Carl Sagan

Brooklyn, New York, United States

November 9, 1934 at 5:05 PM (Birthtime accuracy: excellent)

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Bio

Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the now accepted hypothesis that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to and calculated using the greenhouse effect. Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He wrote many popular science books, such as The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain and Pale Blue Dot, and narrated and co-wrote the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The most widely watched series in the history of American public television, Cosmos has been seen by at least 500 million people across 60 different countries. The book Cosmos was published to accompany the series. He also wrote the science fiction novel Contact, the basis for a 1997 film of the same name. His papers, containing 595,000 items, are archived at The Library of Congress. Sagan always advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. Sagan and his works received numerous awards and honors, including the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the National Academy of Sciences Public Welfare Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Dragons of Eden, and, regarding Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, two Emmy Awards, the Peabody Award and the Hugo Award. He married three times and had five children. After suffering from myelodysplasia, Sagan died of pneumonia at the age of 62, on December 20, 1996.

Birth time credit: Rodden / Accuracy: excellent Updated: 2023-10-11
Carl Sagan

Planets

You can think of the planets as symbolizing core parts of the human personality, and the signs as different colors of consciousness through which they filter.* Sidereal Planetary Positions enabled in settings.* Because the birth time information is missing for this chart, the Moon may range up to 6° before or after this position.

Sun in 16° 49' Scorpio
Moon in 21° 51' Sagittarius
Mercury in 3° 28' Scorpio (r)
Venus in 14° 33' Scorpio
Mars in 13° 9' Virgo
Jupiter in 6° 27' Scorpio
Saturn in 21° 40' Aquarius
Uranus in 28° 45' Aries (r)
Neptune in 14° 11' Virgo
Pluto in 26° 2' Cancer (r)
North Node in 5° 0' Aquarius (r)
Chiron in 8° 22' Gemini (r)
Ascendant in 25° 10' Taurus
MC in 2° 11' Aquarius

Aspects

The aspects describe the geometric angles between the planets. Each shape they produce has a different meaning.

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Patterns

Chart patterns are a collection of aspects that are grouped together to reveal a larger geometric pattern within the chart.

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Stellium

Venus in 14° Scorpio
Jupiter in 6° Scorpio
Mercury in 3° Scorpio
Sun in 16° Scorpio

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Grand Cross

Pluto in 26° Cancer
Uranus in 28° Aries
MC in 2° Aquarius
Mercury in 3° Scorpio

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Multiple Planet Square

Saturn in 21° Aquarius
Ascendant in 25° Taurus
Venus in 14° Scorpio
Sun in 16° Scorpio

Special Features

The section describes some additional features of this chart. Note the inner planets refer to Sun to Jupiter, as well as the Ascendant and MC, and represent the core parts of the personality.

The moon was a waxing crescent moon

The Water element is dominant among the inner planets

The Fixed mode is dominant among the inner planets

The sign Scorpio is home to a large portion of the inner planets

Most of the inner planets are located in the right hemisphere, right of the MC-IC axis

North node is on the Midheaven; Pluto is on the Nadir

The Square aspect occurs the most, a total of 13 times

Mc is in 9 aspects

Houses

Chart houses split the chart into twelve realms, beginning from the Ascendant, which add another dimension of themes corresponding to the signs starting from Aries. Read more

1st House
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25°
Taurus
(Containing Chiron)
2nd House
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20°
Gemini
3rd House
starts at
11°
Cancer
(Containing Pluto)
4th House
starts at
Leo
5th House
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28°
Leo
(Containing Mars and Neptune)
6th House
starts at
Libra
(Containing Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter)
7th House
starts at
25°
Scorpio
8th House
starts at
20°
Sagittarius
(Containing Moon)
9th House
starts at
11°
Capricorn
10th House
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Aquarius
(Containing Saturn and North Node)
11th House
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28°
Aquarius
12th House
starts at
Aries
(Containing Uranus)

Declinations

Declinations are a rarely used piece of information in astrology. They reflect a planet's distance north or south of the celestial equator. Read more

Parallels occur when two planets are at the same declination, both in the north or south. They are considered to have the same effect as conjunctions. Contraparallels are when one star in the north and another in the south are at the same declination. They are considered to have the same effect as oppositions.

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