Chef & restaurateur

Gordon Ramsay

Four of his ten planets sit in earth signs, four in water, two in fire and not one in air. Air is the element that stands back and explains itself, and the chart of a man who has presented television on both sides of the Atlantic has none of it at all. The record says Ramsay's restaurants have held Michelin stars for three decades.

Seven of the ten planets sit in just two signs. The Moon, Mars, Uranus and Pluto group inside eight degrees of Virgo, and the Sun, Venus and Neptune inside seven of Scorpio. Virgo inspects every detail and corrects it; Scorpio commits totally and explains nothing. A kitchen at that level is both of those at once, and the chart gives each of them a very tight group rather than a single planet.

Saturn sits directly opposite Uranus one hundredth of a degree from exact, which is as close as this project ever reports, the planet of limit against the planet that overturns the arrangement with the full width of the chart between them. In a chef whose record names a kitchen and a television career in the same line, that opposition is the structure holding the two together. The Sun sits conjunct Venus at an eighth of a degree and the Moon conjunct Pluto at under two fifths.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Leo starting point on 19 July 2026, at fifty nine, sixteen months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Leo takes its measure from what was watched rather than what was built, and four circuits come before it. For a record that names restaurants first and television second, that is the question in the wrong order, which is exactly why it is worth putting. Seven planets in two signs and none at all in air is the structure to keep from this chart: everything gathered into inspecting and committing, and nothing spare for explaining itself.

Born
1966-11-08, Johnstone, ScotlandA Tuesday
At birth
Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Virgo
Nationality
United Kingdom
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1966-11-08, Johnstone, Scotland · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Londonthe zone used then

The chart

Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunScorpio15°37′Direct
MoonVirgo19°43′Direct
MercurySagittarius3°00′Retrograde
VenusScorpio15°29′Direct
MarsVirgo15°46′Direct
JupiterLeo4°12′Direct
SaturnPisces23°12′Retrograde
UranusVirgo23°12′Direct
NeptuneScorpio21°40′Direct
PlutoVirgo20°05′Direct

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Gordon Ramsay is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.

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