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Nikola Tesla.

10 July 1856 · 00:15 · Smiljan, Croatia
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Plate inativity of Nikola Tesla10 July 1856 · 00:15
the full read

Nikola Tesla's chart, in plain language

A 10-part walk through the chart in five movements, from the core self out to the horizon. The essentials stay in view; anything marked with a small arrow folds open for the finer detail. Jump to any part below, or click a planet, house or aspect on the wheel above for the deep dive.

New to birth charts? The thirty-second primer
  • Planets are the what: ten drives every person carries. The Moon is how you feel, Mercury is how you think, Mars is how you act.
  • Signs are the how: the style each drive wears. A Moon in Taurus feels slowly and steadily; a Moon in Aries feels fast and hot.
  • Houses are the where: twelve areas of life, so the same drive plays out at work, at home, or in love depending on which room it sits in.
  • Aspects are the conversations: angles between two planets that make their drives cooperate, argue, or fuse into one force.

Every reading below follows that grammar: planet (what) in sign (how) in house (where). If you only read one section, read the Big Three; everything after it is that story told in finer and finer detail.

The Big Three

The Sun is who you are becoming, the Moon is what you need, the Rising is how you arrive. Read together, they are the working summary of the chart.

Your Sun in Cancer is the core self, your Moon in Libra is the inner emotional life, and your Taurus Rising is how you arrive. Your three pillars run on three different elements, which gives you genuine range. You carry several inner climates at once, and the work is letting each take its turn rather than letting one dominate. These three together are the spine of the whole chart.

SunCancer · 3rd house

The self forms around belonging and care. Sensitive, protective, attuned to emotional currents others miss. The interior life is vast; the shell is real, and so is what it protects. Lesson: belong to yourself first. You come to know yourself through words, learning and the daily mind. The voice, the local world, the siblings and the school years all shape the self in pronounced ways. You find out who you are by what you say and write.

MoonLibra · 6th house

Feeling is regulated through relationship. Comfort comes from beauty, from harmony, from the mirror of another person. The shadow is losing the self in the management of someone else's mood. Feeling lives in the body and the daily routine. Health becomes emotional weather, and the work life carries the mood. Often the body holds what the mind has not let itself feel.

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RisingTaurus · the doorway

You arrive slowly and without apology. The room becomes more anchored when you enter it. You take up your space the way a stone takes up its space, fully and without hurry. Your chart ruler is Venus, in Cancer in the 3rd house: the planet that steers the whole chart, and the first place to look for how your Taurus rising actually moves through the world.

Your North Star

The lunar nodes are the chart's North Star: not a trait but a direction. The North Node names the unfamiliar growth you are here to move toward; the South Node is what you are leaving.

North NodeAries · 12th house · fire element · 3rd decan

The pull is toward Aries: your own two feet, your own yes and no, action taken before the committee in your head has finished meeting. The familiar groove is Libra: smoothing things over, waiting for consensus, finding yourself through other people. Growth is letting a decision be yours alone.

South NodeLibra · 6th house

The South Node in Libra (6th house) is the opposite shore: the gifts and habits you already over-rely on. It is the comfort zone the chart is asking you to move away from.

Finer detail: the decan and the degree

The decan. The North Node sits in the 3rd decan: the sign in its most worldly, fully-developed form; coloured by Sagittarius, it shows the energy after it has been tested.

Chart Ruler

Because Taurus rises, Venus rules the whole chart. It is the vehicle you move through life in: wherever it sits is the chart's centre of gravity.

Venus · the chart rulerCancer · 3rd house

Love is nurturing and protective, built around sanctuary. The home is the love language, and the instinct is to feed people and be fed in return. The shadow is surveillance disguised as care.

Where it drives. Beauty lives in words and the daily world. A charming communicator, you often connect through conversation, and the local life tends to be pleasant company.

Public Face

The Midheaven is not only career; it is the aura you emit in your zone, what a room senses you are for. The IC, opposite it, is the private root that aura grows from.

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MidheavenCapricorn · the 10th house

With Capricorn on the Midheaven, a room senses gravity: someone serious, capable, clearly built to be in charge.

