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David Ben-Gurion’s birth chart

PoliticianBorn October 16, 1886, Płońsk, PolandDied December 1, 1973

Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal.

  • SunLibraThe Diplomat
  • MoonGeminior Taurus
  • VenusLibraThe Sweetheart

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Libra, the Diplomat

    Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal. Works best with a partner and hates a needless fight. Self-belief came slowly and had to be earned, one result at a time, and every result counted.

    The Sun square Saturn (almost exact at 0.8°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Gemini or Taurus, the Talker

    Light on his feet emotionally. Feels at home in a good conversation and gets restless in silence. Intense, private feelings: he kept an inner life few people saw, and he guarded it well.

    The Moon conjunction Pluto (close at 2.5°) · For a birth before 9:35 a.m., his Moon was in Taurus.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Libra, the Sweetheart

    Made for partnership. Loves beauty, fairness and romance. Love at first sight, and freedom after it: the different and the new won his heart.

    Venus conjunction Uranus (close at 2.0°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Scorpio, the Investigator

    Searching and sharp. Asks the question nobody else will and keeps the answers close. What he knew and what he said needed careful managing, and secrets sat uneasily with him.

    Mercury quincunx Pluto (close at 1.5°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion

    Adventurous and principled. Throws himself behind big causes and what is right. Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.

    Mars sextile Uranus (close at 1.3°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    In his chart, his identity, his heart, his optimism and his independence (the Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus) gather in Libra, and that part of life drew his attention first. Most of his planets are in air signs: ideas and people.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    David Ben-Gurion was born three days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 89% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Saturday, twenty-three days after the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For David Ben-Gurion, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1945 and 1946, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1916. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Libra

You and David Ben-Gurion

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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.

David Ben-Gurion’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is David Ben-Gurion’s zodiac sign?

Libra. David Ben-Gurion was born on October 16, 1886, with the Sun in Libra, the Diplomat. Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal. Works best with a partner and hates a needless fight.

What is David Ben-Gurion’s Moon sign?

Gemini or Taurus. The Moon moved from Taurus into Gemini at 9:35 a.m. that day, local time: in Taurus for a birth before then, in Gemini for one after.

What is David Ben-Gurion’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 October 16, 1886. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is David Ben-Gurion’s Venus sign?

Libra, the Sweetheart. Made for partnership. Loves beauty, fairness and romance. Love at first sight, and freedom after it: the different and the new won his heart.

How does your chart compare with David Ben-Gurion’s?

Set your chart beside David Ben-Gurion’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 David Ben-Gurion’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Fritz Cohen, 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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