Bronny James Birth Chart

What it costs is what Libra always costs. The sign that makes diplomacy look effortless also makes assertion expensive. With Mars also in Libra (more on that below), there is no quick-strike aggression baked into his temperament; the chart simply does not deliver one. For a 6-foot-2 guard whose ceiling depends on imposing himself, that is the chart's first hard ask. The Cancer Moon undercuts it further: the inner life is family-shaped, sensitive, and protective, not the hardened, public-skin armor of a player drafted to silence doubt. Two of his most important placements — Sun and Moon — are pulling him toward consensus and care, not toward conquest.

His Moon sits at 16° Cancer, in its own sign — a placement astrologers traditionally call dignified, meaning it expresses through its most native register. Cancer Moon is family-coded by default. For someone whose family is the most-photographed father-son story in American sport, that is not a metaphor.

Cancer Moon at this strength tends to manifest as deep emotional memory, loyalty to the people who shaped you, and a private inner world that the public almost never sees. It is the part of the chart that explains why, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronny_James">cardiac arrest at USC in July 2023</a> — a congenital heart defect that put him in the ICU days before his freshman season — he returned to basketball without ever turning the moment into a redemption arc. Cancer Moons keep the wound at home, not on stage. That is the gift.

What it costs is exposure. A Cancer Moon does not have a thick skin for the kind of national scrutiny he has been under since middle school. The chart does not give him armor; it gives him a shell that the job requires he leave behind every time he laces up. And the Sun-Moon square — a 90° tension between his Libra Sun and Cancer Moon, close enough to count as a real structural strain rather than a faint background noise — means the diplomat in him and the homebody in him are not on the same page. The Libra Sun wants to be in the partnership in front of the cameras. The Cancer Moon wants to retreat to the people who knew him before any of it.

Bronny's birth time is not in the public record at any rating astrologers consider reliable — his Astro-Databank entry is rated X, the lowest tier, meaning unknown. Without a verified time, the Rising sign and house placements cannot be calculated within a day's accuracy — the Ascendant moves roughly one full sign every two hours. Inventing a Rising for content's sake is exactly what we will not do.

If a verified birth time ever surfaces, this section will be expanded.

Sitting just one degree from his Sun, Mercury is functionally fused with his identity — they form a conjunction with an orb of less than a degree. The way he thinks and the way he sees himself are running on the same operating system: weighing both sides, looking for the elegant pass, slowing down to consider the angles. Court vision in basketball is a Mercury function; his Mercury forms a trine — the easy-flow 120° angle that makes a placement feel intuitive rather than worked-for — to Neptune in Aquarius. The combination shows up directly in his pass-first reputation: he reads the floor before the floor announces itself.

Here the chart gets genuinely interesting. Venus in Virgo is a precise, refined, service-oriented placement — but his Venus sits in an opposition (the 180° aspect, where two planets stand directly across from each other and force a back-and-forth tension between them) to Uranus in Pisces. The opposition is essentially exact — about as tight as aspects ever get in a real chart. It is one of the most defining patterns in his entire chart, and it lives in the Venus department: love, aesthetic, what he reaches for, who he attaches to.

What it tends to manifest as: a love life and a personal style that resist settling. Routine attachments get disrupted; preferences shift suddenly; the careful Virgo curation gets interrupted by the dissolving, rebellious Pisces Uranus. This is not a placement that produces high school sweetheart marriages. It produces patterns that change in a season.

Mars in Libra is the placement competitive athletes least want. Mars is the planet of attack; Libra is the sign that wants the negotiated outcome. His Mars sits beside Jupiter in the same sign — a conjunction (when two planets occupy the same patch of zodiac and fuse their meanings together) that wraps his fighting impulse around his expansion impulse, both filtered through diplomatic Libra. The chart describes a competitor who fights through angles and partnership, not through dominance. For a guard expected to defend NBA point guards, that is the job-vs-temperament tension the chart names directly. (Compare with another Libra Sun in the public spotlight, <a href="/celebrities/will-smith">Will Smith</a>, whose Mars sits in fiery Scorpio and supplies exactly the assertive register Bronny's chart does not.)

This is the section the rest of his profile keeps pointing at. Three places where the chart genuinely costs him something:

Saturn at 26° Cancer opposes Chiron at 20° Capricorn — a wide but real opposition. In plain terms: the planet of structure, responsibility, and authority is in tense long-distance dialogue with the wound point of the chart, sitting in the sign of public structures and the father. Cancer-Capricorn aspects almost always speak to the family-versus-public-role axis. For a player whose most fundamental career fact is being his father's teammate, this aspect is not subtle. It says the structure of his work is also the wound of his work — they cannot be separated.

Already named above, but it bears repeating in this section because it is the chart's loudest hard aspect. With the two planets sitting essentially at the same degree on opposite sides of the zodiac, this is the placement that most forcefully refuses to let his life settle into Virgo-shaped routines. Disruption is not an occasional event in his Venus department — it is the standing order.

A near-exact square (the 90° friction angle) between his Libra Mars and his Mean Lilith placement. Lilith, in modern astrology, is read as the part of the chart that refuses to be domesticated — the unsuppressible voice. When it squares Mars, the chart is naming a recurring tension between assertion and what he is "supposed to" assert. The pressure to be the good son, the right teammate, the appropriate version of his name is built into the chart as a conflict, not a given.