IC
ICCancer · the 4th house

With Cancer on the IC, this is the private root the public aura grows from. The lowest point in the chart. Imum Coeli. The ground beneath the feet. The IC is the point directly opposite the Midheaven. The deepest, most interior, most hidden point in the chart. It marks the cusp of the fourth house. Where the Midheaven describes the public face, the IC describes the private foundation. The home life. The roots. The ground the person stands on when no one is watching. The sign on the IC describes the texture of the inner life. The atmosphere of the childhood home. The deep, unspoken emotional climate that the person carries inside themselves regardless of what is happening on the surface.

Planets & Patterns

The planets are the cast: ten drives, each in a sign that colours it and a house that gives it a stage. Read down the roster, then see the aspects (the lines where one planet is locked in conversation with another) and the larger patterns they form together.

Of the ten planets, the weight falls in water and cardinal signs: feeling. Intuition. Depth. The energy of the unconscious and the soul.

Every planet, placed

Each planet below carries its one-line job. Tap a row to unfold the full reading, and the fine print where there is any.

The aspects that define you
The patterns they fall into

The Houses

If the planets are the actors, the houses are the twelve rooms they act in. Each room carries a sign on its door, a ruler that ties it to a planet elsewhere in the chart, and sometimes tenants living inside it. Tap any house to open the full reading: the sign, the ruler chain, and who lives there.

Your Generational Role

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto move so slowly that a whole generation shares each sign. The sign is the era you were born into; the house is your personal assignment within it. This is your generational role: the corner of life where the big shift becomes your job to carry, with a lesson to learn and a gift waiting on the other side of it.

UranusTaurus · 1st house

where you break from the past. Uranus carries the urge to break free, wake up, and overturn what has gone stale.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Uranus in Taurus. But in your chart it lands in the 1st house, the house of self, body, first impression. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to break what has gone stale and wire up what comes next. Your personal share of that work is the 1st house: your own self, your body and the way you show up. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of self, body, first impression, your work is tolerating the instability that real freedom costs, and rebelling toward something rather than only away from it.The giftDo that work, and self, body, first impression becomes exactly where you offer the world originality, sudden insight, and the nerve to do it differently.

The era you were born into: Uranus in Taurus

A generation that disrupts the material world, reinventing currency, value and what it means to own.

NeptunePisces · 11th house

where you dream and dissolve. Neptune carries the pull toward the boundless: dream, faith, compassion, and the dissolving of every edge.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Neptune in Pisces. But in your chart it lands in the 11th house, the house of friends, community, future. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to dissolve the hard old boundaries and let something more imaginative and compassionate through. Your personal share of that work is the 11th house: friendship, community and the future you are building. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of friends, community, future, your work is telling the true vision from the seductive illusion, and staying awake instead of escaping.The giftDo that work, and friends, community, future becomes exactly where you offer the world imagination, limitless empathy, and a channel to the transcendent.

The era you were born into: Neptune in Pisces

Neptune is at home here. An era that dreams of universal compassion, an ocean of mysticism, the dissolving of the self into the field.

PlutoTaurus · 12th house

where you are remade. Pluto carries the drive to destroy what is finished and regenerate it from the root.Why it matters for youYour whole generation shares Pluto in Taurus. But in your chart it lands in the 12th house, the house of rest, release, the unseen. That is your personal assignment: the one corner of life where this slow, generational force stops being abstract and becomes your job to carry. Your generation is here to take worn-out structures down to the root and rebuild them from the power that was buried. Your personal share of that work is the 12th house: the inner life, rest and the unseen. That is the corner of life where the era's shift stops being your backdrop and becomes your job to carry.The lessonIn matters of rest, release, the unseen, your work is meeting power and loss without grasping for control, and letting the necessary endings actually happen.The giftDo that work, and rest, release, the unseen becomes exactly where you offer the world regenerative depth, unbreakable will, and the power to transform yourself and the people around you.

The era you were born into: Pluto in Taurus

An era that remakes value, currency and material life, putting what is owned through death and rebirth.

Wound & Shadow

Chiron marks the wound: the place that aches, and the place you can eventually heal others from. Black Moon Lilith marks the exiled self: the raw, untamed part that was told to behave.

