Grace Hopper's Birth Chart

Grace Hopper's Big Three

Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.

Sun in Sagittarius: Room to Move

You are yourself on the way somewhere. Identity here is built from the horizon rather than the home, from the belief, the trip or the argument that promises to make the world larger. People experience you as generous, blunt and certain, and your honesty lands as refreshing or as tactless depending on the day. Routine makes you restless, and a conversation with no big idea in it feels like a waste of breath. Your vitality is bound up with having room to move and something worth believing in.

No birth time is on record for Grace Hopper, 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 Grace Hopper's chart

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 2, Earth 1, Air 2, Water 4. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 1, Mutable 4.

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.

The tightest aspects in Grace Hopper's chart

• Jupiter trine Saturn, orb 0°34′
• Jupiter opposite Uranus, orb 1°13′
• Saturn sextile Uranus, orb 1°36′
• Venus trine North Node, orb 1°53′
• Mars trine Pluto, orb 2°39′
• Mercury conjunct Venus, orb 2°51′
• Saturn trine Neptune, orb 3°00′
• Jupiter conjunct Neptune, orb 3°29′

The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:

Jupiter trine Saturn: Slow Reliable Abundance

Opportunity and endurance run together so smoothly you probably credit hard work alone. Big-picture thinking arrives already shaped by time and responsibility, so your growth looks steady rather than lucky. It amplifies whatever it touches, which means a rigid worldview or a joyless work ethic gets just as much support here as wisdom does.

Jupiter opposite Uranus: Meaning Across Distance

You feel pulled between the wide, meaning-hungry side of yourself and the detached, why-does-this-work side. Lean too far into faith and the analysis dies; lean too far into detachment and nothing means anything. Held apart on purpose, both stay useful: the belief carries the reach, the outsider eye keeps it honest.

Saturn sextile Uranus: Rules Meet Rewiring

Structure and disruption sit close enough here to trade notes. Your discipline can hold an experiment steady, and your odd, outside-the-box thinking can renovate a system you already built rather than blowing it up. This cooperation shows up plainly in people who put it to work and stays quiet in people who don't, because neither side reaches for the other by default.

How this chart was calculated

Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Grace Hopper'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.

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