David Ben-Gurion's Birth Chart
David Ben-Gurion was born on October 16, 1886 in Plonsk, Poland. The chart has the Sun in Libra and the Moon in Taurus or Gemini. No birth time is on record for David Ben-Gurion, 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 | October 16, 1886 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Plonsk, Poland |
David Ben-Gurion's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Libra: Weighed Against Another
You find out who you are in relation to someone else. Identity sharpens in dialogue, in the friction and the fit of another person, and on your own the picture can blur. People experience you as fair, pleasant and easy to be around, and they do not see how much effort that ease costs. You have a keen sense of proportion and of ugliness, whether in a room, an argument or a deal, and a decision with no one to weigh it against can sit unmade for months.
No birth time is on record for David Ben-Gurion, 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 David Ben-Gurion's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 22°30′ to 23°30′ |
| Moon | Taurus or Gemini | 24°52′ to 7°47′ |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 4°29′ to 6°02′ |
| Venus | Libra | 10°25′ to 11°40′ |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 7°22′ to 8°06′ |
| Jupiter | Libra | 17°41′ to 17°54′ |
| Saturn | Cancer | 22°12′ to 22°14′ |
| Uranus | Libra | 9°02′ to 9°05′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Taurus | 27°18′ to 27°17′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Gemini | 3°46′ to 3°45′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 6°14′ to 6°06′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Gemini | 23°48′ to 23°47′ |
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 1, Air 5, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 5, Fixed 2, Mutable 2.
A air emphasis
An air emphasis makes you mental, social, and idea-driven: you live in thought, communication, and connection, weighing things from a distance.
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 David Ben-Gurion's chart
- Sun square Saturn, orb 1°16′
- Sun trine Chiron, orb 1°18′
- Mars sextile Uranus, orb 1°39′
- Mercury sextile North Node, orb 1°45′
- Mars square North Node, orb 1°59′
- Pluto square North Node, orb 2°28′
- Venus conjunct Uranus, orb 2°35′
- Venus sextile Mars, orb 3°34′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Sun square Saturn: Pride Under Pressure
Something in you keeps auditing your own shine before anyone else can. The vitality side wants recognition, play, risk; the structure side answers with rules, delay, and the question of whether you have earned it yet. That grind produces real endurance and a spine most people lack, along with years where fun feels like something you have to justify.
Sun trine Chiron: Effortless Wounded Warmth
You lead with the wound so smoothly you don't notice you're doing it. Being the one who understands what damage feels like became your whole way of being liked, of being the fun one, of being a parent or mentor. It flows either way: this can amplify genuine healing, or a lifelong habit of only feeling real when someone needs fixing.
Mars sextile Uranus: Sudden Moves Available
You can act on an unconventional idea faster than most people can finish objecting to it, but that speed shows up when you go looking for it. Mars pushes for the immediate start; the inventive, rule breaking side has to be switched on rather than assumed. In people who use this pair, the pattern reads as quick experiments and a body that likes doing things the odd way.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for David Ben-Gurion'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.