Bahá'u'lláh's Birth Chart
Bahá'u'lláh was born on November 12, 1817 in Tehran, Iran. The chart has the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Sagittarius or Capricorn. No birth time is on record for Bahá'u'lláh, 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 | November 12, 1817 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Tehran, Iran |
Bahá'u'lláh's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Scorpio: Below the Surface
You live below the surface and you know it. Your sense of self is built from what you have survived and what you refuse to say out loud, and your will is steady, private and impossible to deflect once it has fixed on something. People experience you as intense even when you are quiet, and they either trust you completely or keep a careful distance. You read motives fast and forgive slowly. Half measures bore you, and your vitality comes back strongest after something has ended.
No birth time is on record for Bahá'u'lláh, 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 Bahá'u'lláh's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 19°09′ to 20°09′ |
| Moon | Sagittarius or Capricorn | 28°13′ to 12°44′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 8°17′ to 9°53′ |
| Venus | Libra | 20°18′ to 21°32′ |
| Mars (retrograde) | Gemini | 25°01′ to 24°50′ |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 14°39′ to 14°52′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 29°23′ to 29°24′ |
| Uranus | Sagittarius | 14°25′ to 14°28′ |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 22°47′ to 22°49′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Pisces | 23°20′ to 23°19′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Taurus | 17°59′ to 17°59′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Pisces | 17°14′ to 17°13′ |
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 3, Earth 0, Air 3, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 1, Fixed 3, Mutable 5.
A mutable emphasis
A mutable emphasis makes you adaptable and flexible: you adjust easily, juggle change, and thrive on variety and versatility.
The tightest aspects in Bahá'u'lláh's chart
- Jupiter conjunct Uranus, orb 0°24′
- Mars square Pluto, orb 1°41′
- Sun opposite North Node, orb 2°10′
- Mars opposite Neptune, orb 2°14′
- Venus sextile Neptune, orb 2°28′
- Jupiter square Chiron, orb 2°35′
- Uranus square Chiron, orb 2°49′
- Sun trine Chiron, orb 2°56′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Jupiter conjunct Uranus: Belief Meets Breakthrough
Your optimism and your rebel instinct occupy the same room, so growth arrives in jumps rather than steps. Big ideas show up already strange, and you back them before anyone else sees the point. The cost is that the leading side keeps inflating whatever the other side just invented, which makes some leaps bigger than the ground under them.
Mars square Pluto: Force Meets Obsession
You don't do casual effort. Every push you make picks up an undertow of obsession, and every buried thing in you eventually looks for a body to act through. The pressure between speed and depth shows up as sudden force after long silence, or as fights that are never about the surface topic. It builds a stamina most people can't match and a temper that surprises even you.
Sun opposite North Node: Self Across Growth
You feel pulled between the person you already know how to be, with all its pride and pleasure, and a growth direction sitting directly opposite. Leaning hard into either one hollows out the other: all self and there's no movement, all movement and the joy drains out. Held apart and both kept whole, they trade real weight back and forth.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Bahá'u'lláh'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.