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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (born January 30, 1882, Hyde Park, United States; died 1945), was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt held office as Governor of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Roosevelt's honours include Time Person of the Year, American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame and Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s zodiac sign was Aquarius, and in the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake, with Life Path 5 in numerology.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s AsterNym identity

The Steadfast Architect

Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.

Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Franklin in the U.S.?

#359

US rank in 2025

~142,506

Americans share it since 1880

1933

its peak year

US Social Security Administration public records

Franklin’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.

Lucky numbers

5 · 2 · 8 · 9

Lucky colours

White & Gold

Lucky day

Saturday

Direction

← West

Season

autumn

Stones

Garnet, Blue Sapphire, Rutilated Quartz

Flower constellation

🌺 Carnation · 🤍 Camellia · 🤍 White Camellia

Crimson · Ivory · Silver

The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone

What the chart says

Franklin, according to the stars

Core essence

Franklin is two steps to the left of where you expected. The core of Franklin is a mind that runs on its own current, cares about the whole picture, and cannot pretend to care about the rules for their own sake. They are friend to everyone and fully known by few, and they make the people around them braver about being odd.

How Franklin wants to be loved

Franklin wants to be loved as a friend first, and then as everything. Venus in Aquarius needs freedom, conversation and a partner who finds their strangeness delightful. Rules and jealousy make them cold; acceptance makes them devoted. Let Franklin be fully themselves and they will never want to be anywhere else.

How Franklin creates

How Franklin makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Franklin creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.

Instinct

Instinct: Franklin is wise and watchful, a Snake year, and their gut reaction is to observe before moving. Elegant, intuitive, private, and usually right about people long before saying so. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Franklin is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.

Triggers

Triggers: being bored, and being talked over. Mars in Gemini fights with words and wins, then forgets it happened. Franklin scatters energy across three projects at once and somehow finishes two. The trick is choosing the argument worth having.

Computed from Franklin's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.

Where Franklin sits

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Intimate circleWide network
Franklin

You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Franklin

You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.

PrivateExpressive
Franklin

You may keep feelings close, working through them before anyone sees.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Franklin

You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.

PracticalVisionary
Franklin

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Franklin

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

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✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Hyde Park on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

Franklin’s birth-night reference starMenkalinanwhite · AurigaMenkalinan, in Auriga. A white star, 86.4° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the bright star nearest the zenith.Dedicate Menkalinan →The warmest lightCapellagolden yellow · AurigaCapella, in Auriga. A golden yellow star, 82.8° above the horizon at 9 p.m. local time, the warmest-toned bright star up that night.Dedicate Capella →

No public birth time is available, so this is a 9:00 p.m. reference evening sky for that date and place. It is connected to the night of birth; it is not the sky at the birth minute, and no other reading on this page uses that time. Dedications are commemorative AsterNym records and do not rename or confer ownership of stars.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at a glance

Aquarius Sun

Ahead of the room by a decade.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Sun was in Aquarius for the whole of January 30, 1882, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aquarius readings associate the sign with independence, ideas and a stance slightly apart from the group it belongs to. Astrologers describe it as the fixed air sign, traditionally ruled by Saturn and in modern practice by Uranus, and read it for principle and originality. The corresponding tension is detachment, with the classical caution that caring about everyone can be easier than being close to anyone.

Metal Snake

Private by design.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, which falls in a Metal Snake year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Snake readings emphasise intelligence, composure and depth: thinking before speaking, and speaking less than it knows. The Chinese almanacs describe the Snake as the sage of the cycle, private and deliberate. The corresponding caution in the tradition is suspicion, with a tendency to hold a grudge as carefully as it holds a secret.

Life Path 5

Restless, curious, gone.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth date, January 30, 1882, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.

What stands out in Franklin’s chart

Franklin’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

No documented birth time exists for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 25° to 7° Gemini or Cancer depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury flows with Mars · Trine, 0.4° orbVenus grinds against Saturn · Square, 0.5° orbMercury grinds against Pluto · Square, 0.7° orbJupiter flows with Uranus · Trine, 1° orbSun grinds against Neptune · Square, 3° orbJupiter fuses with Neptune · Conjunction, 3.1° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 4.1° orbMoon opens doors for Saturn · Sextile, 4.3° orbSun in Aquarius · 10°46′☉10°Moon in Cancer · 1°49′☽1°Mercury in Aquarius · 26°37′☿26°Venus in Aquarius · 5°36′♀5°Mars in Gemini · 27°01′ · retrograde♂℞27°Jupiter in Taurus · 16°55′♃16°Saturn in Taurus · 6°04′♄6°Uranus in Virgo · 17°56′ · retrograde♅℞17°Neptune in Taurus · 13°47′♆13°Pluto in Taurus · 27°22′ · retrograde♇℞27°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.

