Linus Torvalds

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Scientist · Capricorn Sun

Linus Torvalds birth chart

  • December 28, 1969
  • Helsinki, Finland
  • Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses
☉︎SunCapricorn
☽︎MoonLeoorVirgo
Main elementEarth 61%

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Only in this chart

By sign alone Linus Torvalds has look-alikes, so degrees do the splitting: Saturn at 2° Taurus and Venus at 29° Sagittarius, and no other chart here sits within a degree or so on both. Louis Pasteur misses by one planet.

  • Mars in Pisces with Saturn in Taurus. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 184 here, Kersti Kaljulaid and Zack de la Rocha among them.
  • Mars and Jupiter swap signs. Mars in Pisces and Jupiter in Scorpio each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Vladimir Filatov's chart, 1 chart in 43 here.
  • Earth at 61%. Higher than 92% of charts here, with Louis Pasteur among the few above it.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Capricorn Sun reads as ambitious and long-term, with the Moon in Leo or Virgo depending on birth hour. By the book, Mars in Pisces + Sun in Capricorn + Saturn in Taurus reads as someone who fights sideways, plays the long game and learns what's enough. Elements run earth 61%, water 23%, fire 13%, air 3%, cardinal first at 55%, the nearest mix to Henry Fonda.

Planets

Gold line: Venus sextile Jupiter (2.0°). Red dash: Jupiter opposite Saturn (1.0°).

Generational · shared by a whole age group
♅︎ ♎︎Uranus in Libra6% of charts here
♆︎ ♏︎Neptune in Scorpio8% of charts here
♇︎ ♍︎Pluto in Virgo7% of charts here

Tightest aspects

  • Jupiter opposite Saturn (0.3°). Appetite for more and self-control pull from opposite ends, and only Kersti Kaljulaid and Mike Epps have it tighter at noon.
  • Mercury trine Pluto (1.2°). The mind and the need for control run downhill together, as tight as Victor Kunda’s.
  • Venus sextile Jupiter (1.9°). Taste gets an easy opening from appetite for more, as tight as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s.
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Famous people whose charts click with Linus Torvalds

Olivia Cooke leads at 99%, Sophie Turner closes the list at 93%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

  • Kersti Kaljulaid, born 2 days later: every planet from Sun to Saturn lands in the same sign.
  • Ratan Tata, 32 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury and Mars signs, average gap 24°.
  • Nikolai Lobachevsky is the nearest in science (1792): same Jupiter, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on December 28

December 28 also belongs to Danylo Zabolotny (1866, science), John von Neumann (1903, science) and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (2001, film). Helsinki is also the birthplace of Käärijä. December 28, 1969 was a Sunday, and the Moon was waning gibbous.

Among scientists

Of this chart's placements, Mars in Pisces is the rarest among scientists (3%), closest to Georg Ohm and Christiaan Huygens. Capricorn ranks 2nd of 12 Suns here, with James Prescott Joule and Louis Pasteur nearest on the same Sun.

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Capricorn compatibility

By NEBO’s love chemistry, a Capricorn Sun clicks most with Aquarius, Scorpio and Capricorn. Capricorn with every sign →

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