Geographer & writer
Jared Diamond
Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, trained as a physiologist and an ornithologist working in New Guinea. Born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jared Mason Diamond is an American scientist, historian, and author. He has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books, most notably Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997), which received multiple awards, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. In 2005, Diamond was ranked ninth on a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.
- Born
- 1937-09-10, Boston, Massachusetts, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Virgo, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1937-09-10, Boston, Massachusetts, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 17°30′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 23°35′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Virgo | 24°58′ | Retrograde |
| Venus | Leo | 12°35′ | Direct |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 17°25′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 17°29′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Aries | 2°48′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Taurus | 13°29′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 18°39′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Cancer | 29°35′ | Direct |
Jared Diamond is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Jared Diamond was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.