  • stableMercurytrineMars0.0° to 1.2° orb

    Franklin’s mind flows straight into their drive. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableMercurysquarePluto0.0° to 1.5° orb

    Franklin’s mind grinds against their depths. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.

  • stableVenussquareSaturn0.0° to 1.1° orb

    Franklin’s affections grind against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupitertrineUranus1.0° to 1.1° orb

    Franklin’s growth flows straight into their need for freedom. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.

  • stableSunsquareNeptune2.5° to 3.5° orb

    Franklin’s core identity grinds against their imagination. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune3.1° to 3.2° orb

    Franklin’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableUranustrineNeptune4.1° to 4.2° orb

    Franklin’s need for freedom flows straight into their imagination. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.

  • stableSunsquareSaturn4.2° to 5.2° orb

    Franklin’s core identity grinds against their discipline. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSunconjunctionVenus5.0° to 5.3° orb

    Franklin’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • stableSunsquareJupiter5.7° to 6.6° orb

    Franklin’s core identity grinds against their growth.

  • stableSaturnconjunctionNeptune7.7° orb

    Franklin’s discipline and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.

  • possibleMoonconjunctionMarsorb from 0.0° to 10.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire0 of 10
  • Earth5 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water1 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal1 of 10
  • Fixed7 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Earth leads this chart, with no planets in Fire signs.

Franklin’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.

  • ⚷ ChironTaurus 17°37′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

    Chiron in Taurus is read as a wound around security and worth. The reading has Franklin building steadiness by hand after finding it could not be assumed.

  • ⚳ CeresAquarius 4°31′ (moves 0.39° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

    Ceres in Aquarius is read as nurture at the scale of the group. Franklin is read as someone whose care shows up as fairness to many rather than fuss over one.

  • ♡ ErosSagittarius 13°41′ (moves 0.66° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

    Eros in Sagittarius is read as desire for the far-off and the free. The reading has Franklin attracted to people who open a door rather than close one.

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Leo 21°54′ (moves 0.20° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

    Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Franklin at their best with something to be proud of.

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 25°19′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

    Black Moon Lilith in Leo is read as a pride that will not perform on demand. Franklin is read as most dangerous when underestimated.

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.

  • Chiron trine Uranus 0.3°
  • Chiron conjunction Jupiter 0.7°
  • Ceres conjunction Venus 1.1°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Mercury 1.3°
  • Ceres square Saturn 1.6°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mars 1.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith square Pluto 2.0°
  • Eros sextile Sun 2.9°

Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).

Franklin’s dominant planets

Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.

  1. 1. ♅ Uranus8 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♀ Venus6 pts

    disposes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ♄ Saturn4.5 pts

    traditionally rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; 3 major aspects

A Uranus-led chart is read as the break from pattern leading: Franklin is read as someone who changes course before others see the need.

How the score is built
  • Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
  • Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
  • Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
  • Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
  • Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.

Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.

Configurations in Franklin’s chart

Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Taurus · Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, PlutoThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aquarius · Sun, Mercury, VenusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.

  • Mars semi-sextile Pluto 0.3°
  • Sun biquintile Uranus 1.2°
  • Sun sesquiquadrate Mars 1.3°
  • Mars semi-square Neptune 1.8°

Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.

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Franklin’s cards

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Temperance

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The Steadfast Architect

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Western zodiac

Aquarius

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Chinese zodiac

Snake 巳

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♄ Ruled by Saturn

Lead Pb

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The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Earth.

Year

辛

yin Metal

巳

Snake

Fire

roots & early life

Month

辛

yin Metal

丑

Ox

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

己

yin Earth

巳

Snake

Fire

you & partnership

No birth time is on public record for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.

Where this data comes from

Franklin’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q8007, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Portrait by Leon Perskie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Franklin Delano Roosevelt at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.

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Quick answers about Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chart

What zodiac sign was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an Aquarius: born January 30, 1882, which puts the Sun in Aquarius for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were a Metal Snake.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Snake, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the January 30, 1882 birth.
What time was Franklin Delano Roosevelt born?
No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
How tall was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Life Path number?
Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the January 30, 1882 birth date.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Taurus at 17°. Position from JPL Horizons for the January 30, 1882 birth date.
Where was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's dominant planet?
Uranus, on AsterNym's dominance score (8 points: rules the Sun sign, Aquarius; disposes Sun, Mercury, Venus; 2 major aspects). Venus is second and Saturn third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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