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J. M. Coetzee’s birth chart

WriterBorn February 9, 1940, Cape Town, South Africa

A free mind with a strong sense of fairness.

  • SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
  • MoonPiscesor Aquarius
  • VenusPiscesThe Tender Heart

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he is

    Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker

    A free mind with a strong sense of fairness. Friendly to everyone and hard to pin down. He needs room to be himself, and any rule that fits too tightly gets broken.

    The Sun square Uranus (close at 1.4°)

  2. What he needs

    Moon in Pisces or Aquarius, the Tide

    Feels the mood of a room from the doorway. Comfort comes from water, music, softness and kindness.

    For a birth before 8:59 a.m., his Moon was in Aquarius.

  3. How he loves

    Venus in Pisces, the Tender Heart

    Loves with compassion and imagination. Wants a romantic, gentle bond. He loves the dream of a person, and the real one has to compete with it.

    Venus opposition Neptune (close at 1.6°)

  4. How he thinks

    Mercury in Aquarius, the Inventor

    An inventive, independent mind. Sees patterns others miss and questions the usual way of doing things. A patient, exact mind: he chooses every word, and his thinking gets sharper with practice.

    Mercury sextile Saturn (exact at 0.0°)

  5. What drives him

    Mars in Aries, the Trailblazer

    Pure forward motion. Brave, competitive and happiest in the middle of the action. His drive and his imagination speak different languages: he goes after something before he can say what it is.

    Mars quincunx Neptune (almost exact at 0.2°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    In his chart, his drive, his optimism and his discipline (Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) gather in Aries, and that part of life draws his attention first. Most of his planets are in fire signs: instinct and enthusiasm.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    J. M. Coetzee was born the day after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 1% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Friday, 40 days before the March equinox.

  • Saturn return

    For J. M. Coetzee, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1998, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1969. The third begins in 2027. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Aquarius

You and J. M. Coetzee

Would you be friends? Is there a spark? See where your chart meets his, 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.

J. M. Coetzee’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is J. M. Coetzee’s zodiac sign?

Aquarius. J. M. Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. A free mind with a strong sense of fairness. Friendly to everyone and hard to pin down.

What is J. M. Coetzee’s Moon sign?

Pisces or Aquarius. The Moon moved from Aquarius into Pisces at 8:59 a.m. that day, local time: in Aquarius for a birth before then, in Pisces for one after.

What is J. M. Coetzee’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 9, 1940. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is J. M. Coetzee’s Venus sign?

Pisces, the Tender Heart. Loves with compassion and imagination. Wants a romantic, gentle bond.

How does your chart compare with J. M. Coetzee’s?

Set your chart beside J. M. Coetzee’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 J. M. Coetzee’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl, CC BY 2.5, 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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