Karl Marx

Photo: John Jabez Edwin Mayall · Public domain

Philosopher · Taurus Sun

Karl Marx birth chart

  • May 5, 1818
  • Trier, Germany
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunTaurus
☽︎MoonTaurus
Main elementEarth 70%

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Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Pisces next to Das Kapital

Karl Marx

Marx's record is long-form: Das Kapital in three volumes, the Grundrisse notebooks, and a doctorate in philosophy from Jena in 1841.

Jupiter in Capricorn and Saturn in Pisces swap signs, a mutual reception that on paper pairs structure with a wide-angle system.

Mercury in Gemini is the mismatch: the sign of quick talk, in a record that ran to books this size, though Marx's journalism is the closer match on paper.

Astrologers read Taurus as slow and thorough, and the chart puts a Taurus Sun, Moon in Taurus and Venus in Taurus there.

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Sun in Taurus
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Moon in Taurus
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Venus in Taurus

Only in this chart

Karl Marx is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Sun in Taurus, Mercury in Gemini and Jupiter in Capricorn at once. David Hume comes closest: same Sun and Jupiter, but Mercury in Taurus.

  • Three planets retrograde: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Jacques Offenbach and Charlotte Brontë have the same set, 1 chart in 212 here.
  • Mercury in Gemini with Jupiter in Capricorn. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 153 here, AURORA and Hoshi among them.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Taurus Sun reads as steady and patient, a Taurus Moon as steady and patient: same sign, so the want and the need point one way, the same pair Florence Nightingale carries. Elements run earth 70%, water 16%, air 9%, fire 5%, fixed first at 65%, the nearest mix to Lindsey Stirling.

Planets

Gold lines: Sun sextile Saturn (1.0°), Sun trine Jupiter (2.0°).

Generational · shared by a whole age group
♅︎ ♐︎Uranus in Sagittarius10% of charts here
♆︎ ♐︎Neptune in Sagittarius11% of charts here
♇︎ ♓︎Pluto in Pisces2% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Sun trine Jupiter (1.4°). The ego and appetite for more run downhill together, as tight as Keith Richards’.
  • Sun sextile Saturn (1.5°). The ego gets an easy opening from self-control, as tight as Rupert Murdoch’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Karl Marx

Milly Alcock leads at 93%, Thomas Hobbes closes the list at 88%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Shameik Moore, born 1995. 3 of 6 planets share a sign (Sun, Mercury and Saturn), and Venus splits, Taurus here against Aries.
  • Immanuel Kant is the nearest in philosophy (1724): same Sun and Mars, split on Mercury and Venus.

Born on May 5

May 5 also belongs to Søren Kierkegaard (1813, philosophy), Aryna Sabalenka (1998, sport) and Carlos Alcaraz (2003, sport). On May 5, 1818 the Moon was almost new.

Among philosophers

Of this chart's placements, Mercury in Gemini is the rarest among philosophers (12%), closest to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Taurus ranks 1st of 12 Suns here (21%, against 9% across the base), with Immanuel Kant and David Hume nearest on the same Sun.

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Taurus compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, a Taurus Sun clicks most with Gemini, Aries and Taurus. Taurus with every sign →

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