Composer & ethnomusicologist

Bela Bartok

Walked into Hungarian and Romanian villages with a phonograph and recorded thousands of folk songs, then built a modernist language out of them. He died poor in New York.

Born1881-03-25, Sannicolau Mare, RomaniaA Friday
Died1945-09-26, New York, New York, USAA Wednesday, aged 64
At birthSun in Aries, Moon in Aquarius

Birth Chart

1881-03-25, Sannicolau Mare, Romania · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Bucharestthe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAries4°54′Direct
MoonAquarius5°03′Direct
MercuryPisces12°50′Direct
VenusTaurus15°53′Direct
MarsAquarius23°02′Direct
JupiterAries25°51′Direct
SaturnAries28°35′Direct
UranusVirgo10°45′Retrograde
NeptuneTaurus12°35′Direct
PlutoTaurus26°44′Direct

This is Bela Bartok's chart for 1881-03-25, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

1945-09-26, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

Ordered-orbit layout: angles come from chart longitudes; orbit radii are fixed by planet order. Moon orbits Earth.

SunMercuryVenusEarthMoonMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunLibra3°11′Direct
MoonGemini9°51′Direct
MercuryVirgo28°28′Direct
VenusVirgo2°25′Direct
MarsCancer10°37′Direct
JupiterLibra6°49′Direct
SaturnCancer23°23′Direct
UranusGemini17°26′Retrograde
NeptuneLibra6°03′Direct
PlutoLeo11°18′Direct

This is Bela Bartok's chart for 1945-09-26, the day they died, cast the same way a birth chart is cast. Cast one for any recorded date. It predicts nothing: the date is one you already have.

Their Astrocartography

Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Bela Bartok was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.

The birth time is unknown, so this map is cast for noon. The SHAPE of it is right and the whole pattern slides east or west with the real time, so treat the longitudes as approximate.

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Ten planets on four angles is forty lines, which is more than the interactive tool opens with on purpose. Draw your own map to choose which planets to show.

Charts are computed from real planetary positions (Swiss Ephemeris) for the recorded moment and place. Recorded times can carry small uncertainties; treat house and ascendant placements accordingly.