Gertrude Stein’s birth chart
AuthorBorn February 3, 1874, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United StatesDied July 27, 1946
Original, independent and fair.
- SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
- MoonVirgoThe Mender
- VenusAquariusThe Kindred Spirit
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker
Original, independent and fair. Thinks about how things could work better for everyone. Her mind and her identity were close together: she spoke as she thought, and her ideas were part of who she was.
The Sun conjunction Mercury (almost exact at 0.1°)
What she needed
Moon in Virgo, the Mender
Shows feeling in practical ways: a fixed problem, a remembered detail, a cup of tea at the right time.
How she loved
Venus in Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit
Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully her own person. Love came in sudden starts and stops: she fell for people quickly and needed room just as quickly.
Venus opposition Uranus (close at 1.7°)
How she thought
Mercury in Aquarius, the Inventor
Clever, unusual and ahead of the moment. Loves ideas for their own sake and thinks about everyone, not only the few. Words with charm in them: she had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to her.
Mercury conjunction Venus (wide at 4.9°)
What drove her
Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior
Moves by intuition and feeling. Finds strength in service and in standing up for someone else. She took on more than any one person could, and her boldness ran ahead of her plans.
Mars opposition Jupiter (wide at 5.5°)
The shape of her chart
In her chart, her identity, her mind, her heart and her discipline (the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn) gather in Aquarius, and that part of life drew her attention first. The weight of her chart sits in air signs: ideas and people.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Gertrude Stein was born two days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 95% lit, in Virgo. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Tuesday, 43 days after the December solstice.
Saturn return
For Gertrude Stein, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1933, at 58: her second Saturn return, after the first in 1903. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aquarius
You and Gertrude Stein
Would you have been friends? Would there have been a spark? See where your chart meets hers, and the signs you share.
Or someone you know: a partner, a friend or a parent. Compare two charts
The chart
Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.
The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Gertrude Stein’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Aquarius
See allQuestions about her chart
What is Gertrude Stein’s zodiac sign?
Aquarius. Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. Original, independent and fair. Thinks about how things could work better for everyone.
What is Gertrude Stein’s Moon sign?
Virgo, the Mender. Shows feeling in practical ways: a fixed problem, a remembered detail, a cup of tea at the right time.
What is Gertrude Stein’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 February 3, 1874. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Gertrude Stein’s Venus sign?
Aquarius, the Kindred Spirit. Loves as a friend first. Values honesty, freedom and a partner who is fully her own person.
How does your chart compare with Gertrude Stein’s?
Set your chart beside Gertrude Stein’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 Gertrude Stein’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The file and its full credit.
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The planets placed from DE440, the ephemeris NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory publishes.
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