Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (born August 24, 1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 03:30; died 1986), was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator. Borges is best remembered for The Library of Babel. Borges's honours include Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
Jorge Luis Borges’s zodiac sign was Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Virgo, and in the Chinese zodiac they were an 
Earth Pig, with 
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Jorge Luis Borges’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Explorer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × mutable Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
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~140,166
Americans share it since 1880
2006
its peak year
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Jorge’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
Yellow & Ochre
Lucky day
Wednesday
Direction
• Center
Season
the turning of seasons
Stones
Peridot, Emerald, Citrine
Flower constellation
🌸 Gladiolus · 💜 Lavender · 🌼 Chrysanthemum
Coral · Lilac · Gold
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What the chart says
Jorge, according to the stars
Core essence
Jorge notices. That is the whole thing: the detail everyone else walked past, the small fix that makes the day work, the way you looked slightly off when you said you were fine. The core of Jorge is devotion expressed as usefulness. They love by improving things, and they are far kinder to other people than to themselves.
The vibe
Underneath, Jorge runs hot. The Moon in Aries means feelings arrive fast and loud and burn out just as fast, so the flare you saw an hour ago is already forgiven. What Jorge needs to feel safe is honesty in real time and room to react. Say it straight, and they will always meet you there.
How Jorge wants to be loved
Jorge wants to be loved out loud. Venus in Leo is warm, generous and a little theatrical, and it wants a partner who is proud to be seen with them. Praise is oxygen, loyalty is the deal. Adore Jorge openly and they will make you feel like the only person in every room.
How Jorge creates
How Jorge makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Jorge builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Jorge is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Jorge 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: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Jorge fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Jorge's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You likely handle some friction right away and let smaller things settle.
You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.
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The quick version
Virgo Sun
Virgo SunOrder first. Then rest, in theory.
Jorge Luis Borges's Sun was in Virgo at the documented birth time. Traditional Virgo readings associate the sign with precision, service and improvement: noticing what is off and quietly putting it right. Astrologers describe it as the mutable earth sign, ruled by Mercury, and read it for craft and analysis. The corresponding tension is perfectionism, described in the tradition as a standard applied hardest to the self.
Earth Pig
Earth PigGives more than it gets.
Jorge Luis Borges was born on August 24, 1899, which falls in a Earth Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Five doors open at once.
Jorge Luis Borges's birth date, August 24, 1899, 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 Jorge’s chart
- Two of the ten planets sit in angular houses in Jorge Luis Borges' timed chart: Moon in the 10th house and Mars in the 4th house.
- The tightest major aspect in Jorge Luis Borges' timed chart is Saturn opposition Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five of the ten planets fall in Mutable signs, making Mutable the strongest modality in this chart.
- Jorge Luis Borges combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a mutable Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Explorer.
Jorge’s birth chart
Computed from the documented birth time (From a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.), with whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Whole-sign houses from the Ascendant.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects, tightest first
SaturnoppositionPlutoapplying · 0.5° orb
Jorge’s discipline pulls against their depths from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
VenussextileNeptuneapplying · 2.0° orb
Jorge’s affections open doors for their imagination. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MoonsextilePlutoapplying · 2.1° orb
Jorge’s feelings open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
MercuryconjunctionVenusseparating · 2.2° orb
Jorge’s mind and affections act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
MoontrineSaturnapplying · 2.6° orb
Jorge’s feelings flow straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
MoonoppositionMarsseparating · 2.9° orb
Jorge’s feelings pull against their drive from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.
SunsquareUranusapplying · 3.2° orb
Jorge’s core identity grinds against their need for freedom.
SunsextileJupiterapplying · 4.0° orb
Jorge’s core identity opens doors for their growth.
SunsextileNeptuneseparating · 4.2° orb
Jorge’s core identity opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
MercurysextileNeptuneseparating · 4.3° orb
Jorge’s mind opens doors for their imagination.
MarstrinePlutoapplying · 5.0° orb
Jorge’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
MercurytrineSaturnapplying · 5.3° orb
Jorge’s mind flows straight into their discipline.
SunconjunctionVenusapplying · 6.3° orb
Jorge’s core identity and affections act as one. Each makes the other louder.
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire5 of 10
- Earth1 of 10
- Air3 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal2 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable5 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Jorge’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.
⚷ ChironSagittarius 7°02′ · House 6
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Sagittarius is read as a sore spot around belief and being taught. The reading has Jorge building a philosophy from lived evidence rather than received one.
