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Science · April 23, 1858 · Kiel

Max Planck's Birth Chart

Sun in Taurus · Moon in Virgo

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist. He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta". 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.

Max Planck's Sun, in Taurus

Your centre is steadiness: you slowly build things that last, and sensory pleasure orders you.

Max Planck's Moon, in Virgo

You settle by ordering: your emotions are tended with kind routines and useful gestures, not grand drama.

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.

Max Planck'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 Taurus3°01
Moon Virgo9°12
Mercury Taurus22°37
Venus Taurus16°39
Mars Sagittarius1°10
Jupiter Taurus22°28
Saturn Cancer22°17
Uranus Taurus27°44
Neptune Pisces23°50
Pluto Taurus6°01

Max Planck'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.

MercuryConjunction Jupiter0.1°
JupiterSextile Saturn0.2°
MercurySextile Saturn0.3°
MercurySextile Neptune1.2°
JupiterSextile Neptune1.4°
SaturnTrine Neptune1.6°
SunConjunction Pluto3.0°
MoonTrine Pluto3.2°
MarsOpposition Uranus3.4°
UranusSextile Neptune3.9°
MercuryConjunction Uranus5.1°
JupiterConjunction Uranus5.3°
VenusConjunction Jupiter5.8°
MercuryConjunction Venus6.0°
SunTrine Moon6.2°
MoonTrine Venus7.4°
MoonSquare Mars8.0°

Elements and modalities

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

Fire1
Earth7
Air0
Water2
Cardinal1
Fixed6
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 Earth and the Fixed modality.

Traits

Neptune is the most connected planet in their chart: 6 aspects tie it to the rest.

Patterns
StelliumSun · Mercury · Venus · Jupiter · Uranus · Pluto

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

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