Leonardo da Vinci's Birth Chart
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 at 21:40 in Vinci, Italy. The chart has the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Pisces, with Sagittarius rising.
| Born | April 15, 1452 |
| Time | 21:40 |
| Place | Vinci, Italy |
Leonardo da Vinci's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Taurus: What Stays Built
Your identity is built from what lasts. You become yourself slowly, through the things you keep and the ground you refuse to give up, and people experience you as settled. You are at ease in a body and in the physical world, and your warmth comes out as food, comfort and reliable presence rather than speeches. Change that is forced on you meets a quiet, total resistance, and a life that moves too fast leaves you feeling like a guest in it. What you build stays built.
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.
Sagittarius rising: Larger Than the Doorway
You arrive larger than the doorway. Strangers meet a loud laugh, a long stride, an opinion offered before it was asked for, and most of them warm to it. People expect honesty from you and get it whole, including the part that would have been kinder left out. Your body wants distance, horizons, a reason to leave early, and a small room or a long meeting makes you restless within minutes. Promises made on arrival are sincere and sometimes forgotten by the time you reach the car.
Planet positions in Leonardo da Vinci's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 4°36′ |
| Moon | Pisces | 15°19′ |
| Mercury | Aries | 9°48′ |
| Venus | Taurus | 25°37′ |
| Mars | Aquarius | 16°25′ |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 1°35′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Libra | 14°05′ |
| Uranus | Cancer | 22°09′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Libra | 0°11′ |
| Pluto | Leo | 5°05′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Capricorn | 6°49′ |
| Ascendant | Sagittarius | 6°11′ |
| Midheaven | Virgo | 26°02′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 2, Earth 2, Air 3, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
The tightest aspects in Leonardo da Vinci's chart
- Sun square Pluto, orb 0°29′
- Sun trine North Node, orb 2°13′
- Mars trine Saturn, orb 2°20′
- Mercury square North Node, orb 2°59′
- Sun sextile Jupiter, orb 3°01′
- Venus sextile Uranus, orb 3°28′
- Mercury opposite Saturn, orb 4°17′
- Venus trine Neptune, orb 4°34′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Sun square Pluto: Pressure Forges Identity
Something in you wants total control over how you shine, and something else refuses to be controlled. The push shows up as power struggles around recognition, secrecy about what you actually want, and a habit of burning your own creations down to rebuild them. What that pressure makes is willpower, real staying power, and a presence people feel before you speak.
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.
Mars trine Saturn: Endurance Runs Itself
Stamina is the word people use about you, and you rarely notice it. Effort flows into structure without resistance, so you sustain training, careers, projects long past the point most quit. Because the flow amplifies whatever it carries, a bad regimen or a joyless obligation lasts just as long as a good one.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Leonardo da Vinci's recorded date, time and place of birth. The rising sign, the Midheaven and the houses depend on the birth time, so they are only as reliable as the time on record. The interpretations come from the same library Astrologer uses in its own chart readings.