Abraham Lincoln Natal Chart
16th U.S. president who led the Union through the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, assassinated in 1865.
The rising sign we can't confirm
Abraham Lincoln's birth time isn't publicly on record, and that one missing detail decides the rising sign. The Sun barely moves across a day and the Moon shifts only about 12° — so we can place Abraham's Aquarius Sun and Capricorn Moon with confidence whatever the hour. The ascendant is the problem: it rolls through a new sign every couple of hours, so without a real birth time it could land almost anywhere.
You'll see other sites name a rising sign here anyway — usually a rectified guess working backwards from how the person comes across. We don't. A guessed ascendant changes the whole chart's houses, so we'd rather show you the two placements we can actually stand behind than dress up a number we can't. If a verified time surfaces, this page updates.
Sun & Moon
As a Aquarius Sun, Abraham Lincoln leads with a core that is independent, original, and one step outside the room.
The Aquarius signature shows up as someone unconventional by default who the future arrived early.
Abraham Lincoln's Moon in Capricorn: You feel safest when you're in control and self-sufficient, treating emotion as something to manage rather than indulge.
The Moon in Capricorn gives you a reserved, self-contained emotional nature that prizes competence over comfort. Feelings are treated as private business, to be handled responsibly and rarely displayed. You learned early, often very early, that the surest way to be safe is to need no one and to handle things yourself.
Venus & Mars
Venus in Aries: Venus in Aries loves like a struck match: fast, hot, and impatient for the next thing to catch fire.
In love and romance, you initiate. You make the first move, set the pace, and grow bored by anyone who waits to be led for too long. Conflict doesn't frighten you off; a partner who never pushes back does, because friction is how you know something is alive.
Mars in Libra: Charming, conflict-averse, strategic drive that pursues through people and fights by maneuver.
You pursue goals through people and partnership, advancing by winning others to your side rather than by solitary push. You are motivated by fairness and balance, and you can be remarkably persistent in pursuit of what feels just, though indecision sometimes blunts your momentum.
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Birth data: Birth date widely published; birth time not reliably recorded (Astro-Databank: biographical only). Placements computed from this data with the same Swiss Ephemeris engine Luune uses for live charts.