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Colin Powell’s birth chart

GeneralBorn April 5, 1937, New York City, New York, United StatesDied October 18, 2021

Built to begin.

  • SunAriesThe Pioneer
  • MoonAquariusor Capricorn
  • VenusTaurusThe Keeper

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Aries, the Pioneer

    Built to begin. Says yes before the plan is finished and gets everyone else moving. He kept redrawing the line between the life he had and the life he imagined.

    The Sun quincunx Neptune (close at 1.4°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Aquarius or Capricorn, the Cool Head

    Feels at a little distance and thinks feelings through. Needs friends, freedom and room to be different. What comforted him and what he loved were different things, so his heart and his moods kept negotiating.

    The Moon square Venus (almost exact at 0.8°) · For a birth before 5:39 a.m., his Moon was in Capricorn.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Taurus, the Keeper

    Slow to fall and slow to leave. Wants a love that feels safe, warm and real. What he found beautiful and what he desired kept parting ways, and love took some working out.

    Venus quincunx Mars (almost exact at 0.8°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Aries, the Spark

    A sharp, impatient mind. Cuts straight to the point and likes a good argument. His words had force: he spoke to persuade, and he kept his own counsel until the right moment.

    Mercury square Pluto (almost exact at 0.9°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion

    Adventurous and principled. Throws himself behind big causes and what is right.

  6. The shape of his chart

    Venus is the hub of his chart: it takes part in four of its aspects, more than any other body, so his heart touched everything else in it. The weight of his chart sits in earth signs: the practical and the solid.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Colin Powell was born six days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 35% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Monday, fifteen days after the March equinox.

  • Venus retrograde

    Venus was retrograde all the day Colin Powell was born, as it was on 42 days of 1937. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Colin Powell, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1996, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1966 and 1967. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Aries

You and Colin Powell

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets his, and the signs you share.

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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.

Colin Powell’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is Colin Powell’s zodiac sign?

Aries. Colin Powell was born on April 5, 1937, with the Sun in Aries, the Pioneer. Built to begin. Says yes before the plan is finished and gets everyone else moving.

What is Colin Powell’s Moon sign?

Aquarius or Capricorn. The Moon moved from Capricorn into Aquarius at 5:39 a.m. that day, local time: in Capricorn for a birth before then, in Aquarius for one after.

What is Colin Powell’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 April 5, 1937. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Colin Powell’s Venus sign?

Taurus, the Keeper. Slow to fall and slow to leave. Wants a love that feels safe, warm and real.

How does your chart compare with Colin Powell’s?

Set your chart beside Colin Powell’s and see how the two meet, area by area: as friends, in love, in how you talk, working together and under one roof. It is free.

Sources and credits

Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Colin Powell’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Department of State of the United States of America, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.

The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.

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