Yaşar Kemal’s birth chart
Born 6 October 1923, in Gökçedam, Turkey. StarMap has no verified birth time yet.
Libra Sun · Leo Moon
Yaşar Kemal’s zodiac sign and chart, in brief
Yaşar Kemal was born on Saturday, 6 October 1923, in Gökçedam, Turkey. That made Yaşar a Libra, with the Moon in Leo. Yaşar died on 28 February 2015, aged 91. StarMap has no verified birth time for Yaşar, so the chart is cast for midday and leaves the houses out.
By element the count is three air, three water, two fire and two earth. Cardinal signs hold four, fixed signs three and mutable signs three. Libra holds a stellium, three planets in one sign: Sun, Venus and Saturn. No two planets sit closer to an exact angle than Sun and Pluto: a square, about 0.3° from exact at midday. Aspects to the Moon are not counted, because the Moon moves about thirteen degrees in a day. Two planets were retrograde: Mercury and Uranus. The Moon was a waning crescent.
StarMap's dataset holds 11 other people born on 6 October, among them Thor Heyerdahl, Janet Gaynor and Elisabeth Shue.
See the sky the day Yaşar was born: the stars over Gökçedam, Turkey, drawn as a star map with the date and the place beneath.
Yaşar Kemal’s Sun, Moon and rising sign
Sun sign
Libra
about 12° Libra at midday
A Libra Sun balances. Fairness, beauty and the quality of relationships tend to shape Yaşar Kemal's decisions, and this is a placement that can see both sides of almost anything. The growth lies in choosing a side when it counts.
Moon sign
Leo
in this sign all day; the degree depends on the birth time
A Leo Moon feels with its whole heart and needs that to be noticed. Warm attention tends to fill Yaşar up, and being overlooked can empty them faster than anything. Play, creativity and loyal friends usually bring them back to themselves.
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 Gökçedam, Turkey, at each hour of the day.
Yaşar Kemal’s rising sign, by birth time
StarMap has not verified a birth time for Yaşar 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 6 October 1923, computed for Gökçedam, Turkey.
| Born around (local time) | Rising sign |
|---|---|
| 00:00 to 02:15 | Leo rising |
| 02:15 to 04:40 | Virgo rising |
| 04:40 to 07:10 | Libra rising |
| 07:10 to 09:35 | Scorpio rising |
| 09:35 to 11:55 | Sagittarius rising |
| 11:55 to 13:55 | Capricorn rising |
| 13:55 to 15:25 | Aquarius rising |
| 15:25 to 16:40 | Pisces rising |
| 16:40 to 17:55 | Aries rising |
| 17:55 to 19:25 | Taurus rising |
| 19:25 to 21:20 | Gemini rising |
| 21:20 to 23:40 | Cancer rising |
| 23:40 to 24:00 | Leo 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 6 October 1923, 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 | 12° Libra 07' |
|---|---|
| Moon | Leo |
| Mercury | 29° Virgo 04'℞ |
| Venus | 19° Libra 02' |
| Mars | 22° Virgo 30' |
| Jupiter | 19° Scorpio 26' |
| Saturn | 21° Libra 42' |
| Uranus | 14° Pisces 32'℞ |
| Neptune | 19° Leo 45' |
| Pluto | 12° Cancer 22' |
| North Node | 11° Virgo 11' |
| South Node | 11° Pisces 11' |
Positions at midday, local time. Without a birth time there are no houses.
Yaşar Kemal’s planets, sign by sign
Each planet by sign: what the placement is traditionally taken to mean, not a claim about Yaşar Kemal’s private life.
With the Sun in Libra, Yaşar Kemal's vitality is likely to rise in good company, and purpose to feel real when they are creating balance or beauty with other people. The risk is losing their own direction while managing everyone else's. Deciding alone is probably harder for them than deciding with a second opinion in the room.
A Leo Moon needs warmth and acknowledgement worked into everyday life, not just on big occasions. A day with no one noticing can drain Yaşar faster than a hard day with an audience. The mood tends to lift visibly the moment someone compliments something small Yaşar did.
For Yaşar, Mercury in Virgo points to thinking that is precise and attentive to detail, and to clear communication, because the facts have usually been checked first. The catch is fixating on a small error and losing sight of the larger point. This is the placement that edits a message three times before sending something everyone else would have sent in one go.
Venus in Libra loves with an instinct for balance and partnership, and Yaşar probably values harmony, fairness and someone who makes an effort to look good together. The risk with this Venus is staying in a relationship for the sake of the pairing itself. Yaşar may give up a personal preference before anyone has even asked.
Mars in Virgo acts carefully and precisely, preferring to get a task right over getting it done fast, and its anger usually comes from things being done sloppily. When upset, Yaşar is more likely to criticise than to confront. A clipped tone often signals frustration well before anything is said directly.
Jupiter in Scorpio
19° Scorpio 26' at midday
growth and excess
Jupiter in Scorpio grows by facing what is difficult rather than avoiding it, even when that is the harder road at the time. The overreach, for Yaşar, may be an intensity that turns a manageable situation into an all-consuming one. The resilience tends to be noticed only after the hard part is over.
For Yaşar, Saturn in Libra means discipline built around relationships, and fairness and commitment are trusted slowly. The doubt is overthinking whether a partnership is truly equal. With time, people with this Saturn tend to become the ones others rely on to negotiate and to keep things fair.
Uranus in Pisces
14° Pisces 32' at midday ℞
freedom, generational
Yaşar 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
19° Leo 45' at midday
imagination, generational
Neptune in Leo is the imagination of an age group, not of Yaşar 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
12° Cancer 22' at midday
power, generational
Pluto in Cancer dates Yaşar 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 Yaşar Kemal’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 Pluto
about 0.3° at midday
With this aspect, Yaşar Kemal's identity can get entangled in struggles over control, whether inwardly or with people who challenge them. Whenever Yaşar chooses to change rather than to dominate, the friction turns into hard-won strength they can rely on the next time things get difficult.
Jupiter square Neptune
about 0.3° at midday
Jupiter square Neptune lets optimism drift into wishful thinking, and plans can end up built more on hope than on a clear reading of the situation. For Yaşar the answer may be to keep hoping and to pair that hope with an honest look at the details.
Venus sextile Neptune
about 0.7° at midday
Romance and creative warmth tend to be within easy reach for Yaşar, thanks to a gentle working link between affection and imagination. The tenderness is soft and pleasant, not an intense longing, and it is the sort that makes ordinary moments with someone feel a little more meaningful.
Saturn sextile Neptune
about 2.0° at midday
Yaşar's ideas tend to take a workable, grounded shape without losing their spark, a result of the gentle alliance between discipline and imagination in this sextile. It is a quiet, practical creativity, and it usually produces something people can use and not just admire.
Venus conjunction Saturn
about 2.7° at midday
Venus conjunct Saturn describes a serious, committed way of loving, and Yaşar is likely to treat a relationship as something to build, not simply to enjoy. Loyalty comes with it. So does the harder task of trusting that affection can be deserved before it has been worked for.
Mars sextile Jupiter
about 3.1° at midday
There is confident, well-aimed energy in this sextile, and not much wasted effort, since Yaşar's drive and optimism pull together. Taking the initiative suits Yaşar, above all when they commit to one goal and do not scatter their energy across several.
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 trine Plutoabout 2.2°
- Jupiter trine Uranusabout 4.9°
- Mercury conjunction Marsabout 6.6°
- Sun conjunction Venusabout 6.9°
Libra Sun and Leo Moon, like Yaşar Kemal
Also born on 6 October
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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