Fidel Castro’s birth chart
Born 13 August 1926, in Birán, Cuba. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Leo Sun · Libra Moon
Fidel Castro’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba, on 13 August 1926, a Friday. Their zodiac sign was Leo, with the Moon in Libra. Fidel died on 25 November 2016, aged 90. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet, so the chart is cast for midday on that date and has no houses.
By element the count is four water, three fire, two air and one earth. Fixed signs hold six, cardinal signs three and mutable signs one. Sun, Mercury and Neptune all fall in Leo. Closest of the aspects is the square between Sun and Saturn, about 0.4° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Three planets were retrograde: Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus. The Moon was a waxing crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds eight other people born on 13 August, among them Alan Shearer, Sridevi and Sebastian Stan.
See the sky the day Fidel was born: the stars over Birán, Cuba, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Fidel Castro’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Leo
about 20° Leo at midday
A Leo Sun shines. For Fidel Castro that suggests warmth, generosity and a need to be seen for who they really are, running through much of what they do. This placement grows by learning that the light is not diminished when it is shared.
Moon sign
Libra
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Libra Moon feels through relationship. Harmony nearby tends to settle Fidel, and conflict, even other people's, can unsettle them. What restores this Moon is beauty, fairness, and one person who truly listens.
Rising sign
The rising sign changes about every two hours, so it cannot be known without a birth time. The table below shows which sign was rising over Birán, Cuba, at each hour of the day.
Fidel Castro’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Fidel yet. It shows a birth time only when Astro-Databank rates it AA, A or B on the Rodden scale (AA from a birth certificate or record, A from the person, someone close to them or a news report, B from a biography). Until then, this is the rising sign for every possible time of birth on 13 August 1926, computed for Birán, Cuba.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:05 | Gemini rising |
| 02:05 to 04:15 | Cancer rising |
| 04:15 to 06:30 | Leo rising |
| 06:30 to 08:40 | Virgo rising |
| 08:40 to 10:50 | Libra rising |
| 10:50 to 13:00 | Scorpio rising |
| 13:00 to 15:15 | Sagittarius rising |
| 15:15 to 17:20 | Capricorn rising |
| 17:20 to 19:05 | Aquarius rising |
| 19:05 to 20:35 | Pisces rising |
| 20:35 to 22:10 | Aries rising |
| 22:10 to 23:55 | Taurus rising |
| 23:55 to 24:00 | Gemini rising |
Times are rounded to five minutes. Close to a boundary, a few minutes either way change the answer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for midday on 13 August 1926, with only the aspects that held all day. The Moon may stand up to eight degrees either side of where it is drawn. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 20° Leo 10' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Libra |
| Mercury | 10° Leo 17'℞ |
| Venus | 24° Cancer 33' |
| Mars | 6° Taurus 26' |
| Jupiter | 22° Aquarius 29'℞ |
| Saturn | 19° Scorpio 44' |
| Uranus | 28° Pisces 50'℞ |
| Neptune | 24° Leo 21' |
| Pluto | 15° Cancer 10' |
| North Node | 15° Cancer 50' |
| South Node | 15° Capricorn 50' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Fidel Castro’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Fidel Castro’s private life.
Purpose for Fidel Castro is probably tied to creating and being seen doing it, and a Leo Sun's vitality rises the moment there is an audience, even an audience of one. The tension is losing steam when no one is watching. The giveaway is often the extra effort that goes into something the moment someone notices them making it.
A Libra Moon needs harmony in the immediate surroundings to feel settled day to day, and a tense conversation nearby can throw off Fidel's whole afternoon. Comfort comes from pleasant company and pleasant spaces. The habit to watch is smoothing things over before they have worked out what they want.
Mercury in Leo gives Fidel a mind that thinks in confident, story-shaped terms and communicates with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. Attachment to being right can make Fidel more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.
