Image: Wikimedia CommonsPublic figures · May 29, 1914 · Tengboche
Tenzing Norgay's Birth Chart
Sun in Gemini · Moon in Cancer ≈
Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Wikipedia
Sun in Gemini
7°16′Your identity lives in curiosity: you are bridge, translator, permanent question. It unfolds through versatility, movement and the play of ideas. You need to explore, build bridges, ask questions and connect concepts in order to understand the world.
Moon in Cancer
28°43′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.
the Moon changed sign that day
Birth time not documented
The Ascendant changes sign every two hours, and no verified birth time is recorded for Tenzing Norgay, 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.
Section III · The detail
Planets and aspects
The exact numbers behind the drawing. Each table expands one layer of the wheel.
Tenzing Norgay'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 | Gemini | 7°16′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 28°43′ |
| Mercury | Gemini | 21°12′ |
| Venus | Cancer | 3°57′ |
| Mars | Leo | 14°23′ |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 22°02′ |
| Saturn | Gemini | 19°44′ |
| Uranus | Aquarius ℞ | 11°33′ |
| Neptune | Cancer | 26°10′ |
| Pluto | Cancer | 0°04′ |
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.
The wounded healer: a small icy body between Saturn and Uranus. It marks the wound that, once moved through, teaches.
Not a body but a point of the Moon's orbit. It marks the direction of your growth.
The Black Moon: a mathematical point tied to the untamed and what refuses to submit.
Tenzing Norgay'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.
Bowl
Your planets fill half the chart: one half full, one empty, like something you seek to complete.
Their energy concentrates in the element of Air and the Cardinal modality.
Lilith is the most connected planet in their chart: 7 aspects tie it to the rest.
Three or more planets together in Gemini: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
Three or more planets together in Cancer: a strongly marked focus of energy in that area.
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