Empress Dowager CixiImage: Wikimedia Commons

Politics & history · November 29, 1835 · Beijing

Empress Dowager Cixi's Birth Chart

Sun in Sagittarius · Moon in Aries

More skies with Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Aries

Empress Dowager Cixi was a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who periodically controlled the government of the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent from 1861 until her death in 1908. Wikipedia

The essence · Sun

Sun in Sagittarius

6°36′

Your identity is an arrow: meaning, horizon, the faith that there's always wider ground. It expands through the search for meaning, adventure and trust in life. You need wide horizons, philosophy and constant learning in order to make sense of existence.

The inner world · Moon

Moon in Aries

3°58′

You feel in flares: fast, honest, direct emotions that ask for an immediate response and forgive quickly. Your refuge is autonomy and your ability to heal conflict fast.

the Moon changed sign that day

The threshold · Ascendant

Birth time not documented

The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Empress Dowager Cixi, 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.

Harmonious aspectTense aspect

Section III · The detail

Planets and aspects

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

Empress Dowager Cixi'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 Sagittarius6°36
Moon Aries3°58
Mercury Scorpio17°32
Venus Sagittarius20°31
Mars Sagittarius12°15
Jupiter Cancer14°49
Saturn Scorpio0°44
Uranus Aquarius26°51
Neptune Aquarius1°37
Pluto Aries12°59

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.

Chiron5°33 Gemini

The wounded healer: a small icy body between Saturn and Uranus. It marks the wound that, once moved through, teaches.

North Node29°15 Taurus

Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.

Lilith6°35 Gemini

The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.

Empress Dowager Cixi'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.

SunTrine Moon2.6°
SunConjunction Mars5.7°
SunSextile Neptune5.0°
SunTrine Pluto6.4°
MoonSesquiquadrate Mercury1.4°
MoonTrine Mars8.3°
MoonSextile Neptune2.3°
MoonConjunction Pluto9.0°
MercuryTrine Jupiter2.7°
MarsQuincunx Jupiter2.6°
MarsTrine Pluto0.7°
JupiterSquare Pluto1.8°
SaturnTrine Uranus3.9°
SaturnSquare Neptune0.9°
UranusSemisquare Pluto1.1°

Elements and modalities

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

Fire5
Earth0
Air2
Water3
Cardinal3
Fixed4
Mutable3

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

Bucket

A group of planets with a single one opposite: that 'handle' planet becomes the channel of the whole chart.

Dominants

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

Traits

North Node is the most connected planet in their chart: 9 aspects tie it to the rest.

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

Patterns
StelliumSun · Venus · Mars

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

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