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Mao Zedong.

26 December 1893 · 07:30 · Shaoshan Special Branch History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China, 泸定桥, China

Mao Zedong's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Leo, Capricorn rising. Born December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan Special Branch History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China, 泸定桥, China.

About this chart

What is Mao Zedong's sun sign?

Mao Zedong's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Mao Zedong's moon sign?

Mao Zedong's moon is in Leo.

What is Mao Zedong's rising sign?

Mao Zedong's Rising (Ascendant) is Capricorn.

When and where was Mao Zedong born?

Mao Zedong was born December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan Special Branch History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China, 泸定桥, China.

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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 Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of earth and fire means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCapricorn · 12th house

Mastery and structure are how the self is forged. Patient, disciplined, oriented toward the long game. The mountain must be climbed and the weight must be carried. Lesson: you were always worthy. The climb is the path of remembering. Much of the self does its work unseen. Identity is built behind the scenes, in the inner life, and the difficulty is being visible at all. The gift is a profound interiority and spiritual depth.

MoonLeo · 7th house

Feeling is expressive, generous and a little theatrical. There is a need to be seen for it to feel real. The shadow is the demand for an audience; the healed version is being witnessed without performing. Mood is regulated through partnership. The relational mirror shapes how you feel, the need for a partner is strong, and you tend to feel your way through the other.

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RisingCapricorn · the doorway

You arrive composed. The bearing communicates competence before any word is spoken. People take you seriously immediately. Sometimes before you have decided whether you want them to. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Libra in the 9th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Capricorn 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 NodeAries · 3rd house

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 9th house

The South Node in Libra (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 2nd decan: the sign filtered through Leo; its instinct softened and complicated by a second flavour.

Chart Ruler

Capricorn rising puts Saturn 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.

Saturn · the chart rulerLibra · 9th house

Saturn is exalted here. The work is on partnership, fairness and balance: lessons in commitment and integrity in relationship. The shadow is cold distance disguised as fairness.

Where it drives. Belief must be built, not inherited. Often sceptical of received wisdom, you have to construct your own philosophy, and it becomes a deep, hard-won mastery.

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
MidheavenLibra · the 10th house

With Libra on the Midheaven, a room senses grace: someone fair, composed, who smooths things and makes them elegant. Planets in the 10th (Uranus) amplify that signal.

IC
ICAries · the 4th house

With Aries on the IC, home is where initiative lives: private fire, a self that rests by starting again.

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 air and fixed signs: mind. Communication. The space between. The energy of relationship and idea.

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.

UranusScorpio · 10th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Scorpio

A generation that drives the sexual revolution, reorganising intimacy, taboo and power, and making death visible.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneGemini · 5th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Gemini

An era that dreams of universal communication, the mystical word, the dissolving of intellectual borders.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 5th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer regenerative depth and the power to rebuild after endings.

Optional backdrop: Pluto in Gemini

An era that remakes mind, communication and information, putting language 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 woundVirgo · 8th house

The wound is never good enough: a sharp eye for flaws that turns inward as self-criticism, overwork, and worth measured only in usefulness. You may fix everyone else's life while neglecting your own body. It plays out most loudly in the 8th house (intimacy, depth, the shared). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowSagittarius · 12th house

Lilith is the part of you with a low tolerance for small lives and small ideas about who you are allowed to become. It is the refusal to stay containable. The medicine is the long pilgrimage toward your own larger map. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 12th house (rest, release, the unseen): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on air. 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

Detachment and analysis-paralysis. Unchecked, the air lives in the head: endlessly weighing, narrating instead of feeling, connected to everyone and intimate with no one.

The middle ground

The everyday work is landing. Drop from the head into the body, let a decision be good-enough, and let feeling have a vote alongside thought.

At your best

A mind that genuinely connects. At your best the air is perspective and fairness: you see every side, name the thing no one could articulate, and pull people into real dialogue.

“I do not have to understand it fully to feel it fully.”

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 clarity: you can name the pattern and connect the room.
  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 build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need to feel special to someone real, not only useful.
  5. People meet your gravity first: serious, capable, already holding the frame.

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 earth, cardinal chart led by Saturn. That is the shorthand. Here is what it actually means, woven together.

The elemental nature

an earth-dominant chart, which means you run on the tangible, the practical, and the real. You build steadily, you trust what you can touch, and you ground the people around you, though you can resist change and get stuck in the material.

Missing: Little or no water can mean the emotional and intuitive are harder to access, that you may intellectualize or act on feeling rather than fully feeling it, and emotional attunement is something you grow into. You may be drawn to watery people for the depth they open.

The way you operate

By mode, your chart is cardinal-heavy, which makes you an initiator. You start things, you open new chapters, and you set rooms in motion. The work is in seeing things through after the spark, not just kicking off the next one.

