Mikhail Tal birth chart

November 9, 1936
Riga, Latvia
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunScorpio

☽︎MoonVirgoorLibra

Main elementWater 61%

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Only in this chart

It takes four placements to single out Mikhail Tal: Sun in Scorpio, Mercury in Scorpio, Mars in Virgo and Jupiter in Sagittarius. Alphonso Davies comes closest: same Sun, Mercury and Mars, but Jupiter in Gemini.

Sun in Scorpio with Jupiter in Sagittarius. That pair shows up in 1 chart in 172 here, José Raúl Capablanca and Masako Nozawa among them.
Three planets retrograde: Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. Sergio Ramos and Floyd Mayweather have the same set, 1 chart in 115 here.
Mercury and Mars swap signs. Mercury in Scorpio and Mars in Virgo each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Alphonso Davies's chart, 1 chart in 36 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Scorpio Sun reads as intense and private, with the Moon in Virgo or Libra depending on birth hour. By the book, Sun in Scorpio + Venus in Sagittarius + Saturn in Pisces reads as someone who goes all in or not at all, needs room to roam and learns to hold a line. Elements run water 61%, fire 19%, earth 19%, air 0%, fixed first at 55%, the nearest mix to David Livingstone.

Planets

Gold line: Sun trine Saturn (1.0°). Red dash: Mars square Jupiter (1.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♏︎ Scorpio 16°goes all in or not at allnearest chart: Edmond Halley 16°
☽︎Moon · emotions♍︎ / ♎︎Virgo or Libradepends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♏︎ Scorpio 11°reads between the linesnearest chart: Mohamed Mounir 11°
♀︎Venus · taste♐︎ Sagittarius 21°needs room to roamnearest chart: Claude Monet 21°
♂︎Mars · drive♍︎ Virgo 26°wins on detailnearest chart: Yevgeny Petrov 26°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♐︎ Sagittarius 25°grows by going farnearest chart: Emma Corrin 25°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♓︎ Pisces 15° ^℞learns to hold a linenearest chart: Mario Vargas Llosa 15°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♉︎Uranus in Taurus5% of charts here

♆︎ ♍︎Neptune in Virgo6% of charts here

♇︎ ♋︎Pluto in Cancer9% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Sun trine Saturn (1.0°). The ego and self-control run downhill together, as tight as Shah Rukh Khan’s.
Sun sextile Neptune (1.6°). The ego gets an easy opening from the dreamer side, as tight as Roy Jones Jr.’s.
Mars square Jupiter (1.8°). Drive keeps colliding with appetite for more, as tight as Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Marvel: Wolverine
Star Wars: Cassian Andor
The Office: David Wallace
Percy Jackson: Tyson
Stranger Things: Will Byers
Gravity Falls: Soos

Famous people whose charts click with Mikhail Tal

Justin Bieber leads at 94%, Scarlett Johansson closes the list at 86%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Masako Nozawa, born 15 days earlier: Sun, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn match by sign, Mercury splits, Scorpio here against Libra.
Friedrich Schiller, 177 years earlier, repeats the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Saturn signs, average gap 22°.
Diego Maradona is the nearest in sport (1960): same Sun, Mercury and Venus, split on Mars and Jupiter.

Born on November 9

November 9 also belongs to Momo (1996, K-pop), Carl Sagan (1934, science) and French Montana (1984, rap). Riga is also the birthplace of Sergei Eisenstein. November 9, 1936 was a Monday, and the Moon was a waning crescent.

Among athletes

Of this chart's placements, Mercury in Scorpio is the rarest among athletes (5%), closest to Dominik Szoboszlai and Joe DiMaggio. Scorpio ranks 6th of 12 Suns here, with Diego Maradona and Garrincha nearest on the same Sun.