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Edward Said’s birth chart

ProfessorBorn November 1, 1935, Jerusalem, Palestinian TerritoryDied September 24, 2003

Intense, private and loyal.

  • SunScorpioThe Detective
  • MoonCapricornor Sagittarius
  • VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Scorpio, the Detective

    Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing. Funnier than people expect, and kinder in private than in public. Purpose and patience worked as a team: he built slowly and got better with every year.

    The Sun trine Saturn (wide at 4.5°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Capricorn or Sagittarius, the Steady Hand

    Keeps feelings under control and feels safest when life is organised and secure. His feelings ran hot and fast, and he protected the people he loved fiercely.

    The Moon conjunction Mars (wide at 3.5°) · For a birth before 12:32 a.m., his Moon was in Sagittarius.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic

    Modest in love and devoted to the bone. Proves feelings through actions rather than speeches. Romance without limits: he fell for ideals as much as people, and his taste ran to the dreamy and the beautiful.

    Venus conjunction Neptune (wide at 6.6°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Libra, the Mediator

    A fair, sociable mind. Thinks best in conversation and dislikes a cruel word.

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Capricorn, the Achiever

    Ambitious, disciplined and patient. Works hard and climbs steadily. Quick and inventive in action: he moved fast, broke with habit and made sudden changes work.

    Mars trine Uranus (almost exact at 0.6°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    No fire at all, so the bold first move came by choice rather than by instinct.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    Edward Said was born five days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 24% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Friday, 38 days after the September equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For Edward Said, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1994, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1964 and 1965. When is yours?

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Signs that click with Scorpio

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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.

Edward Said’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is Edward Said’s zodiac sign?

Scorpio. Edward Said was born on November 1, 1935, with the Sun in Scorpio, the Detective. Intense, private and loyal. Wants the real story, not the polite one, and gives all or nothing.

What is Edward Said’s Moon sign?

Capricorn or Sagittarius. The Moon moved from Sagittarius into Capricorn at 12:32 a.m. that day, local time: in Sagittarius for a birth before then, in Capricorn for one after.

What is Edward Said’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 November 1, 1935. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Edward Said’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 Edward Said’s?

Set your chart beside Edward Said’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 Edward Said’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH, CC0, 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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