John F. Kennedy birth chart.
35th President of the United States.
The data behind this chart. Born May 29, 1917 at 15:00, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Source: Astrodatabank, Rodden rating AA (birth record). This atlas publishes only charts whose birth data carries an Astrodatabank Rodden rating of AA or A — birth records and personal reports, never fan-wiki estimates. Everything below is computed from those inputs by the observatory engine; nothing is copied from another reading.
The Big Three
- Sun in Gemini at 7°51′ — house 9
- Moon in Virgo at 17°12′ — house 12
- Libra Rising at 20°00′ — chart ruler Venus
This is a Gemini Sun, Virgo Moon, Libra Rising chart — a day-sect chart, so the Sun leads and Jupiter is the benefic of sect.
Timeline
John F. Kennedy’s natal chart on the Dial, from birth to death: the sky of any day of the life as a transit ring around the natal wheel, the transits in orb as bars with their entering, exact and leaving dates, the annual profection as the time-lord band, and the day’s reading in plain words. Drag the track, tap a pinned event or a bar, or use the arrow keys.
Reading the year's sky events…
Method
The first clause is the sky event nearest the shown instant in its year: a planet entering a sign, a station (a planet turning retrograde or direct), or a new or full Moon. Eclipses are not on this strip yet.
Motion: daily samples from the engine, interpolated within 0.0005° of it. Exact contacts across the site are measured with one orb table, by transiting body:
| Body | Orb |
|---|---|
| Sun | 2.0° |
| Moon | 2.0° |
| Mercury | 1.5° |
| Venus | 1.5° |
| Mars | 1.5° |
| Jupiter | 1.2° |
| Saturn | 1.0° |
| Uranus | 0.8° |
| Neptune | 0.8° |
| Pluto | 0.8° |
| North Node | 1.0° |
1917–1963 · drag the track, tap an event, or use the arrow keys (N and P for the next and previous event)
Tap a planet or a sign on the wheel.
Rodden AA · Astrodatabank, Rodden rating AA (birth record) · Born May 29, 1917 at 15:00, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Events below are dated public record, each with the page it was checked against; their pins sit at noon UTC because no event here carries a verified hour.
- Taurus · 8th house
- Gemini · 9th house
Method
- Zodiac: tropical. North Node: the true (osculating) node; the South Node is opposite it.
- Annual profection: one sign a year from the Ascendant, each year running solar return to solar return; the sign's ruler is the year's time lord.
- Transit orbs: Sun 2.0°, Moon 2.0°, Mercury 1.5°, Venus 1.5°, Mars 1.5°, Jupiter 1.2°, Saturn 1.0°, Uranus 0.8°, Neptune 0.8°, Pluto 0.8°, North Node 1.0°.
If an obligation crowds out a personal goal, could either be made smaller? Pluto in Virgo crosses at a right angle your Gemini Sun, which lives in your 9th with travel, belief, and higher learning. Deep, slow pressure from below the surface. At stake is your sense of direction. Tension gathers where deep change meets personal priorities. It is the rising square of this cycle. The gap is widening for now; the planet turns back for another pass in 222 days.Pluto square natal Sun · within 0.8° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
Jupiter, in its fall in Capricorn, runs easily alongside your Mars, in its detriment in Taurus, in the 8th house of shared resources and the hidden. High pressure and a widening sky. The ground here is how you push and compete. A steady tailwind carries possibility into effort and assertiveness. It is the late trine of this cycle. Jupiter rules your 3rd and 6th, so siblings and errands and daily work come along. It is fading: exact a day ago, in orb until 24 January. What result are you aiming for, and how much effort would be proportionate?Jupiter trine natal Mars · within 1.2° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
Venus, exalted in Pisces, presses on your Venus in Gemini in the 9th house of travel, belief, and higher learning. A gentle warmth gathers around what you like. The ground here is what and whom you value. Appreciation and relationships and values pull at right angles; something has to give a little. It is the returning square of this cycle. Through the 1st and 8th it rules, self and body and shared resources are part of the picture. Louder than usual: Venus rules your profected 8th this year. The gap is widening: exact 0 days ago, in orb until 21 January. Could you propose a simple shared activity and leave room for the other person's preference?Venus square natal Venus · within 1.5° · whole-sign houses, traditional rulers · phase read from the sky at the instant · a symbolic reading of the geometry, not a forecast
- PT-109 is sunk in the Solomon Islandssource
- Marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Islandsource
- Elected 35th President of the United Statessource
- Inaugurated as Presidentsource
- Addresses the nation on the Soviet missiles in Cubasource
- Assassinated in Dallas, Texassource
Turning points against ordinary days
Any astrology site will tell you what the sky was doing on a famous day, and there is always something: a slow planet or the lunar node is within orb of some point in a chart on a large share of the days of any life. So here is the count for John F. Kennedy’s five dated events above, beside the rate it has to beat: how often the same body was in orb on an ordinary day of the same life.
