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James Baldwin’s birth chart

WriterBorn August 2, 1924, Harlem, New York, United StatesDied December 1, 1987

Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind.

  • SunLeoThe Bright One
  • MoonVirgoor Leo
  • VenusCancerThe Nurturer

What his chart says about him

  1. Who he was

    Sun in Leo, the Bright One

    Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind. Wants to be proud of the work and the people around him. His confidence came easily and spread: he thought big, and other people wanted to come along.

    The Sun trine Jupiter (exact at 0.0°)

  2. What he needed

    Moon in Virgo or Leo, the Mender

    Settles worry by doing something useful. Needs order, routine and a job done well. He thought with his feelings: memory, mood and wit came together, and his words gave away what he felt.

    The Moon conjunction Mercury (close at 2.8°) · For a birth before 9:06 a.m., his Moon was in Leo.

  3. How he loved

    Venus in Cancer, the Nurturer

    Shows love by looking after people. Needs a partner who feels like a safe harbour. A graceful mind: he spoke kindly and well, and he knew how to say a hard thing gently.

    Mercury sextile Venus (close at 1.3°)

  4. How he thought

    Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst

    Precise, practical and clever. Notices the detail everyone else missed. Sharp words and a sharp mind: he argued well, sometimes too well, and a debate was a kind of sport to him.

    Mercury opposition Mars (almost exact at 0.4°)

  5. What drove him

    Mars in Pisces, the Gentle Warrior

    Works from instinct and compassion. Fights for others more easily than for himself. Charm and desire worked together: he knew what he wanted in love and how to win it.

    Venus trine Mars (close at 1.7°)

  6. The shape of his chart

    The weight of his chart sits in water signs: feeling and intuition.

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The sky the day he was born

  • The Moon

    James Baldwin was born two days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 3% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Saturday, 41 days after the June solstice.

  • Mars retrograde

    Mars was retrograde all the day James Baldwin was born, as it was on 60 days of 1924. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For James Baldwin, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1982, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1953. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Leo

You and James Baldwin

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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.

James Baldwin’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about his chart

What is James Baldwin’s zodiac sign?

Leo. James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, with the Sun in Leo, the Bright One. Generous, loyal and born for a stage of some kind. Wants to be proud of the work and the people around him.

What is James Baldwin’s Moon sign?

Virgo or Leo. The Moon moved from Leo into Virgo at 9:06 a.m. that day, local time: in Leo for a birth before then, in Virgo for one after.

What is James Baldwin’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 2, 1924. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is James Baldwin’s Venus sign?

Cancer, the Nurturer. Shows love by looking after people. Needs a partner who feels like a safe harbour.

How does your chart compare with James Baldwin’s?

Set your chart beside James Baldwin’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 James Baldwin’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.

Photo: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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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