What leads the chart

Saturn is the loudest force in your chart, which means structure, discipline, and the serious build lead. You are saturnine, defined by responsibility and the long climb, mature beyond your years and built for what lasts.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Leo Moon · Capricorn rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Leo is the inner emotional life, and your Capricorn Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on two elements, which gives you a primary nature with a real counterweight. The mix of earth and fire means you are not all one thing, and the tension between the two is part of what makes you interesting and occasionally divided against yourself. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

The element balance
Elements
Fire
26%
Earth
38%
Air
26%
Water
10%
Asteria · the patternsThe aspect patterns in your chart.

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

T-Square · apex Venuscommon
an opposition under pressure from Venus (Jupiter, Mars, Venus)

In your chart, Jupiter, Mars, Venus form a T-square with Venus at the focal point. That is where the pressure collects and where life keeps asking for action. The empty leg, Leo, is the missing corner that balances the grind when you develop it on purpose.

gift

Relentless motivation through Venus: you get things done because the tension will not let you coast.

difficulty

Venus can feel overworked or sore, and the opposition behind it can swing between poles if it is never integrated.

release point

Channel the pressure toward Leo, the sign opposite the apex. Consciously building that empty quality is how a T-square stops grinding and starts building.

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.

Moon square Uranusorb 0.03°

In you, the Moon grinds against Uranus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your need for freedom and the urge to break form. 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 trine Mercuryorb 1.69°

In you, the Moon flows together with Mercury, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your mind and how you communicate. 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.

Venus square Jupiterorb 1.96°

In you, Venus grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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.

Neptune conjunction Plutoorb 2.19°

In you, Neptune is fused with Pluto, bringing together your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse and your relationship to power and deep change. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Moon sextile Neptuneorb 2.53°

In you, the Moon works easily with Neptune, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use 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
Mars rules Scorpioat home

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

Mercury trine North Nodeorb 0.2°

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

Saturn exalted in Libralifted

Saturn is exalted: amplified and well-placed, giving back more than it costs you to use it.

Jupiter trine Chironorb 1.1°

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

Moon trine Mercuryorb 1.7°

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

Moon trine North Nodeorb 1.9°

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

Where it works
T-Squarepattern

A standing tension that drives output: a whole-chart tension that drives a lot of your output.

Moon square Uranusorb 0.0°

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

Jupiter square Vertexorb 0.4°

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

Venus opposition Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Venus and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Jupiter square Part of Fortuneorb 1.0°

A productive friction: the pull between Jupiter and Part of Fortune never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mercury in detriment in Sagittariusuphill

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

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Chart data for Mao Zedong
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun4°29' Capricorn12th house·
Moon14°04' Leo7th house·
Mercury15°45' Sagittarius11th housedetriment
Venus20°10' Aquarius2nd house·
Mars25°52' Scorpio11th houserulership
Jupiter22°08' Taurus4th houseretrograde
Saturn23°52' Libra9th houseexaltation, chart ruler
Uranus14°02' Scorpio10th house·
Neptune11°32' Gemini5th houseretrograde
Pluto9°21' Gemini5th houseretrograde
Chiron21°01' Virgo8th house·
North Node16°00' Aries3rd houseretrograde
South Node16°00' Libra9th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith29°34' Sagittarius12th house·
Part of Fortune21°07' Leo8th house·
Vertex21°47' Leo8th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
moonsquareuranus0.03°separating
mercurytrinenorth-node0.24°applying
jupitersquarevertex0.35°applying
part-of-fortuneconjunctionvertex0.66°separating
venusoppositionpart-of-fortune0.95°applying
jupitersquarepart-of-fortune1.01°applying
jupitertrinechiron1.12°applying
venusoppositionvertex1.61°applying
moontrinemercury1.69°applying
moontrinenorth-node1.92°applying
venussquarejupiter1.96°applying
saturnsextilevertex2.08°separating
neptuneconjunctionpluto2.19°applying
moonsextileneptune2.53°separating
saturnsextilepart-of-fortune2.74°separating
venustrinesaturn3.69°applying
marsoppositionjupiter3.73°separating
marssquarevertex4.08°separating
mercuryoppositionneptune4.22°separating
moonsextilepluto4.72°separating
marssquarepart-of-fortune4.74°separating
sunconjunctionlilith4.92°separating
north-nodetrinepart-of-fortune5.13°separating
mercurysquarechiron5.26°applying
mercurytrinepart-of-fortune5.37°applying
venussquaremars5.69°applying
north-nodetrinevertex5.79°separating
moonoppositionvenus6.10°applying
moonconjunctionpart-of-fortune7.05°applying
moonconjunctionvertex7.71°applying
chironsemisextilepart-of-fortune0.11°applying
plutoquintilepart-of-fortune0.22°applying
plutoquintilevertex0.43°separating
saturnsesquiquadratepluto0.49°applying
moonsesquiquadratelilith0.49°separating
uranussemisquarelilith0.52°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.69°applying
chironsemisextilevertex0.77°applying
venusquincunxchiron0.84°applying
sunquintilesaturn1.38°applying
jupiterbiquintilelilith1.42°separating
sunsesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.64°applying
mercurysemisextileuranus1.72°separating
jupiterquincunxsaturn1.72°separating
uranusquincunxnorth-node1.95°applying
uranusquincunxneptune2.50°separating