Martin Luther King Jr. birth chart.
Civil-rights leader — Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
The data behind this chart. Born January 15, 1929 at 12:00, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Source: Astrodatabank, Rodden rating A (personal report). 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 Capricorn at 25°06′ — house 10
- Moon in Pisces at 19°03′ — house 12
- Aries Rising at 23°02′ — chart ruler Mars
This is a Capricorn Sun, Pisces Moon, Aries Rising chart — a day-sect chart, so the Sun leads and Jupiter is the benefic of sect.
Timeline
Martin Luther King Jr.’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° |
1929–1968 · drag the track, tap an event, or use the arrow keys (N and P for the next and previous event)
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Rodden A · Astrodatabank, Rodden rating A (personal report) · Born January 15, 1929 at 12:00, Atlanta, Georgia, 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.
- Aquarius · 11th 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°.
No transit from the planets is within orb of a natal point at this instant.
- Marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabamasource
- The Montgomery bus boycott begins; elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Associationsource
- Delivers 'I Have a Dream' at the March on Washingtonsource
- The Nobel Peace Prize is announcedsource
- Receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslosource
- Assassinated in Memphis, Tennesseesource
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 Martin Luther King Jr.’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 3 of 5 of the events, Neptune was in orb of a point in the chart; on an ordinary day of the life it was 38% of the time, about 1.9 of 5 expected. Chance alone does at least that well about 1 time in 4.
| Body | At the events | Ordinary day | Chance alone does as well |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 3 of 5 | 56% (2.8 expected) | more often than not |
| Saturn | 1 of 5 | 47% (2.3 expected) | more often than not |
| Uranus | 2 of 5 | 40% (2.0 expected) | more often than not |
| Neptune | 3 of 5 | 38% (1.9 expected) | about 1 time in 4 |
| Pluto | 1 of 5 | 35% (1.8 expected) | more often than not |
| North Node | 1 of 5 | 13% (0.6 expected) | about 1 time in 2 |
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
- Marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama: Uranus conjunct natal Pluto; Neptune trine natal Mars; Pluto sextile natal Mars.
- The Montgomery bus boycott begins; elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association: Jupiter conjunct natal Neptune; Jupiter trine natal Jupiter; Saturn sextile natal Sun.
- Delivers 'I Have a Dream' at the March on Washington: no slow-planet contact in orb.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is announced: Jupiter trine natal Sun; Neptune trine natal Pluto; North Node opposite natal Saturn.
- Receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo: Jupiter sextile natal Pluto; Uranus trine natal Midheaven; Neptune trine natal Moon.
All ten placements
- Sun in Capricorn at 25°06′, house 10
- Moon in Pisces at 19°03′, house 12
- Mercury in Aquarius at 11°42′, house 11
- Venus in Pisces at 10°31′, house 12 — exaltation
- Mars in Gemini at 21°54′, house 3, retrograde
- Jupiter in Taurus at 1°10′, house 2
- Saturn in Sagittarius at 25°21′, house 9
- Uranus in Aries at 3°58′, house 1
- Neptune in Virgo at 0°54′, house 6, retrograde
- Pluto in Cancer at 17°08′, house 4, retrograde
Condition and emphasis
- On the angles: Sun, Uranus, Pluto — planets in angular houses carry the loudest voice in a chart.
- Venus is essentially dignified (net +9: exaltation, triplicity (day), bound).
- Saturn is essentially dignified (net +5: triplicity (cooperating), bound, decan).
- Near-exact aspects: Jupiter trine Neptune (0.3°).
- Chart shape: Three or four loose clusters of planets, no dominant group. The native has multiple independent life themes — range over depth.
The Vedic view
Sidereal (Lahiri ayanamsa, 22.86° subtracted from the tropical longitudes): Sun in Makara (Capricorn), Moon in Kumbha (Aquarius), Mesha (Aries) rising. The Moon occupies Purva Bhadra nakshatra, pada 2, ruled by Jupiter — the lunar mansion that opens the Vimshottari dasha sequence.
The BaZi view
Four Pillars: year 戊辰, month 乙丑, day 庚申, hour 壬午. The Day Master is 庚 (Metal), year of the 龙; Earth leads the five-element tally.
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