Merle Haggard’s birth chart
Country music songwriterBorn April 6, 1937, Bakersfield, California, United StatesDied April 6, 2016
Built to begin.
- SunAriesThe Pioneer
- MoonAquariusThe Cool Head
- VenusTaurusThe Keeper
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Aries, the Pioneer
Built to begin. Says yes before the plan is finished and gets everyone else moving. He kept redrawing the line between the life he had and the life he imagined.
The Sun quincunx Neptune (almost exact at 0.2°)
What he needed
Moon in Aquarius, the Cool Head
Calm in a crisis, private about feelings. Comfort comes from friendship, ideas and space of his own.
How he loved
Venus in Taurus, the Keeper
Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year. What he found beautiful and what he desired kept parting ways, and love took some working out.
Venus quincunx Mars (close at 1.4°)
How he thought
Mercury in Aries or Taurus, the Spark
Quick to answer and quick to decide. Says what is on his mind, and gets to the idea first. His words had force: he spoke to persuade, and he kept his own counsel until the right moment.
Mercury square Pluto (wide at 3.1°) · For a birth after 5:10 p.m., his Mercury was in Taurus.
What drove him
Mars in Sagittarius, the Champion
Goes after big goals with enthusiasm and a strong sense of right.
The shape of his chart
Jupiter is the hub of his chart: it takes part in four of its aspects, more than any other body, so his optimism touched everything else in it. Most of his planets are in earth signs: the practical and the solid.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Merle Haggard was born four days before a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 24% lit, in Aquarius. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Tuesday, sixteen days after the March equinox.
Venus retrograde
Venus was retrograde all the day Merle Haggard was born, as it was on 42 days of 1937. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Merle Haggard, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1996, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1966 and 1967. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Aries
You and Merle Haggard
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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.
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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See allQuestions about his chart
What is Merle Haggard’s zodiac sign?
Aries. Merle Haggard was born on April 6, 1937, with the Sun in Aries, the Pioneer. Built to begin. Says yes before the plan is finished and gets everyone else moving.
What is Merle Haggard’s Moon sign?
Aquarius, the Cool Head. Calm in a crisis, private about feelings. Comfort comes from friendship, ideas and space of his own.
What is Merle Haggard’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 April 6, 1937. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Merle Haggard’s Venus sign?
Taurus, the Keeper. Loves with patience, touch and loyalty. Shows it in comfort, good food and being there year after year.
How does your chart compare with Merle Haggard’s?
Set your chart beside Merle Haggard’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 Merle Haggard’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: whittlz at https://www.flickr.com/photos/whittlz/, 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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