Birth chart

Cecil John Rhodes

Entrepreneurs1853 – 1902Born 5 July 1853 · Bishop's Stortfordtime unknown

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Time unknown — no reliable birth time, so houses and the Ascendant are left out and the Moon is shown as a range.

Every figure gets a data-confidence rating for its birth time. Where the time is unknown, we compute a partial chart rather than guess. How we build this base

Sun

Cancer

Moon

Gemini → Cancer

The Moon changed signs that day — without a birth time we show the range, not a guess.

Rising

Unknown

The Ascendant needs an exact birth time, which we don't have for this chart.

Chart wheel

Sun sextile Uranus · orb 1°30′Sun trine Neptune · orb 0°20′Sun opposite Chiron · orb 3°17′Mercury sextile Mars · orb 3°19′Mercury square Pluto · orb 2°22′Mercury sextile Lilith · orb 2°15′Venus sextile Saturn · orb 0°15′Mars conjunct Lilith · orb 5°34′Jupiter square Neptune · orb 3°00′Jupiter opposite North Node · orb 2°54′Jupiter conjunct South Node · orb 2°54′Saturn conjunct Lilith · orb 4°56′Uranus sextile Neptune · orb 1°51′Uranus trine Chiron · orb 1°47′Neptune sextile Chiron · orb 3°38′Sun — Cancer 13°17′ · +0.95°/day13°17′Mercury — Leo 4°59′ · +1.59°/day4°59′Venus — Cancer 27°33′ · +1.23°/day27°33′Mars — Gemini 8°18′ · +0.70°/day8°18′Jupiter — Sagittarius 16°38′ ℞ · −0.10°/day16°38′Saturn — Taurus 27°48′ · +0.10°/day27°48′Uranus — Taurus 11°47′ · +0.03°/day11°47′Neptune — Pisces 13°37′ ℞ · −0.01°/day13°37′Pluto — Taurus 2°37′ · +0.01°/day2°37′North Node — Gemini 19°32′ ℞ · −0.02°/day19°32′South Node — Sagittarius 19°32′ ℞ · −0.02°/day19°32′Chiron — Capricorn 10°00′ ℞ · −0.06°/day10°00′Lilith — Gemini 2°44′ · +0.11°/day2°44′
AspectsAngles (ASC/MC)· Hover a planet or aspect for details

Positions from a Swiss-ephemeris engine · houses & angles omitted (time unknown)

Reading the placements

These notes describe the chart, not the person — a lens for reflection.

Sun in Cancer

In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Cancer it grows through feeling and belonging. There's a pull toward care, memory, home, and protecting what's tender — yours and other people's. This placement is often experienced as warm and deeply loyal, and sometimes as a shell that goes up when things feel unsafe. The theme worth exploring is the difference between protecting yourself and hiding: both look similar from the outside. Protecting yourself and hiding can pass for one another until you let a little of the tenderness be seen, which is the moment they finally part ways.

The astronomy

The raw computed positions behind this chart — the same numbers any ephemeris would give.

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunCancer 13°17′
MercuryLeo 4°59′
VenusCancer 27°33′
MarsGemini 8°18′
JupiterSagittarius 16°38′
SaturnTaurus 27°48′
UranusTaurus 11°47′
NeptunePisces 13°37′
PlutoTaurus 2°37′
North NodeGemini 19°32′
South NodeSagittarius 19°32′
ChironCapricorn 10°00′
LilithGemini 2°44′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°20′
  • 3°17′
  • 0°15′
  • 1°30′
  • 1°47′
  • 2°22′
  • 2°54′
  • 2°54′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Water40%
Fire23%
Earth23%
Air13%

Leading: Water

Modalities

Fixed37%
Cardinal33%
Mutable30%

Leading: Fixed

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