Robert Oppenheimer's Birth Chart
Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 at 08:00 in New York, NY. The chart has the Sun in Taurus and the Moon in Cancer, with Gemini rising.
| Born | April 22, 1904 |
| Time | 08:00 |
| Place | New York, NY |
Robert Oppenheimer's Big Three
Here is how Astrologer's interpretation library describes each of these placements, for anyone born with them.
Sun in Taurus: What Stays Built
Your identity is built from what lasts. You become yourself slowly, through the things you keep and the ground you refuse to give up, and people experience you as settled. You are at ease in a body and in the physical world, and your warmth comes out as food, comfort and reliable presence rather than speeches. Change that is forced on you meets a quiet, total resistance, and a life that moves too fast leaves you feeling like a guest in it. What you build stays built.
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.
Gemini rising: Already Mid-Sentence
You arrive talking, or at least looking for the angle of the room. Strangers meet quick eyes, restless hands, a face that is already responding to what they have not finished saying. People find you easy at first, because you can pick up any thread they offer and run with it. You are often read as lighter than you are, and the same person who found you delightful in a lift can later feel you never quite landed.
Planet positions in Robert Oppenheimer's chart
| Planet | Sign | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 1°58′ |
| Moon | Cancer | 23°20′ |
| Mercury | Taurus | 21°57′ |
| Venus | Aries | 11°31′ |
| Mars | Taurus | 11°37′ |
| Jupiter | Aries | 12°34′ |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 19°46′ |
| Uranus (retrograde) | Sagittarius | 29°49′ |
| Neptune | Cancer | 3°33′ |
| Pluto | Gemini | 19°08′ |
| North Node (retrograde) | Virgo | 26°57′ |
| Chiron | Aquarius | 0°00′ |
| Ascendant | Gemini | 23°28′ |
| Midheaven | Aquarius | 29°01′ |
Element and modality balance
Counting ten planets from the Sun to Pluto: Fire 3, Earth 3, Air 2, Water 2. By modality: Cardinal 4, Fixed 4, Mutable 2.
The tightest aspects in Robert Oppenheimer's chart
- Saturn trine Pluto, orb 0°38′
- Venus conjunct Jupiter, orb 1°03′
- Moon sextile Mercury, orb 1°23′
- Sun sextile Neptune, orb 1°36′
- Sun square Chiron, orb 1°58′
- Sun trine Uranus, orb 2°09′
- Mercury square Saturn, orb 2°11′
- Uranus square North Node, orb 2°52′
The three tightest, as the library describes them for anyone born with the same contact:
Saturn trine Pluto: Endurance That Rebuilds
Collapse doesn't end you. Something in you takes the wreckage of a plan, a job, a version of yourself, and quietly rebuilds it with better bones, so smoothly that you barely register it as strength. The catch is that this flow amplifies whatever it's running through, so a toxic structure gets rebuilt just as faithfully as a good one.
Venus conjunct Jupiter: Taste Turned Up
Beauty and bigness arrive as one impulse in you. What you find lovely, you want more of, in larger portions, from further away, in richer versions. The blend makes generosity feel like an aesthetic, so giving, hosting and buying all run on the same fused engine, and restraint has to be argued for rather than felt.
Moon sextile Mercury: Feelings Get Words
There's a working line between your gut and your vocabulary, but it opens when you use it. Moods can be named, sorted, written down, talked through with a sibling or a neighbor, and once named they stop running the room. In people who leave it alone, the same feelings just sit there wordless and the mind spins on other things.
How this chart was calculated
Every position on this page is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris for Robert Oppenheimer'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.