Chiron · the woundAquarius · 10th house

The wound is belonging: the perpetual outsider, alienated even in a crowd, swinging between blending in and rejecting the room. Difference can feel like exile or like a badge you wear too hard. Healing comes from prizing your difference: it is the gift, and somewhere a community needs exactly the genius that set you apart. Lesson: fitting in was never the assignment. The wound is public: reputation, achievement, the fear of never doing enough in the world's eyes. Authority figures and career pressure may replay the original story. Healing comes through redefining success and becoming the mentor you needed.

Black Moon Lilith · the shadowLibra · 6th house

She used to be the peacekeeper. The one who read the room and adjusted herself to keep it pleasant. Then she noticed that the peace she was keeping was almost never hers. Her wound is the long apprenticeship of disappearing herself to keep other people comfortable. Her medicine is the unfamiliar, glorious act of letting them be uncomfortable. Lilith lives in daily life, work and the body. Routines designed by other people quietly suffocate you; discipline easily becomes self-punishment until you learn the difference. The ordinary day must feel like yours.

Shadow Work

This chart runs on water. Every element has a low expression and a high one: the work is knowing which way you are tilting, and the mantra that walks you back.

At your worst

Drowning and merging. Unchecked, the water has no edges: it absorbs every mood in the room, keeps old wounds tidal, and loses the self inside other people's needs.

The middle ground

The everyday work is building a shore. Name which feelings are yours, let some things not be your job to fix, and let the depth have a container.

At your best

Deep, accurate empathy. At your best the water is emotional truth: you feel what is really going on, hold others safely, and turn sensitivity into art, care or insight.

“I can feel it all and still know where I end.”

Full Potential

Raw materials, not a verdict. Everything above was the chart describing itself. This is where it hands the pen to you.

This chart describes a capacity to feel accurately: to read what is truly happening beneath the surface and hold it with care. You are wired to begin: your gift only fully arrives when you let yourself be the one who starts. With Venus steering and a Cancer Sun at the core, the potential here is not a fixed fate; it is a set of raw materials. The chart names the tools. What gets built with them is the part astrology cannot tell you, and the part that is entirely yours.

Underneath everything, this is a chart learning to let a Cancer core be fed by a Libra heart and carried out through a Taurus face: three different instincts that only become one person when you stop making them compete.

the charge

Here is what the wheel cannot tell you. It hands you water: feeling, depth, and the will to care, and you are built to start things. It gives you Venus as your compass and a map of where the pressure and the ease already live. But none of it is a verdict; it is equipment. The chart is the raw material; the life is what you make of it. That part was never written in the sky. It has always been yours to write.

Asteria · the geometryThe tightest aspects between your planets.

The closest conversations in the chart: where two planets sit at an exact angle and never stop talking. Tightest orb first; these are the loudest.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.02°

In you, Saturn works easily with Pluto, bringing together your discipline, fear, and sense of limits and your relationship to power and deep change. They support each other whenever you call on them, an inner talent available the moment you choose to use it.

Moon square Venusorb 0.63°

In you, the Moon grinds against Venus, bringing together your emotional needs and instincts and your capacity for love and pleasure. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Sun square Marsorb 1.12°

In you, the Sun grinds against Mars, bringing together your core identity and will and your drive and how you assert yourself. They pull in directions that do not agree, an inner friction that becomes real growth when you work it rather than avoid it. This is one of the knots you are here to untangle.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 2.53°

In you, the Sun flows together with Neptune, bringing together your core identity and will and your imagination, longing, and the dissolving impulse. They cooperate so naturally you may not even notice the gift, an inner ease that grants talent, with the only risk being that you coast on it instead of developing it.

Sun conjunction Venusorb 2.97°

In you, the Sun is fused with Venus, bringing together your core identity and will and your capacity for love and pleasure. They act as one force, each unable to operate without the other, permanently blended and amplifying each other for better and for more intense.

Asteria · flow & frictionGifts & Challenges

Every chart runs on flow and friction. The gifts are where the energy already moves easily; the challenges are where it meets resistance: the places that ask for effort and pay it back as range and strength.