⚳ CeresScorpio 11°02′ · House 5
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Scorpio is read as nurture that goes all in: loyalty, intensity, a care that does not do halfway. Jorge is read as fierce about the people counted as theirs.
♡ ErosLibra 3°42′ · House 4
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Libra is read as desire for the beautiful and the mutual. Jorge is read as someone who wants the pairing itself as much as the person.
⚕ HygieaLibra 10°06′ · House 4
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Libra is read as health that depends on balance and company. Jorge is read as someone who wears out in conflict and recovers in harmony.
⚸ Black Moon LilithLeo 19°56′ · House 2
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. Jorge is read as most dangerous when underestimated.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb.
- Eros sextile Uranus 0.4°
- Hygiea conjunction Mars 1.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith trine Saturn 2.9°
- Chiron conjunction Uranus 3.0°
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°).
Jorge’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors, angularity and aspect count under the method below.
1. ☿ Mercury9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects
2. ☽ Moon8 pts
rules the Ascendant, Cancer; angular in the tenth house; 3 major aspects
3. ♂ Mars7 pts
rules the Moon sign, Aries; disposes Moon; angular in the fourth house; 2 major aspects
A Mercury-led chart is read as the mind in charge: Jorge is read as thinking, talking and connecting their way through life.
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 Jorge’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
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 quintile Neptune 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Jupiter 0.5°
- Jupiter semi-sextile Uranus 0.8°
- Sun sesquiquadrate Moon 1.4°
- Venus semi-square Mars 2.0°
Jorge’s houses
Whole-sign houses from the documented birth time: each house is one sign, its ruler is the modern ruler of that sign, and an empty house is read through where its ruler sits.
| House | Sign | Ruler | Planets | Themes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cancer | Moon in Aries, house 10 | empty | self, body, how you arrive |
| 2 | Leo | Sun in Virgo, house 3 | Mercury, Venus | money, possessions, self-worth |
| 3 | Virgo | Mercury in Leo, house 2 | Sun | mind, siblings, the local world |
| 4 | Libra | Venus in Leo, house 2 | Mars | home, family, roots |
| 5 | Scorpio | Pluto in Gemini, house 12 | Jupiter | creativity, romance, play |
| 6 | Sagittarius | Jupiter in Scorpio, house 5 | Saturn, Uranus | work, habits, health |
| 7 | Capricorn | Saturn in Sagittarius, house 6 | empty | partnership, marriage, open rivals |
| 8 | Aquarius | Uranus in Sagittarius, house 6 | empty | shared resources, intimacy, transformation |
| 9 | Pisces | Neptune in Gemini, house 12 | empty | belief, travel, higher learning |
| 10 | Aries | Mars in Libra, house 4 | Moon | career, reputation, public life |
| 11 | Taurus | Venus in Leo, house 2 | empty | friends, community, the future |
| 12 | Gemini | Mercury in Leo, house 2 | Neptune, Pluto | the inner world, rest, what is hidden |
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Jorge’s cards
Every card is computed from August 24, 1899, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
☿ Ruled by Mercury
Quicksilver Hg
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
己
yin Earth
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
子
Rat
Water
you & partnership
Hour
丙
yang Fire
寅
Tiger
Wood
later life & legacy
Where this data comes from
Jorge’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q909, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. Birth time rated AA on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. That means: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class. Source: Astro-Databank (Rodden AA). 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 Grete Stern, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Jorge Luis Borges 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 Jorge Luis Borges’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Jorge Luis Borges?
- Jorge Luis Borges was a Virgo: born August 24, 1899, which puts the Sun in Virgo at the documented birth time. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they were an Earth Pig.
- What was Jorge Luis Borges's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 24, 1899 birth.
- What time was Jorge Luis Borges born?
- 03:30 local time in Buenos Aires, Argentina, per Astro-Databank (Rodden AA) (Rodden rating AA).
- What was Jorge Luis Borges's rising sign?
- Cancer rising, calculated from the documented 03:30 birth time in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Rodden rating AA: from a birth certificate, birth record or family bible, the most reliable class.).
- What was Jorge Luis Borges's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the August 24, 1899 birth date.
- What was Jorge Luis Borges's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Sagittarius at 7°, in the sixth house. Position from JPL Horizons for the August 24, 1899 birth time.
- Where was Jorge Luis Borges's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Leo at 19°, in the second house. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Jorge Luis Borges's dominant planet?
- Mercury, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Virgo; disposes Sun, Neptune, Pluto; 3 major aspects). Moon is second and Mars third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
