
William Butler Yeats, writer, was born on June 13, 1865 in Sandymount. With the Sun in Gemini, William's chart begins from a Gemini core. Without a recorded birth time, the Moon and angles can't be pinned precisely, but the planetary placements by date still hold.
With the Sun at 22° Gemini and Mercury also in Gemini, this is a chart oriented toward language, curiosity, and the restless movement of ideas — a mind that circles a subject from many angles rather than settling on one. The Aquarius Moon (approximate, given the unknown birth time) doubles the airy, conceptual signature, adding emotional detachment and an attraction to the abstract, the collective, and the unconventional. Together Sun and Moon lean toward the theoretical, though Venus in Taurus and Pluto in Taurus root part of the temperament in something more sensual, fixed, and possessive, creating a pull between cool intellect and earthy craving.
The tightest aspects sharpen this tension considerably. Moon square Venus (exact) sets emotional need against the desire for pleasure and harmony, a recurring friction around what one wants versus what one feels. That Moon is further stressed by its opposition to Mars in Leo and its square to Pluto, giving the feelings a combustible, compulsive edge — appetite, drama, and depth swirling under the airy surface. Venus square Mars and Venus conjunct Pluto intensify desire into something magnetic and consuming. Steadier is the exact Jupiter–Saturn sextile, a constructive thread pairing expansive vision with discipline and form; the Jupiter–Chiron square and Saturn–Chiron quincunx, meanwhile, mark faith and structure repeatedly rubbing against an unhealed sensitivity.
The Air dominance (five placements) confirms an idea-driven, communicative nature, while the Fixed emphasis lends persistence and intensity of focus. In short: a brilliant, restless mind anchored to deep, uneasy desires.
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Computed from the birth date (noon). The Moon is approximate and angles are omitted without a birth time.
William is a curious and quick Gemini Sun, with a independent and inventive Aquarius Moon. The chart leans air and fixed.
△ trine · ⚹ sextile flow easily · □ square · ☍ opposition create tension · ☌ conjunction fuses energies · ⚻ quincunx asks for adjustment
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