Alexander the Great's Birth Chart
Alexander the Great was born on -0355-07-20 in Pella, Greece. The chart has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Virgo or Libra. No birth time is on record for Alexander the Great, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
| Born | -0355-07-20 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Pella, Greece |
Alexander the Great's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Cancer: The Kept Circle
You become yourself by belonging somewhere. Who you are is bound up with the people and places you have claimed as yours, and your vitality rises and falls with how safe that circle feels. Others meet a protective warmth first, then a shell that closes when something touches a tender spot. Memory is long, and your sense of purpose often shows up as looking after a person, a family or a home. Moods move through you like weather, and the people closest to you learn the forecast.
No birth time is on record for Alexander the Great, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known. The Moon changed sign during the day, so its sign depends on the birth time.
Planet positions in Alexander the Great's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 21°16′ to 22°14′ |
| Moon | Virgo or Libra | 24°32′ to 6°42′ |
| Mercury | Cancer | 2°45′ to 3°49′ |
| Venus | Cancer | 23°32′ to 24°47′ |
| Mars | Gemini | 13°17′ to 13°55′ |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 25°03′ to 25°11′ |
| Saturn | Taurus | 19°13′ to 19°18′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Capricorn | 7°16′ to 7°14′ |
| Neptune | Virgo | 15°57′ to 15°58′ |
| Pluto | Aries | 19°53′ to 19°53′ |
| North Node | Aquarius | 3°17′ to 3°18′ |
With no birth time, each degree is given as the span the planet covered over the day of birth.
Element and modality balance
Only planets that stayed in one sign throughout the birth day are counted.
Counting nine planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 4, Air 1, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 5, Fixed 1, Mutable 3.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
A cardinal emphasis
A cardinal emphasis makes you an initiator: you start things, push for change, and prefer to lead rather than wait.
The tightest aspects in Alexander the Great's chart
- Venus sextile Jupiter, orb 1°30′
- Sun square Pluto, orb 2°20′
- Sun conjunct Venus, orb 2°33′
- Mars square Neptune, orb 2°40′
- Sun sextile Saturn, orb 2°56′
- Saturn trine Neptune, orb 3°19′
- Sun sextile Jupiter, orb 3°46′
- Mercury opposite Uranus, orb 4°31′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Venus sextile Jupiter: Charm Meets Opportunity
Doors open for the version of you that shows up and talks to people. Your taste and your appetite for wider worlds cooperate without merging, so travel produces contacts, culture sharpens style, and a good conversation turns into a deal. None of it fires on its own. Sitting still leaves this pair completely quiet.
Sun square Pluto: Pressure Forges Identity
Something in you wants total control over how you shine, and something else refuses to be controlled. The push shows up as power struggles around recognition, secrecy about what you actually want, and a habit of burning your own creations down to rebuild them. What that pressure makes is willpower, real staying power, and a presence people feel before you speak.
Sun conjunct Venus: Charm As Engine
Your life force and your sense of worth run on the same wire, so being seen and being valued arrive as one thing. Creative output tends to come out polished, because taste is present from the first spark, not added later. The cost is that praise for how something looks reads to you as praise for who you are.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Alexander the Great's recorded date and place of birth. Without a birth time the rising sign and houses are unknown. Sun and Moon signs are stated only when they held true for the whole day. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.