Image: Wikimedia CommonsPublic figures · October 27, 1728 · Marton
James Cook's Birth Chart
Sun in Scorpio · Moon in Leo
Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand, and led the first recorded visit by Europeans to the east coast of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. 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.
James Cook's Sun, in Scorpio
Your core is intensity: living fully, transforming yourself and looking where others turn away. Your essence grows stronger in depth, transformation and naked truth. You need to cross the shadows, let go of what is obsolete and be reborn with greater inner solidity.
James Cook's Moon, in Leo
Your heart needs to be seen, needs warmth and room to show itself as it is: loyalty and sincere recognition are your emotional nourishment. You feel magnanimously and need your affections to affirm your true self.
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.
James Cook'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 | Scorpio | 4°19′ |
| Moon | Leo | 21°47′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 21°15′ |
| Venus | Scorpio | 21°02′ |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 14°00′ |
| Jupiter | Cancer ℞ | 6°09′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 20°17′ |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 21°30′ |
| Neptune | Gemini ℞ | 10°14′ |
| Pluto | Libra | 8°51′ |
James Cook'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 Fixed modality.
Moon is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Scorpio: 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.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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