Nelson Rockefeller’s birth chart
Vice PresidentBorn July 8, 1908, Bar Harbor, Maine, United StatesDied January 26, 1979
Warm, loyal and fiercely caring.
- SunCancerThe Protector
- MoonScorpioThe Vault
- VenusCancerThe Nurturer
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Cancer, the Protector
Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family. He needed room to be himself, and any rule that fit too tightly got broken.
The Sun opposition Uranus (close at 1.2°)
What he needed
Moon in Scorpio, the Vault
Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely.
How he loved
Venus in Cancer, the Nurturer
Loves by caring and protecting. Wants a partner who feels like home. Words with charm in them: he had an ear for a beautiful phrase, and people liked listening to him.
Mercury conjunction Venus (close at 1.8°)
How he thought
Mercury in Cancer, the Remembering Mind
A mind tuned to people. Hears what sits under the words and answers it gently. He doubted his own ideas before anyone else could, and so he checked every one twice.
Mercury square Saturn (almost exact at 0.2°)
What drove him
Mars in Leo, the Leader
Confident, dramatic and courageous. Puts heart into every effort and likes to lead from the front.
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his identity, his mind, his heart and his imagination (the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune) gather in Cancer, and that part of life drew his attention first. The weight of his chart sits in water signs: feeling and intuition.
The sky the day he was born
The Moon
Nelson Rockefeller was born five days before a full Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 69% lit, in Scorpio. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Wednesday, sixteen days after the June solstice.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Nelson Rockefeller was born, as it was on 67 days of 1908. How often the famous were
Venus retrograde
Venus was retrograde all the day Nelson Rockefeller was born, as it was on 43 days of 1908. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Nelson Rockefeller, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1967 and 1968, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1938. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Cancer
You and Nelson Rockefeller
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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.
Nelson Rockefeller’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is Nelson Rockefeller’s zodiac sign?
Cancer. Nelson Rockefeller was born on July 8, 1908, with the Sun in Cancer, the Protector. Warm, loyal and fiercely caring. Happiest looking after the people who feel like family.
What is Nelson Rockefeller’s Moon sign?
Scorpio, the Vault. Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely.
What is Nelson Rockefeller’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 July 8, 1908. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Nelson Rockefeller’s Venus sign?
Cancer, the Nurturer. Loves by caring and protecting. Wants a partner who feels like home.
How does your chart compare with Nelson Rockefeller’s?
Set your chart beside Nelson Rockefeller’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 Nelson Rockefeller’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: White House, 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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