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Richard Nixon.

9 January 1913 · 21:35 · Yorba Linda, Orange County, United States

Richard Nixon's birth chart: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Aquarius, Virgo rising. Born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, Orange County, United States.

About this chart

What is Richard Nixon's sun sign?

Richard Nixon's sun is in Capricorn.

What is Richard Nixon's moon sign?

Richard Nixon's moon is in Aquarius.

What is Richard Nixon's rising sign?

Richard Nixon's Rising (Ascendant) is Virgo.

When and where was Richard Nixon born?

Richard Nixon was born January 9, 1913 in Yorba Linda, Orange County, United States.

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Plate inativity of Richard Nixon9 January 1913 · 21:35
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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 Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 air and earth 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 · 5th 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. 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.

MoonAquarius · 6th house

Feeling is processed at a slight distance. Comfort comes from friendship, from groups, from the chosen family. The sensitivity is real but offered with detachment. The shadow is dodging the personal by way of the universal. 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.

ASC
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 Capricorn in the 4th 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 NodeAries · 7th 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 · 1st house

The South Node in Libra (1st 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 rulerCapricorn · 4th house

Thought is structured and methodical, aimed at useful conclusions. The mind works in long arcs and consequences, the speech is measured, and the gift is planning. The shadow is dismissing whatever does not look practical.

Where it drives. Thinking turns toward origins. The childhood home shaped how the mind works, you reflect deeply on family and the inner life, and there is often a private study or shelf of books.

On an angle. The ruler sits in an angular house: the loudest seat in the chart. The vehicle is out front, not idling in the background.

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 (Pluto) 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 cardinal 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.

UranusAquarius · 5th house

where you break from the past. Why it matters for youIn your 5th house (creativity, romance, and what you make), 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 5th houseIn creativity, romance, play, you can offer originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

Optional backdrop: Uranus in Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneCancer · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 11th house (friends, community, and the future you build), 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 11th houseIn friends, community, future, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Cancer

An era that dreams of universal belonging, a mystical motherhood, the dissolving of family lines.

Want the long form? Open Neptune in the glossary →

PlutoGemini · 10th house

where you are remade. Why it matters for youIn your 10th house (career, reputation, and your public path), 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 10th houseIn career, reputation, calling, 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 woundPisces · 6th house

The wound is boundaries and the spirit: a soul that feels everything, carries collective and ancestral pain, and is tempted to escape a world that overwhelms it. Compassion without edges becomes flooding. It plays out most loudly in the 6th house (work, health, routine). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowAquarius · 6th house

Lilith is the part of you that figured out early the rules were not built for you. It is the odd one who stops fitting on purpose. The medicine is finding the other odd ones and building better rooms. 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 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 begin. Your life opens when you stop waiting for a cleaner invitation.
  3. At core you are here to build authority and carry responsibility that lasts.
  4. You need space inside closeness, and friends who get the strange parts.
  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 earth, mutable chart led by Mercury. 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 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 mutable-heavy, which makes you an adapter. You flow with what comes, you adjust easily, and you carry many sides comfortably. The work is in commitment, in choosing a direction and staying long enough for it to become something.

What leads the chart

Mercury is the loudest force in your chart, which means the mind runs the show. You are mercurial, living through thought, language, and perception, endlessly curious and quick, defined by how you think and communicate.

The spine, your Big Three

Capricorn Sun · Aquarius Moon · Virgo rising Your Sun in Capricorn is the core self, your Moon in Aquarius is the inner emotional life, and your Virgo 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 air and earth 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
10%
Earth
56%
Air
23%
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.

