jupiter conjunct Pluto: expansion meets transformative power
A parallel life
The following are verified biographical facts. No connection to the natal chart is implied.
William Henry Gates III was born on 28 October 1955 in Seattle, Washington, the second of three children and only son of William H. Gates II, a prominent attorney, and Mary Maxwell Gates, a schoolteacher who later served on the boards of First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. The family was upper-middle-class and connected: his maternal grandfather had been a national bank president.
At thirteen, Gates enrolled at Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school in Seattle. Lakeside had recently installed a Teletype terminal connected to a General Electric time-sharing computer — an almost unprecedented investment for a secondary school in 1968. Gates and his classmate Paul Allen became consumed by programming. They exhausted their allotted computer time within weeks, found bugs in the system's accounting software to obtain more, and were eventually banned and then invited back to find further bugs in exchange for unlimited access. By the time he was fifteen, Gates and Allen had written a traffic-counting program for the city of Seattle and earned $20,000 from it.
He enrolled at Harvard in 1973. In January 1975, Allen showed him the cover of Popular Electronics featuring the MITS Altair 8800, the first commercially available microcomputer. Gates called MITS and claimed he and Allen had written a BASIC interpreter for the machine. They had not; they wrote it over the following weeks, and it worked on the first demonstration. They founded Microsoft — originally Micro-Soft — in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in April 1975. Gates was nineteen.
The decisive moment came in 1980, when IBM approached Microsoft about an operating system for its forthcoming personal computer. Microsoft did not have one. Gates purchased QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from a Seattle programmer named Tim Paterson for $50,000, adapted it, and licensed it to IBM as MS-DOS — crucially, as a license rather than a sale, retaining the right to license it to other manufacturers. When the IBM PC became the industry standard and dozens of manufacturers produced compatible clones, every one of them needed MS-DOS. The licensing structure Gates had negotiated — non-exclusive, royalty-per-copy — meant that Microsoft collected a payment on virtually every personal computer sold in the world.
This profile presents the sky at the birth of Bill Gates and verified facts of their biography. Astrian does not claim that astrology has predictive capacity or that the natal chart determines the trajectory of a life. Astrology is a symbolic system with 2,500 years of literature. Its capacity for retrospective description does not imply explanatory capacity.
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