Donald Trump's Birth Chart

Ranked by astrological weight against frequency among 1940s births: Jupiter's station (about one chart in 11), a total lunar eclipse 3 hours 44 minutes after the birth (any eclipse within a week: about one chart in 6), Mercury out of bounds (about one chart in 8), no planet in earth (about one chart in 7), a waxing gibbous Moon (about one chart in 8), the Sun opposite the Moon (about one chart in 19), nine planets in the eastern half (eight or more: about one chart in 6) and a bucket shape (about one chart in 6).

The city certificate, no. 7624 for Queens, types the hour as 10:54 AM with P.M. struck out, and the Jamaica Hospital certificate repeats it by hand. Trump released the hospital copy on March 28, 2011 and the city copy a day later, both posted by Fox News; The Smoking Gun matched the number to the 1946 Queens birth index at the New York Public Library.

Neither names its clock, but New York City kept daylight time from April 28 to September 29, 1946, so the hour reads as Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−4. Landing within 20 minutes of a rising-sign change is common (about 33% of 1940s charts); landing within seconds is the real caution here.

A 9:51 AM time also circulates without a traced source, credited by a fact-check site to some astrologers and earlier data collectors. It keeps Leo rising, at 17°36′, but moves seven planets to new houses, Mars to the 1st house among them.

Jupiter, at 17°27′ Libra, was retrograde and barely moving, and turned direct at 2:05 PM that afternoon; modern astrologers weight a stationary planet heavily. Neptune, the only other retrograde planet, shares Libra and the 2nd house and was within three days of its own turn.

Mercury reached 25°09′ of north declination, past the Sun's own limit of 23°26′, and Pluto at 23°51′ also crosses it; declination writer Kt Boehrer took a planet past that line to act beyond its customary bounds. The waxing gibbous Moon, in the 4th house, came full at 2:41 PM, minutes from the eclipse's peak.

Jupiter's trine to Uranus, the tightest aspect, holds all day, as do the Sun's conjunction with Uranus and its opposition to the Moon, 1°43′ wide and applying. Contacts to the angles need the hour: Saturn's sextile to the Midheaven lasts from 10:33 AM to 11:10 AM, and Mars, already risen and 3°11′ from the Ascendant degree, is conjunct it from 9:56 AM to 11:18 AM.

The Moon, alone in the 4th house, is the handle of what Marc Edmund Jones called a bucket; the other nine planets fit within the 119°33′ from Uranus to Jupiter, all in the eastern half. Water comes only from Mercury, Venus and Saturn in Cancer, earth only from the Taurus Midheaven; element counters tend to read an element with no planet as a quality sought in others. Cardinal signs lead the modes.

With the Sun 59°10′ high, this is a day chart, the sect Hellenistic astrologers gave to the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. The site's dignity score still ranks Mars first at 81, for its term and face in Leo and its place on the Ascendant, ahead of the Sun at 77; Saturn is in detriment in Cancer. Nothing is combust: Uranus, nearest the Sun, is 5°02′ away.

Rahul Gandhi, José Rizal and Paul McCartney share only the Gemini Sun; Tupac Shakur's Sun is also close in degree. None has the Sagittarius Moon, and a rising sign seconds from changing is never matched.

Lahiri's 23°06′ correction puts the Sun at 29°49′ Taurus (Vrishabha), the sign's final degree, and the Moon at 28°05′ Scorpio (Vrishchika), a sign it left at 2:44 PM. Simha (Leo) lagna, at 6°51′, has room here, rising from 10:19 AM to 12:50 PM; the 9:51 AM time would make it Karka (Cancer).

Saturn first returned on July 25, 1975; its second return took three passes, September 4, 2004 to May 24, 2005. Jupiter's 6th and latest return also needed three, closing on August 4, 2017.

Cast for 14:54 UTC on June 14, 1946 at Jamaica Hospital, 40°42′ N, 73°48′ W, in tropical signs and Placidus cusps from precise astronomical calculations; rates come from charts timed at random through the 1940s worldwide.