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Writing & thought · July 16, 1872 · Borge Municipality

Roald Amundsen's Birth Chart

Sun in Cancer · Moon in Scorpio

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. 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.

Roald Amundsen's Sun, in Cancer

Your core is care: memory, refuge, and the ability to make a home anywhere.

Roald Amundsen's Moon, in Scorpio

You feel at oceanic depth: all or nothing, with an emotional memory that neither forgets nor betrays.

Without an exact birth time, the Moon could fall in the neighbouring sign: it changed sign that day.

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.

Harmonious aspectTense aspect

Section III · The detail

Planets and aspects

The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.

Roald Amundsen'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.

PlanetSignDegree
Sun Cancer24°11
Moon Scorpio27°39
Mercury Leo15°21
Venus Cancer24°15
Mars Cancer8°08
Jupiter Leo7°11
Saturn Capricorn17°28
Uranus Leo1°02
Neptune Aries26°17
Pluto Taurus20°37

Roald Amundsen'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.

SunConjunction Venus0.1°
VenusSquare Neptune2.0°
SunSquare Neptune2.1°
SaturnTrine Pluto3.1°
MoonTrine Uranus3.4°
MoonTrine Venus3.4°
SunTrine Moon3.5°
SunSextile Pluto3.6°
VenusSextile Pluto3.6°
UranusSquare Neptune4.8°
MercurySquare Pluto5.3°
JupiterConjunction Uranus6.1°
SunOpposition Saturn6.7°
VenusOpposition Saturn6.8°
VenusConjunction Uranus6.8°
SunConjunction Uranus6.9°
MoonOpposition Pluto7.0°

Elements and modalities

How their energy is split across the four elements and the three modalities.

Fire4
Earth2
Air0
Water4
Cardinal5
Fixed5
Mutable0

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.

Chart shape

Seesaw

Your planets gather in two opposite groups: you live in the push and pull between them.

Dominants

Their energy concentrates in the element of Fire and the Cardinal modality.

Traits

Sun is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.

Mars forms no aspects: it expresses its energy with total independence.

Patterns
StelliumSun · Venus · Mars

Three or more planets together in Cancer: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.

StelliumMercury · Jupiter · Uranus

Three or more planets together in Leo: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.

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