Honoré de Balzac birth chart

May 20, 1799
Tours, France
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunTaurus

☽︎MoonSagittarius

Main elementEarth 40%

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Who shares this sky

Honoré de Balzac shares this sky. Mary Anning was born 1 day later, so the sky is nearly the same, and the split is on the map: Tours here, Lyme Regis there.

Jupiter in Gemini with Saturn in Cancer. Only Alexander Pushkin, Molière and Mary Anning share that pair.
Two planets retrograde: Uranus and Neptune. Tite Kubo and Walt Whitman have the same set, 1 chart in 47 here.
Three planets in Cancer. Venus, Mars and Saturn pile into one sign. Alexander Pushkin and Wisława Szymborska stack Cancer the same way.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Taurus Sun reads as steady and patient, a Sagittarius Moon as free and restless: a 150° gap astrologers call awkward, two parts that need translating, the same pair Minji carries. By the book, Venus in Cancer + Mercury in Taurus + Saturn in Cancer reads as someone who cares by looking after, decides slowly and won't budge and learns to feel safely. Elements run earth 40%, fire 28%, water 28%, air 5%, fixed first at 40%, the nearest mix to David Attenborough.

Planets

Gold lines: Mercury sextile Mars (4.0°), Venus conjunct Mars (4.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♉︎ Taurus 29°won't be rushednearest chart: Joe Cocker 29°
☽︎Moon · emotions♐︎ Sagittariusruns from heavy moods, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♉︎ Taurus 11°decides slowly and won't budgenearest chart: Vladimir Lenin 11°
♀︎Venus · taste♋︎ Cancer 3°cares by looking afternearest chart: Karl Popper 3°
♂︎Mars · drive♋︎ Cancer 7°fights for its ownnearest chart: Pablo Neruda 8°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♊︎ Gemini 6°grows by learning everythingnearest chart: Baby Ariel 6°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♋︎ Cancer 22°learns to feel safelynearest chart: Oliver Bearman 22°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♍︎Uranus in Virgo5% of charts here

♆︎ ♏︎Neptune in Scorpio8% of charts here

♇︎ ♓︎Pluto in Pisces2% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Venus trine Pluto (0.0°). Taste and the need for control run downhill together: the tightest one in NEBO's base at noon.
Mercury opposite Neptune (1.4°). The mind and the dreamer side pull from opposite ends, as tight as Simone de Beauvoir’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Marvel: Groot
Star Wars: Cassian Andor
The Hunger Games: Finnick Odair
Winx Club: Riven
Sword Art Online: Agil
The Big Bang Theory: Barry Kripke

Famous people whose charts click with Honoré de Balzac

Melania Trump leads at 91%, Queen Latifah closes the list at 85%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Mary Anning, born 1 day later: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
Cillian Murphy, 177 years later, repeats the Mercury and Saturn signs, average gap 22°.
Alexander Pushkin is the nearest in arts (1799): same Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Sun.

Born on May 20

May 20 also belongs to John Stuart Mill (1806, philosophy), Busta Rhymes (1972, rap) and Cher (1946, music). On May 20, 1799 the Moon went from almost full to waning gibbous.

Among artists and writers

Of this chart's placements, Mercury in Taurus is the rarest among artists and writers (5%), closest to Walt Whitman and Hiro Mashima. Taurus ranks 12th of 12 Suns here (6%, against 9% across the base), with Rabindranath Tagore and Mikhail Bulgakov nearest on the same Sun.