Famous birth charts · Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp’s chart in full
Born July 28, 1887, Blainville-Crevon, France. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
Point at a body or a sign to see its connections.
The chart, fact by fact
Planets
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The ten bodies astrology reads: the Sun, the Moon and eight planets. The planet says which part of a person it speaks for, the sign says how that part behaves, and the house says where in life it shows.
Sun in Leo
The Bright One. Warm, proud and generous.
5°02′
Moon in Scorpio
The Vault. Deep water, kept private.
16°40′
Mercury in Leoretrograde
The Storyteller. A voice that carries.
6°15′
Venus in Virgo
The Quiet Romantic. Love in small attentions.
19°39′
Mars in Cancer
The Defender. Fierce for its own.
10°42′
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Jupiter in Libra
The Connector. Faith in fairness.
27°46′
Saturn in Cancer
The Guardian. The keeper of the home.
27°19′
Uranus in Libra
9°08′
Neptune in Taurus
29°44′
Pluto in Gemini
4°46′
Beyond the planets
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Points read beside the planets. The rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign coming up over the eastern horizon at the minute of birth: the first impression. The Midheaven is the highest point of the sky: career and public life. The North Node is where the Moon’s path crosses the Sun’s: the direction a life grows in. Chiron, a small body between Saturn and Uranus, is a lifelong sore spot and the gift it leaves for others. Black Moon Lilith, where the Moon’s orbit swings farthest from Earth, is what a person keeps untamed.
North Node in Leo
The direction his life grows in: Leo, warm and dramatic.
19°03′
Chiron in Gemini
In Gemini, Chiron is an old fear of not being heard, which becomes a gift for finding the words others lack.
28°48′
Black Moon Lilith in Aries
In Aries, Lilith is a temper and an independence that ask nobody’s permission.
8°33′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Aspects by strength
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An aspect is a set angle between two bodies in the sky at birth. Some angles flow, some rub, and some fuse two bodies into one. The number is how far the angle is from exact: the smaller it is, the stronger the link.
Only the aspects that held from the first minute of the day to the last are shown; each figure is for noon.
The Sun sextile Pluto almost exact at 0.3°
A quiet strength: under pressure he grew more focused, and he knew how to start over.
Jupiter square Saturn almost exact at 0.4°
Growth and caution kept checking each other: he moved forward in bursts, then paused to consolidate.
The Sun conjunction Mercury close at 1.2°
His mind and his identity were close together: he spoke as he thought, and his ideas were part of who he was.
Mercury sextile Pluto close at 1.5°
A probing mind: he got to the bottom of things, and his words had power when he chose to use them.
Mars square Uranus close at 1.6°
Restless and quick to rebel: he pushed against limits, and sudden decisions came with the territory.
Jupiter quincunx Neptune close at 2.0°
His ideals and his beliefs needed constant matching up, and he kept asking what he really believed.
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Saturn sextile Neptune close at 2.4°
Practical dreams: he gave ideals a shape and worked to make them real.
Mercury sextile Uranus close at 2.9°
A quick, original mind: ideas arrived in flashes, and he saw answers others missed.
The Sun sextile Uranus wide at 4.1°
Independence came easily: he did things his own way, and people found it refreshing rather than rude.
Uranus trine Pluto wide at 4.4°
He could help change things at the root, and upheaval suited him.
Neptune conjunction Pluto wide at 5.0°
Imagination and intensity in one place, a meeting that comes about once in five hundred years: a feel for how things end and begin again.
The Sun sextile Neptune wide at 5.3°
Imagination and identity worked together: he could become a character, a mood or an idea, and make others believe in it.
The Sun square Jupiter wide at 7.3°
He reached for more than one life could hold: big plans, big promises, and a habit of saying yes before counting the hours.
The Sun conjunction Saturn wide at 7.7°
Serious from early on: purpose and duty were one thing to him, and he treated his own life as work to be done well.
Chart signature
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The chart’s balance at a glance: which of the four elements and three modes it leans on, which body is most connected, and any body standing alone.
Elements
Modes
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