Angela Merkel’s birth chart
ChancellorBorn July 17, 1954, Hamburg, Germany
Tender under a careful shell.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonAquariusThe Cool Head
- VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic
What her chart says about her
Who she is
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it. Born original: her identity and her need for freedom are the same thing, and she surprises people, herself included.
The Sun conjunction Uranus (almost exact at 0.9°)
What she needs
Moon in Aquarius, the Cool Head
Calm in a crisis, private about feelings. Comfort comes from friendship, ideas and space of her own.
How she loves
Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic
Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. Loyal in love: she chooses carefully, and what she builds with people lasts.
Venus sextile Saturn (close at 2.0°)
How she thinks
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
Thinks with feeling and remembers everything that mattered. Speaks kindly and reads between the lines. She loves ideas, the bigger the better, and she can talk anyone into hoping.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter (close at 2.9°)
What drives her
Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion
Adventurous and principled. Throws herself behind big causes and what is right. Aim and action run at different speeds, and she spends real effort keeping them in step.
The Sun quincunx Mars (close at 2.3°)
The shape of her chart
In her chart, her identity, her mind, her optimism and her independence (the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus) gather in Cancer, and that part of life draws her attention first. Most of her planets are in water signs: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Angela Merkel was born the day after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 98% lit, in Aquarius. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Saturday, twenty-five days after the June solstice.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Angela Merkel was born, as it was on 67 days of 1954. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Angela Merkel, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2012, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1982 and 1983. The third begins in 2041. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
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The chart
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The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Cancer
See allQuestions about her chart
What is Angela Merkel’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Angela Merkel was born on July 17, 1954, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Tender under a careful shell. Makes a home anywhere and guards the people inside it.
What is Angela Merkel’s Moon sign?
Aquarius, the Cool Head. Calm in a crisis, private about feelings. Comfort comes from friendship, ideas and space of her own.
What is Angela Merkel’s rising sign?
The rising sign needs the birth time to the minute, so this page leaves it out: everything on it held all day on July 17, 1954. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Angela Merkel’s Venus sign?
Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches.
How does your chart compare with Angela Merkel’s?
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Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Angela Merkel’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: EU2017EE Estonian Presidency, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (the licence). The file and its full credit.
The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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