Nikola Tesla's Birth Chart
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 at 00:00 in Smiljan, Croatia. The chart has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Libra, with Aries rising.
| Born | July 10, 1856 |
| Time | 00:00 |
| Place | Smiljan, Croatia |
Nikola Tesla's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Cancer: The Kept Circle
You become yourself by belonging somewhere. Who you are is bound up with the people and places you have claimed as yours, and your vitality rises and falls with how safe that circle feels. Others meet a protective warmth first, then a shell that closes when something touches a tender spot. Memory is long, and your sense of purpose often shows up as looking after a person, a family or a home. Moods move through you like weather, and the people closest to you learn the forecast.
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.
Aries rising: First Through the Door
You arrive already in motion. Strangers meet a body that leans forward, a voice that gets to the point, a face that shows impatience before it shows anything else. People assume you want to lead, and often hand you the first move whether you asked for it or not. Heat comes quickly and leaves quickly, so an argument at noon is forgotten by two, though the other person may still be holding it. Waiting in a queue costs you more than it costs anyone else in it.
Planet positions in Nikola Tesla's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 17°48′ |
| Moon | Libra | 13°51′ |
| Mercury | Gemini | 28°07′ |
| Venus | Cancer | 14°49′ |
| Mars | Libra | 18°56′ |
| Jupiter | Aries | 8°35′ |
| Saturn | Cancer | 5°34′ |
| Uranus | Taurus | 23°56′ |
| Neptune (retrograde) | Pisces | 20°22′ |
| Pluto | Taurus | 5°33′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Aries | 20°06′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Aquarius | 3°50′ |
| Ascendant | Aries | 23°55′ |
| Midheaven | Capricorn | 11°50′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 2, Air 3, Water 4. By modality: Cardinal 6, Fixed 2, Mutable 2.
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 Nikola Tesla's chart
- Saturn sextile Pluto, orb 0°01′
- Moon square Venus, orb 0°59′
- Sun square Mars, orb 1°08′
- Mars opposite North Node, orb 1°10′
- Pluto square Chiron, orb 1°43′
- Sun square North Node, orb 2°18′
- Sun trine Neptune, orb 2°34′
- Sun conjunct Venus, orb 2°59′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn sextile Pluto: Research Into Legacy
Digging and building are separate skills that happen to be friends in you. The investigative side finds what's hidden, the structural side turns it into something with a shape and a deadline. Neither one starts automatically, so this stays quiet until you deliberately point one at the other, and then the results compound over years.
Moon square Venus: Security Versus Worth
There is a running argument in you between what feels safe and what feels valuable. Comfort pushes for the familiar (the same people, the same food, the home you know) while your taste and sense of worth want something better, prettier, more fairly priced. It shows up in money moods, in eating for soothing rather than pleasure, in relationships where you confuse being needed with being valued. The pressure sharpens both sides into real discernment.
Sun square Mars: Pressure Forges Will
Pride and impulse push against each other under load. The leading side tries to run the show and the receiving side digs in, which is why anger and self-expression get tangled and why a challenge to your ego arrives as physical restlessness. Ground the body's need for real exertion and the confidence stops needing to prove itself. What's forged is stamina.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Nikola Tesla'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.