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Robert Wadlow.

22 February 1918 · 06:30 · Alton, Madison County, United States

Robert Wadlow's birth chart: Sun in Pisces, Moon in Cancer, Aquarius rising. Born February 22, 1918 in Alton, Madison County, United States.

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What is Robert Wadlow's sun sign?

Robert Wadlow's sun is in Pisces.

What is Robert Wadlow's moon sign?

Robert Wadlow's moon is in Cancer.

What is Robert Wadlow's rising sign?

Robert Wadlow's Rising (Ascendant) is Aquarius.

When and where was Robert Wadlow born?

Robert Wadlow was born February 22, 1918 in Alton, Madison County, 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 Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 water 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.

SunPisces · 1st house

The self forms and dissolves at once. Permeable, intuitive, often unsure where it ends and the field begins. The artist, the mystic, the empath. Lesson: be permeable on purpose, not by accident. You lead with yourself. Presence is unmistakable, and the Sun close to the Ascendant becomes a defining feature of the whole life. Built to be visible, to head the room, to embody what you came here to express.

MoonCancer · 6th 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 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
RisingAquarius · the doorway

You arrive at a slight angle. Present, but not quite organised around the existing arrangement of the room. People feel observed in a way that is curious rather than warm, and find it either fascinating or strange. Your chart ruler is Saturn, in Leo in the 6th house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Aquarius 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 · 10th 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 · 4th house

The South Node in Gemini (4th 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 Leo, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

The degree. At 29°: the anaretic degree. A placement here carries urgency and mastery at once: an old lesson coming to a head, asking to be completed.

Chart Ruler

Aquarius 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 rulerLeo · 6th house

Saturn is in detriment here. The work is on self-expression and authenticity: lessons in earning the visibility. The shadow is suppressing the genuine self.

Where it drives. The body teaches through limitation. Often a demanding job or a chronic health issue, with mastery of the practice arriving through sheer accumulated effort.

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
MidheavenSagittarius · the 10th house

With Sagittarius on the Midheaven, a room senses vision: someone expansive, honest, pointed at something bigger.

IC
ICGemini · the 4th house

With Gemini on the IC, home is where the mind chatters: books, siblings, talk as shelter.

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.

UranusAquarius · 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 Aquarius

Uranus is at home here.

Want the long form? Open Uranus in the glossary →

NeptuneLeo · 6th house

where you dream and dissolve. Why it matters for youIn your 6th house (work, health, and daily rhythm), 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 6th houseIn work, health, routine, you can offer imagination, real empathy, and a channel past the surface.

Optional backdrop: Neptune in Leo

An era that dreams of universal creativity, the spiritualising of celebrity and self-expression.

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PlutoCancer · 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 Cancer

An era that remakes home, family and nation, putting belonging 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 · 1st 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 1st house (self, body, first impression). Full Chiron in the glossary →

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowVirgo · 7th house

Lilith is the part of you that held the whole thing together until competence became a cage. It is the refusal to be needed only for usefulness. The medicine is leaving the dishes and living the actual life. That part of you surfaces most loudly in the 7th house (partnership, the other): 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 feel the invisible and translate compassion into form.
  4. You need safety, belonging, and care you do not have to earn twice.
  5. People meet your difference first: original, slightly off-script, free.

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 earth can mean the practical and material do not come naturally, and grounding, follow-through, and the patience of the slow build are skills you develop rather than instincts you were born with. You may lean on earthy people to anchor you.

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

Pisces Sun · Cancer Moon · Aquarius rising Your Sun in Pisces is the core self, your Moon in Cancer is the inner emotional life, and your Aquarius 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 water 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
15%
Earth
0%
Air
54%
Water
31%
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, Uranus, Venus

In your chart, Mercury, Uranus, 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.

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.

Sun square Jupiterorb 0.42°

In you, the Sun grinds against Jupiter, bringing together your core identity and will 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.

Sun trine Plutoorb 0.45°

In you, the Sun flows together with Pluto, bringing together your core identity and will and your relationship to power and deep change. 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.

Mars trine Jupiterorb 1.83°

In you, Mars flows together with Jupiter, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself and your faith, growth, and excess. 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 sextile Neptuneorb 2.32°

In you, Jupiter works easily with Neptune, bringing together your faith, growth, and excess 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.

Mars square Plutoorb 2.70°

In you, Mars grinds against Pluto, bringing together your drive and how you assert yourself 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.

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.

Sun trine Plutoorb 0.5°

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

Jupiter trine Part of Fortuneorb 0.8°

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

Neptune sextile Part of Fortuneorb 1.6°

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

Mars trine Jupiterorb 1.8°

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

Moon trine Chironorb 2.1°

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

Where it works
Pluto square Part of Fortuneorb 0.1°

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

Sun square Jupiterorb 0.4°

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

Mars square North Nodeorb 1.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Mars and North Node 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.

Jupiter in detriment in Geminiuphill

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

Saturn in detriment in Leouphill

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

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Chart data for Robert Wadlow
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun3°05' Pisces1st house·
Moon25°43' Cancer6th houserulership
Mercury18°33' Aquarius12th house·
Venus14°05' Aquarius12th houseretrograde
Mars0°50' Libra7th houseretrograde, detriment
Jupiter2°40' Gemini3rd housedetriment
Saturn9°23' Leo6th houseretrograde, detriment, chart ruler
Uranus24°14' Aquarius12th house·
Neptune4°59' Leo6th houseretrograde
Pluto3°32' Cancer5th houseretrograde
Chiron27°50' Pisces1st house·
North Node29°38' Sagittarius10th houseretrograde
South Node29°38' Gemini4th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith22°35' Virgo7th house·
Part of Fortune3°26' Libra7th house·
Vertex15°04' Virgo7th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
plutosquarepart-of-fortune0.10°applying
sunsquarejupiter0.42°separating
suntrinepluto0.45°applying
jupitertrinepart-of-fortune0.77°applying
marssquarenorth-node1.19°applying
neptunesextilepart-of-fortune1.56°applying
chironsquarenorth-node1.80°applying
marstrinejupiter1.83°separating
moontrinechiron2.11°applying
jupitersextileneptune2.32°applying
marsconjunctionpart-of-fortune2.60°separating
marssquarepluto2.70°separating
marsoppositionchiron2.99°applying
moonsextilelilith3.14°separating
sunsextilenorth-node3.44°separating
north-nodesquarepart-of-fortune3.79°separating
plutooppositionnorth-node3.89°separating
saturnconjunctionneptune4.40°applying
mercuryconjunctionvenus4.47°separating
venusoppositionsaturn4.69°applying
moonsextilemars5.11°applying
chironoppositionlilith5.26°applying
chironoppositionpart-of-fortune5.59°applying
mercuryconjunctionuranus5.68°applying
plutosquarechiron5.70°applying
mercurysesquiquadratepluto0.02°separating
mercurysesquiquadratepart-of-fortune0.12°separating
sunquincunxpart-of-fortune0.35°applying
plutoquintilevertex0.47°applying
venussemisquarenorth-node0.56°separating
marsbiquintileuranus0.60°applying
neptunebiquintilenorth-node0.65°applying
jupitersemisextilepluto0.87°applying
venusquincunxvertex0.98°separating
venussemisquarechiron1.24°applying
sunbiquintilemoon1.36°applying
neptunesemisextilepluto1.45°applying
moonquincunxuranus1.49°separating
uranusquincunxlilith1.65°applying
venussesquiquadratemars1.75°separating
saturnsemisquarelilith1.81°applying
sunquincunxneptune1.91°applying
sunquincunxmars2.25°separating