Houdini's Birth Chart
Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary. The chart has the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Gemini or Cancer. No birth time is on record for Houdini, 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 | March 24, 1874 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Budapest, Hungary |
Houdini's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Aries: First Through the Door
You come alive at the start of things. Your sense of who you are is built from the moments you acted first, said the thing nobody else would say, or walked into a room already decided. Energy arrives in bursts and others feel it as heat. You are at your best when something needs a push and nobody is giving it, and restless when a plan asks you to wait. Follow-through is where the light thins out, and people learn to catch you early rather than late.
No birth time is on record for Houdini, 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 Houdini's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 3°09′ to 4°08′ |
| Moon | Gemini or Cancer | 20°59′ to 4°14′ |
| Mercury (retrograde) | Pisces | 24°06′ to 23°22′ |
| Venus | Aries | 10°12′ to 11°27′ |
| Mars | Taurus | 1°46′ to 2°29′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Virgo | 26°04′ to 25°56′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 11°24′ to 11°29′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Leo | 6°38′ to 6°36′ |
| Neptune | Aries | 27°18′ to 27°20′ |
| Pluto | Taurus | 20°13′ to 20°14′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Taurus | 6°10′ to 6°11′ |
| Chiron | Aries | 17°20′ to 17°24′ |
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 4, Earth 3, Air 1, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
A fire emphasis
A fire emphasis makes you energetic, expressive, and action-oriented: you lead with enthusiasm, inspiration, and a need to act and create.
The tightest aspects in Houdini's chart
- Uranus square North Node, orb 0°27′
- Venus sextile Saturn, orb 1°12′
- Mercury opposite Jupiter, orb 2°34′
- Sun trine Uranus, orb 3°29′
- Mercury sextile Pluto, orb 3°53′
- Mars conjunct North Node, orb 4°25′
- Venus trine Uranus, orb 4°50′
- Mars square Uranus, orb 4°52′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Uranus square North Node: Rebellion Versus Direction
There is a fight between the part of you that wants to blow up the format and the part that knows where you are supposed to be heading. One side pushes disruption for its own sake, the other has to answer with an actual destination. Held under pressure, that argument forges real originality instead of noise.
Venus sextile Saturn: Taste Built Slowly
You have a workable link between what you find beautiful and what actually lasts. It shows up as taste that improves with time, money handled with patience, and relationships that get graded on whether they hold up rather than how they feel this week. This one cooperates on request, not by default, so it's obvious in people who use it and quiet in people who don't.
Mercury opposite Jupiter: Data Versus Meaning
You swing between the person who wants the exact figure and the person who wants what it all means. Both are real and both go wrong alone: pure detail leaves you clever and directionless, pure vision leaves you preaching things you never checked. Held apart on purpose, each keeps its own strength, and you become the rare person who can explain something big without lying about it.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Houdini'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.