Ernest Hemingway's Birth Chart
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 at 08:00 in Oak Park, IL. The chart has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Capricorn, with Virgo rising.
| Born | July 21, 1899 |
| Time | 08:00 |
| Place | Oak Park, IL |
Ernest Hemingway's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Cancer: The Kept Circle
You become yourself by belonging somewhere. Who you are is bound up with the people and places you have claimed as yours, and your vitality rises and falls with how safe that circle feels. Others meet a protective warmth first, then a shell that closes when something touches a tender spot. Memory is long, and your sense of purpose often shows up as looking after a person, a family or a home. Moods move through you like weather, and the people closest to you learn the forecast.
Moon in Capricorn: Competence as Comfort
You feel safest when you are capable, and comfort comes from a job done well, a bill paid, a plan that holds. Feelings are private and processed slowly, often through work rather than conversation, and you can seem cool to people who want an immediate reaction. Early life may have asked you to be older than you were, and you carry that reserve into how you ask for care, which is rarely and sideways. You show love by showing up, on time, every time, long after louder people have left.
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 Ernest Hemingway's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 28°32′ |
| Moon | Capricorn | 9°56′ |
| Mercury | Leo | 25°30′ |
| Venus | Cancer | 13°08′ |
| Mars | Virgo | 20°34′ |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 1°10′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 17°49′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 4°12′ |
| Neptune | Gemini | 25°45′ |
| Pluto | Gemini | 16°10′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 29°17′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 7°05′ |
| Ascendant | Virgo | 7°34′ |
| Midheaven | Gemini | 3°22′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 3, Earth 2, Air 2, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 2, 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 Ernest Hemingway's chart
- Mercury sextile Neptune, orb 0°15′
- Saturn opposite Pluto, orb 1°40′
- Jupiter sextile North Node, orb 1°53′
- Sun square Jupiter, orb 2°37′
- Mars square Saturn, orb 2°45′
- Uranus conjunct Chiron, orb 2°53′
- Moon opposite Venus, orb 3°13′
- Neptune opposite North Node, orb 3°32′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury sextile Neptune: Dream Into Words
There's a channel here between the part of you that thinks in sentences and the part that picks up on things nobody said out loud. It shows up as writing, drawing, or explaining that carries an image with it, and as hunches you can actually put into language. The channel is available rather than automatic; it's obvious in people who use it and quiet in people who don't.
Saturn opposite Pluto: Facade And Underground
Reputation sits on one end, buried intensity on the other, and you feel the distance. Public life demands you look composed while something private is doing its slow, heavy work. Both sides stay strongest when they stay separate; leaning entirely on the respectable face makes the depth go rogue, and living only underground erodes the standing you built.
Jupiter sextile North Node: Growth Through Wandering
Opportunity keeps showing up in the exact direction you're supposed to be heading, and it arrives as an invitation rather than a shove. Jupiter's appetite for the bigger picture and the Node's growth direction cooperate here without merging, so travel, study, or a teacher tends to open the door when you walk toward it. In people who never move, this reads as nothing at all.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Ernest Hemingway'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.