Jack Nicklaus's Birth Chart
Jack Nicklaus was born on January 21, 1940 in Columbus, OH. The chart has the Sun in Aquarius and the Moon in Gemini. No birth time is on record for Jack Nicklaus, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | January 21, 1940 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Columbus, OH |
Jack Nicklaus's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Aquarius: At a Slight Angle
You are yourself at a slight angle to everyone else. Identity here is built from the ways you differ, from ideas held as principles, and from a loyalty to the group that can outrun your loyalty to any one person in it. People experience you as friendly, original and hard to get close to, warm at a distance and cooler up close. You see the system where others see the situation. Being told to do it the usual way is the fastest route to your refusal.
Moon in Gemini: Talking It Through
Your feelings become real when they are put into words, so you talk, text and narrate your way through a mood rather than sitting inside it. Comfort is a conversation, a new fact, a change of scene. Needs shift quickly and you can hold two at once without strain. Your body runs on nervous energy and reads boredom as a kind of ache. Others find you easy to be around and hard to pin down, because the mood they met an hour ago has already been replaced.
No birth time is on record for Jack Nicklaus, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Jack Nicklaus's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 0°01′ to 1°02′ |
| Moon | Gemini | 10°11′ to 23°49′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 23°06′ to 24°43′ |
| Venus | Pisces | 3°13′ to 4°27′ |
| Mars | Aries | 11°43′ to 12°24′ |
| Jupiter | Aries | 4°03′ to 4°13′ |
| Saturn | Aries | 24°57′ to 25°00′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 18°00′ to 17°59′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Virgo | 25°22′ to 25°21′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Leo | 1°49′ to 1°48′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Libra | 24°16′ to 24°08′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Cancer | 16°10′ to 16°06′ |
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 ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 4, Earth 3, Air 2, Water 1. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 3.
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.
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 Jack Nicklaus's chart
- Saturn opposite North Node, orb 0°52′
- Mercury square North Node, orb 1°10′
- Sun opposite Pluto, orb 1°48′
- Mercury square Saturn, orb 1°51′
- Uranus sextile Chiron, orb 1°53′
- Mercury trine Neptune, orb 2°16′
- Jupiter trine Pluto, orb 2°25′
- Sun sextile Jupiter, orb 4°02′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn opposite North Node: Tradition Versus Trajectory
Established authority sits on one end, unfamiliar growth on the other, and ignoring either one breaks you. Over-invest in the credentials and reputation and the direction stalls. Over-invest in the new road and you skip the accountability that makes it stick. Held apart on purpose, each side keeps its own shape and you get both.
Mercury square North Node: Mind Against Direction
There's friction between how you think and where you're headed. Your analysis argues with the growth direction, calling it unproven, while the Node keeps pulling toward territory your logic has no data on yet. This produces a mind that gets sharpened by being wrong about its own future, plus stretches of stress where you overthink a step you have already decided to take.
Sun opposite Pluto: Light Against Depth
Two full-strength drives sit across from each other in you: visible, playful, validated on one end and hidden, obsessive, transformative on the other. Over-identify with the shining side and you feel fake; over-identify with the buried side and joy drains out. This works when each stays undiluted and takes its turn.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Jack Nicklaus'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.