Famous birth charts · Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel’s chart in full
Born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, Germany. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
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The chart, fact by fact
Planets
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The ten bodies astrology reads: the Sun, the Moon and eight planets. The planet says which part of a person it speaks for, the sign says how that part behaves, and the house says where in life it shows.
Sun in Cancer
The Protector. Home, memory and care.
24°19′
Moon in Aquarius
The Cool Head. Cool head, warm heart.
12°05′
Mercury in Cancer
The Remembering Mind. A memory for tone.
9°17′
Venus in Virgo
The Quiet Romantic. Love in small attentions.
4°42′
Mars in Sagittariusretrograde
The Champion. The long shot.
26°37′
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Jupiter in Cancer
The Generous Host. A home with room for more.
12°09′
Saturn in Scorpio
The Stalwart. Strength under pressure.
2°44′
Uranus in Cancer
23°25′
Neptune in Libra
23°20′
Pluto in Leo
23°42′
Beyond the planets
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Points read beside the planets. The rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute of birth: the first impression. The Midheaven is the highest point of the sky: career and public life. The North Node is where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s: the direction a life grows in. Chiron, a small body between Saturn and Uranus, is a lifelong sore spot and the gift it leaves for others. Black Moon Lilith, where the Moon’s orbit swings farthest from Earth, is what a person keeps untamed.
North Node in Capricorn
The direction her life grows in: Capricorn, ambitious and patient.
14°47′
Chiron in Capricorn
In Capricorn, Chiron is the feeling of having grown up too soon, and a gift for showing others how to stand on their own.
25°56′
Black Moon Lilith in Scorpio
In Scorpio, Lilith is an intensity and a private power that stay unexplained.
3°41′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Patterns
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When several aspects lock into one shape, such as a triangle or a cross, the planets in it act together, and the shape says how: easily, under strain, or with one planet as the focus.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
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.
Aspects by strength
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An aspect is a set angle between two bodies in the sky at birth. Some angles flow, some rub, and some fuse two bodies into one. The number is how far the angle is from exact: the smaller it is, the stronger the link.
Only the aspects that held from the first minute of the day to the last are shown; each figure is for noon.
Uranus square Neptune almost exact at 0.1°
The urge for change and the longing for ideals clash, and she lives with both.
Neptune sextile Pluto almost exact at 0.4°
A quiet hunger for meaning under everyday life, and a tolerance for great change.
The Sun conjunction Uranus almost exact at 0.9°
Born original: her identity and her need for freedom are the same thing, and she surprises people, herself included.
The Sun square Neptune close at 1.0°
The self she knows and the image others see drift apart at times, and she works to keep hold of the real one.
Venus sextile Saturn close at 2.0°
Loyal in love: she chooses carefully, and what she builds with people lasts.
The Sun quincunx Mars close at 2.3°
Aim and action run at different speeds, and she spends real effort keeping them in step.
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Jupiter opposition North Node close at 2.6°
Easy hopes and the harder way forward go different ways, and real growth comes from the harder one.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter close at 2.9°
She loves ideas, the bigger the better, and she can talk anyone into hoping.
Mars trine Pluto close at 2.9°
Stamina and willpower: she keeps going long after others stop, and she does her best work under pressure.
Mars sextile Neptune wide at 3.3°
She works for ideals: her drive comes alive for a cause, a role or a dream.
Mercury opposition North Node wide at 5.5°
Old ideas and the way forward are at odds, and she learns new ways of thinking to move on.
Mercury trine Saturn wide at 6.5°
A patient, exact mind: she chooses every word, and her thinking gets sharper with practice.
The Sun square Saturn wide at 8.4°
Self-belief comes slowly and has to be earned, one result at a time, and every result counts.
Chart signature
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The chart’s balance at a glance: which of the four elements and three modes it leans on, which body is most connected, and any body standing alone.
Elements
Modes
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