Jawaharlal Nehru's Birth Chart

Ranked by weight in a reading and scarcity among 1880s charts, the list runs from the unaspected Sun to Venus in Libra's last degree. Of the eight, four hang on the hour, among them the Sun near the IC and the planets' eastward lean; the other four come from the date.

Mercury, the Sun's nearest neighbor, trails it by 13°06′, and Saturn falls 10°30′ short of a square. With no planet inside the orbs used here, the chart ruler joins no major aspect among the ten planets (about one chart in 19). Some modern authors read an unaspected planet as acting on its own; this one still squares the Ascendant within 1°25′. The tightest aspect anywhere is Saturn square Neptune, 0°20′.

Raman's own entry prints 11:03 PM, and by our calculation his listed positions fit that minute, though he gives no basis. His 1942 rectification from life events gave 11:33 PM, which he took the family's time to confirm. AstroSage reads 11:30 PM as Indian Standard Time, begun in 1906 (11:27 PM local); Astrotheme, as Madras railway time (11:36 PM).

Across those alternatives the Ascendant spans 15°15′ Leo to 22°29′ Leo, the Moon stays in Leo and no planet changes house. Leo rose from 9:52 PM to 12:09 AM; the Moon had moved on from Cancer at 2:25 AM that morning, long before any candidate time.

The IC is at 18°58′ Scorpio, with the Sun beyond it in the fourth house, which tradition ties to parents, land and endings. Uranus is next most exposed: a birth 30 minutes later puts it in the 2nd house; Chiron, on the 12th cusp, crosses it in less than a minute. Jupiter, at 23°21′ south, falls 0°05′ short of the out-of-bounds line, and no planet passes it.

Venus, at 29°41′ Libra, entered Scorpio some 5.9 hours after the birth; a personal planet in a sign's final degree appears in about one chart in 5.

Libra holds Venus, Mars and Uranus; with the slow pair of Neptune and Pluto in Gemini, air signs carry five planets (about one chart in 7). Fire has the Moon alone, though classical temperament doctrine, counting the Leo Ascendant, its ruler and the Leo Moon, still scores the chart choleric.

Only the Sun and Jupiter lie west of the meridian, leaving eight planets east (about one chart in 6), and houses seven to nine are empty: a seesaw with gaps of up to 145°57′.

With the Sun 82°12′ below the horizon, every candidate time gives a night chart, one in which sect doctrine prefers Venus and Mars to Jupiter and Saturn. Venus, at home in Libra (about one chart in 5), scores a chart-high 77 and is named Lord of the Geniture.

Mars shares Libra in detriment (about one chart in 5) and ties Mercury, under the Sun's beams, for the lowest score. Jupiter, fallen in Capricorn (about one chart in 14) and out of sect, still scores level with the Sun, helped by its term and face. Mars and Jupiter, both debilitated and both swift, square each other, 5°11′ wide.

Charles III, born November 14, 1948, is the databank's nearest page: Leo rising, with a Scorpio Sun under a degree from Nehru's. Leonardo DiCaprio, Carl Sagan and Bill Gates share the Sun's sign alone. No roster entry shares Nehru's birth date.

On Lahiri's zodiac the Ascendant lands on 28°51′ Cancer, the Cancer lagna Raman reports from the family's rasi chart; less than 6 minutes later it enters Leo, as at Astrotheme's Madras-time reading. The Sun keeps Scorpio by 0°16′, and the Moon falls to 18°06′ Cancer.

Saturn's opening return to 3°06′ Virgo, on September 6, 1919, came at age 29.8. The second took three passes, October 17, 1948, to July 9, 1949, with Jupiter's fifth return on December 19, 1948, between them, by coincidence all within Nehru's years as Prime Minister; Jupiter's sixth followed on December 2, 1960.

Nehru's wheel and tables use precise astronomical calculations for 18:02 UTC on November 14, 1889, set at central Allahabad, 25°26′ N, 81°50′ E, because the family's 1889 house is unconfirmed; houses are Placidus. Each rate is a feature's share in a large sample of 1880s charts cast by the same code.