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Science · April 22, 1904 · Manhattan

Robert Oppenheimer's Birth Chart

Sun in Taurus · Moon in Cancer

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons. 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.

Robert Oppenheimer's Sun, in Taurus

Your centre is steadiness: you slowly build things that last, and sensory pleasure orders you. You flourish when you build at your own pace and give tangible form to what you value.

Robert Oppenheimer's Moon, in Cancer

You have deep intuition and a very rich emotional world, a profound sensitivity that registers everything and needs a den to process it: your natural refuge is home, intimacy and the bonds that make you feel safe and among family.

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.

Robert Oppenheimer'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 Taurus1°55
Moon Cancer22°45
Mercury Taurus21°55
Venus Aries11°28
Mars Taurus11°35
Jupiter Aries12°34
Saturn Aquarius19°46
Uranus Sagittarius29°49
Neptune Cancer3°33
Pluto Gemini19°07

Robert Oppenheimer'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.

SaturnTrine Pluto0.6°
MoonSextile Mercury0.8°
VenusConjunction Jupiter1.1°
SunSextile Neptune1.6°
SunTrine Uranus2.1°
MercurySquare Saturn2.1°
UranusOpposition Neptune3.7°
SunConjunction Mars9.7°

Elements and modalities

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

Fire3
Earth3
Air2
Water2
Cardinal4
Fixed4
Mutable2

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

Splay

Your planets gather in irregular clusters: several well-defined centres of energy.

Dominants

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

Traits

Sun is the most connected planet in their chart: 5 aspects tie it to the rest.

Patterns
StelliumSun · Mercury · Mars

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

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