HOROSCOPES - HENRY VIII, KING OF ENGLAND The horoscope of King Henry VIII, published by Lucas Gauricus,Tractatus Astrologicus, (1542). Henry was born on 28 June 1491, in London. Gauricus is certainly in error in giving the chart an Ascendant of 15.30 Leo: the Moon in 08.50 Aries differs from more reliable charts by almost two degrees, and this Ascendant would not be possible with the stipulated Moon position. See the colour version of a chart for Henry VIII, in the Charles Walker Collection.