Bob Dylan has the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Gemini, the Moon in Taurus and Sagittarius rising: a writer of restless, shifting words, with a steady, stubborn core and a lifelong habit of moving on.

He was born Robert Allen Zimmerman at 9:05 in the evening on 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. Astro-Databank rates the time AA, from the birth record. The family moved to his mother's home town of Hibbing when he was six. In January 1961 he went to New York to play in the folk clubs, and within a few years he was the most talked-about songwriter of his generation.

Three planets in Gemini

Gemini is the sign of words, questions and quick changes. Dylan's Sun, Venus and Mercury are all there. It suits a writer who has rewritten his own songs on stage for decades, so that a familiar song can come back with a new tune, a new rhythm or new lines. His Mercury, the planet of language, makes a close square to Neptune, the planet of mystery and imagination. It describes images that suggest more than they explain, and it fits his famous reluctance to tell interviewers what a song means. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first musician to receive it.

Sagittarius rising

Sagittarius rising is the traveller of the zodiac: free, frank and always heading for the next horizon. He changed his name, changed his sound more than once, and in July 1965 played an electric set at the Newport Folk Festival to an audience that had come to hear the folk singer they knew. Since June 1988 he has toured year after year, on what fans call the Never Ending Tour.

Moon in Taurus with Saturn, in the 5th house

Under all that movement sits a Moon in Taurus, the most stable of the Moon signs, joined by Saturn, the planet of discipline, with Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus close by, all in the 5th house of creative work. It is a chart for slow, steady craft as well as quick words. He has published books of drawings and paintings, has exhibited sculpture, among it welded iron gates, and has kept working, year after year, for more than six decades.

Compare your chart with his

If you share his Gemini Sun or his Sagittarius rising, you may know the urge to keep changing, and the steady thing underneath that makes the changes possible. Add your details below to see how your chart meets his.