Helmut Schmidt’s birth chart
Born 23 December 1918, in Hamburg, Germany, at 22:15 (Rodden AA).
Capricorn Sun · Virgo Moon · Virgo rising
Helmut Schmidt’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
23 December 1918 was a Monday: the day Helmut Schmidt was born in Hamburg, Germany. That made Helmut a Capricorn, with the Moon in Virgo and Virgo rising. Helmut died on 10 November 2015, aged 96. The birth time, 22:15, 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 fire signs, three in earth, two in air and two in water. Across cardinal, fixed and mutable signs the split is four, four and two. Closest of the aspects is the opposition between Venus and Pluto, 2.8° from exact. Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde. The Moon was waning gibbous, between full and last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds eight other people born on 23 December, among them Carla Bruni, Mamnoon Hussain and Vicente del Bosque.
See the sky the night Helmut was born: the stars over Hamburg, Germany at 22:15, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Helmut Schmidt’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Capricorn
1° Capricorn 15'
A Capricorn Sun endures. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour are what tend to carry Helmut Schmidt up long slopes other people give up on. The placement learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.
Moon sign
Virgo
15° Virgo 54'
A Virgo Moon feels by fixing. When something is wrong, Helmut is likely to look for the practical cause and to calm down by tidying, planning or being useful. The lesson of this Moon is to accept help without a to-do list attached.
Rising sign
Virgo
9° Virgo 40'
Virgo rising gives Helmut a first impression that is precise, observant and modest. People tend to trust the judgement of a Virgo rising and sometimes mistake that reserve for coolness, until they see how much help is on offer.
The chart wheel
Drawn for 22:15 on 23 December 1918, with the eastern horizon on the left. How to read a chart wheel
Placements
| Sun | 1° Capricorn 15' | House 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon | 15° Virgo 54' | House 1 |
| Mercury | 19° Sagittarius 39'℞ | House 4 |
| Venus | 8° Capricorn 28' | House 4 |
| Mars | 2° Aquarius 44' | House 5 |
| Jupiter | 12° Cancer 01'℞ | House 11 |
| Saturn | 28° Leo 04'℞ | House 12 |
| Uranus | 24° Aquarius 49' | House 6 |
| Neptune | 8° Leo 52'℞ | House 11 |
| Pluto | 5° Cancer 41'℞ | House 10 |
| North Node | 12° Sagittarius 53' | House 4 |
| South Node | 12° Gemini 53' | House 10 |
Helmut Schmidt’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign and house: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Helmut Schmidt’s private life.
Sun in Capricorn
1° Capricorn 15' · fourth house
purpose and vitality
With the Sun in Capricorn, Helmut Schmidt is likely to find purpose in building a reputation and a structure that will outlast them, with a vitality that is steady rather than showy. The trap can be measuring their worth by output alone. They may well work through tiredness instead of naming it, until someone else has to point it out.
The Sun in the fourth house places home and family at the centre of a person's sense of self, and for Helmut it points to roots that may matter more than any job title or public reputation. People with this placement tend to think best within four walls they have made their own.
Moon in Virgo
15° Virgo 54' · first house
needs and habits
The Moon in Virgo runs towards order, and a messy space or an unfinished list can unsettle Helmut's mood more than most people would guess. Small, useful tasks are calming. The trouble can start when Helmut's own needs become another chore to get right instead of something to enjoy.
The Moon in the first house tends to make Helmut's moods visible almost immediately, so that how they feel colours how they come across before a single word has been said. Other people are apt to read that emotional weather quickly, sometimes before it has been named.
Mercury in Sagittarius
19° Sagittarius 39' ℞ · fourth house
mind and voice
Helmut's Mercury in Sagittarius thinks in big, connective leaps and communicates with enthusiasm and a wide frame of reference drawn from everywhere they have been. The weak point is generalising past what the details support. A specific question may get a sweeping theory nobody quite asked for.
Mercury in the fourth house turns the mind towards home, family and origins, and for Helmut 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 Capricorn
8° Capricorn 28' · fourth house
love and values
For Helmut, Venus in Capricorn means loving in a measured, committed way and valuing stability, ambition and someone to build a life with. The trap is treating a relationship like a project to manage rather than let unfold. With this Venus, love comes out more easily as providing and planning than as words said out loud.
Venus in the fourth house wants a home that feels beautiful and welcoming, and Helmut probably puts steady care into making it that way for themselves and for guests. The placement puts a high value on harmony at home, so discord there is apt to be felt quickly.
