Chess grandmaster

Emanuel Lasker

World champion for twenty-seven years, longer than anybody, and a mathematician who published a theorem still used in algebra.

Born1868-12-24, Barlinek, PolandA Thursday
Died1941-01-11, New York, New York, USAA Saturday, aged 72
At birthSun in Capricorn, Moon in Aries

Birth Chart

1868-12-24, Barlinek, Poland · time unknown, noon chart

Europe/Warsawthe 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
SunCapricorn2°58′Direct
MoonAries28°19′Direct
MercurySagittarius27°16′Direct
VenusSagittarius0°09′Direct
MarsVirgo4°01′Direct
JupiterAries5°23′Direct
SaturnSagittarius11°03′Direct
UranusCancer15°54′Retrograde
NeptuneAries14°31′Retrograde
PlutoTaurus15°17′Retrograde

This is Emanuel Lasker's chart for 1868-12-24, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Death Chart

1941-01-11, 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
SunCapricorn21°06′Direct
MoonGemini29°42′Direct
MercuryCapricorn21°17′Direct
VenusSagittarius27°16′Direct
MarsSagittarius4°38′Direct
JupiterTaurus5°54′Direct
SaturnTaurus7°53′Direct
UranusTaurus22°17′Retrograde
NeptuneVirgo27°39′Retrograde
PlutoLeo3°27′Retrograde

This is Emanuel Lasker's chart for 1941-01-11, 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 Emanuel Lasker 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
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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.