Gerald Ford’s birth chart
Born 14 July 1913, in Omaha at 00:43 (Rodden AA).
Cancer Sun · Sagittarius Moon · Taurus rising
Gerald Ford’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Gerald Ford was born on Monday, 14 July 1913, in Omaha. That made Gerald a Cancer, with the Moon in Sagittarius and Taurus rising. Gerald died on 26 December 2006, aged 93. The birth time, 00:43, comes from Astro-Databank with a Rodden rating of AA, which means it was quoted from a birth certificate or birth record.
Of the ten planets, three are in air signs, three in water, two in fire and two in earth. By modality the count is four cardinal, three fixed and three mutable. Three planets stand together in Cancer: Sun, Neptune and Pluto. Closest of the aspects is the trine between Venus and Uranus, 0.3° from exact. Jupiter and Uranus were retrograde. The Moon was waxing gibbous, between first quarter and full.
StarMap's dataset holds 16 other people born on 14 July, among them Ingmar Bergman, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Conor McGregor. Wikidata links Gerald with one person in the dataset: Betty Ford (married from 1948 until 2006).
See the sky the night Gerald was born: the stars over Omaha at 00:43, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Gerald Ford’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Cancer
21° Cancer 12'
A Cancer Sun protects. For Gerald Ford, home, memory and the people they have decided are theirs tend to sit at the centre of things, and they probably read a room before anyone speaks. Care is the strength of this Sun, and their task is to include themselves in it.
Moon sign
Sagittarius
3° Sagittarius 55'
A Sagittarius Moon feels best in motion. Open roads, new ideas and honest laughter probably lift Gerald, and being fenced in by other people's moods tends to weigh them down. This Moon needs room, and someone who thinks that is fine.
Rising sign
Taurus
13° Taurus 10'
With Taurus rising, the first impression of Gerald is calm, grounded and unhurried. People tend to relax around them and to assume that someone so settled is not going anywhere.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 00:43 on 14 July 1913, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 21° Cancer 12' | House 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 3° Sagittarius 55' | House 7 |
| Mercury | 16° Leo 08' | House 4 |
| Venus | 5° Gemini 52' | House 1 |
| Mars | 19° Taurus 34' | House 1 |
| Jupiter | 11° Capricorn 50'℞ | House 9 |
| Saturn | 13° Gemini 11' | House 2 |
| Uranus | 6° Aquarius 09'℞ | House 10 |
| Neptune | 25° Cancer 33' | House 4 |
| Pluto | 0° Cancer 06' | House 2 |
| North Node | 26° Pisces 33' | House 12 |
| South Node | 26° Virgo 33' | House 6 |
Gerald Ford’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Gerald Ford’s private life.
With the Sun in Cancer, Gerald Ford is likely to feel most alive when caring for people and places that matter to them, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. Feeling unneeded is the sore spot for this placement, and it can be taken personally. The whole day may go better after checking in on someone they love.
What energises Gerald is talking, writing and swapping ideas with whoever happens to be around that day. With the Sun in the third house, curiosity is not a side interest but close to the core of who they are, and a good conversation can change their whole mood.
The Moon in Sagittarius needs room to move and a bit of novelty in its routine to feel right. A schedule with no give in it can make Gerald edgy faster than most people expect. With this Moon, the next trip tends to be planned before the current one has finished.
With the Moon in the seventh house, Gerald is likely to feel most themselves inside a close partnership, reading the emotional temperature of a relationship constantly and by instinct. Too long alone can leave them unmoored, even when nothing is wrong.
Mercury in Leo gives Gerald 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 Gerald more persuasive than accurate. A simple update, in their hands, can become something closer to a performance.
Mercury in the fourth house turns the mind towards home, family and origins, and for Gerald conversations with family may carry more weight than usual. Mercury here is associated with a way of thinking shaped early, in ways a person goes on discovering as an adult.
Venus in Gemini loves through conversation, wit and mental connection, and tends to find a dull partner harder to stay with than a challenging one. Gerald probably values variety and being kept interested. Attention may wander with this Venus, and that can be treated as more serious than it is. Banter is the natural way to flirt here, more than anything more direct.
Venus in the first house is associated with warmth and charm in a person's manner, and Gerald is likely to come across as easy to like before much else is known. Personal style, whatever form it takes, is part of the appeal with this placement and not an accessory to it.
