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Nikola Tesla.

10 July 1856 · 00:15 · Smiljan, Croatia

Nikola Tesla's birth chart: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Libra, Taurus rising. Born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia.

About this chart

What is Nikola Tesla's sun sign?

Nikola Tesla's sun is in Cancer.

What is Nikola Tesla's moon sign?

Nikola Tesla's moon is in Libra.

What is Nikola Tesla's rising sign?

Nikola Tesla's Rising (Ascendant) is Taurus.

When and where was Nikola Tesla born?

Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia.

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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 Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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.

SunCancer · 3rd house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonLibra · 6th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Cancer in the 3rd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus 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 · 12th 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 · 6th house

The South Node in Libra (6th 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 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Sagittarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Taurus rising puts Venus 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.

Venus · the chart rulerCancer · 3rd house

Love is nurturing and protective, built around sanctuary. The home is the love language, and the instinct is to feed people and be fed in return. The shadow is surveillance disguised as care.

Where it drives. Beauty lives in words and the daily world. A charming communicator, you often connect through conversation, and the local life tends to be pleasant company.

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
MidheavenCapricorn · the 10th house

With Capricorn on the Midheaven, a room senses gravity: someone serious, capable, clearly built to be in charge.

IC
ICCancer · the 4th house

With Cancer on the IC, home is the original tide: feeling first, belonging as the ground under everything.

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 water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

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.

UranusTaurus · 1st house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 1st house (how you show up, your body, and first impressions), 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 1st houseIn self, body, first impression, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptunePisces · 12th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Pisces

Neptune is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoTaurus · 12th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 12th house (the inner life, rest, and what stays unseen), 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 12th houseIn rest, release, the unseen, 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 woundAquarius · 10th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. It plays out most loudly in the 10th house (career, reputation, calling). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that kept the peace by disappearing. It is the refusal to make harmony out of self-erasure. The medicine is letting other people be uncomfortable when your truth needs air. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine): the room where the untamed self will not stay quiet. Full Lilith in the glossary →

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. 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

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

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 depth: you can feel what is true under the performance.
  2. You are built to begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to protect what is tender and make a real home for it.
  4. You need harmony and a mirror that treats you as an equal.
  5. People meet your calm first: solid, unhurried, hard to rush.

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, cardinal 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 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

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

Cancer Sun · Libra Moon · Taurus rising Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus 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
8%
Earth
23%
Air
36%
Water
33%
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 Cancercommon
three or more planets clustered in Cancer: Saturn, Sun, Venus

In your chart, Saturn, Sun, Venus gather in Cancer. A stellium in Cancer concentrates the chart on home, belonging, and emotional weather. You feel and protect at high volume: family patterns, care, and the need for a real nest define more of the story than you might prefer.

gift

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

difficulty

So much Cancer 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 Cancer stellium by developing the opposite sign and house: the room that gives the concentration somewhere to exhale. The ruling planet of Cancer 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.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.02°

In you, Saturn works easily with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Moon square Venusorb 0.71°

In you, the Moon grinds against Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. 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.

Sun square Marsorb 1.13°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. 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.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 2.54°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. 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.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 2.98°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

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
Mercury rules Geminiat home

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

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.0°

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

Moon trine Part of Fortuneorb 1.5°

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

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.5°

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

Sun trine Neptuneorb 2.5°

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

Uranus sextile Neptuneorb 3.6°

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

Where it works
Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

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

Moon square Venusorb 0.7°

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

Sun square Marsorb 1.1°

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

Mars opposition North Nodeorb 1.2°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mars and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Vertexorb 1.3°

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

Mars in detriment in Librauphill

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

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Chart data for Nikola Tesla
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°49' Cancer3rd house·
Moon14°08' Libra6th house·
Mercury28°07' Gemini2nd houserulership
Venus14°50' Cancer3rd housechart ruler
Mars18°57' Libra6th housedetriment
Jupiter8°35' Aries12th house·
Saturn5°33' Cancer3rd housedetriment
Uranus23°56' Taurus1st house·
Neptune20°21' Pisces12th houseretrograde
Pluto5°32' Taurus12th house·
Chiron3°49' Aquarius10th houseretrograde
North Node20°06' Aries12th houseretrograde
South Node20°06' Libra6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°20' Libra6th house·
Part of Fortune12°38' Aquarius10th house·
Vertex16°28' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsextilepluto0.02°separating
saturnsquarelilith0.22°separating
moonsquarevenus0.71°applying
sunsquaremars1.13°applying
marsoppositionnorth-node1.15°applying
sunsquarevertex1.35°separating
moontrinepart-of-fortune1.50°separating
chirontrinelilith1.51°separating
venussquarevertex1.63°applying
plutosquarechiron1.71°separating
sunsquarenorth-node2.28°applying
moonconjunctionvertex2.34°applying
marsconjunctionvertex2.48°separating
suntrineneptune2.54°applying
sunconjunctionvenus2.98°applying
jupitersquaresaturn3.03°applying
jupiteroppositionlilith3.25°applying
uranussextileneptune3.57°separating
north-nodeoppositionvertex3.63°applying
sunsquaremoon3.69°applying
part-of-fortunetrinevertex3.84°separating
venussquaremars4.10°applying
moonconjunctionmars4.82°applying
venussquarenorth-node5.26°applying
venustrineneptune5.52°applying
moonoppositionjupiter5.54°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node5.97°applying
neptunesemisquarepluto0.18°separating
plutoquincunxlilith0.20°applying
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.26°applying
sunquintilepluto0.28°separating
mercurybiquintilechiron0.29°separating
jupitersemisquareuranus0.35°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.49°separating
marsbiquintileuranus1.01°separating
saturnbiquintilepart-of-fortune1.08°applying
marsquincunxneptune1.41°applying
uranusbiquintilevertex1.46°separating
neptunesemisquarechiron1.53°separating
saturnquincunxchiron1.73°separating
venusquincunxpart-of-fortune2.21°separating