Birth Chart
Robert A. Taft
Robert Alfonso Taft
Sun Virgo
Moon Pisces
Ascendant Aquarius
Influences in signs
↣ Sun in Virgo - 16°25' - in house 7/8
↣ Moon in Pisces - 07°56' - in house 1
↣ Mercury in Libra - 10°05' - in house 8
↣ Venus in Leo - 08°22' - in house 7
↣ Mars in Leo - 20°57' - in house 7
↣ Jupiter in Sagittarius - 28°47' - in house 11
↣ Saturn in Leo - 26°46' - in house 7
↣ Uranus in Libra - 20°10' - in house 8
↣ Neptune in Gemini - 04°34' - in house 4 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Gemini - 06°56' - in house 4 - retrograde
↣ North Node in Cancer - 09°54' - in house 5/6 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Aquarius - 12°27' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Sagittarius - 01°32' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Aquarius - 27°12'
Influences in houses
↣ Sun in house 7/8
↣ Moon in house 1
↣ Mercury in house 8
↣ Venus in house 7
↣ Mars in house 7
↣ Jupiter in house 11
↣ Saturn in house 7
↣ Uranus in house 8
↣ Neptune in house 4
↣ Pluto in house 4
↣ North Node in house 5/6
↣ Ascendant in house 1
↣ Midheaven in house 10
Aspects
↣ Sun and Moon opposition (8°29' applying)
↣ Sun and Mercury antiparallel
↣ Moon and Saturn antiparallel
↣ Moon and Neptune square (3°21' separating)
↣ Moon and Pluto square (1°00' separating)
↣ Moon and North Node trine (1°58' applying)
↣ Moon and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (10°44' applying)
↣ Moon and Midheaven square (6°24' applying)
↣ Mercury and Venus sextile (1°43' separating)
↣ Mercury and Neptune trine (5°31' separating)
↣ Mercury and Pluto trine (3°10' separating)
↣ Mercury and North Node square (0°12' separating)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant trine (2°21' separating)
↣ Venus and Neptune sextile (3°48' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto sextile (1°26' separating)
↣ Venus and Ascendant opposition (4°05' separating) antiparallel
↣ Mars and Saturn conjunction (5°49' applying)
↣ Mars and Uranus sextile (0°48' separating)
↣ Mars and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (6°15' separating)
↣ Mars and Ascendant opposition (8°30' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Saturn trine (2°00' applying)
↣ Jupiter and North Node antiparallel
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant sextile (1°34' applying)
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (0°26' separating)
↣ Saturn and Midheaven square (4°45' separating)
↣ Neptune and Pluto conjunction (2°21' separating)
↣ Neptune and Midheaven opposition (3°03' applying)
↣ Pluto and Ascendant trine (5°31' separating)
↣ Pluto and Midheaven opposition (5°24' applying)
Birth data
- Original name
- Robert Alfonso Taft
- Chart date
- 08/09/1889
- Chart time
- 16:45
- Date and time quality
- A Memory what does this mean?
- Data origin
- Astro-Databank
- Location
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Cincinnati (OH), USA - Latitude and longitude
- 39°10' North · 84°27' West
- Time zone
- 05:38 West
The data used to calculate the charts comes from public sources, as do the descriptive texts. We use sources such as Wikipedia.
About
Robert A. Taft was a leading figure in the American Republican Party and one of the principal conservative leaders in Congress after World War II. Trained as a lawyer and a public servant by family tradition, he served as a senator from Ohio, where he developed a reputation for fiscal strictness, advocacy of decentralized power, and opposition to policies that, in his view, unduly expanded the federal government.
A son of W. H. Taft, who served as President and later as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he shaped the party’s internal dynamics by organizing a conservative wing that influenced debates on foreign policy, security, and the economy from the 1930s into the 1950s. He was noted for ideological consistency and a disciplined legislative approach, prioritizing expenditure control and limits on state intervention.
Taft’s legacy lies both in consolidating a conservative caucus within the Republican Party and in the continued political influence of the Taft family; his career remains a touchstone for studies of legislative conservatism in the twentieth century.
