Michael Gove’s birth chart
PoliticianBorn August 26, 1967, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.
- SunVirgoThe Fixer
- MoonTaurusThe Hearth
- VenusVirgoThe Quiet Romantic
What his chart says about him
Who he is
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. His mind and his identity are close together: he speaks as he thinks, and his ideas are part of who he is.
The Sun conjunction Mercury (close at 1.8°)
What he needs
Moon in Taurus, the Hearth
Even-tempered and hard to unsettle. Needs calm, touch and things that stay the same.
How he loves
Venus in Virgo, the Quiet Romantic
Loves quietly and attentively. Shows care through thoughtful help and remembering the small things. Words with charm in them: he has an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people like listening to him.
Mercury conjunction Venus (wide at 3.6°)
How he thinks
Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst
A careful, exact mind. Spots the flaw, fixes the plan and gets the wording just right.
What drives him
Mars in Scorpio, the Strategist
Intense, strategic and relentless. Keeps a goal close and doesn’t let it go. Stamina and willpower: he keeps going long after others stop, and he does his best work under pressure.
Mars sextile Pluto (almost exact at 0.9°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind, his heart, his independence and his intensity (the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Pluto) gather in Virgo, and that part of life draws his attention first. No air at all, so stepping back to talk a thing through takes deliberate effort.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Michael Gove was born six days after a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 67% lit, in Taurus. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Saturday, twenty-eight days before the September equinox.
Venus retrograde
Venus was retrograde all the day Michael Gove was born, as it was on 42 days of 1967. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Michael Gove, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 2026 and 2027, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1997. The third begins in 2056. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Virgo
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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 Michael Gove’s zodiac sign?
Virgo. Michael Gove was born on August 26, 1967, with the Sun in Virgo, the Fixer. Notices what is out of place and knows how to make it better.
What is Michael Gove’s Moon sign?
Taurus, the Hearth. Even-tempered and hard to unsettle. Needs calm, touch and things that stay the same.
What is Michael Gove’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, 1967. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Michael Gove’s Venus sign?
Virgo, the Quiet Romantic. Loves quietly and attentively. Shows care through thoughtful help and remembering the small things.
How does your chart compare with Michael Gove’s?
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Sources and credits
Date and place of birth: Wikidata, and Michael Gove’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 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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