Birth Chart

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin

Sun Cancer

Moon Aries

Ascendant Aries

Influences in signs

↣ Sun in Cancer - 23°46' - in house 5

↣ Moon in Aries - 08°19' - in house 1

↣ Mercury in Leo - 17°13' - in house 6

↣ Venus in Cancer - 14°14' - in house 4/5 - retrograde

↣ Mars in Aquarius - 16°31' - in house 12 - retrograde

↣ Jupiter in Aries - 23°35' - in house 1

↣ Saturn in Virgo - 25°28' - in house 7

↣ Uranus in Scorpio - 01°59' - in house 7

↣ Neptune in Gemini - 10°23' - in house 3

↣ Pluto in Gemini - 09°19' - in house 2/3

↣ North Node in Taurus - 14°16' - in house 2 - retrograde

↣ Ascendant in Aries - 04°14' - in house 1

↣ Midheaven in Capricorn - 01°33' - in house 10

↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Aries - 01°51'

Influences in houses

↣ Sun in house 5

↣ Moon in house 1

↣ Mercury in house 6

↣ Venus in house 4/5

↣ Mars in house 12

↣ Jupiter in house 1

↣ Saturn in house 7

↣ Uranus in house 7

↣ Neptune in house 3

↣ Pluto in house 2/3

↣ North Node in house 2

↣ Ascendant in house 1

↣ Midheaven in house 10

Aspects

↣ Sun and Venus conjunction (9°31' separating)

↣ Sun and Mars antiparallel

↣ Sun and Jupiter square (0°11' separating)

↣ Sun and Saturn sextile (1°41' applying)

↣ Sun and Neptune parallel

↣ Moon and Venus square (5°56' applying)

↣ Moon and Neptune sextile (2°04' applying)

↣ Moon and Pluto sextile (1°01' applying)

↣ Moon and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (6°28' applying) parallel

↣ Moon and Ascendant conjunction (4°04' applying) parallel

↣ Moon and Midheaven square (6°46' applying)

↣ Mercury and Venus parallel

↣ Mercury and Mars opposition (0°42' separating)

↣ Mercury and North Node square (2°57' separating) parallel

↣ Venus and North Node sextile (0°02' separating)

↣ Mars and North Node square (2°14' applying)

↣ Jupiter and Uranus opposition (8°24' applying)

↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (6°23' separating)

↣ Saturn and Ascendant opposition (8°47' separating)

↣ Saturn and Midheaven square (6°06' separating)

↣ Uranus and Pluto antiparallel

↣ Uranus and Midheaven sextile (0°26' applying)

↣ Neptune and Pluto conjunction (1°03' separating)

↣ Pluto and Ascendant sextile (5°05' applying)

Birth data

Original name: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin
Chart date: 15/07/1892
Chart time: 22:30
Date and time quality: AA Birth record cited what does this mean?
Data origin: Astro-Databank
Location: Berlin, Germany
Latitude and longitude: 52°29' North · 13°21' East
Time zone: 00:53 East

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About

Walter Benjamin was a German-Jewish essayist, literary critic, translator and philosopher whose work spanned aesthetics, history and social theory. Positioned within the artistic avant‑gardes and influenced by Marxist currents and Jewish mysticism, he developed an original reflection on the cultural transformations of modernity, especially regarding techniques of reproduction and the emergence of cinema.

His oeuvre includes decisive texts such as “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” “Theses on the Concept of History,” and the unfinished Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century, as well as important translations of Baudelaire and Proust. Benjamin examined topics such as the loss of an artwork’s “aura,” the relationship between technique and perception, and the political potential of new media to reshape popular access to culture.

Excluded from a formal university career, he worked mainly as a critic and translator, maintaining close exchanges with thinkers such as Gershom Scholem and Theodor Adorno. His work only achieved broad recognition posthumously and today influences debates in aesthetics, critical theory and media and modernity studies.

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