Confucius's Birth Chart
Confucius was born on -0550-09-28 in Qufu, China. The chart has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Taurus or Gemini. No birth time is on record for Confucius, 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 | -0550-09-28 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Qufu, China |
Confucius's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Virgo: Done Properly
You become yourself by being useful. Identity here is built from competence, from work nobody notices until it is missing, and you shine quietly, through things done properly. People experience you as observant, exact and reserved, and they bring you the problems that need sorting out. Your eye for what is wrong is the same eye that makes you good, and it turns on yourself, so praise slides off while a small error stays. Vitality comes from order and drains in chaos you cannot fix.
No birth time is on record for Confucius, 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 Confucius's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 28°04′ to 29°04′ |
| Moon | Taurus or Gemini | 28°49′ to 13°02′ |
| Mercury | Virgo | 9°31′ to 10°29′ |
| Venus | Libra | 22°12′ to 23°26′ |
| Mars | Virgo or Libra | 29°33′ to 0°15′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Taurus | 14°28′ to 14°24′ |
| Saturn | Libra | 5°09′ to 5°16′ |
| Uranus | Virgo | 9°50′ to 9°53′ |
| Neptune | Cancer | 11°32′ to 11°33′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Gemini | 9°28′ to 9°28′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Cancer | 23°01′ to 22°57′ |
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 eight planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 0, Earth 4, Air 3, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 1, Mutable 4. No planet falls in a Fire sign.
The tightest aspects in Confucius's chart
- Mercury conjunct Uranus, orb 0°36′
- Venus square North Node, orb 0°49′
- Mercury square Pluto, orb 1°01′
- Sun conjunct Mars, orb 1°29′
- Mercury sextile Neptune, orb 2°01′
- Jupiter sextile Neptune, orb 2°56′
- Saturn trine Pluto, orb 4°19′
- Jupiter trine Uranus, orb 4°38′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury conjunct Uranus: Wired Fast Mind
Your thinking runs at a speed most people can't track, because thought and breakthrough sit in the same seat here. Ideas arrive whole and sideways, often skipping the middle steps entirely, which makes explaining yourself harder than having the insight. The wiring also means restlessness: a mind this fast gets bored by anything already solved.
Venus square North Node: Worth Under Pressure
Your growth direction keeps pulling toward things your sense of value has no experience pricing. What one side calls a fair deal, elegant, or pleasant, the other side reads as staying put. Comfort and beauty become the thing that argues back, and the friction shows up as real choices about money, partnerships, and what you agree to want.
Mercury square Pluto: Interrogation Under Pressure
Your thinking wants to control what's buried, and what's buried refuses to be summarized. That shows up as obsessive analysis, replaying conversations for hidden motives, or words that cut deeper than intended. When the depth side is allowed its own time, unrushed, unresolved, the mind stops interrogating and starts producing genuinely penetrating work.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Confucius'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.