Birth chart

Ernest Hemingway

Writers1899 – 1961Born 21 July 1899 · Oak Park, Illinois, USAtime unknown

How sure are we about this chart?S5

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

Capricorn

Rising

Unknown

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

Chart wheel

Sun square Jupiter · orb 2°29′Sun trine Uranus · orb 5°30′Mercury sextile Neptune · orb 0°06′Mercury trine North Node · orb 3°37′Mercury sextile South Node · orb 3°37′Mars square Saturn · orb 2°51′Mars square Pluto · orb 4°30′Jupiter sextile North Node · orb 1°54′Jupiter trine South Node · orb 1°54′Saturn opposite Pluto · orb 1°39′Saturn trine Lilith · orb 1°44′Uranus conjunct Chiron · orb 2°53′Neptune opposite North Node · orb 3°31′Neptune conjunct South Node · orb 3°31′Pluto sextile Lilith · orb 0°04′Sun — Cancer 28°41′ · +0.95°/day28°41′Mercury — Leo 25°39′ · +0.99°/day25°39′Venus — Cancer 13°20′ · +1.22°/day13°20′Mars — Virgo 20°39′ · +0.60°/day20°39′Jupiter — Scorpio 1°10′ · +0.07°/day1°10′Saturn — Sagittarius 17°48′ ℞ · −0.05°/day17°48′Uranus — Sagittarius 4°11′ ℞ · −0.02°/day4°11′Neptune — Gemini 25°45′ · +0.03°/day25°45′Pluto — Gemini 16°09′ · +0.02°/day16°09′North Node — Sagittarius 29°16′ ℞ · −0.02°/day29°16′South Node — Gemini 29°16′ ℞ · −0.02°/day29°16′Chiron — Sagittarius 7°04′ ℞ · −0.03°/day7°04′Lilith — Leo 16°05′ · +0.11°/day16°05′
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.

Moon in Capricorn

Traditionally, the Moon shows how you seek safety, and in Capricorn safety means being able to handle things yourself. You steady down through competence: a structure that holds, a task finished well, the quiet pride of not needing rescue. Feelings tend to wait until the work is done. This is a serious placement, not a cold one — often it grew from learning early that you had to be the reliable one. The focus of this Moon is letting support in without reading it as weakness. Leaning on someone is a skill too, and a strong one. Weight you're used to carrying alone can be shared with someone trusted, and letting it be is its own kind of strength.

The astronomy

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

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunCancer 28°41′
MercuryLeo 25°39′
VenusCancer 13°20′
MarsVirgo 20°39′
JupiterScorpio 1°10′
SaturnSagittarius 17°48′
UranusSagittarius 4°11′
NeptuneGemini 25°45′
PlutoGemini 16°09′
North NodeSagittarius 29°16′
South NodeGemini 29°16′
ChironSagittarius 7°04′
LilithLeo 16°05′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 0°04′
  • 0°06′
  • 2°29′
  • 1°39′
  • 5°30′
  • 1°44′
  • 1°54′
  • 2°53′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Water43%
Fire30%
Earth13%
Air13%

Leading: Water

Modalities

Mutable43%
Cardinal33%
Fixed23%

Leading: Mutable

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