Jorge Luis Borges

Photo: Grete Stern · Public domain

Artist · Virgo Sun

Jorge Luis Borges birth chart

  • August 24, 1899
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunVirgo
☽︎MoonAries
Main elementFire 53%

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Only in this chart

Jorge Luis Borges is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Moon in Aries, Mercury in Leo and Mars in Libra at once. Junji Ito comes closest: same Mercury and Mars, and only Moon stays unclear.

  • Mercury in Leo with Jupiter in Scorpio. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 172 here, Ernest Hemingway and Paulo Coelho among them.
  • Sun and Mercury swap signs. Sun in Virgo and Mercury in Leo each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Paulo Coelho's chart, 1 chart in 106 here.
  • One planet retrograde: Mercury. Marcel Duchamp and Aldous Huxley have the same set, 1 chart in 36 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Virgo Sun reads as precise and self-critical, an Aries Moon as bold and first to act: a 150° gap astrologers call awkward, two parts that need translating, the same pair Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky carries. By the book, Mercury in Leo + Venus in Leo + Jupiter in Scorpio reads as someone who talks like it's a stage, wants grand gestures and grows through hard truths. Elements run fire 53%, earth 28%, air 14%, water 5%, mutable first at 40%, the nearest mix to Daisuke Ono.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun sextile Jupiter (3.0°), Mercury conjunct Venus (3.0°).

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♅︎ ♐︎Uranus in Sagittarius10% of charts here
♆︎ ♊︎Neptune in Gemini4% of charts here
♇︎ ♊︎Pluto in Gemini7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Saturn opposite Pluto (0.5°). Self-control and the need for control pull from opposite ends, as tight as Anatoliy Trubin’s.
  • Venus sextile Neptune (1.6°). Taste gets an easy opening from the dreamer side, as tight as Lucille Ball’s.
  • Sun square Uranus (2.8°). The ego keeps colliding with the rule-breaking streak, as tight as George Sand’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Jorge Luis Borges

Toby Fox leads at 93%, Zoe Saldaña closes the list at 90%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Alfred Hitchcock, born 11 days earlier: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Sun splits, Virgo here against Leo.
  • Chris Hansen, 60 years later, repeats the Sun, Mars and Jupiter signs, average gap 23°.
  • Ernest Hemingway is the nearest in arts (1899): same Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, split on Sun and Venus.

Born on August 24

August 24 also belongs to Hideo Kojima (1963, arts), John Green (1977, arts) and Paulo Coelho (1947, arts). Buenos Aires is also the birthplace of Lali and Alfredo Di Stéfano. On August 24, 1899 the Moon was waning gibbous.

Among artists and writers

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Aries is the rarest among artists and writers (5%), closest to Mark Twain and George Sand. Virgo ranks 7th of 12 Suns here, with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Karl Lagerfeld nearest on the same Sun.

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Virgo compatibility

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