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 Gerald 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.
For Gerald, action comes first and thought later, with an energy that is direct, physical and hard to miss when they walk into a room. Someone with Mars in the first house is usually seen as a person who moves the moment a decision is made, rarely one who lingers over it.
Jupiter in Capricorn
11° Capricorn 50' ℞ · ninth house
growth and excess
Jupiter in Capricorn grows through long-term discipline, and Gerald would probably rather build slowly and properly than quickly. The overreach is taking on more responsibility than any one person should reasonably carry. The authority this Jupiter brings is slow and hard-won, the kind people tend to trust more the longer they know someone.
The ninth house is Jupiter's natural home, and travel, higher learning and big philosophical questions excite Gerald more than almost anything else. Someone with this placement is often the first to say yes to the unplanned trip or the ambitious course of study.
Saturn in Gemini builds discipline around clear expression, and it often begins with doubt about whether an idea is good enough to say out loud. For Gerald that would mean overpreparing before speaking or writing anything. Once the self-consciousness eases, the result can be someone unusually precise and credible with words.
With Saturn in the second house, Gerald takes what they own and what they value seriously, and a person with this placement can be more anxious about having enough than the situation calls for. Security, for them, comes from building something slowly and seeing exactly what it rests on.
Uranus in Aquarius
6° Aquarius 09' ℞ · tenth house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Gerald's birth have it too. The generation is defined by rapid technological and social change within a single lifetime. One person's share of it is an unusually easy relationship with disruption and reinvention.
Gerald's working life may look less linear than most, because they prefer work that lets them innovate to work that follows an established script. Uranus in the tenth house would rather be known for being different than for fitting an existing mould.
Neptune in Cancer
25° Cancer 33' · fourth house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Cancer is shared by Gerald and many people born in the same decade or so. The generation idealises home and family, often carrying a wider nostalgia for a version of belonging that may never quite have existed. Personally it can be a soft-focus longing for a childhood home.
Gerald is likely to be sensitive to the underlying mood of a household in ways that other people in the same room often miss. With Neptune in the fourth house, home can take on an idealised or slightly hazy quality, and the sense of family is apt to be more emotional than literal.
Pluto in Cancer
0° Cancer 06' · second house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Gerald 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.
Pluto in the second house means Gerald holds their values with intensity; the placement is associated with rebuilding a sense of what matters from the ground up. Security comes from the inside for them and not from anything they own, and what they value they value completely.
Aspects in Gerald Ford’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus trine Uranus
0.3° applying
Closeness does not have to feel confining for Gerald Ford, because under this trine affection and independence sit easily together. Excitement and stability manage to coexist, more comfortably than the usual choice between the two would suggest.
Sun sextile Mars
1.6° separating
Gerald's identity and energy work together, giving them an easy confidence that is there when they decide to use it. With this aspect, taking the initiative comes more naturally than might be expected, especially when the stakes are theirs to own.
Moon opposition Venus
1.9° applying
What Gerald needs and what keeps a relationship pleasant do not always match, and with the Moon opposite Venus the temptation is to soften a feeling to avoid friction. Naming a need plainly serves a relationship better than protecting it from that need.
Moon sextile Uranus
2.2° applying
Gerald probably has room to be emotionally honest without feeling boxed in, because feeling and an independent streak get along here. The result is an emotional life with air in it, where closeness and independence sit comfortably side by side.
Mercury sextile Saturn
2.9° separating
Turning a loose idea into something solid is easier with Mercury sextile Saturn, because Gerald's thinking and sense of structure work together. The clarity is quiet and practical, and it shows most when a plan has to work.
Mercury square Mars
3.4° separating
With Mercury square Mars, thought and impulse can clash, and sharp words get said before Gerald has fully thought them through. The remedy is a short pause between the thought and the sentence, which changes very little except the outcome.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Sun conjunction Neptune4.4°
- Venus conjunction Saturn7.3°
Gerald Ford in couples
Relationships as Wikidata records them, each with the match between the two charts.
Cancer Sun and Sagittarius Moon, like Gerald Ford
Also born on 14 July
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; the birth time comes from Astro-Databank and is shown with its 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, Astro-Databank (Quoted BC/BR). Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on the file page).
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