Venus in Cancer loves by nurturing, and for Fidel that suggests valuing emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. Old hurts tend to linger here long after the person who caused them has changed. This is a Venus that feeds people, checks on people and quietly keeps score of who has shown up in return.
Mars in Taurus acts deliberately and sticks with a course once chosen, and its anger builds slowly but takes a long time to cool once it arrives. At times Fidel may dig in out of stubbornness rather than conviction. It takes real provocation to make this Mars snap, and the rattled feeling tends to last a while afterwards.
Jupiter in Aquarius
22° Aquarius 29' at midday ℞
growth and excess
Jupiter in Aquarius grows through community, ideas and causes bigger than one life. Fidel may put so much trust in a theory or a group that its practical flaws are overlooked. Optimism about the future can make them a natural organiser of other people's efforts.
Saturn in Scorpio builds its discipline around trust and control, and for Fidel letting go of either is unlikely to come easily. The doubt is bracing for betrayal even in relationships that have given no reason for it. Comfort with vulnerability can come in the end, and the work it takes is seldom seen by others.
Uranus in Pisces
28° Pisces 50' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Fidel has Uranus in Pisces in common with a generation. That generation transforms spirituality, art and collective imagination, often blurring boundaries that earlier ones kept firm. In one person it may be noticed as an openness to ideas that resist neat categories.
Neptune in Leo
24° Leo 21' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Fidel alone. It dreams in terms of fame, spectacle and larger-than-life self-expression. The trace of it in one person is a pull towards performance as a way of feeling real.
Pluto in Cancer
15° Cancer 10' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Fidel to an era rather than describing one person. Those born in it live through deep transformation of family, home and nationhood. What an individual may carry is intensity around belonging and who counts as family.
Aspects in Fidel Castro’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first. Without a birth time the orbs are those at midday, and aspects to the Moon are left out because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day.
Sun square Saturn
about 0.4° at midday
With the Sun square Saturn, confidence meets resistance, often in the form of self-doubt or an authority figure whose approval feels hard to win. When Fidel Castro pushes through it anyway, the achievement means more because it was tested.
Jupiter opposition Neptune
about 1.9° at midday
The choice, as this opposition frames it for Fidel, is between pursuing a real opportunity and getting lost chasing an idealised version that does not quite exist. Testing an exciting idea against the plain facts protects the optimism; it does not undermine it.
Sun opposition Jupiter
about 2.3° at midday
The Sun opposite Jupiter can leave Fidel torn between their own direction and the draw of other people's philosophies, mentors and offers. Finding their own confidence rather than borrowing someone else's is what turns this pull into growth they can stand behind.
Jupiter square Saturn
about 2.7° at midday
Enthusiasm for growth can run into limits here, whether practical or self-imposed, and to Fidel it may feel as though ambition keeps outrunning the time and energy available. Jupiter square Saturn works best when the limit is treated as a pace-setter and not as a wall.
Mercury square Mars
about 3.8° at midday
With Mercury square Mars, thought and impulse can clash, and sharp words get said before Fidel has fully thought them through. The remedy is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.
Sun conjunction Neptune
about 4.2° at midday
A Sun-Neptune conjunction tends to make Fidel's sense of self porous and imaginative, drawn towards ideals, art or causes bigger than everyday life. Compassion and creativity come with it, and so does the task of keeping a clear enough sense of who they are underneath the dream.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Venus trine Uranusabout 4.3°
- Saturn trine Plutoabout 4.6°
- Saturn square Neptuneabout 4.6°
- Venus trine Saturnabout 4.8°
Leo Sun and Libra Moon, like Fidel Castro
Also born on 13 August
How this page is made
Planet positions are computed with the astronomy-engine ephemeris and checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata; birth times, where StarMap has one, come from Astro-Databank and are shown with their Rodden rating. The readings describe what a placement is traditionally taken to mean. They are written by StarMap for reflection and entertainment, not as statements about the person’s private life. New to charts? How to read a birth chart.
Birth data: Wikidata. StarMap has not verified a birth time yet. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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