Pope Francis's Birth Chart
Pope Francis was born on December 17, 1936 at 21:00 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The chart has the Sun in Sagittarius and the Moon in Aquarius, with Cancer rising.
| Born | December 17, 1936 |
| Time | 21:00 |
| Place | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Pope Francis's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Sagittarius: Room to Move
You are yourself on the way somewhere. Identity here is built from the horizon rather than the home, from the belief, the trip or the argument that promises to make the world larger. People experience you as generous, blunt and certain, and your honesty lands as refreshing or as tactless depending on the day. Routine makes you restless, and a conversation with no big idea in it feels like a waste of breath. Your vitality is bound up with having room to move and something worth believing in.
Moon in Aquarius: Warm at a Distance
You feel things at one remove, watching your reactions before you agree to have them. Comfort is room to breathe, a friend who asks nothing, an idea big enough to take you out of yourself. Closeness that arrives too fast makes you step back, and you belong more easily to a group or a cause than to one person's hunger for you. People find you warm and untouchable, and your loyalty works quietly, remembering what someone said years ago and acting on it without a word.
Cancer rising: Sideways Into the Room
You arrive guarded and reading the room. Strangers meet a soft face that gives little away until it decides you are safe, and a body that turns slightly toward the exit in new company. People sense the care underneath quickly, and often tell you things they tell nobody else. Your moods show on your skin and in your posture before you have named them yourself, so you are rarely as hidden as you think. Any new room is judged by how soon it could feel like home.
Planet positions in Pope Francis's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 25°54′ |
| Moon | Aquarius | 12°33′ |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 11°49′ |
| Venus | Aquarius | 7°36′ |
| Mars | Libra | 19°31′ |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 3°32′ |
| Saturn | Pisces | 16°30′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Taurus | 5°56′ |
| Neptune | Virgo | 18°58′ |
| Pluto (retrograde) | Cancer | 28°17′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 24°17′ |
| Chiron (retrograde) | Gemini | 20°15′ |
| Ascendant | Cancer | 10°05′ |
| Midheaven | Taurus | 0°09′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 1, Earth 4, Air 3, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 3, Mutable 3.
A earth emphasis
An earth emphasis makes you practical, grounded, and reliable: you build slowly, value the tangible, and bring ideas down to reality.
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 Pope Francis's chart
- Mars trine Chiron, orb 0°44′
- Neptune square Chiron, orb 1°17′
- Sun conjunct North Node, orb 1°38′
- Venus square Uranus, orb 1°41′
- Jupiter trine Uranus, orb 2°23′
- Saturn opposite Neptune, orb 2°28′
- Saturn square Chiron, orb 3°44′
- Mercury sextile Saturn, orb 4°42′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mars trine Chiron: Effortless Healing Force
Action and old injury run together so smoothly you may never have separated them. You move fast toward people in pain and it feels like nothing, which is exactly the problem when the flow is amplifying a bad habit instead of a good one. This can pour energy into wounds that were never asking for rescue.
Neptune square Chiron: Pressure On The Wound
Fantasy presses on the injury and the injury refuses to be dissolved. You get escape routes offered right where a scar is, substances, spirituality, someone to rescue, and the wound keeps insisting it is structural, not spiritual. When the broken part is treated as real first, the imaginative side stops running interference and becomes genuine healing work.
Sun conjunct North Node: Spotlight Points Forward
Your vitality sits right on the growth axis, so the thing that lights you up and the thing you're meant to grow toward are the same thing. Play, creativity, and being seen aren't side interests here, they are the actual direction of travel. The cost is that the familiar pattern at the other end feels dull the moment you're not creating anything.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Pope Francis'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.