Architect & designer

Eero Saarinen

Designed the Gateway Arch and the TWA terminal, and the Tulip chair. He died at fifty-one of a brain tumour with most of his major buildings unfinished.

Born1910-08-20, Kirkkonummi, FinlandA Saturday
Died1961-09-01, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAA Friday, aged 51
At birthSun in Leo, Moon in Aquarius

Birth Chart

1910-08-20, Kirkkonummi, Finland · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Helsinkithe 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
SunLeo26°30′Direct
MoonAquarius21°45′Direct
MercuryVirgo21°38′Direct
VenusLeo1°26′Direct
MarsVirgo9°06′Direct
JupiterLibra12°41′Direct
SaturnTaurus6°34′Retrograde
UranusCapricorn21°57′Retrograde
NeptuneCancer20°25′Direct
PlutoGemini27°40′Direct

This is Eero Saarinen's chart for 1910-08-20, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

1961-09-01, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Detroitthe 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
SunVirgo9°00′Direct
MoonGemini5°59′Direct
MercuryVirgo24°48′Direct
VenusLeo3°40′Direct
MarsLibra10°03′Direct
JupiterCapricorn28°05′Retrograde
SaturnCapricorn23°46′Retrograde
UranusLeo26°58′Direct
NeptuneScorpio9°01′Direct
PlutoVirgo7°53′Direct

This is Eero Saarinen's chart for 1961-09-01, 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 Eero Saarinen 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.