Niki Lauda

Formula One driver · Austria · 1949–2019

Pisces 3.5° · born February 22, 1949
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The chart's headline is a opposition: the Sun and Saturn within 0.8°, identity wired to structure. Oppositions are read as full-moon geometry — maximum visibility between two needs that share one spine.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Vienna—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

The Sun sits at 3.5° Pisces — the first decan, 0°–10°, which the tradition sub-rules by Jupiter. Degrees matter more than the sign label here: two people born a fortnight apart share Pisces and share almost nothing else about where the Sun actually stood.

Closer to the ground

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 7.4° Aquarius, Venus was at 20.1° Aquarius, Mars was at 8.5° Pisces. Read together: a mind at home in argument and pattern; taste led by wit and proportion; drive that moves on certainty and current.

The angles that hold

The tightest geometry in the chart puts Neptune a sixth of the circle apart from Pluto, 0.1° off exact. The scheme reads a sextile as a door left unlocked. Useful, and entirely dependent on someone walking through it. Behind it, the Sun opposition Saturn at 0.8°, and the Sun conjunction Mars at 5.0° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

The standing structure

Jupiter stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

Of the seven planets the classical scheme judges, one sits in a sign it has an opinion about. Jupiter in Capricorn at 22.0° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. Condition, not character: that is all the dignity table ever measured.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 9 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 air, 2 water, 2 earth, 1 fire by element and 4 mutable, 3 fixed, 2 cardinal by modality. An air-weighted chart thinks in through-lines; the sentence is how it takes hold of the world. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde — apparent retreat against the stars, which the old reading takes as a function working from the inside first.

The Moon is genuinely open

The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day at the birthplace, travelling 12.7° between one midnight and the next. The hour would decide it; no hour was recorded. The reading keeps the question open rather than flipping a coin dressed as astrology.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Niki Lauda · revision 1363478112
Wikidata: Q78489 · revision 2521439417
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1949-02-22 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria · Q1741
Coordinates: 48.2083, 16.3725 · from Vienna
Reference instant: 1949-02-22T11:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.71° · Moon sign undetermined. The Moon crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during that day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Hans van Dijk for Anefo / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2315 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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