Novelist

Thomas Pynchon

Author of Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49, who has not been photographed in public for sixty years. Born in Glen Cove, New York.

Born1937-05-08, Glen Cove, New York, USAA Saturday
At birthSun in Taurus, Moon in Aries

Birth Chart

1937-05-08, Glen Cove, 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
SunTaurus17°37′Direct
MoonAries20°54′Direct
MercuryTaurus21°52′Retrograde
VenusAries19°26′Retrograde
MarsSagittarius1°57′Retrograde
JupiterCapricorn27°14′Direct
SaturnAries1°23′Direct
UranusTaurus10°03′Direct
NeptuneVirgo16°16′Retrograde
PlutoCancer26°40′Direct

This is Thomas Pynchon's chart for 1937-05-08, the day they were born. Cast your own birth chart.

Thomas Pynchon 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 Thomas Pynchon 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.