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Capricorn · January 9

Harry Potter · Slytherin

Severus Snape: zodiac sign and birth chart

Severus Snape is a Capricorn, born on January 9, 1960. Head of Slytherin, Potions master, the strictest teacher at Hogwarts. Sun and Mercury both in Capricorn: the man who calls his class dunderheads on day one and still expects a perfect potion.

  • SunCapricorn
  • MoonTaurus
  • MercuryCapricorn
  • VenusSagittarius
  • MarsSagittarius
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SourceBirthday: J.K. Rowling's website and Wizarding World (formerly Pottermore). Year: the books, since he was in the same Hogwarts year as James and Lily Potter, both born in 1960.

Birth chart

Snape's chart at a glance

Drawn from his canon birthday. No birth time in canon, so no rising sign.

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  • Fire2
  • Earth3
  • Air0
  • Water0
  • Mostly earth. 3 of his 5 placements are earth signs.
  • Born on a Saturday. “Saturday's child works hard for a living,” says the old rhyme.
  • About 1 in 33 birthdays get Snape in the app's Harry Potter world.
  • Other Capricorns here: Lord Voldemort.

NEBO's take

Canon says Capricorn. His personality says Scorpio.

We ran Snape through the same model that matches people to characters in the app, and looked at which chart gets him most often. It goes deeper than the rules: Scorpio, the man who never explains himself to anyone.

Canon

Capricorn SunJanuary 9, 1960, from J.K. Rowling

NEBO's take

Scorpio SunRead from his personality
  • Sun CanonCapricornNEBO's takeScorpio

    Canon's Capricorn is the discipline: silence in class, exact instructions, no excuses. Scorpio is the stare, and the feeling that he knows something you don't.

  • Moon CanonTaurusNEBO's takeScorpio

    Canon's Taurus Moon holds a grudge for twenty years. Our Scorpio Moon holds it just as long and lets it show: the name Potter still gets a sneer.

  • Rising CanonNo birth timeNEBO's takeCancer

    No birth time in canon. First impression at the Sorting feast: greasy black hair, a hooked nose, a cold look at Harry. Cancer rising is the shell he never takes off.

  • Mercury CanonCapricornNEBO's takeScorpio

    Canon's Capricorn talks in rules and facts. Our Scorpio goes for the weak spot: "insufferable know-it-all" for Hermione, "fame clearly isn't everything" for Harry.

  • Venus CanonSagittariusNEBO's takeScorpio

    Canon's Sagittarius Venus sneers at anything soft. Our Scorpio Venus just never lets anyone close enough to find out what he likes.

  • Mars CanonSagittariusNEBO's takeAquarius

    Canon's Sagittarius fights big and in public, like at the dueling club. Our Aquarius is the cold version: points off Gryffindor without raising his voice.

Where we agree: both charts are cold on the surface and dead serious underneath. Canon's Capricorn runs on rules, our Scorpio runs on secrets.

How he shows up

Why he's like this

Capricorn is the sign of discipline, high standards and authority. Snape runs his dungeon on all three, and his Taurus Moon never forgets a thing.

  • CoreCapricorn Sun

    Standards first, warmth never

    First Potions lesson. He offers to teach them to "bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death", as long as they aren't the usual dunderheads.

    Philosopher's Stone

  • MindMercury in Capricorn

    Questions with a trap in them

    Same lesson, he fires three questions at Harry: asphodel, bezoars, wolfsbane. Harry knows none of them. "Tut, tut, fame clearly isn't everything."

    Philosopher's Stone

  • CoreCapricorn Sun

    Logic as a lock

    His guard on the Philosopher's Stone isn't a curse. It's seven bottles and a riddle in verse, built for someone who can actually think.

    Philosopher's Stone

  • MindMercury in Capricorn

    Sets the hardest homework

    Covering a Defence lesson, he skips straight to werewolves on page 394, calls Hermione an insufferable know-it-all and sets two rolls of parchment.

    Prisoner of Azkaban

  • FeelingsTaurus Moon

    Never forgets a grudge

    Harry looks into his Pensieve and sees Snape's school days. Snape drags him out, a jar of dead cockroaches explodes, and the Occlumency lessons are over.

    Order of the Phoenix

  • In a fightMars in Sagittarius

    Fights big, in public

    The dueling club. Lockhart offers a friendly demonstration, and Snape blasts him off his feet with one Disarming Charm in front of the whole school.

    Chamber of Secrets

Your turn

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Chemistry

Who Snape clicks with, and who he clashes with

Read from the charts on their pages. The plot may disagree.

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Similar charts

Who else has Snape's chart

Famous Capricorns with his placements

Their charts line up with Snape's canon chart. A chart match only: none of them is connected to this page.

Snape in real life

The app's Snapes come in mixed signs: a Cancer, a Capricorn and a Scorpio. One shares his canon Sun, one the Scorpio our model sees.

Characters like him in other worlds

Same chart pattern in our model, different universe.

MarvelMoon KnightDark coat, darker moods, and a lot going on behind the face he shows people.Find out Game of ThronesVarysKeeps his own counsel, trades in secrets and answers questions with riddles.Find out TwilightJasper HaleKeeps himself under tight control every second, and looks like it costs him.Find out Stranger ThingsWill ByersQuiet, private and an outsider at school, with more going on inside than anyone guesses.Find out WednesdayXavier ThorpeBrooding, gifted, suspected by half the school, and he won't explain himself.Find out Breaking BadSkinny PeteLooks like nobody special, then sits down at a piano and plays like a pro.Find out 

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Characters like Snape

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Questions

Snape's zodiac sign: what people ask

What zodiac sign is Severus Snape?

Capricorn. J.K. Rowling gave Snape's birthday as January 9, and Capricorn runs from December 22 to January 19.

When is Severus Snape's birthday?

January 9, 1960. The day comes from J.K. Rowling, the year from the books: Snape was in the same Hogwarts year as James and Lily Potter, both born in 1960.

Is Snape a Capricorn?

Yes. His Sun and Mercury are both in Capricorn, which fits the rules, the standards and the cold precision in class. Our personality model reads him as Scorpio, the secretive side.

What is Snape's Moon sign?

Taurus for most of January 9, 1960. His birth time is unknown, and the Moon moved into Gemini around midday.

What is Snape's birth chart?

Sun and Mercury in Capricorn, Moon in Taurus, Venus and Mars in Sagittarius. No rising sign, because canon never gives his birth time.

What element is Snape?

Earth. Capricorn is an earth sign, and 3 of his 5 placements are earth too.

Who is Snape most compatible with?

By chart, Dolores Umbridge, Pomona Sprout and Cedric Diggory. Taurus Moon and Capricorn Moon: they calm down the same way, no translation needed.

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