William Herschel birth chart

November 15, 1738
Hanover, Germany
Time unknown: noon chart, no rising sign or houses

☉︎SunScorpio

☽︎MoonCapricorn

Main elementWater 47%

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Only in this chart

William Herschel is the only chart in NEBO's celebrity base with Moon in Capricorn, Mercury in Scorpio and Mars in Gemini at once. Aishwarya Rai comes closest: same Moon and Mercury, but Mars in Aries.

Four planets retrograde: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. No other chart here has that exact set.
Mercury in Scorpio with Mars in Gemini. Only Joni Mitchell and Viggo Mortensen share that pair.
Moon and Saturn swap signs. Moon in Capricorn and Saturn in Cancer each sit in the other's sign, called mutual reception, also in Heinrich Hertz's chart, 1 chart in 172 here.

What the chart says

In astrology, a Scorpio Sun reads as intense and private, a Capricorn Moon as ambitious and long-term: signs that cooperate without much effort, the same pair Indira Gandhi carries. By the book, Venus in Capricorn + Mars in Gemini + Saturn in Cancer reads as someone who trusts what lasts, fights with words and learns to feel safely. Elements run water 47%, earth 40%, air 9%, fire 5%, cardinal first at 51%, the nearest mix to Edgar Allan Poe.

Planets

Gold line: Mars sextile Jupiter (1.0°). Red dash: Venus opposite Saturn (0.0°).

☉︎Sun · core♏︎ Scorpio 22°goes all in or not at allnearest chart: Kim Min-jae 23°
☽︎Moon · emotions♑︎ Capricornhandles feelings like a job, degree depends on birth hour
☿︎Mercury · mind♏︎ Scorpio 13°reads between the linesnearest chart: Doris Lessing 13°
♀︎Venus · taste♑︎ Capricorn 9°trusts what lastsnearest chart: Davido 9°
♂︎Mars · drive♊︎ Gemini 20° ^℞fights with wordsnearest chart: Tamer Hosny 20°
♃︎Jupiter · growth♈︎ Aries 21° ^℞grows by going firstnearest chart: Yasmine Sabri 22°
♄︎Saturn · discipline♋︎ Cancer 9° ^℞learns to feel safelynearest chart: Mary Shelley 9°

Generational · shared by a whole age group

♅︎ ♑︎Uranus in Capricorn18% of charts here

♆︎ ♋︎Neptune in Cancer4% of charts here

♇︎ ♏︎Pluto in Scorpio21% of charts here

Tightest aspects

Venus opposite Saturn (0.3°). Taste and self-control pull from opposite ends, and only Lee Know, Frank Lloyd Wright and Carlinhos Maia have it tighter at noon.
Mars sextile Jupiter (1.8°). Drive gets an easy opening from appetite for more, as tight as John Maynard Keynes’.

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Matched by trait profile:

Harry Potter: Severus Snape
Marvel: Wolverine
Star Wars: Mace Windu
Percy Jackson: Tyson
Stranger Things: Eddie Munson
Gravity Falls: Soos
Hunter x Hunter: Knuckle Bine

Famous people whose charts click with William Herschel

Carl Sagan leads at 87%, Elle Fanning closes the list at 86%. Scored like NEBO scores friends.

Closest chart twins

Indira Gandhi, born 1917. 2 of 6 planets share a sign (Sun and Venus), and Mercury splits, Scorpio here against Sagittarius.
Gustave Eiffel is the nearest in science (1832): same Venus, split on Sun and Mercury.

Born on November 15

November 15 also belongs to Jeffree Star (1985, creator), Jake (ENHYPEN) (2002, K-pop) and B.o.B (1988, rap). Hanover is also the birthplace of Hannah Arendt. On November 15, 1738 the Moon was a waxing crescent.

Among scientists

Of this chart's placements, Moon in Capricorn is the rarest among scientists (4%), closest to Christiaan Huygens and Tim Berners-Lee. Scorpio ranks 9th of 12 Suns here, with Jonas Salk and Louis Daguerre nearest on the same Sun.