Famous birth charts · Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner’s chart in full
Born September 17, 1944, Brixen, Italy. The chart is cast for noon on the day, and everything shown here held all day long.
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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 Virgo
The Fixer. Precise, useful and kind.
24°25′
Moon in Virgo
The Mender. Care in the details.
23°41′
Mercury in Virgo
The Analyst. The editor’s eye.
8°38′
Venus in Libra
The Sweetheart. Grace, romance and balance.
16°43′
Mars in Libra
The Negotiator. A fighter for fairness.
12°38′
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Jupiter in Virgo
The Improver. Faith in the useful.
11°26′
Saturn in Cancer
The Guardian. The keeper of the home.
9°38′
Uranus in Gemini
13°08′
Neptune in Libra
3°37′
Pluto in Leo
9°37′
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 Cancer
The direction his life grows in: Cancer, protective and caring.
26°05′
Chiron in Virgo
In Virgo, Chiron is the sense that no effort is ever quite enough, and a gift for patient, practical help.
21°56′
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo
In Virgo, Lilith is a set of private standards, kept for their own sake and not to please.
23°33′
The rising sign and the Midheaven need the birth time to the minute, so they are left out.
Patterns
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When several aspects lock into one shape, such as a triangle or a cross, the planets in it act together, and the shape says how: easily, under strain, or with one planet as the focus.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
In his chart, his identity, his feelings, his mind and his optimism (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury and Jupiter) gather in Virgo, and that part of life draws his attention first.
Stellium
Three or more planets gathered in one sign or one house, so that part of the chart speaks loudest.
In his chart, his heart, his drive and his imagination (Venus, Mars and Neptune) gather in Libra, and that part of life draws his attention first.
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.
Mars trine Uranus almost exact at 0.5°
Quick and inventive in action: he moves fast, breaks with habit and makes sudden changes work.
The Sun conjunction the Moon almost exact at 0.7°
Born near a new Moon, so what he wants and what he needs move as one: single-minded, and hard to talk out of anything.
Mercury sextile Saturn close at 1.0°
A patient, exact mind: he chooses every word, and his thinking gets sharper with practice.
The Sun sextile North Node close at 1.7°
The direction his life takes suits him: being himself and growing go hand in hand.
Jupiter square Uranus close at 1.7°
Restless hope: he wants more freedom than any situation gives, and big changes come suddenly.
Jupiter sextile Saturn close at 1.8°
Hope and caution in balance: he dreams big and plans carefully, and both help.
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Mercury conjunction Jupiter close at 2.8°
He loves ideas, the bigger the better, and he can talk anyone into hoping.
Mars square Saturn close at 3.0°
Drive with the brakes on: he wants to move, something holds him back, and the friction makes him tough.
Mars sextile Pluto close at 3.0°
Stamina and willpower: he keeps going long after others stop, and he does his best work under pressure.
Uranus sextile Pluto wide at 3.5°
He can help change things at the root, and upheaval suits him.
Venus trine Uranus wide at 3.6°
He loves the unusual: original taste, unexpected friendships and a style all his own.
Venus conjunction Mars wide at 4.1°
Magnetic: affection and desire come together in him, and people notice.
Mercury square Uranus wide at 4.5°
His mind runs ahead of the conversation: he says the unexpected thing, and not everyone is ready to hear it.
Saturn square Neptune wide at 6.0°
The dream and the hard work seldom agree on terms: his discipline and his imagination ask different things of him.
The Sun conjunction Neptune wide at 9.2°
He takes in moods, music and other people’s hopes, and gives them back as something new.
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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