Barack Obama's Birth Chart

Each, with its share of simulated 1960s births: the Moon close to an angle, five degrees or less (about one chart in 9); Venus with no major aspect (about one chart in 13); the annular solar eclipse of August 11, 1961, six days on (any eclipse within a week: about one chart in 6); the Sun in Leo, its own sign (about one chart in 12); eight planets west of the meridian (that many or more: about one chart in 8); Jupiter in the first degree of Aquarius (any classical planet in a first degree: about one chart in 5); Saturn at home in Capricorn (about 45%); a seesaw shape (about 37%).

Five of the eight hold all day. The western count runs only from 6:02 PM, when Neptune leaves the 10th house, to 7:43 PM, when the Moon reaches the 3rd house; the eclipse falls inside a week for births after 12:39 AM.

The time rests on a birth record: Hawaii's long-form Certificate of Live Birth, file 151 61 10641, accepted by the local registrar on August 8, 1961, which gives 7:24 PM at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital. A copy certified on April 25, 2011, went up on the White House site two days later beside the 2008 short form, which carries the same hour; no cited source offers another.

Honolulu clocks read Hawaii Standard Time, UTC−10, having shed a half hour in 1947 and daylight saving in 1945, which puts the birth at 05:24 UTC on August 5, 1961. The Moon had entered Gemini from Taurus at 1:03 PM, and only an earlier birth changes its sign.

Astrologers tie the IC, the lowest angle, to home and origins. It falls at 28°55′ Taurus, with the Moon just over the sign line at 3°21′ Gemini in the 4th house. Before 7:21:37 PM the gap exceeds five degrees; 5 minutes after the recorded time the IC itself crosses into Gemini, and 20 minutes after it the Moon slips into the 3rd house.

Jupiter, retrograde at 0°51′ Aquarius, was backing toward Capricorn by 0°07′ a day. Venus has the greatest declination, 21°38′ north, 1°48′ short of out-of-bounds; no planet passes that limit.

No hour of the day gives Venus, at 1°47′ Cancer, a major aspect to any planet; a quincunx to Jupiter, 0°55′ wide, is its one planetary contact. The chart's tightest contact, Saturn quincunx Uranus, is minor too; the closest major ones are the Moon sextile Mercury, within 1°01′, and Mercury opposite Jupiter, within 1°28′.

Jupiter and Saturn, both in the 12th house, are the only planets east of the meridian; the other eight lie west beyond empty arcs of 122°29′ and 76°43′, the seesaw of Marc Edmund Jones, which holds whatever the hour. Hemisphere readers tie a western majority to aims pursued through others. The twelve counted points give each element three, yet seven sit in fixed signs.

Day or night depends on the Sun's center, which touched the horizon at 7:04 PM, before the 7:08 PM sunset; any later birth gives a night sect chart, with the Sun in the 6th house.

At night Hellenistic sect favors the Moon, Venus and Mars, leaving the dignified Sun and Saturn out of sect. Mars, fast and in sect at 22°34′ Virgo in the 7th house, tops the site's strength ranking on triplicity, term and an angular house. Mercury is under the beams, 10°12′ from the Sun.

Whitney Houston's chart sits nearest among the databank's pages, on the Leo Sun alone; Lionel Messi and Priyanka Chopra follow on the Gemini Moon, Jennifer Lopez on the Leo Sun and a Mercury within two degrees.

Subtracting Lahiri's ayanamsa of 23°19′ leaves the Moon on 10°02′ Taurus and the rising degree on 24°45′ Capricorn: a Vrishabha Moon, exalted in Jyotish, and a Makara lagna until 7:41 PM. The Sun falls back into Karka (Cancer), and Jupiter joins Saturn in Capricorn.

Saturn's first return spanned three passes, from May 1, 1990, through a retrograde loop, to December 29, 1990; the second, on February 3, 2020, needed one. Jupiter has returned five times so far, last on December 23, 2020.

Placidus houses and tropical signs are figured for 21°18′ N, 157°50′ W, the Punahou Street site of Kapi'olani Medical Center, the hospital's successor; each rate counts simulated 1960s births scattered over random times and places.