Benjamin Franklin birth chart

January 17, 1706
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunCapricorn

☽︎MoonAquariusorPisces

Main elementEarth 58%

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Only in this chart

Benjamin Franklin is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Mars in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Taurus at once. Max Born comes closest: same Mars and Saturn, but Jupiter in Gemini.

Four planets retrograde: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Pluto. Ahlam and Arthur Miller have the same set, 1 chart in 918 here.
Jupiter in Cancer with Saturn in Taurus. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 459 here, Robert H. Goddard and Mykhailo Boychuk among them.
Venus and Saturn swap signs. Venus in Capricorn and Saturn in Taurus each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Alfred Russel Wallace's chart, 1 chart in 41 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Capricorn Sun reads as ambitious and long-term, with the Moon in Aquarius or Pisces depending on birth hour. By the book, Venus in Capricorn + Mars in Sagittarius + Saturn in Taurus reads as someone who trusts what lasts, charges at the far goal and learns what's enough. Elements run earth 58%, fire 23%, air 13%, water 6%, cardinal first at 61%, the nearest mix to Shaboozey.

Planets

Red dashes: Mercury square Saturn (0.0°), Sun opposite Jupiter (3.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♑︎ Capricorn 27°plays the long gamenearest chart: Muhammad Ali 27°
☽︎Moon · emotions♒︎ / ♓︎Aquarius or Piscesdepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♒︎ Aquarius 12° ^℞thinks ten years aheadnearest chart: Joško Gvardiol 12°
♀︎Venus · taste♑︎ Capricorn 5°trusts what lastsnearest chart: Serhiy Bubka 5°
♂︎Mars · drive♐︎ Sagittarius 20°charges at the far goalnearest chart: Charles III 20°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♋︎ Cancer 24° ^℞grows through home and rootsnearest chart: bobross 24°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♉︎ Taurus 12°learns what's enoughnearest chart: Elena Rybakina 12°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♌︎Uranus in Leo4% of charts here

♆︎ ♈︎Neptune in Aries2% of charts here

♇︎ ♌︎Pluto in Leo8% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Mars trine Pluto (0.0°). Drive and the need for control run downhill together, and only Ravi Shankar and Peter the Great have it tighter at noon.
Mercury square Saturn (0.6°). The mind keeps colliding with self-control, as tight as Stan Lee’s.
Sun opposite Jupiter (2.9°). The ego and appetite for more pull from opposite ends, as tight as KallMeKris’.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Regulus Black
Marvel: Groot
Star Wars: Grand Admiral Thrawn
Kaiju No. 8: Reno Ichikawa
Attack on Titan: Levi Ackerman
Friends: Ross Geller
Death Note: Soichiro Yagami

Famous people whose charts click with Benjamin Franklin

Travis Kelce leads at 91%, Drake closes the list at 87%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Janis Joplin, born 1943. 4 of 6 planets share a sign (Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter), and Venus splits, Capricorn here against Aquarius.
Max Born is the nearest in science (1882): same Mars and Saturn, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on January 17

January 17 also belongs to Katalin Karikó (1955, science), Jake Paul (1997, sport) and Muhammad Ali (1942, sport). Boston is also the birthplace of Donna Summer and Ayo Edebiri. On January 17, 1706 the Moon was a waxing crescent.

Among scientists

Of this chart's placements, Mars in Sagittarius is the rarest among scientists (8%), closest to Carl Jung and James Prescott Joule. Capricorn ranks 2nd of 12 Suns here, with Sergei Korolev and Alfred Russel Wallace nearest on the same Sun.