Josef Masopust’s birth chart
Born 9 February 1931, in Most, Czech Republic. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Aquarius Sun · Scorpio Moon
Josef Masopust’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
9 February 1931 was a Monday: the day Josef Masopust was born in Most, Czech Republic. Their zodiac sign was Aquarius, with the Moon in Scorpio. Josef died on 29 June 2015, aged 84. StarMap has no verified birth time for Josef, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
Earth carries the most weight: four of the ten planets, against water three, fire two and air one. Cardinal signs hold six, fixed signs three and mutable signs one. Capricorn holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Mercury, Venus and Saturn. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Jupiter and Uranus: a square, about 0.9° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Four planets were retrograde: Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. The Moon was at its last quarter.
StarMap's dataset holds 26 other people born on 9 February, among them J. M. Coetzee, Alice Walker and Tom Hiddleston. Thomas Bernhard was born on the very same day.
See the sky the day Josef was born: the stars over Most, Czech Republic, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Josef Masopust’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Aquarius
about 19° Aquarius at midday
An Aquarius Sun sees differently. Ideas ahead of their time, a wide circle of friends and a stubborn streak of independence are the marks of this placement in Josef Masopust's chart. The growth is letting people close without feeling caged.
Moon sign
Scorpio
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
The Moon in Scorpio feels everything and shows little. For Josef that suggests trust that is slow, private and absolute; betrayal, once it happens, is not forgotten. This Moon is restored by intimacy without performance and by time alone to let things move.
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 Most, Czech Republic, at each hour of the day.
Josef Masopust’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Josef 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 9 February 1931, computed for Most, Czech Republic.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:30 | Scorpio rising |
| 02:30 to 05:00 | Sagittarius rising |
| 05:00 to 06:45 | Capricorn rising |
| 06:45 to 08:00 | Aquarius rising |
| 08:00 to 08:50 | Pisces rising |
| 08:50 to 09:45 | Aries rising |
| 09:45 to 10:55 | Taurus rising |
| 10:55 to 12:45 | Gemini rising |
| 12:45 to 15:15 | Cancer rising |
| 15:15 to 18:00 | Leo rising |
| 18:00 to 20:50 | Virgo rising |
| 20:50 to 23:40 | Libra rising |
| 23:40 to 24:00 | Scorpio 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 9 February 1931, 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 | 19° Aquarius 44' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Scorpio |
| Mercury | 27° Capricorn 09' |
| Venus | 3° Capricorn 04' |
| Mars | 2° Leo 07'℞ |
| Jupiter | 11° Cancer 32'℞ |
| Saturn | 18° Capricorn 14' |
| Uranus | 12° Aries 28' |
| Neptune | 4° Virgo 48'℞ |
| Pluto | 19° Cancer 12'℞ |
| North Node | 16° Aries 08' |
| South Node | 16° Libra 08' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Josef Masopust’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Josef Masopust’s private life.
Josef Masopust's purpose, with the Sun in Aquarius, probably lies in being useful to a group or an idea bigger than themselves, with a vitality that rises around causes and communities. The tension can be detaching from their own needs while championing everyone else's. It is the placement of the reliable one at meetings who is the hardest person to reach one to one.
For Josef, the Moon in Scorpio means emotional needs that run deep and private, and a preference for managing a hard feeling alone over explaining it while it is still raw. Trust builds slowly and is rarely given back once broken. Even among the people closest to them, this Moon is likely to need real privacy.
Mercury in Capricorn thinks methodically, and Josef tends to communicate in a measured, practical way that people trust. The focus on a useful conclusion can be so strong that ideas which have not yet proven their worth are dismissed. Josef will often get straight to the point in a conversation other people expected to be casual.
For Josef, 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.
Mars in Leo acts with confidence and wants the effort to be visible, and for Josef its anger is likely to flare when pride or loyalty is challenged. The tension is turning a disagreement into a matter of ego. Criticism of the work can feel personal to a Leo Mars, even when it was not meant that way.
Jupiter in Cancer
11° Cancer 32' at midday ℞
growth and excess
For Josef, 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.
Saturn is at home in Capricorn, a placement that builds discipline as naturally as breathing and often takes on responsibility earlier than most. The doubt, for Josef, may be never quite believing that enough has been achieved to relax. Others tend to recognise this kind of authority well before it is claimed.
Uranus in Aries
12° Aries 28' at midday
freedom, generational
Uranus spends about seven years in each sign, so Josef shares Uranus in Aries with many people of a similar age. It marks a generation that pushes for change through direct, individual action rather than waiting for permission. In one life it can appear as impatience with the slow-moving institutions older generations built.
Neptune in Virgo
4° Virgo 48' at midday ℞
imagination, generational
Neptune moves slowly, so Josef shares its place in Virgo with people born years either side. The imagination of this generation turns towards service, craft and idealised routines of self-improvement. In one life it can mean chasing an impossibly perfect daily practice.
Pluto in Cancer
19° Cancer 12' at midday ℞
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Josef 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 Josef Masopust’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.
Jupiter square Uranus
about 0.9° at midday
An appetite for growth can turn erratic under Jupiter square Uranus, with sudden changes of direction that leave earlier plans unfinished. The instinct for change this square gives Josef Masopust is a good one, and it does most when channelled into fewer, more deliberate moves that get to see the finish line.
Saturn opposition Pluto
about 1.0° at midday
Josef may be torn between maintaining careful control and a deeper need to let something be transformed, even at the price of some of the structure they built. Allowing change without treating it as failure tends to resolve more than holding on tighter.
Venus trine Neptune
about 1.7° at midday
Josef is likely to love with a romantic, artistic quality that comes naturally, because affection and imagination flow together under this trine. Compassion and creativity arrive easily, and the people nearby tend to feel cared for as a result.
Mercury opposition Mars
about 5.0° at midday
Josef is likely to hold a point of view firmly and, with Mercury opposite Mars, to argue it harder than the moment calls for. Listening as actively as they argue resolves more than winning the point does.
Saturn square Uranus
about 5.8° at midday
The need for stability and the need for freedom can clash in Josef's chart, producing either rigid routines that eventually snap or sudden breaks from commitments that were meant sincerely. Saturn square Uranus is best answered with structure loose enough to bend before it has to break.
Jupiter opposition Saturn
about 6.7° at midday
Josef is likely to feel two instincts at once: to expand into new opportunities, and to consolidate what is already in hand. Neither is wrong, and with Jupiter opposite Saturn a deliberate alternation between them tends to work better than treating it as a permanent choice.
The rest, listed without a reading. Those between Uranus, Neptune and Pluto hold for years at a time, so everyone born while one holds shares it.
- Uranus square Plutoabout 6.7°
- Jupiter conjunction Plutoabout 7.7°
Aquarius Sun and Scorpio Moon, like Josef Masopust
Also born on 9 February
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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