Writer
Teju Cole
Nigerian American writer of Open City.
Teju Cole is a Nigerian American writer, photographer, and art historian. He is the author of a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief (2007); a novel, Open City (2011); an essay collection, Known and Strange Things (2016); a photobook, Punto d'Ombra (2016); and a second novel, Tremor (2023). Critics have praised his work as having "opened a new path in African literature."
- Born
- 1975-06-27, Michigan, USAA Friday
- At birth
- Sun in Cancer, Moon in Aquarius
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1975-06-27, Michigan, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/Detroitthe zone used then
America/DetroitThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 5°23′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 21°11′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Gemini | 16°00′ | Direct |
| Venus | Leo | 20°26′ | Direct |
| Mars | Aries | 27°30′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Aries | 21°09′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Cancer | 20°11′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Libra | 28°23′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 9°44′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Libra | 6°30′ | Direct |
Teju Cole 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 Teju Cole 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.