Warren Buffett Is a Virgo. Of Course He Is.
Most famous charts come with a shrug where the birth time should be. Warren Buffett's comes with a recorded 3:00 pm in Omaha on August 30, 1930, and a Rodden A rating, which in astrology circles is the good china. The man reads annual reports for fun, and the sky filed him under the sign of the spreadsheet.
The chart astrologers actually get to compute
Astro-Databank, the reference library astrologers actually use, rates that 3:00 pm A, which means it came from the man or his family rather than a guess. So his full chart can be drawn without apology, houses and all, and it puts Sagittarius on the eastern horizon: the genial storyteller, rising. Hold onto that one. It faceplants later.
The three clean reads the date hands you
The Sun. August 30 lands squarely in Virgo, the zodiac's analyst: detail obsession, patience, service, a suspicion of anything flashy, and a filing system where other people keep feelings.
The Life Path. Add the birth date digit by digit, 8 + 3 + 0 + 1 + 9 + 3 + 0 = 24, then 2 + 4 = 6. Numerologists call 6 the steward: care, duty, home, the person who remembers where the spare key is and has never once lost it.
The Chinese zodiac. 1930 is a Horse year, and years ending in zero take the Metal stem, so Buffett is a Metal Horse. In the five-element map, Metal is the element of rules, edges and refinement. A horse with a bit in its mouth, in other words, which is about as good a description of a patient man as a calendar has ever produced.
Where the archetype actually lands
Put those next to the documented life. He chaired Berkshire Hathaway from 1970 until 2026, and for decades he wrote its shareholders a long annual letter in plain English, accounting footnotes explained like a patient uncle at a kitchen table. Berkshire keeps them online back to 1977. Virgo could sue for likeness rights.
The steward number lands too. The letters read less like a chief executive's victory lap than a careful household budget, read aloud once a year to people he plainly felt responsible for.
And where it faceplants
The loud Sagittarius rising belongs to a showman. The folksy annual-meeting quips fit, sure, but the actual operation is insurance float and patience, about as Sagittarian as a filing cabinet. The chart got the costume right and the engine wrong.
Keep the pattern, drop the horoscope
Set the cosmic portrait next to the record and the two mostly wander off in different directions. One of the most studied investors of the century has, by the sky's accounting, a thoroughly ordinary chart. Which is quietly the best news on the page: whatever made Buffett Buffett was never in the stars, so it is presumably learnable. We tested whether charts say anything about markets, and they do not.
He has also handed over the keys. Greg Abel became chief executive on January 1, 2026, and on September 18, 2026 the board named Buffett chairman emeritus, still a director, and elected his son Howard G. Buffett chairman. The Virgo, presumably, is still reading the reports. If you want to set your chart beside his, his chart page does it in a tap.
Sources: birth date, time and rating from Astro-Databank; his Omaha birth and his years as chairman from Wikipedia; the succession from Berkshire's announcements of May 5, 2025 and September 18, 2026. The chart is a personality read. Nothing here is a forecast.