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Empress Dowager Cixi’s birth chart

EmpressBorn November 29, 1835, Beijing, ChinaDied November 15, 1908

Restless in the best way.

  • SunSagittariusThe Explorer
  • MoonPiscesor Aries
  • VenusSagittariusThe Adventurer

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she was

    Sun in Sagittarius, the Explorer

    Restless in the best way. Wants to see more, learn more and say exactly what is on her mind. Imagination and identity worked together: she could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.

    The Sun sextile Neptune (wide at 4.7°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Pisces or Aries, the Tide

    Soaks up the feelings around her. Needs gentleness, music and time alone to come back to herself.

    For a birth after 12:26 p.m., her Moon was in Aries.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Sagittarius, the Adventurer

    Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion.

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Scorpio, the Investigator

    A penetrating mind. Reads people well, speaks carefully and can tell when something is being hidden. A generous, wide-ranging mind: she learned easily, told a good story and saw the big picture.

    Mercury trine Jupiter (close at 2.2°)

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion

    Adventurous and principled. Throws herself behind big causes and what is right. Stamina and willpower: she kept going long after others stopped, and she did her best work under pressure.

    Mars trine Pluto (close at 1.0°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her identity, her heart and her drive (the Sun, Venus and Mars) gather in Sagittarius, and that part of life drew her attention first. No earth at all, so the practical, settled side was the one she had to find.

Your own chart, read the same way

The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Empress Dowager Cixi was born six days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 70% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Sunday, twenty-three days before the December solstice.

  • Saturn return

    For Empress Dowager Cixi, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1894 and 1895, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1865. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Sagittarius

You and Empress Dowager Cixi

Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, 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.

Empress Dowager Cixi’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Empress Dowager Cixi’s zodiac sign?

Sagittarius. Empress Dowager Cixi was born on November 29, 1835, with the Sun in Sagittarius, the Explorer. Restless in the best way. Wants to see more, learn more and say exactly what is on her mind.

What is Empress Dowager Cixi’s Moon sign?

Pisces or Aries. The Moon moved from Pisces into Aries at 12:26 p.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.

What is Empress Dowager Cixi’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 29, 1835. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Empress Dowager Cixi’s Venus sign?

Sagittarius, the Adventurer. Loves freedom, laughter and shared adventures. Wants a partner who is also a travel companion.

How does your chart compare with Empress Dowager Cixi’s?

Set your chart beside Empress Dowager Cixi’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 Empress Dowager Cixi’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: John Yu Shuinling, 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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