Benjamin Franklin's Birth Chart
Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 at 10:30 in Boston, MA. The chart has the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Pisces, with Aries rising.
| Born | January 17, 1706 |
| Time | 10:30 |
| Place | Boston, MA |
Benjamin Franklin's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Capricorn: Older Than Your Years
You become yourself through what you have built and what you have carried. Identity here is earned rather than given, and you measure yourself against a standard that was serious from a young age. People experience you as capable, dry and older than your years, and they rarely see the effort or the fear of falling short underneath. Authority sits on you and sometimes heavily. Your vitality grows with age and with responsibility, and you are often more at ease at fifty than you were at twenty.
Moon in Pisces: Porous to Everything
You absorb the feeling of a room without meaning to, and by evening you can be carrying moods that started in other people. Comfort is softness, music, water, sleep, anything that blurs the edges. Boundaries do not come naturally, so you give more than you have and need long stretches alone to find your own shape again. Your imagination is vivid enough to be a refuge and, on bad days, a hiding place. People confide in you because you never seem shocked, and they are usually right.
Aries rising: First Through the Door
You arrive already in motion. Strangers meet a body that leans forward, a voice that gets to the point, a face that shows impatience before it shows anything else. People assume you want to lead, and often hand you the first move whether you asked for it or not. Heat comes quickly and leaves quickly, so an argument at noon is forgotten by two, though the other person may still be holding it. Waiting in a queue costs you more than it costs anyone else in it.
Planet positions in Benjamin Franklin's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 27°12′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 5°27′ |
| Mercury (retrograde) | Aquarius | 12°19′ |
| Venus | Capricorn | 5°46′ |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 20°38′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Cancer | 24°20′ |
| Saturn | Taurus | 12°54′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Leo | 6°52′ |
| Neptune | Aries | 16°20′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 20°38′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Taurus | 21°19′ |
| Ascendant | Aries | 12°36′ |
| Midheaven | Capricorn | 6°27′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 4, Earth 3, Air 1, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
A fire emphasis
A fire emphasis makes you energetic, expressive, and action-oriented: you lead with enthusiasm, inspiration, and a need to act and create.
The tightest aspects in Benjamin Franklin's chart
- Mars trine Pluto, orb 0°01′
- Moon sextile Venus, orb 0°19′
- Mercury square Saturn, orb 0°35′
- Pluto square North Node, orb 0°42′
- Sun opposite Jupiter, orb 2°52′
- Jupiter sextile North Node, orb 3°01′
- Mercury sextile Neptune, orb 4°01′
- Mars trine Neptune, orb 4°18′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars trine Pluto: Effortless Intensity
Intensity moves through you without any friction, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed. Effort feeds obsession and obsession feeds effort, so whatever you're into gets pursued to the bottom automatically. That runs healthy work and toxic cycles with the same smoothness, and neither one announces itself as extreme from the inside.
Moon sextile Venus: Comfort Meets Taste
Feeling safe and finding something beautiful are separate errands here, and they get along when you send them out together. Your gut knows what soothes; your eye knows what has worth. Nothing forces the two to talk, so this shows up strongly in people who decorate, cook, save, or host on purpose, and stays quiet in people who never bother.
Mercury square Saturn: Doubt Under Pressure
There's an inner authority that reviews every thought before you're allowed to have it. Words get held back, plans get rewritten, and the anxiety is really structure asking the mind for proof it can't produce yet. When the standard is given a real deadline and a real format, the pressure stops attacking the thinking and starts shaping it into expertise.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Benjamin Franklin's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.