Ernest Rutherford’s birth chart
PhysicistBorn August 30, 1871, Spring Grove, New ZealandDied October 19, 1937
Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.
- SunVirgoThe Fixer
- MoonPiscesor Aquarius
- VenusLibraThe Sweetheart
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Virgo, the Fixer
Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better. Shows love by being useful, and has a dry, quick humour that surprises people. Purpose and patience worked as a team: he built slowly and got better with every year.
The Sun trine Saturn (close at 2.8°)
What he needed
Moon in Pisces or Aquarius, the Tide
Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness. The self he showed the world and the self he came home to wanted different things, and he made room for both.
The Sun opposition the Moon (wide at 3.2°) · For a birth before 6:52 a.m., his Moon was in Aquarius.
How he loved
Venus in Libra, the Sweetheart
Made for partnership. Loves beauty, fairness and romance. Love felt like something to be earned, and he held back until he was sure of it.
Venus square Saturn (wide at 6.7°)
How he thought
Mercury in Libra, the Mediator
Thinks in terms of fairness and sees both sides. Speaks with tact and grace. He doubted his own ideas before anyone else could, and so he checked every one twice.
Mercury square Saturn (close at 1.7°)
What drove him
Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist
Intense, strategic and relentless. Keeps a goal close and doesn’t let it go. His purpose and his drive worked together: once he decided on something, he moved on it fast.
The Sun sextile Mars (wide at 4.8°)
The shape of his chart
Saturn is the hub of his chart: it takes part in four of its aspects, more than any other body, so his discipline touched everything else in it. The weight of his chart sits in water signs: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Ernest Rutherford was born on the day of a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 100% lit. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Wednesday, twenty-four days before the September equinox.
Saturn return
For Ernest Rutherford, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1929, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1900. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Virgo
You and Ernest Rutherford
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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.
Ernest Rutherford’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is Ernest Rutherford’s zodiac sign?
Virgo. Ernest Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, with the Sun in Virgo, the Fixer. Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.
What is Ernest Rutherford’s Moon sign?
Pisces or Aquarius. The Moon moved from Aquarius into Pisces at 6:52 a.m. that day, local time: in Aquarius for a birth before then, in Pisces for one after.
What is Ernest Rutherford’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 August 30, 1871. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Ernest Rutherford’s Venus sign?
Libra, the Sweetheart. Made for partnership. Loves beauty, fairness and romance. Love felt like something to be earned, and he held back until he was sure of it.
How does your chart compare with Ernest Rutherford’s?
Set your chart beside Ernest Rutherford’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 Ernest Rutherford’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), 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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