Horatio Nelson’s birth chart
AdmiralBorn September 29, 1758, Burnham Thorpe, United KingdomDied October 21, 1805
Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness.
- SunLibraThe Diplomat
- MoonVirgoor Leo
- VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Libra, the Diplomat
Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness. Has a gift for making people feel at ease with each other.
What he needed
Moon in Virgo or Leo, the Mender
Shows feeling in practical ways: a fixed problem, a remembered detail, a cup of tea at the right time.
For a birth before 12:40 a.m., his Moon was in Leo.
How he loved
Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic
Loves quietly and attentively. Shows care through thoughtful help and remembering the small things. Charm and desire worked together: he knew what he wanted in love and how to win it.
Venus sextile Mars (close at 1.6°)
How he thought
Mercury in Libra, the Mediator
A fair, sociable mind. Thinks best in conversation and dislikes a cruel word. A probing mind: he got to the bottom of things, and his words had power when he chose to use them.
Mercury sextile Pluto (almost exact at 0.8°)
What drove him
Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist
Intense, strategic and relentless. Keeps a goal close and doesn’t let it go. Drive and dreams mixed uneasily: the goal was clear to him, and the way to it harder to see.
Mars square Neptune (wide at 4.7°)
The shape of his chart
Pluto is the hub of his chart: it takes part in five of its aspects, more than any other body, so his intensity touched everything else in it.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Horatio Nelson was born three days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 7% lit. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Friday, six days after the September equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Horatio Nelson was born, as it was on 67 days of 1758. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Horatio Nelson, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1787 and 1788, at 28: his first Saturn return. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Libra
You and Horatio Nelson
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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.
Horatio Nelson’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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See allQuestions about his chart
What is Horatio Nelson’s zodiac sign?
Libra. Horatio Nelson was born on September 29, 1758, with the Sun in Libra, the Diplomat. Gracious, sociable and keen on fairness. Has a gift for making people feel at ease with each other.
What is Horatio Nelson’s Moon sign?
Virgo or Leo. The Moon moved from Leo into Virgo at 12:40 a.m. that day, local time: in Leo for a birth before then, in Virgo for one after.
What is Horatio Nelson’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 September 29, 1758. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Horatio Nelson’s Venus sign?
Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Loves quietly and attentively. Shows care through thoughtful help and remembering the small things.
How does your chart compare with Horatio Nelson’s?
Set your chart beside Horatio Nelson’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 Horatio Nelson’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Lemuel Francis Abbott, 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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