This chart runs on an even mix of flow and friction: real ease in some places, real effort in others, and range that comes from holding both.

Where it flows
Mercury rules Geminiat home

Mercury sits in the sign it rules, so it works at full power here: one of the chart's natural, load-bearing strengths.

Saturn sextile Plutoorb 0.0°

An easy, available link: Saturn and Pluto feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Chiron trine Black Moon Lilithorb 1.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Chiron and Black Moon Lilith feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Part of Fortune trine Vertexorb 1.6°

A natural, flowing ease: Part of Fortune and Vertex feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Mars trine Part of Fortuneorb 2.0°

A natural, flowing ease: Mars and Part of Fortune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Sun trine Neptuneorb 2.5°

A natural, flowing ease: Sun and Neptune feed each other with almost no effort. This is talent that shows up early and runs in the background.

Where it works
Saturn square Black Moon Lilithorb 0.2°

A productive friction: the pull between Saturn and Black Moon Lilith never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Moon square Venusorb 0.6°

A productive friction: the pull between Moon and Venus never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Vertexorb 0.8°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Sun square Marsorb 1.1°

A productive friction: the pull between Sun and Mars never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

Mars opposition North Nodeorb 1.1°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between Mars and North Node never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

North Node opposition Vertexorb 1.5°

A polarity asking to be balanced: the pull between North Node and Vertex never fully settles, and that restless charge is exactly what keeps you growing here.

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Chart data for Nikola Tesla
PointPositionHouseNotes
Sun17°49' Cancer3rd house·
Moon14°13' Libra6th house·
Mercury28°07' Gemini2nd houserulership
Venus14°51' Cancer3rd housechart ruler
Mars18°57' Libra6th housedetriment
Jupiter8°35' Aries12th house·
Saturn5°33' Cancer3rd housedetriment
Uranus23°56' Taurus1st house·
Neptune20°21' Pisces11th houseretrograde
Pluto5°32' Taurus12th house·
Chiron3°49' Aquarius10th houseretrograde
North Node20°06' Aries12th houseretrograde
South Node20°06' Libra6th houseretrograde
Black Moon Lilith5°20' Libra6th house·
Part of Fortune16°59' Aquarius11th house·
Vertex18°37' Libra6th house·
Aspects
FromAspectToOrbPhase
saturnsextilepluto0.02°separating
saturnsquarelilith0.22°separating
marsconjunctionvertex0.33°separating
moonsquarevenus0.63°applying
sunsquarevertex0.80°applying
sunsquaremars1.12°applying
marsoppositionnorth-node1.15°applying
north-nodeoppositionvertex1.48°applying
chirontrinelilith1.51°separating
part-of-fortunetrinevertex1.64°separating
plutosquarechiron1.71°separating
marstrinepart-of-fortune1.97°separating
sunsquarenorth-node2.27°applying
suntrineneptune2.53°applying
moontrinepart-of-fortune2.76°applying
sunconjunctionvenus2.97°applying
jupitersquaresaturn3.03°applying
north-nodesextilepart-of-fortune3.12°applying
jupiteroppositionlilith3.25°applying
uranussextileneptune3.57°separating
sunsquaremoon3.60°applying
venussquarevertex3.77°applying
venussquaremars4.10°applying
moonconjunctionvertex4.40°applying
moonconjunctionmars4.73°applying
venussquarenorth-node5.25°applying
venustrineneptune5.51°applying
moonoppositionjupiter5.64°separating
moonoppositionnorth-node5.88°applying
neptunesemisquarepluto0.18°separating
plutoquincunxlilith0.20°applying
neptunesemisextilenorth-node0.26°applying
sunquintilepluto0.29°separating
mercurybiquintilechiron0.30°separating
jupitersemisquareuranus0.35°applying
uranusbiquintilevertex0.69°applying
sunquincunxpart-of-fortune0.84°separating
marsbiquintileuranus1.02°separating
marsquincunxneptune1.41°applying
neptunesemisquarechiron1.53°separating
saturnquincunxchiron1.73°separating
neptunequincunxvertex1.74°applying
venusquincunxpart-of-fortune2.13°applying