The single most important shape in his chart is the four-planet Libra stellium: Sun, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter all between 2° and 14° of the sign. A stellium of four bodies in one sign concentrates roughly a third of the personal-planet weight in a single mode of expression — in Bronny's case, in Libra's relational, balanced, partnership-coded mode. Every personal expression he makes runs through that filter first.

But the stellium does not stand alone. The Cancer Moon and the Cancer Saturn together form a watery counterweight in a different sign that squares the Libra group repeatedly — Sun-Moon square, Moon-Mercury square, Saturn touching the Libra grouping by sign. The chart reads as a Libra-presented identity emotionally answerable to a Cancer interior, with the strain between them as a permanent condition rather than a phase. That is the complicating pattern this profile keeps coming back to: the public face is the partnership; the private weather is the family.

The Libra stellium is the dominant fingerprint of his chart, and it explains a great deal about the shape of his early career without flattering it. He is, by chart design, a partnership player. He arrived in the NBA on the same roster as his father, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronny_James">first father-son duo to share an active NBA court</a> on October 22, 2024 against the Minnesota Timberwolves. By February 2026, he was posting his first real production stretches — a 12-point, 6-assist outing against the San Antonio Spurs on February 10 — exactly the kind of distributor's box-score line his chart predicts.

But his Libra Mars is a real ceiling question. The chart does not generate the alpha-scorer fire of, say, <a href="/celebrities/serena-williams">Serena Williams</a>, whose Libra Sun pairs with a much more aggressive Mars placement to produce decades of competitive ferocity. Bronny's Mars doesn't rise to that. What it offers instead is the connector's brain in a body that has to defend much bigger guards.

The reading honest astrologers should make: this is not a chart that promises stardom. It is a chart that promises usefulness, longevity if the body holds, and a career best understood as the supporting half of a larger story. That is not a small thing. It is, in fact, what most NBA careers actually are. The chart is just unusually clear about it.

His Venus in Virgo wants the orderly, considered version — the relationship where the texts arrive on time and the routines work. His Uranus opposition demolishes that on a regular basis. The chart's Venus department is, in plain terms, a long-term lesson in not getting too attached to the form a relationship takes this month. The trade-off the chart sets up is between the stability he naturally reaches for and the disruptive freshness his Uranus contact insists on. Settled is not on the menu.

His Cancer Moon, meanwhile, tends to keep pulling him back to the original family — the people who knew him before the cameras did. His Moon also forms a wide conjunction to Mean Lilith — looser than the tighter aspects above but still present — which suggests his emotional life will not be performable on cue for a public audience. Whoever he ends up with will need to accept the shell.

Saturn entered Aries in May 2025 and stays there through February 2028. Right now, in April 2026, transiting Saturn is sitting in the early-to-mid degrees of Aries — directly opposing Bronny's Libra stellium. Saturn opposes his Sun, Mercury, and Mars over the next eighteen months in a slow, structural pass.

This is the transit. Not because it is dramatic, but because it is the exact celestial mechanism the chart was set up to meet at the start of an NBA career. Saturn opposition to the Sun is the moment the structure of the world tests what you have actually built — for a 21-year-old rookie whose career is being audited on a nightly basis by the entire sports media, the timing is almost too on-the-nose. We've written about <a href="/blog/sarah-ferguson-birth-chart-libra-saturn-transit-2026">the broader Saturn-in-Aries reckoning playing out for other Libra-stellium charts</a>, and the pattern is consistent: the work either gets stronger or it gets exposed. Athletes facing similar opposition windows — see <a href="/blog/naomi-osaka-birth-chart-madrid-open-2026">Naomi Osaka's current pressure cycle</a> — tend to either consolidate their game or visibly regroup.

Concretely: expect this period (roughly April 2026 through summer 2027) to be when his game is asked to either step up or be quietly reduced in role. Saturn does not negotiate. The Libra stellium has spent its entire life being natively diplomatic; the Aries opposition demands a more direct version of him. The chart suggests he will be tested on assertion specifically — the exact dimension Mars in Libra under-supplies. Whether he develops that capacity is the genuine open question of his early career.

Bronny James's chart is not the chart of a basketball superstar, and pretending otherwise would be flattery. It is the chart of a quietly skilled connector born into the most-watched supporting role in modern American sport, with a Libra stellium that fits the partnership job perfectly and a Mars placement that is honest about not delivering alpha-scoring fire. The Cancer Moon and the Saturn-Chiron opposition both name the same fact in different languages: he is shaped by a family he can't separate from his work, and the chart will keep returning to that.

What the chart asks the reader to sit with is something more interesting than a generic future-greatness narrative — it is the reality of a young man whose astrological design is to be useful in a partnership at exactly the moment his life delivered him into the most singular partnership a father and son have ever had inside an NBA roster. The Saturn opposition over the next two years tends to pressure-test whether the chart's natural diplomacy can reach for assertion when it has to. That is not a fixed outcome, in either direction. The Venus-Uranus exact opposition strongly suggests his personal life will continue to resist settling in the meantime. Honest reading: this is a chart that points toward a long career as a connector rather than a short one as a star — and that may, in the end, be the more sustainable design for the family-first inner life his Cancer Moon has been protecting all along.

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