Stellium in Capricorncommon
three or more planets clustered in Capricorn: Jupiter, Mercury, Sun

In your chart, Jupiter, Mercury, Sun gather in Capricorn. A stellium in Capricorn concentrates the chart on ambition, structure, and long-game authority. You build and carry responsibility at high volume: reputation, work, and the climb are not side plots, they are the spine.

gift

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

difficulty

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

Mercury conjunction Marsorb 0.27°

In you, Mercury is fused with Mars, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your drive and how you assert yourself. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Mars opposition Plutoorb 1.10°

In you, Mars sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.36°

In you, Mercury sits opposite Pluto, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your relationship to power and deep change. They hold opposite ends of one axis, each demanding its due, often felt as a swing between the two or projected onto the people around you. The work is holding both rather than choosing one.

Mercury conjunction Jupiterorb 1.66°

In you, Mercury is fused with Jupiter, bringing together your mind and how you communicate and your faith, growth, and excess. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Venus sextile Jupiterorb 1.82°

In you, Venus works easily with Jupiter, bringing together your capacity for love and pleasure and your faith, growth, and excess. 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
Venus exalted in Pisceslifted

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

Venus sextile Jupiterorb 1.8°

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

Saturn sextile Neptuneorb 2.7°

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

Mercury sextile Venusorb 3.5°

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

Uranus sextile North Nodeorb 3.5°

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

Venus sextile Marsorb 3.7°

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

Where it works
Jupiter in fall in Capricornstrained

Jupiter works against the grain in Capricorn. What it offers has to be built on purpose. And once built, it is hard-won and durable.

Mars opposition Plutoorb 1.1°

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

Mercury opposition Plutoorb 1.4°

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

Part of Fortune opposition Vertexorb 2.1°

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

Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 3.0°

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.

Jupiter opposition Plutoorb 3.0°

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

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Chart data for Richard Nixon
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun19°24' Capricorn5th house·
Moon20°07' Aquarius6th house·
Mercury0°00' Capricorn4th housechart ruler
Venus3°29' Pisces6th houseexaltation
Mars29°44' Sagittarius4th house·
Jupiter1°40' Capricorn4th housefall
Saturn27°29' Taurus9th houseretrograde
Uranus2°41' Aquarius5th house·
Neptune24°46' Cancer11th houseretrograde
Pluto28°39' Gemini10th houseretrograde
Chiron7°46' Pisces6th house·
North Node6°11' Aries7th houseretrograde
South Node6°11' Libra1st houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith24°28' Aquarius6th house·
Part of Fortune16°41' Leo11th house·
Vertex18°44' Aquarius5th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
mercuryconjunctionmars0.27°separating
marsoppositionpluto1.10°separating
mercuryoppositionpluto1.36°separating
moonconjunctionvertex1.38°separating
mercuryconjunctionjupiter1.66°applying
venussextilejupiter1.82°separating
marsconjunctionjupiter1.92°applying
part-of-fortuneoppositionvertex2.06°separating
saturnsextileneptune2.71°applying
saturnsquarelilith3.01°applying
jupiteroppositionpluto3.02°separating
moonoppositionpart-of-fortune3.44°separating
mercurysextilevenus3.47°applying
uranussextilenorth-node3.49°applying
venussextilemars3.74°separating
plutotrinelilith4.18°applying
venusconjunctionchiron4.29°applying
moonconjunctionlilith4.35°applying
jupitersquarenorth-node4.52°applying
venustrinepluto4.83°separating
saturntrineuranus5.21°separating
sunoppositionneptune5.37°applying
lilithconjunctionvertex5.73°separating
moonsquaresaturn7.36°applying
jupitersesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.01°applying
neptunequincunxlilith0.29°applying
sunsemisextilevertex0.66°separating
sunsemisextilemoon0.72°separating
venussemisextileuranus0.79°separating
sunsemisquarevenus0.92°applying
jupitersemisextileuranus1.02°applying
moonsemisquarenorth-node1.07°applying
saturnsemisextilepluto1.17°separating
chironsemisextilenorth-node1.59°separating
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.67°applying
marssesquiquadratepart-of-fortune1.94°applying
neptunesesquiquadratechiron1.99°applying
marsquincunxsaturn2.26°separating