Rembrandt's Birth Chart
Rembrandt was born on July 15, 1606 at 11:00 in Leiden, Netherlands. The chart has the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Scorpio, with Libra rising.
| Born | July 15, 1606 |
| Time | 11:00 |
| Place | Leiden, Netherlands |
Rembrandt'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 Scorpio: Deep Water Holds
Nothing you feel is small. Emotion goes all the way down and stays there, and you trust people slowly because you know how much you can be hurt. Comfort is privacy, loyalty, and someone who does not flinch at the truth. You read undercurrents others miss, the tension under politeness, the lie in a cheerful voice, and you remember a betrayal long after the person has forgotten it. You rarely show the weather inside, so the calm surface can be mistaken for not caring, when it is the opposite.
Libra rising: Angled to the Speaker
You arrive pleasant, and it is not an act. Strangers meet an even face, good manners, a body that angles itself to match whoever is speaking, and they relax. People ask your opinion and get a balanced answer, then ask again because the balance hid what you actually think. Conflict in the room registers in your stomach before anyone has raised a voice, and you find yourself smoothing it without having decided to. Being disliked by a stranger can stay with you for days.
Planet positions in Rembrandt's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 22°29′ |
| Moon | Scorpio | 21°52′ |
| Mercury | Cancer | 2°22′ |
| Venus | Gemini | 6°56′ |
| Mars | Scorpio | 26°54′ |
| Jupiter (retrograde) | Pisces | 1°41′ |
| Saturn (retrograde) | Capricorn | 2°49′ |
| Uranus | Taurus | 29°12′ |
| Neptune | Virgo | 9°13′ |
| Pluto | Taurus | 0°02′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 23°58′ |
| Ascendant | Libra | 5°42′ |
| Midheaven | Cancer | 7°29′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 0, Earth 4, Air 1, Water 5. By modality: Cardinal 3, Fixed 4, Mutable 3. No planet falls in a Fire sign.
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 fixed emphasis
A fixed emphasis makes you steady and determined: you sustain, persist, and hold your ground, sometimes to the point of stubbornness.
The tightest aspects in Rembrandt's chart
- Mercury opposite Saturn, orb 0°27′
- Sun trine Moon, orb 0°37′
- Mercury trine Jupiter, orb 0°41′
- Jupiter sextile Saturn, orb 1°08′
- Sun sextile North Node, orb 1°29′
- Jupiter sextile Pluto, orb 1°39′
- Moon sextile North Node, orb 2°06′
- Venus square Neptune, orb 2°17′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Mercury opposite Saturn: Idea Meets Authority
You keep landing in the space between what you think and what the rules say. Conversations with elders, institutions, bosses, and official paperwork bring it out most sharply. It works when curiosity stays curious and discipline stays strict instead of each softening the other, and it goes wrong the moment you decide only one of them is right.
Sun trine Moon: Feelings Feed Confidence
Whatever you feel, you express, without any gap between the two. Moods pour straight into your creative work, your romances, your presence in a room, and it looks effortless because you've never known it any other way. The catch is that it amplifies without judgment, so a sulk becomes a whole atmosphere as easily as joy does.
Mercury trine Jupiter: Effortless Wide Learning
Information reaches you fast and gets filed into a bigger framework without effort. Languages, subjects, foreign material, other people's belief systems, all of it goes down easy, which is exactly why nothing gets questioned much. This flow amplifies whatever it carries, so a bad source or a lazy assumption spreads through your thinking as smoothly as a good one.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Rembrandt'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.