Birth chart

Linus Pauling

Scientists1901 – 1994Born 28 February 1901 · Portlandtime 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

Pisces

Moon

Cancer

Rising

Unknown

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

Chart wheel

Sun sextile Jupiter · orb 1°50′Sun sextile Saturn · orb 4°21′Sun square Pluto · orb 6°07′Mercury square Uranus · orb 4°59′Mercury square Neptune · orb 4°47′Mercury trine North Node · orb 4°28′Venus trine Neptune · orb 2°25′Venus square North Node · orb 2°06′Venus square South Node · orb 2°06′Venus trine Lilith · orb 2°20′Mars sextile Neptune · orb 3°55′Mars square North Node · orb 4°14′Mars square South Node · orb 4°14′Mars trine Chiron · orb 3°39′Jupiter conjunct Chiron · orb 3°42′Uranus opposite Pluto · orb 1°01′Neptune trine Lilith · orb 4°45′Sun — Pisces 9°33′ · +1.00°/day9°33′Mercury — Pisces 21°40′ ℞ · −0.36°/day21°40′Venus — Aquarius 24°02′ · +1.25°/day24°02′Mars — Virgo 0°22′ ℞ · −0.38°/day0°22′Jupiter — Capricorn 7°43′ · +0.16°/day7°43′Saturn — Capricorn 13°55′ · +0.08°/day13°55′Uranus — Sagittarius 16°41′ · +0.02°/day16°41′Neptune — Gemini 26°27′ ℞ · −0.00°/day26°27′Pluto — Gemini 15°41′ · +0.00°/day15°41′North Node — Scorpio 26°08′ ℞ · −0.11°/day26°08′South Node — Taurus 26°08′ ℞ · −0.11°/day26°08′Chiron — Capricorn 4°01′ · +0.06°/day4°01′Lilith — Libra 21°42′ · +0.11°/day21°42′
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 Pisces

In the astrological tradition, the Sun is your core self, and in Pisces it grows through imagination, empathy, and a sense of connection to something larger. There's a pull toward compassion, art, and the spaces between clear edges — you often feel what others feel before they say it. People experience this placement as gentle and creative, and sometimes as porous, absorbing moods that aren't theirs. The theme worth exploring is the boundary — the place where empathy ends and losing yourself begins. What carries you back to your own shore, after you have swum out to meet someone else's, is the quiet thing this placement asks you to learn by heart.

Moon in Cancer

In the astrological tradition, the Moon governs care, memory, and the wish to belong — and Cancer is the sign it rules, so those themes run strong. Your feelings move in tides. Closeness fills you; a small slight can pull you inward, behind a shell that protects a genuinely soft center. You steady yourself by tending to people and places, by cooking, remembering, keeping what matters close. The care you give others is real and needed. It helps to aim some of it back at yourself, so nurturing does not quietly become the only way you know you are safe. Gentleness offered this freely to others is worth, now and then, turning back toward the one who keeps giving it.

The astronomy

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

Positions

BodySign & degree
SunPisces 9°33′
MercuryPisces 21°40′
VenusAquarius 24°02′
MarsVirgo 0°22′
JupiterCapricorn 7°43′
SaturnCapricorn 13°55′
UranusSagittarius 16°41′
NeptuneGemini 26°27′
PlutoGemini 15°41′
North NodeScorpio 26°08′
South NodeTaurus 26°08′
ChironCapricorn 4°01′
LilithLibra 21°42′

Aspects · sorted by strength

  • 1°01′
  • 1°50′
  • 6°07′
  • 2°06′
  • 2°06′
  • 4°21′
  • 2°20′
  • 2°25′

Chart emphasis

Elements

Earth33%
Water33%
Air27%
Fire7%

Leading: Earth

Modalities

Mutable67%
Cardinal20%
Fixed13%

Leading: Mutable

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