Copernicus's Birth Chart
Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 at 17:13 in Torun, Poland. The chart has the Sun in Pisces and the Moon in Sagittarius, with Virgo rising.
| Born | February 19, 1473 |
| Time | 17:13 |
| Place | Torun, Poland |
Copernicus's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Pisces: What Moves Through You
Your sense of self has soft edges. You take on the mood of the room, the pain of a friend, the tone of whatever you are reading, and you are often not sure which feelings were yours. People experience you as kind, imaginative and hard to pin down, and they tell you things they tell no one else. Your vitality comes from the inner life, from music, faith or art, and drains in harsh light and hard schedules. You shine by letting something larger move through you.
Moon in Sagittarius: Room to Roam
You feel best when there is somewhere to go. Confinement, a small room, a small plan, a conversation that keeps circling, makes you restless in the body before the mind catches up. Comfort is open space, a long drive, people who laugh easily. Your moods are warm and quick to lift, and you tend to trust that things will work out, which steadies others and sometimes skips past what hurts. Being needed too closely feels like a leash, and you love most freely with the door left open.
Virgo rising: Smudge on the Sleeve
You arrive noticing what is wrong with the room. Strangers meet a tidy body, a watchful face, and a manner that offers help before it offers warmth. People trust you with detail early and hand you the thing that needs fixing, then wonder why you seem tired. Your own appearance is checked and rechecked, and a smudge on your sleeve occupies more of your attention than the person across the table would guess. You remember the one error in a day that went well.
Planet positions in Copernicus's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 10°12′ |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 5°28′ |
| Mercury | Pisces | 26°30′ |
| Venus | Aries | 7°10′ |
| Mars | Aquarius | 21°43′ |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 4°33′ |
| Saturn | Gemini | 18°37′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Scorpio | 4°58′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Scorpio | 18°09′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Virgo | 16°13′ |
| North Node | Scorpio | 23°47′ |
| Ascendant | Virgo | 5°23′ |
| Midheaven | Taurus | 26°36′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 3, Earth 1, Air 2, Water 4. By modality: Cardinal 1, Fixed 3, Mutable 6.
A water emphasis
A water emphasis makes you emotional, intuitive, and sensitive: you feel deeply, attune to others, and navigate life through instinct and empathy.
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 Copernicus's chart
- Moon conjunct Jupiter, orb 0°54′
- Moon trine Venus, orb 1°42′
- Mars square North Node, orb 2°04′
- Saturn square Pluto, orb 2°24′
- Venus trine Jupiter, orb 2°37′
- Mercury trine North Node, orb 2°43′
- Mars trine Saturn, orb 3°06′
- Mars square Neptune, orb 3°34′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Moon conjunct Jupiter: Feelings Run Big
Your moods do not come in small sizes. Comfort, family, and gut reaction fuse with expansion here, so a good feeling swells into a whole philosophy and a bad one becomes a crisis of meaning. Home tends to grow: more people fed, more rooms, more stories told at the table. The cost is that emotional excess reads as normal to you.
Moon trine Venus: Effortless Warm Charm
People feel looked after around you before you've said anything clever. Affection, feeding people, making things nice: it runs without effort, which is exactly why it can run in bad directions too, like soothing yourself with money or keeping a comfortable relationship past its date. The flow amplifies whatever pattern it's already in.
Mars square North Node: Drive Against Direction
You move fast, and half the time you move in the direction you already know rather than the one you're growing toward. Mars square the North Node makes your instinct and your growth path pull at different angles, so action feels urgent but slightly off-course. The friction shows up as restarts: launching hard, stalling, launching again somewhere new, each attempt sharpening what your effort is actually for.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Copernicus'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.