Mars in Aquarius
2° Aquarius 44' · fifth house
drive and anger
Mars in Aquarius acts on principle, and its anger surfaces most over unfairness or hypocrisy rather than personal slights. Helmut can detach from a conflict so thoroughly that the other person feels shut out. The issue tends to get argued with heat while the relationship itself is treated with strange calm.
With Mars in the fifth house, Helmut is apt to go after what excites them without much hesitation, and creative and romantic pursuits can carry intensity. The placement brings competition and passion alive in this part of life, and is rarely satisfied by a half-hearted effort.
Jupiter in Cancer
12° Cancer 01' ℞ · eleventh house
growth and excess
For Helmut, Jupiter in Cancer means growing by nurturing others and building a home that people want to return to. The excess can be protecting loved ones past the point they need it. Generosity here takes the form of home-cooked meals, open doors and an instinct to take in anyone who needs somewhere to land.
With Jupiter in the eleventh house, Helmut brings enthusiasm to the causes and community projects that catch their interest, and keeps a wide and varied circle of friends. In a group working towards a shared goal, that enthusiasm spreads.
Saturn in Leo
28° Leo 04' ℞ · twelfth house
discipline and doubt
Saturn in Leo builds discipline around self-expression, and in Helmut's chart this placement often starts with a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. The doubt tends to show as playing down achievements before anyone else can. The confidence this placement builds is hard-won and unshowy, and it tends to arrive once the waiting for permission stops.
Saturn in the twelfth house puts a quiet discipline into Helmut's private life, and solitude can feel like a duty before it slowly becomes a source of strength. Saturn here makes facing what is unresolved within slow work, and the peace it brings is likely to be hard-won.
Uranus in Aquarius
24° Aquarius 49' · sixth house
freedom, generational
Uranus is at home in Aquarius, and many people born in the years around Helmut'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.
With Uranus in the sixth house, Helmut is often the inventive one at work, finding shortcuts or better systems that other people miss. A rigid, unchanging routine is apt to wear on Helmut faster than on most, however sensible it looks.
Neptune in Leo
8° Leo 52' ℞ · eleventh house
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Helmut 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.
Friendships and causes with an idealistic edge draw Helmut, who may hold a vision for their community that reaches well beyond the practical. With Neptune in the eleventh house, disappointment can follow when a group falls short of that vision, even when its effort was sincere.
Pluto in Cancer
5° Cancer 41' ℞ · tenth house
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Helmut 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.
Influence may matter more to Helmut than surface status, and with Pluto in the tenth house, a working life that stops meaning something may well be reinvented. Pluto here is associated with caring more about public power than public popularity, two things that are easy to confuse.
Aspects in Helmut Schmidt’s chart
How the planets stand to each other, tightest first.
Venus opposition Pluto
2.8° separating
A wish for deep intimacy meets a fear of losing oneself, or losing control, inside it: that is the pattern of Venus opposite Pluto. For Helmut Schmidt, choosing vulnerability a little at a time, instead of guarding against it, tends to build the very depth being sought.
Sun trine Saturn
3.2° separating
Effort and identity feel like the same project under a Sun-Saturn trine, because Helmut's sense of self and capacity for discipline reinforce each other. What they build tends to last, since ambition and patience are already in agreement.
Saturn opposition Uranus
3.2° applying
Saturn opposite Uranus wants stability, and wants enough freedom that the stability never starts to feel like a cage. For Helmut, building in room to change course from the start tends to work better than choosing one need and resenting the other later.
Venus opposition Jupiter
3.6° applying
With Venus opposite Jupiter, Helmut's own taste can pull against other people's grander expectations of romance or generosity, and the temptation is to overextend to meet them. Trusting a private sense of what is enough works better than matching someone else's scale.
Moon square Mercury
3.8° applying
Instinct and logic sometimes pull in different directions when the Moon is square Mercury, and Helmut may overthink a feeling or dismiss a good instinct because it is not fully rational. Letting both weigh in improves their judgement.
Moon sextile Jupiter
3.9° separating
An unforced optimism runs through Helmut's emotional life, because feeling and the sense of possibility work easily together. With the Moon sextile Jupiter, comfort and hope tend to arrive together, and a bad day rarely takes both away at once.
The rest, listed without a reading.
- Sun opposition Pluto4.4°
- Mars opposition Neptune6.1°
- Jupiter conjunction Pluto6.3°
- Sun conjunction Venus7.2°
- Moon trine Venus7.4°
Capricorn Sun and Virgo Moon, like Helmut Schmidt
Also born on 23 December
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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