Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birth chart
Children’s writerBorn February 7, 1867, Pepin County, Wisconsin, United StatesDied February 10, 1957
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic.
- SunAquariusThe Free Thinker
- MoonPiscesor Aries
- VenusCapricornThe Loyal Partner
What her chart says about her
Who she was
Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker
Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic. Asks why things are done this way and imagines a better one. 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 (close at 3.0°)
What she needed
Moon in Pisces or Aries, the Tide
Sensitive to everything and quick to sympathise. Finds rest in art, water, dreams and kind company. Steady feelings: she kept calm under strain, and she loved in ways that lasted.
The Moon trine Saturn (almost exact at 0.4°) · For a birth after 10:56 p.m., her Moon was in Aries.
How she loved
Venus in Capricorn, the Loyal Partner
Loves with steadiness and staying power. Takes commitment seriously and builds something lasting. Love came in sudden starts and stops: she fell for people quickly and needed room just as quickly.
Venus opposition Uranus (close at 2.2°)
How she thought
Mercury in Aquarius, the Inventor
An inventive, independent mind. Sees patterns others miss and questions the usual way of doing things. She loved ideas, the bigger the better, and she could talk anyone into hoping.
Mercury conjunction Jupiter (almost exact at 0.1°)
What drove her
Mars in Cancer, the Defender
Fights hardest for the people closest to her. Works best for a cause that feels personal. Drive and dreams mixed uneasily: the goal was clear to her, and the way to it harder to see.
Mars square Neptune (close at 1.3°)
The shape of her chart
In her chart, her identity, her mind and her optimism (the Sun, Mercury and Jupiter) gather in Aquarius, and that part of life drew her attention first. In her chart, water signs hold the most planets: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day she was born
The Moon
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born three days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 9% lit. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, 41 days before the March equinox.
Mars retrograde
Mars was retrograde all the day Laura Ingalls Wilder was born, as it was on 49 days of 1867. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Laura Ingalls Wilder, Saturn came back to where it stood at her birth in 1955, at 88: her third Saturn return, after the second in 1926. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aquarius
You and Laura Ingalls Wilder
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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.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
More with the Sun in Aquarius
See allQuestions about her chart
What is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s zodiac sign?
Aquarius. Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867, with the Sun in Aquarius, the Free Thinker. Independent, inventive and quietly idealistic. Asks why things are done this way and imagines a better one.
What is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Moon sign?
Pisces or Aries. The Moon moved from Pisces into Aries at 10:56 p.m. that day, local time: in Pisces for a birth before then, in Aries for one after.
What is Laura Ingalls Wilder’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 7, 1867. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Venus sign?
Capricorn, the Loyal Partner. Loves with steadiness and staying power. Takes commitment seriously and builds something lasting.
How does your chart compare with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s?
Set your chart beside Laura Ingalls Wilder’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 Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Unknown author, 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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