Shel Silverstein’s birth chart
PoetBorn September 25, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, United StatesDied May 10, 1999
Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal.
- SunLibraThe Diplomat
- MoonScorpioThe Vault
- VenusScorpioThe Devotee
What his chart says about him
Who he was
Sun in Libra, the Diplomat
Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal. Works best with a partner and hates a needless fight. Self-belief came slowly and had to be earned, one result at a time, and every result counted.
The Sun square Saturn (wide at 3.6°)
What he needed
Moon in Scorpio, the Vault
Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely. His feelings turned straight into action: when something mattered, he did something about it.
The Moon trine Mars (close at 1.9°)
How he loved
Venus in Scorpio, the Devotee
All or nothing in love. Feels intensely and stays loyal to the very end. Affection came to him with generosity attached: his heart and his optimism helped each other.
Venus trine Jupiter (almost exact at 0.1°)
How he thought
Mercury in Virgo, the Analyst
Clever, methodical and useful. Turns a muddle into a list and the list into results. A probing mind: he got to the bottom of things, and his words had power when he chose to use them.
Mercury sextile Pluto (wide at 3.6°)
What drove him
Mars in Cancer, the Defender
Driven by feeling. Goes the furthest for something personal, and guards home fiercely. Charm and desire worked together: he knew what he wanted in love and how to win it.
Venus trine Mars (almost exact at 0.6°)
The shape of his chart
In his chart, his drive, his optimism and his intensity (Mars, Jupiter and Pluto) 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
Shel Silverstein was born three days after a new Moon. At noon that day the Moon was 14% lit, in Scorpio. Tonight’s Moon
The day
It was a Thursday, one day after the September equinox.
Mercury retrograde
Mercury was retrograde all the day Shel Silverstein was born, as it was on 71 days of 1930. How often the famous were
Saturn return
For Shel Silverstein, Saturn came back to where it stood at his birth in 1988, at 58: his second Saturn return, after the first in 1959. When is yours?
Is yours here?
Signs that click with Libra
You and Shel Silverstein
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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.
Shel Silverstein’s chart in full
Every planet, point, pattern and aspect
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What is Shel Silverstein’s zodiac sign?
Libra. Shel Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930, with the Sun in Libra, the Diplomat. Drawn to beauty, good manners and a fair deal. Works best with a partner and hates a needless fight.
What is Shel Silverstein’s Moon sign?
Scorpio, the Vault. Feels hard and shows little. Needs loyalty, privacy and a few people worth trusting completely.
What is Shel Silverstein’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 September 25, 1930. Your own chart, cast from your birth time, gives yours.
What is Shel Silverstein’s Venus sign?
Scorpio, the Devotee. All or nothing in love. Feels intensely and stays loyal to the very end.
How does your chart compare with Shel Silverstein’s?
Set your chart beside Shel Silverstein’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 Shel Silverstein’s Wikipedia article. The chart is cast for noon on the day.
Photo: Jerry Yulsman, 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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