Hildegard of Bingen's Birth Chart
Hildegard of Bingen was born on September 16, 1098 in Bermersheim, Germany. The chart has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Aries or Taurus. No birth time is on record for Hildegard of Bingen, 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 | September 16, 1098 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Bermersheim, Germany |
Hildegard of Bingen'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 Hildegard of Bingen, 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 Hildegard of Bingen's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 28°41′ to 29°40′ |
| Moon | Aries or Taurus | 27°21′ to 10°16′ |
| Mercury | Libra | 14°37′ to 16°08′ |
| Venus | Virgo | 26°31′ to 27°46′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 25°43′ to 26°26′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Taurus | 9°48′ to 9°43′ |
| Saturn | Libra | 8°16′ to 8°24′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 6°46′ to 6°44′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 5°32′ to 5°33′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Aries | 9°57′ to 9°56′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Capricorn | 7°09′ to 6°59′ |
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 4, Air 2, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
The tightest aspects in Hildegard of Bingen's chart
- Uranus trine North Node, orb 0°24′
- Venus sextile Mars, orb 1°20′
- Saturn square North Node, orb 1°24′
- Saturn opposite Pluto, orb 1°41′
- Sun conjunct Venus, orb 2°09′
- Jupiter trine North Node, orb 2°44′
- Saturn sextile Neptune, orb 2°50′
- Pluto square North Node, orb 2°56′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Uranus trine North Node: Growth Runs Electric
Change comes easy to you, which is not automatically good. Your forward path and your break-the-mold instinct feed each other without resistance, so you can leave a good structure just because leaving feels like movement. Whatever pattern you are running, this amplifies it, including restlessness.
Venus sextile Mars: Charm Plus Nerve
Nothing here happens on its own. You have appetite and you have nerve, sitting side by side, and they only combine when you actually reach for something. When you do engage, the charm makes the boldness land well and the boldness gives the charm somewhere to go. Left passive, it reads as pleasant potential and nothing else.
Saturn square North Node: Old Rules Push
Growth in an untested direction keeps colliding with your instinct to wait until you're qualified. One side says the structure isn't ready, the standards aren't met, the timing is wrong. The other keeps pulling toward the thing you've never done. This pressure makes people who move forward carrying full accountability instead of pretending it's optional.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Hildegard of Bingen'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.