Martin Luther King Jr. Natal Chart
Baptist minister and the foremost leader of the American civil rights movement, assassinated in 1968.
The rising sign we can't confirm
Martin Luther King Jr.'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 Martin's Capricorn Sun and Pisces 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 Capricorn Sun, Martin Luther King Jr. leads with a core that is disciplined, patient, and built for the long climb.
The Capricorn signature shows up as someone playing a long game who earns everything they have.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Moon in Pisces: You feel everything, yours and everyone else's, with a porous heart that needs retreat to keep from flooding.
The Moon in Pisces gives you a boundaryless emotional nature of extraordinary sensitivity. You absorb the moods of the people and places around you without trying, so that the feelings moving through you are not always your own. Telling where you end and another person begins can be the work of a lifetime.
Venus & Mars
Venus in Pisces: Venus is exalted in Pisces, loving without borders, dissolving into compassion, fantasy, and an ache for the transcendent.
In romance you are gentle, devoted, and endlessly forgiving, loving with an empathy that can shade into self-sacrifice. You long for soul-deep union and can lose yourself in a partner, idealizing them past the point of clear sight. At your best you offer a healing, unconditional acceptance; at your most fragile you confuse martyrdom with love.
Mars in Gemini: Restless, verbal, scattered drive that fights with words and chases ten things at once.
You pursue goals through agility and variety, juggling several at once and switching tracks whenever interest flags. You are brilliant at generating options and starting conversations that open doors, less reliable at the dogged work that closes them.
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Birth data: Birth date widely published; only a 'born about noon' family memory, so the time is omitted (Astro-Databank). Placements computed from this data with the same Swiss Ephemeris engine Luune uses for live charts.