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Vincent van Gogh Natal Chart

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter (The Starry Night, Sunflowers) whose work gained fame only after his death in 1890.

BornMarch 30, 1853
Birth timeUnknown
PlaceZundert, North Brabant, Netherlands
Birth dataTime unverified · Sun & Moon only

The rising sign we can't confirm

Vincent van Gogh'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 Vincent's Aries Sun and Sagittarius 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 Aries Sun, Vincent van Gogh leads with a core that is bold, energetic, and always first to act.

The Aries signature shows up as someone first through the door who gives first, asks questions later.

Vincent van Gogh's Moon in Sagittarius: You feel safest in motion, with the door open and the horizon wide, soothed by the promise of what's next.

With the Moon in Sagittarius, your emotional baseline is restless optimism. You process feeling by reaching for the bigger picture, the meaning, the silver lining, the larger truth that makes a hard moment make sense. Confinement, whether physical or emotional, is what unsettles you most.

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 Pisces: Fluid, imaginative, elusive drive that acts on feeling and fights by dissolving, not clashing.

You pursue goals through inspiration and intuition rather than steady ambition, gravitating toward creative, spiritual, or compassionate aims and working in waves of feeling. You can accomplish remarkable things when moved by a dream, but struggle with the linear discipline that mundane objectives demand.

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Birth data: Birth date from the Dutch civil register; the recorded time is on the hour via a secondary compilation, so it is omitted. Placements computed from this data with the same Swiss Ephemeris engine Luune uses for live charts.