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Katherine Johnson’s birth chart

MathematicianBorn August 26, 1918, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, United StatesDied February 24, 2020

Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.

  • SunVirgoThe Fixer
  • MoonTaurusor Aries
  • VenusLeoThe Romantic

What her chart says about her

  1. Who she 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. Her purpose and her feelings were on the same side: the life she chose and the comfort she needed went together.

    The Sun trine the Moon (close at 1.9°)

  2. What she needed

    Moon in Taurus or Aries, the Hearth

    Settled by simple, solid comforts: a good meal, a quiet evening, the same people year after year. Quick feelings and a quick temper: she reacted first, and her courage came from the same place as her flashes of anger.

    The Moon opposition Mars (close at 1.5°) · For a birth before 4:35 a.m., her Moon was in Aries.

  3. How she loved

    Venus in Leo, the Romantic

    Grand in affection and fiercely loyal. Likes to celebrate the people dearest to her. Romance without limits: she fell for ideals as much as people, and her taste ran to the dreamy and the beautiful.

    Venus conjunction Neptune (close at 1.9°)

  4. How she thought

    Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst

    Precise, practical and clever. Notices the detail everyone else missed.

  5. What drove her

    Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist

    Intense, strategic and relentless. Keeps a goal close and doesn’t let it go. Stamina and willpower: she kept going long after others stopped, and she did her best work under pressure.

    Mars trine Pluto (almost exact at 0.3°)

  6. The shape of her chart

    In her chart, her heart, her discipline and her imagination (Venus, Saturn and Neptune) gather in Leo, and that part of life drew her attention first.

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The sky the day she was born

  • The Moon

    Katherine Johnson was born four days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 74% lit. Tonight’s Moon

  • The day

    It was a Monday, twenty-eight days before the September equinox.

  • Mercury retrograde

    Mercury was retrograde all the day Katherine Johnson was born, as it was on 80 days of 1918. How often the famous were

  • Saturn return

    For Katherine Johnson, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 2006 and 2007, at 88: her third Saturn return, after the second in 1977. When is yours?

Is yours here?

Signs that click with Virgo

You and Katherine Johnson

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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.

Katherine Johnson’s chart in full

Every planet, point, pattern and aspect

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Questions about her chart

What is Katherine Johnson’s zodiac sign?

Virgo. Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, with the Sun in Virgo, the Fixer. Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.

What is Katherine Johnson’s Moon sign?

Taurus or Aries. The Moon moved from Aries into Taurus at 4:35 a.m. that day, local time: in Aries for a birth before then, in Taurus for one after.

What is Katherine Johnson’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 26, 1918. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.

What is Katherine Johnson’s Venus sign?

Leo, the Romantic. Grand in affection and fiercely loyal. Likes to celebrate the people dearest to her.

How does your chart compare with Katherine Johnson’s?

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

Photo: NASA, 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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