Image: Wikimedia CommonsScience · April 24, 1452 · Anchiano
Leonardo da Vinci's Birth Chart
Sun in Taurus · Moon in Pisces
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo. Wikipedia
Section I · The core
The two luminaries
Two lights set the tone of the whole chart: the Sun, the identity; the Moon, the emotional world.
Leonardo da Vinci's Sun, in Taurus
Your centre is steadiness: you slowly build things that last, and sensory pleasure orders you.
Leonardo da Vinci's Moon, in Pisces
Your emotional world is porous and vast: you absorb others' weathers and return them as art or solace.
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.
Leonardo da Vinci'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 | Taurus | 4°15′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 10°44′ |
| Mercury | Aries | 9°36′ |
| Venus | Taurus | 25°10′ |
| Mars | Aquarius | 16°09′ |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 1°32′ |
| Saturn | Libra ℞ | 14°07′ |
| Uranus | Cancer | 22°09′ |
| Neptune | Libra ℞ | 0°11′ |
| Pluto | Leo | 5°06′ |
Leonardo da Vinci'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.
Locomotive
They cover two thirds of the sky, leaving one third empty: a constant drive toward that gap.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Air and the Cardinal modality.
Sun is the most connected planet in their chart: 5 aspects tie it to the rest.
Their chart forms no major pattern (grand trine, T-square, grand cross or stellium).
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