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Franklin D. Roosevelt.

30 January 1882 · 20:45 · Hyde Park, Haviland, United States

Franklin D. Roosevelt's birth chart: Sun in Aquarius, Moon in Cancer, Virgo rising. Born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, Haviland, United States.

About this chart

What is Franklin D. Roosevelt's sun sign?

Franklin D. Roosevelt's sun is in Aquarius.

What is Franklin D. Roosevelt's moon sign?

Franklin D. Roosevelt's moon is in Cancer.

What is Franklin D. Roosevelt's rising sign?

Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, Haviland, United States.

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The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunAquarius · 5th house

The self is found in the original angle. Independent, future-facing, often standing just outside the gravity of the room, and the contribution is the difference itself. Lesson: belong without being swallowed. You come alive in what you make. Creativity, play, romance and children are where the self is authored. The house of joy is, for you, the house of identity.

MoonCancer · 10th house

The Moon is at home here. Deep emotional attunement, a long memory, a profound need for sanctuary. The interior is vast and the shell is real. Soothing requires safety, history and the felt sense of being held. Feeling is on public display. The nurturing parent often plays a visible role, the career may carry the emotional theme, and the mood becomes part of the reputation.

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RisingVirgo · the doorway

You arrive with attention. Something in your bearing reads as competent before you have spoken. People feel a careful intelligence in how you take in a room. Your chart ruler is Mercury, in Aquarius in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Virgo rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeSagittarius · 3rd house

The pull is toward Sagittarius: meaning, the wider view, faith, direct first-hand experience. The familiar groove is Gemini: scattered facts, second-hand opinion. Growth is letting the pieces resolve into something you actually believe.

South NodeGemini · 9th house

The South Node in Gemini (9th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: element, decan, and degree

Element. The North Node sits in fire territory.

The decan. The North Node sits in the 1st decan: the purest expression of the sign; its drive at full, undiluted strength.

Chart Ruler

Virgo rising puts Mercury in charge of the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Mercury · the chart rulerAquarius · 6th house

Thought is innovative and systemic, tilted toward the future. The mind works in patterns and possibilities, the speech can be detached, and the gift is seeing what others have missed. The shadow is contrarianism for its own sake.

Where it drives. The mind is applied to the practical. Analytical, precise and oriented toward useful detail, the work often involves communication or analysis, and perfectionism is the risk.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

MC
MidheavenGemini · the 10th house

With Gemini on the Midheaven, a room senses quickness: someone curious, articulate, good with information and people. Planets in the 10th (Moon, Mars) amplify that signal.

IC
ICSagittarius · the 4th house

With Sagittarius on the IC, home is a base camp for meaning: belief, freedom, and a door that opens out.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in earth and fixed signs: substance. Structure. The material world. The energy of form.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Uranus, Neptune & Pluto

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto name the slow forces in your chart. Skip the generation essay for a moment: what matters is which house each one hits in your life. That is where freedom, vision, or deep change stops being abstract and becomes personal. For the long definitions, use the glossary.

UranusVirgo · 12th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), this planet breaks stale patterns and invents a freer way forward. This is where you cannot stay small or copy the old script. Freedom here is not a mood: it is a requirement.The gift in your 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Virgo

A generation that overhauls health and work, reorganising labour, medicine and the body.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneTaurus · 8th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 8th house (intimacy, shared resources, and deep change), this planet softens hard edges, opens imagination, and blurs what is fake. This is where you feel more than the room admits, and where vision or fog can both get loud. Clarity here is sacred.The gift in your 8th houseIn intimacy, depth, the shared, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Taurus

An era that dreams of natural abundance and embodied spirit, softening the hard edges of materialism.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoTaurus · 9th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 9th house (belief, travel, and the search for meaning), this planet ends what is finished and rebuilds power from the root. This is where life asks you to strip the false layer and keep what is real. Intensity here is information, not a flaw.The gift in your 9th houseIn belief, travel, meaning, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Taurus

An era that remakes value, currency and material life, putting what is owned through death and rebirth.

Want the long form? Open Pluto in the glossary →

Wound & Shadow

Chiron is the tender place that becomes medicine. Lilith is the part of you that refuses to perform. Short takes below: for the full wound and shadow maps, open the glossary.

Chiron · the woundTaurus · 8th house

The wound is worth and security: a scarcity that fears change and quietly doubts you deserve comfort or abundance, often rooted in early instability. The body may brace against pleasure as if something will be taken back. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLeo · 11th house

Lilith is the part of you that was taught to dim so smaller rooms could stay comfortable. It is the refusal to be loved only for being smaller. The medicine is showing back up at full brightness. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 11th house (friends, community, future): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on earth. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Rigidity and quiet despair. Unchecked, the earth turns to stone: clinging to security, distrusting change, grinding through duty until the life has no joy left in it.

The middle ground

The everyday work is loosening the grip. Let some plans stay unfinished, let pleasure be productive too, and trust that safety can survive a little movement.

At your best

A foundation other people build on. At your best the earth is calm competence: you make things real, keep your word, and become the steady ground a whole circle relies on.

“I am already secure enough to let this change.”

Full Potential

Leave with five hard lines about yourself. Not a life sentence: a pocket map. Everything above was the chart talking. This is what it says about you.

  1. You carry ground: you can make the real thing, not just the plan.
  2. You are built to hold. Your power compounds when you stay with what matters past the first wave.
  3. At core you are here to think differently and free the future from stale rules.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your precision first: competent, observant, already editing.

Want the language behind these lines? Browse the glossary → Sun, Moon, Rising, elements, and the slow planets all open there.

Asteria · the chart, wholeThe chart as one person.

Not a list of placements. The balance, the dominant, the spine, and how they bind.

