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Image: Wikimedia CommonsScience · December 28, 1969 · Helsinki
Linus Torvalds's Birth Chart
Sun in Capricorn · Moon in Leo ≈
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git. 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.
Linus Torvalds's Sun, in Capricorn
Your centre is mastery: patient ambition, responsibility, maturity and work that supports others. You flourish by taking on your goals with discipline, patience and the determination to build something lasting.
Linus Torvalds'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.
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.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Linus Torvalds'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 | Capricorn | 6°35′ |
| Moon | Leo | 28°21′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 26°17′ |
| Venus | Capricorn | 0°03′ |
| Mars | Pisces | 9°38′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 1°50′ |
| Saturn | Taurus ℞ | 2°06′ |
| Uranus | Libra | 8°40′ |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 29°46′ |
| Pluto | Virgo | 27°24′ |
Linus Torvalds'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 Earth and the Cardinal modality.
Sun is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Capricorn: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
Three planets in trine forming a triangle: a talent that flows almost effortlessly.
Three planets in trine forming a triangle: a talent that flows almost effortlessly.
An opposition with a third planet square to both: the chart's engine of tension and achievement.
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