Novelist

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart has sold around twenty million copies and is the book that made African literature visible in the West. He also demolished Heart of Darkness in a famous lecture.

Born1930-11-16, Ogidi, NigeriaA Sunday
Died2013-03-21, Boston, Massachusetts, USAA Thursday, aged 82
At birthSun in Scorpio, Moon in Libra

Birth Chart

1930-11-16, Ogidi, Nigeria · time unknown, noon chart

Africa/Lagosthe 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
SunScorpio23°22′Direct
MoonLibra2°05′Direct
MercuryScorpio28°47′Direct
VenusSagittarius3°22′Retrograde
MarsLeo11°01′Direct
JupiterCancer20°23′Retrograde
SaturnCapricorn8°43′Direct
UranusAries11°56′Retrograde
NeptuneVirgo5°38′Direct
PlutoCancer20°45′Retrograde

This is Chinua Achebe's chart for 1930-11-16, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

2013-03-21, Boston, Massachusetts, 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
SunAries1°11′Direct
MoonCancer22°27′Direct
MercuryPisces6°19′Direct
VenusPisces29°24′Direct
MarsAries7°17′Direct
JupiterGemini10°14′Direct
SaturnScorpio10°43′Retrograde
UranusAries8°04′Direct
NeptunePisces3°52′Direct
PlutoCapricorn11°27′Direct

This is Chinua Achebe's chart for 2013-03-21, 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 Chinua Achebe 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.

Sun MCSun ICSun ACSun DCMoon MCMoon ICMoon ACMoon DCMercury MCMercury ICMercury ACMercury DCVenus MCVenus ICVenus ACVenus DCMars MCMars ICMars ACMars DCJupiter MCJupiter ICJupiter ACJupiter DCSaturn MCSaturn ICSaturn ACSaturn DCUranus MCUranus ICUranus ACUranus DCNeptune MCNeptune ICNeptune ACNeptune DCPluto MCPluto ICPluto ACPluto DC
Ring, where you were bornTap a line for what it meansZoom with the buttons · full screen to pinch, drag and rotate

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.