The signature

At a glance, yours is an air, fixed chart led by the Moon. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an air-dominant chart, which means you run on ideas, language, and connection. You live in your mind, you think and talk your way through life, and you connect easily, though you can get detached, scattered, or lost up in your own head.

Missing: Little or no fire can mean you struggle to assert, to initiate, to find your spark, and you may have to consciously cultivate the confidence and drive that comes naturally to others. The missing fire is often the very thing you most admire and pursue in fiery people.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is fixed-heavy, which makes you a sustainer. You hold, you persist, you see things through, and you are deeply reliable, with real staying power. The work is in flexibility, in not mistaking stubbornness for strength or holding on past the point.

What leads the chart

Your Moon is the loudest force in your chart, which means feeling, instinct, and the inner life run the show. You are lunar, led by emotion and the need for safety more than by logic or will, deeply attuned and deeply sensitive.

The spine, your Big Three

Aquarius Sun · Cancer Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Aquarius is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
0%
Earth
31%
Air
54%
Water
15%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

Shapes three or more planets make together: the geometry that binds the chart as a system.

Stellium in Aquariuscommon
three or more planets clustered in Aquarius: Mercury, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Sun, Venus gather in Aquarius. A stellium in Aquarius concentrates the chart on difference, community, and the future that does not fit old rules. You innovate and detach at high volume: originality and the collective are where the energy stacks.

gift

Tremendous focus through Aquarius: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Aquarius energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Aquarius stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Aquarius is also a discharge valve.

Stellium in Tauruscommon
three or more planets clustered in Taurus: Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn

In your chart, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn gather in Taurus. A stellium in Taurus concentrates the chart on building, holding, and proving worth in the body and the bank. You get unusual steadiness and stubborn focus: security is not background noise, it is the plot.

gift

Tremendous focus through Taurus: you can become unusually skilled where that sign lives in your life.

difficulty

So much Taurus energy can crowd the rest of the chart. Watch for obsession with that theme, or for the planets inside the cluster blurring into one loud voice.

release point

Balance a Taurus stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Taurus is also a discharge valve.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Venus square Saturnorb 0.03°

In you, Venus grinds against Saturn, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.16°

In you, the Moon works easily with Saturn, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your discipline, fear, and sense of limits. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Mercury square Plutoorb 0.17°

In you, Mercury grinds against Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Mercury trine Marsorb 0.19°

In you, Mercury flows together with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 0.99°

In you, Jupiter flows together with Uranus, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Moon rules Cancerat home

Moon sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Moon sextile Saturnorb 0.2°

An easy, available link: Moon and Saturn feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury trine Marsorb 0.2°

A natural, flowing ease: Mercury and Mars feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Uranus trine Chironorb 0.3°

A natural, flowing ease: Uranus and Chiron feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Jupiter trine Uranusorb 1.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Jupiter and Uranus feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mercury sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

An easy, available link: Mercury and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Venus square Saturnorb 0.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Venus and Saturn never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury square Plutoorb 0.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Mercury and Pluto never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun in detriment in Aquariusuphill

Sun runs uphill in Aquarius, earning by effort what it does effortlessly elsewhere. That effort becomes real, tested range.

Mercury opposition Black Moon Lilithorb 1.9°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mercury and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Pluto square Black Moon Lilithorb 2.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Pluto and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Neptuneorb 2.7°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Neptune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Franklin D. Roosevelt
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun11°08' Aquarius5th housedetriment
Moon6°15' Cancer10th houserulership
Mercury27°11' Aquarius6th housechart ruler
Venus6°03' Aquarius5th house·
Mars27°00' Gemini10th houseretrograde
Jupiter16°56' Taurus8th house·
Saturn6°05' Taurus8th house·
Uranus17°55' Virgo12th houseretrograde
Neptune13°47' Taurus8th house·
Pluto27°21' Taurus9th houseretrograde
Chiron17°37' Taurus8th house·
North Node7°07' Sagittarius3rd houseretrograde
South Node7°07' Gemini9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith25°19' Leo11th house·
Part of Fortune28°12' Aries8th house·
Vertex12°15' Pisces6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
venussquaresaturn0.03°separating
moonsextilesaturn0.16°separating
mercurysquarepluto0.17°applying
mercurytrinemars0.19°separating
uranustrinechiron0.30°applying
jupiterconjunctionchiron0.69°applying
jupitertrineuranus0.99°applying
mercurysextilepart-of-fortune1.02°applying
venussextilenorth-node1.07°applying
marssextilepart-of-fortune1.21°separating
neptunesextilevertex1.53°separating
marssextilelilith1.68°applying
mercuryoppositionlilith1.87°separating
plutosquarelilith2.04°applying
sunsquareneptune2.65°applying
lilithtrinepart-of-fortune2.88°applying
jupiterconjunctionneptune3.15°separating
neptuneconjunctionchiron3.84°separating
sunsextilenorth-node4.01°separating
uranustrineneptune4.13°applying
sunsquaresaturn5.05°separating
sunconjunctionvenus5.08°applying
north-nodesquarevertex5.14°separating
uranusoppositionvertex5.66°applying
sunsquarejupiter5.80°applying
moontrinevertex6.01°applying
sunsquarechiron6.49°applying
moonquincunxvenus0.19°separating
moonquintileuranus0.33°separating
marssemisextilepluto0.36°separating
sunbiquintileuranus0.79°applying
plutosemisextilepart-of-fortune0.85°separating
sunsesquiquadratemars0.87°applying
moonquincunxnorth-node0.87°applying
part-of-fortunesemisquarevertex0.95°separating
saturnquincunxnorth-node1.03°applying
sunbiquintilemoon1.11°separating
sunsemisextilevertex1.12°applying
marssemisquareneptune1.78°separating