Portrait of Taiwan

Taiwan

country in East Asia

country
CapricornTaurus

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Founded
January 1, 1912
Origin
Taipei
Sun sign
Capricorn

Taiwan, country in East Asia, was founded on January 1, 1912 in Taipei. With the Sun in Capricorn, Taiwan's chart begins from a Capricorn core. The chart is cast for the event date (noon), the standard approach for founding charts.

Astrological profile

Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon and angles here are approximate, so the reading leans on the Sun and the outer scaffolding of the chart. A Capricorn Sun at 10° sets a steady, structural tone: patient, defensive of what it has built, oriented toward endurance rather than flash. The Taurus Moon at 27° doubles down on that instinct for security, stability, and the tangible, giving an emotional temperament that resists being hurried and holds its ground. Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius adds a wider, more principle-driven interior voice — one that thinks in broad claims and revisits ideas rather than accepting them on first pass — a mutable counterweight to an otherwise consolidating nature.

Several exact tensions animate the chart. Jupiter square Chiron (0°) is the signature strain: an urge to expand and affirm belief that keeps snagging on an unhealed sensitivity, so growth and vulnerability feed each other. Uranus quincunx Pluto (0°) sets sudden change and deep transformative pressure at an awkward angle, never fully resolving — an ongoing adjustment between disruption and buried intensity. The Moon opposition Venus (1°) splits emotional needs from what is valued or desired, while the same Moon trines Uranus (1°), lending an easier flair for unexpected shifts of feeling and independence within security.

The balance is decisively Earth (5) and Fixed (4): grounded, durable, slow to move and slower to be moved. This is a chart built for consolidation and staying power, its restlessness confined to the mind and the harder quincunxes.

An interpretation of the chart above, generated from the computed placements.

Natal placements

Sun Capricorn 10°
Moon Taurus 27°
Mercury Sagittarius 25°
Venus Scorpio 26°
Mars Taurus 24°
Jupiter Sagittarius 5°
Saturn Taurus 13°
Uranus Capricorn 28°
Neptune Cancer 23°
Pluto Gemini 28°
Chiron Pisces 5°
Ceres Scorpio 27°
Pallas Scorpio 9°
Juno Virgo 4°
Vesta Libra 19°
Lilith Capricorn 13°
North Node Aries 27°

Computed from the birth date (noon). The Moon is approximate and angles are omitted without a birth time.

Taiwan is a disciplined and ambitious Capricorn Sun, with a steady and grounded Taurus Moon. The chart leans earth and fixed.

Major aspects

Jupiter Chiron 0°Uranus Pluto 0°Moon Venus 1°Moon Uranus 1°Mercury Mars 1°Venus North Node 1°Mars Neptune 1°Uranus North Node 1°Pluto North Node 1°Moon Mercury 2°

△ trine · ⚹ sextile flow easily · □ square · ☍ opposition create tension · ☌ conjunction fuses energies · ⚻ quincunx asks for adjustment

Element & modality balance

Fire
2
Earth
5
Air
1
Water
2
Cardinal
3
Fixed
4
Mutable
3

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