Jonas Salk's Birth Chart
Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in New York, NY. The chart has the Sun in Scorpio and the Moon in Pisces. No birth time is on record for Jonas Salk, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | October 28, 1914 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | New York, NY |
Jonas Salk's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Scorpio: Below the Surface
You live below the surface and you know it. Your sense of self is built from what you have survived and what you refuse to say out loud, and your will is steady, private and impossible to deflect once it has fixed on something. People experience you as intense even when you are quiet, and they either trust you completely or keep a careful distance. You read motives fast and forgive slowly. Half measures bore you, and your vitality comes back strongest after something has ended.
Moon in Pisces: Porous to Everything
You absorb the feeling of a room without meaning to, and by evening you can be carrying moods that started in other people. Comfort is softness, music, water, sleep, anything that blurs the edges. Boundaries do not come naturally, so you give more than you have and need long stretches alone to find your own shape again. Your imagination is vivid enough to be a refuge and, on bad days, a hiding place. People confide in you because you never seem shocked, and they are usually right.
No birth time is on record for Jonas Salk, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Jonas Salk's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 3°56′ to 4°56′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 0°24′ to 12°38′ |
| Mercury (retrograde) | Scorpio | 22°56′ to 22°45′ |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 10°27′ to 10°48′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 19°52′ to 20°34′ |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 13°02′ to 13°06′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Cancer | 2°11′ to 2°10′ |
| Uranus | Aquarius | 7°44′ to 7°44′ |
| Neptune | Leo | 0°27′ to 0°27′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Cancer | 2°07′ to 2°06′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Pisces | 4°09′ to 4°09′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Pisces | 14°43′ to 14°42′ |
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 2, Earth 0, Air 2, Water 6. By modality: Cardinal 2, Fixed 6, Mutable 2. No planet falls in a Earth sign.
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.
A fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Jonas Salk's chart
- Saturn conjunct Pluto, orb 0°04′
- Sun trine North Node, orb 0°47′
- Saturn trine North Node, orb 1°59′
- Pluto trine North Node, orb 2°03′
- Venus sextile Jupiter, orb 2°34′
- Sun trine Saturn, orb 2°47′
- Sun trine Pluto, orb 2°50′
- Venus sextile Uranus, orb 3°04′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn conjunct Pluto: Steel Under Pressure
Structure and depth fuse here into one relentless force. You build things that are meant to survive, and you build them out of whatever you've already lived through, including the ugly parts. The rules you follow are ones you dug up yourself, which is why they hold, and why nobody can talk you out of them.
Sun trine North Node: Effortless Forward Pull
Growth arrives disguised as fun. Where you take risks, play, and follow whatever delights you tends to land you exactly where you needed to go next, so smoothly you rarely credit it. That same flow amplifies lazy patterns just as easily, and an ego habit riding this line becomes very hard to spot.
Saturn trine North Node: Effort Flows Forward
Long-term work and your growth direction run together so smoothly you probably do not credit either one. Responsibility just happens to point where you are supposed to go, which is why maturity here often reads as luck. It also amplifies whatever you are disciplined about, so a bad habit gets the same steady support as a good career.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Jonas Salk'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.