Linus Pauling's Birth Chart
Linus Pauling was born on February 28, 1901 in Portland, OR. The chart has the Sun in Pisces and the Moon in Cancer. No birth time is on record for Linus Pauling, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | February 28, 1901 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Portland, OR |
Linus Pauling's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Pisces: What Moves Through You
Your sense of self has soft edges. You take on the mood of the room, the pain of a friend, the tone of whatever you are reading, and you are often not sure which feelings were yours. People experience you as kind, imaginative and hard to pin down, and they tell you things they tell no one else. Your vitality comes from the inner life, from music, faith or art, and drains in harsh light and hard schedules. You shine by letting something larger move through you.
Moon in Cancer: Shell and Tide
Feeling is your first language, and you register the temperature of a room before anyone speaks. You need a place and people that are yours, and safety is measured in who stays. Memory holds everything, the kindness and the slight, with the same clarity years later. You look after others by instinct, often before you are asked, and you retreat just as instinctively when hurt, going quiet rather than loud. Home is less an address than a feeling you carry and rebuild wherever you land.
No birth time is on record for Linus Pauling, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Linus Pauling's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 9°04′ to 10°04′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 10°49′ to 23°49′ |
| Mercury (retrograde) | Pisces | 21°50′ to 21°28′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 23°25′ to 24°40′ |
| Mars (retrograde) | Virgo | 0°34′ to 0°11′ |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 7°39′ to 7°49′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 13°53′ to 13°58′ |
| Uranus | Sagittarius | 16°41′ to 16°42′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Gemini | 26°28′ to 26°27′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Gemini | 15°41′ to 15°41′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Scorpio | 26°11′ to 26°05′ |
| Chiron | Capricorn | 4°00′ to 4°03′ |
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 1, Earth 3, Air 3, Water 3. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 1, Mutable 6.
A mutable emphasis
A mutable emphasis makes you adaptable and flexible: you adjust easily, juggle change, and thrive on variety and versatility.
The tightest aspects in Linus Pauling's chart
- Sun sextile Jupiter, orb 2°15′
- Venus square North Node, orb 2°46′
- Venus trine Neptune, orb 3°03′
- Jupiter conjunct Chiron, orb 3°45′
- Mars trine Chiron, orb 3°52′
- Mars sextile Neptune, orb 4°06′
- Mars square North Node, orb 4°22′
- Mercury trine North Node, orb 4°37′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Sun sextile Jupiter: Luck On Request
Opportunity shows up near you, but it does not chase you. Your creative will and your appetite for the bigger picture are friendly coworkers, not one unit, so the adventure side has to be switched on deliberately or it just sits there being potential. When you do turn it on, ordinary hobbies open doors that look like luck to everyone watching.
Venus square North Node: Worth Under Pressure
Your growth direction keeps pulling toward things your sense of value has no experience pricing. What one side calls a fair deal, elegant, or pleasant, the other side reads as staying put. Comfort and beauty become the thing that argues back, and the friction shows up as real choices about money, partnerships, and what you agree to want.
Venus trine Neptune: Effortless Enchantment
Charm and illusion run together so smoothly you have never questioned it. You make things lovely without effort, read a room's mood before it speaks, and slide into other people's feelings like water. The same flow amplifies whatever it carries, so a self-deceiving story about a relationship or a spending habit runs just as easily as the art does.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Linus Pauling'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.