Marco Polo's Birth Chart
Marco Polo was born on September 15, 1254 in Venice, Italy. The chart has the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Libra. No birth time is on record for Marco Polo, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
| Born | September 15, 1254 |
| Time | Not on record |
| Place | Venice, Italy |
Marco Polo's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Virgo: Done Properly
You become yourself by being useful. Identity here is built from competence, from work nobody notices until it is missing, and you shine quietly, through things done properly. People experience you as observant, exact and reserved, and they bring you the problems that need sorting out. Your eye for what is wrong is the same eye that makes you good, and it turns on yourself, so praise slides off while a small error stays. Vitality comes from order and drains in chaos you cannot fix.
Moon in Libra: Peace at a Price
Your mood tracks the mood of whoever is in the room, and harmony is a physical need, not a taste. Conflict sits in your stomach, and you will smooth, defer and rephrase to keep the air clear. Comfort is company, beauty and being half of a pair. You read what others need and lose track of your own wants in the process, and resentment surfaces late. Alone, you often do not know what you feel until someone else is there to feel it with.
No birth time is on record for Marco Polo, so the rising sign and houses cannot be known.
Planet positions in Marco Polo's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 28°53′ to 29°52′ |
| Moon | Libra | 15°11′ to 27°05′ |
| Mercury | Virgo | 19°40′ to 21°27′ |
| Venus | Leo | 19°48′ to 20°16′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 12°08′ to 12°50′ |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 11°48′ to 11°55′ |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 13°18′ to 13°18′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Pisces | 18°26′ to 18°24′ |
| Neptune | Cancer | 18°49′ to 18°50′ |
| Pluto | Scorpio | 23°53′ to 23°55′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Leo | 21°17′ to 21°10′ |
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 1, Water 5. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 3.
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 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 Marco Polo's chart
- Mars trine Jupiter, orb 0°55′
- Mars sextile Saturn, orb 1°10′
- Venus conjunct North Node, orb 1°30′
- Jupiter opposite Saturn, orb 1°30′
- Mercury sextile Neptune, orb 2°37′
- Pluto square North Node, orb 2°45′
- Mercury opposite Uranus, orb 3°03′
- Venus square Pluto, orb 4°06′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars trine Jupiter: Effortless Overreach
Confidence and physical energy run together so smoothly you never question either. You start things easily, believe they'll work out, and usually keep enough heat to finish. The catch is that this flow amplifies whatever it touches, so appetite, risk taking and the taste for excess run just as freely as courage does.
Mars sextile Saturn: Effort Meets Method
Discipline is available to your drive, not automatic with it. When you deliberately put your energy inside a schedule, a rule, a long timeline, the results compound in a way that surprises people. Left unworked, the drive fires off in short bursts and the structure sits idle, and neither side complains loudly enough to warn you.
Venus conjunct North Node: Taste As Compass
Beauty and growth fuse here, so what you find beautiful and what moves you forward stop being separate questions. You pick your direction by attraction rather than by plan, following the thing that looks and feels right. When the pull comes from value and worth, you go where the money and the art are, and that becomes the road itself.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Marco Polo'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.