Image: Wikimedia CommonsWriting & thought · June 3, 1926 · Newark
Allen Ginsberg's Birth Chart
Sun in Gemini · Moon in Pisces
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Wikipedia
Sun in Gemini
12°08′Your identity lives in curiosity: you are bridge, translator, permanent question. It unfolds through versatility, movement and the play of ideas. You need to explore, build bridges, ask questions and connect concepts in order to understand the world.
Moon in Pisces
14°16′Your emotional world is porous and vast: you absorb other people's weather like a sponge and give it back turned into art or consolation. Your inner security needs places to retreat, imagination, rest and creative outlets to channel your immense sensitivity.
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Allen Ginsberg, so this chart doesn't set it. Their planets by sign, however, remain reliable.
Section II · The map
Their natal wheel
The sky on the day they were born. The outer ring is the twelve signs; the lines across the centre, the aspects between planets. Without a birth time, houses and the Ascendant aren't drawn.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg's placements
We compute the placements for the day of birth. Without the exact time the Ascendant and houses can't be fixed, but each planet's sign is reliable.
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 12°08′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 14°16′ |
| Mercury | Gemini | 10°39′ |
| Venus | Taurus | 0°45′ |
| Mars | Pisces | 21°59′ |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 26°54′ |
| Saturn | Scorpio ℞ | 21°19′ |
| Uranus | Pisces | 29°02′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 22°15′ |
| Pluto | Cancer | 13°26′ |
Beyond the planets
Three keys beyond the ten classical planets, which astrology reads as axes of the chart. All four angles need your birth time.
The wounded healer: a small icy body between Saturn and Uranus. It marks the wound that, once moved through, teaches.
Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.
The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.
Allen Ginsberg's aspects
Each aspect is an angle between two planets; it defines how they speak to each other. Aspects to the Moon are approximate: they depend on the exact birth time.
Elements and modalities
How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.
Section IV · The signature
The signature of their sky
The whole at a glance: how the planets are spread, and the accents that set the overall tone of the chart.
Bucket
A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Water and the Mutable modality.
Moon is the most connected planet in their chart: 8 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Pisces: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
And your own sky?
Generate your full natal chart —with your time and place of birth you'll also get the Ascendant and houses— free, in two minutes.
- Your planets
- Your angles
- Your aspects
- Your patterns
- The synthesis
Five chapters written for an exact sky — not Allen Ginsberg's: yours.