At 5 of 5 of the events, Jupiter was in orb of a point in the chart; on an ordinary day of the life it was 51% of the time, about 2.5 of 5 expected. Chance alone does at least that well about 1 time in 29.
| Body | At the events | Ordinary day | Chance alone does as well |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 5 of 5 | 51% (2.5 expected) | about 1 time in 29 |
| Saturn | 1 of 5 | 42% (2.1 expected) | more often than not |
| Uranus | 1 of 5 | 34% (1.7 expected) | more often than not |
| Neptune | 0 of 5 | 34% (1.7 expected) | more often than not |
| Pluto | 3 of 5 | 34% (1.7 expected) | about 1 time in 5 |
| North Node | 1 of 5 | 13% (0.7 expected) | more often than not |
Across all seven lives on the observatory (36 dated events), the body furthest above its ordinary-day rate is North Node: in orb at 6 of 36 events against 4.3 expected, which chance alone matches about 1 time in 4. Seven lives and six bodies make 42 comparisons, and chance alone gives about two of them a 1-in-20 look on average; here two do.
A few famous dates cannot show that the sky shapes a life, and the largest study of people born minutes apart found effect sizes near zero (how we date a transit). What this table shows is the method: on this site, a contact comes with the rate it has to beat.
Method
In orb means inside the engine’s orb of one of the chart’s twelve points (the ten planets, the Ascendant and the Midheaven) by conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition: the bars of the timeline above, for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the North Node. Each event is read at noon UTC of its day, because none carries a verified hour. The day the life ended is not read (one event left out). The ordinary-day rate is the share of every moment from birth to death with at least one contact of the body in orb (Pluto only from 1885, where its series starts). “Chance alone” is the probability that the same number of moments picked at random from the life would land in orb at least as often (binomial; pooled over the lives, each event at its own life’s rate).
The contacts at each event
- PT-109 is sunk in the Solomon Islands: Jupiter sextile natal Sun; Saturn trine natal Uranus; Uranus conjunct natal Sun.
- Marries Jacqueline Bouvier in Newport, Rhode Island: Jupiter trine natal Uranus; Pluto opposite natal Uranus; Pluto square natal Jupiter; North Node opposite natal Neptune.
- Elected 35th President of the United States: Jupiter opposite natal Pluto; Pluto square natal Sun.
- Inaugurated as President: Jupiter trine natal Mars; Pluto square natal Sun.
- Addresses the nation on the Soviet missiles in Cuba: Jupiter trine natal Pluto.
All ten placements
- Sun in Gemini at 7°51′, house 9
- Moon in Virgo at 17°12′, house 12
- Mercury in Taurus at 20°36′, house 8
- Venus in Gemini at 16°45′, house 9
- Mars in Taurus at 18°26′, house 8 — detriment
- Jupiter in Taurus at 23°03′, house 8
- Saturn in Cancer at 27°10′, house 10 — detriment
- Uranus in Aquarius at 23°43′, house 5, retrograde
- Neptune in Leo at 2°40′, house 11
- Pluto in Cancer at 3°16′, house 10
Condition and emphasis
- On the angles: Saturn, Pluto — planets in angular houses carry the loudest voice in a chart.
- Near-exact aspects: Jupiter square Lilith (0.4°); Moon square Venus (0.5°); Jupiter square Uranus (0.7°).
- Chart shape: Most planets in a two-thirds arc with Uranus as the isolated handle — a focal outlet planet.
Fixed-star contacts
Sun conjoins Aldebaran — Eye of the Bull, magnitude 0.9, of Mars — one of the four Royal Stars; honor, courage, integrity required nature — within 0.8° of arc.
The Vedic view
Sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa, 22.70° subtracted from the tropical longitudes): Sun in Vrishabha (Taurus), Moon in Simha (Leo), Kanya (Virgo) rising. The Moon occupies Purva Phalguni nakshatra, pada 4, ruled by Venus — the lunar mansion that opens the Vimshottari dasha sequence.
The BaZi view
Four Pillars: year 丁巳, month 乙巳, day 辛未, hour 丙申. The Day Master is 辛 (Metal), year of the 蛇; Fire leads the five-element tally.
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