Nikola Tesla Zodiac Sign & Birth Chart
Nikola Tesla is a Cancer, born July 10, 1856.
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Birth chart quick facts
- Sun
- Cancer
- Moon
- Moon in Libra
- Rising
- Libra
- Chinese zodiac
- Dragon
- BaZi day master
- Wood
- Birth time
- 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
- Birthplace
- Smiljan, Croatia
Western + Eastern: Cancer Sun symbolism alongside the Chinese zodiac and BaZi day master. Birth date source: Wikidata.
East meets West. Nikola Tesla's Cancer Sun offers the Western astrological lens, while the Chinese zodiac Year of the Dragon adds a year based cycle and Wood names the BaZi day stem symbolism. These systems use different calendars and interpretive traditions, so this page places their keywords side by side as complementary cultural frameworks rather than treating them as interchangeable calculations.
Based on 12:00 default
BaZi day follows the 23:00 convention; someone born after 23:00 may have a different day element.
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Water placements
Based on the 10 classic placements in this chart.
Tropical zodiac · Geocentric · True node · Placidus houses
About Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and inventor, born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia.
Nikola Tesla's Sun sign is Cancer, a Water sign in astrology.
Their chart is calculated for 12:00 local time in Smiljan because the exact birth time is not public.
Planet placements
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|
| sun | Cancer | 18.28° | No |
| moon | Libra | 19.76° | No |
| mercury | Gemini | 28.42° | No |
| venus | Cancer | 15.43° | No |
| mars | Libra | 19.18° | No |
| jupiter | Aries | 8.62° | No |
| saturn | Cancer | 5.62° | No |
| uranus | Taurus | 23.96° | No |
| neptune | Pisces | 20.36° | Yes |
| pluto | Taurus | 5.55° | No |
Houses and angles
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public)
Rising: Libra
House 1: Libra · House 2: Scorpio · House 3: Sagittarius · House 4: Capricorn · House 5: Aquarius · House 6: Pisces · House 7: Aries · House 8: Taurus · House 9: Gemini · House 10: Cancer · House 11: Leo · House 12: Virgo
Strongest aspects
Saturn + Pluto sextile · 0.08° orb
Saturn (structure and responsibility) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a sextile: Their themes support one another, opening room for the relationship between these functions.
Moon + Mars conjunction · 0.58° orb
Moon (instinct and emotional needs) and Mars (drive and action) form a conjunction: Their themes merge, combining the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Pluto quintile · 0.73° orb
Sun (identity) and Pluto (intensity and transformation) form a quintile: Their themes link, bringing attention to the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Mars square · 0.90° orb
Sun (identity) and Mars (drive and action) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Moon square · 1.48° orb
Sun (identity) and Moon (instinct and emotional needs) form a square: Their themes create friction that can drive action around the relationship between these functions.
Sun + Neptune trine · 2.08° orb
Sun (identity) and Neptune (imagination and ideals) form a trine: Their themes flow together, easing the relationship between these functions.
Elements, modalities & patterns
Elements: Fire 1 · Earth 2 · Air 3 · Water 4
Modalities: Cardinal 6 · Fixed 2 · Mutable 2
Detected patterns: Stellium in Cancer
Sun and Moon relationship
The Cancer Sun and Libra Moon form a square by sign: their intentions and instincts can pull in different directions and invite adjustment. In traditional astrology, this describes a link between outward purpose and immediate emotional responses.
These are traditional symbols for reflection, not claims about Nikola Tesla's private life.
Placement-by-placement reading
Sun in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Sun in the 10th house
Nikola Tesla's Sun in Cancer. They become more recognizably themselves by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue a self authored identity.
Nikola Tesla's Sun in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Moon in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Moon in the 1st house
Nikola Tesla's Moon in Libra. Their emotional system settles by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue emotional safety.
Nikola Tesla's Moon in House 1 touches identity, body, first impressions, and beginnings. It asks them to embody this energy directly.
Mercury in Gemini
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mercury in the 9th house
Nikola Tesla's Mercury in Gemini. Their mind becomes clear by staying curious and making unexpected connections; this makes questions, language, and a lively exchange of perspectives central to how they pursue a way to understand and articulate experience.
Nikola Tesla's Mercury in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Venus in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Venus in the 10th house
Nikola Tesla's Venus in Cancer. Love and self worth deepen by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue love, ease, and self worth.
Nikola Tesla's Venus in House 10 touches career, public role, responsibility, and authority. It asks them to make a public contribution with integrity.
Mars in Libra
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Mars in the 1st house
Nikola Tesla's Mars in Libra. Their drive becomes clean by learning themselves through equal encounter with another; this makes reciprocity, beauty, fairness, and thoughtful comparison central to how they pursue a clear route for desire and anger.
Nikola Tesla's Mars in House 1 touches identity, body, first impressions, and beginnings. It asks them to embody this energy directly.
Jupiter in Aries
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Jupiter in the 6th house
Nikola Tesla's Jupiter in Aries. Growth becomes meaningful by initiating before certainty arrives; this makes the courage to begin, compete, and stand alone central to how they pursue growth and a meaningful horizon.
Nikola Tesla's Jupiter in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice.
Saturn in Cancer
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Saturn in the 9th house
Nikola Tesla's Saturn in Cancer. Maturity develops by protecting what feels emotionally alive and rooted; this makes care, memory, belonging, and an inner sense of home central to how they pursue earned security and authority.
Nikola Tesla's Saturn in House 9 touches belief, study, travel, publishing, and meaning. It asks them to test faith through lived experience.
Uranus in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Uranus in the 8th house
Nikola Tesla's Uranus in Taurus. Freedom becomes real by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue freedom from a false script.
Nikola Tesla's Uranus in House 8 touches intimacy, shared resources, loss, trust, and taboo. It asks them to choose honest exchange over control.
Neptune in Pisces
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Neptune in the 6th house · Retrograde
Nikola Tesla's Neptune in Pisces. Their sensitivity becomes creative by making room for mystery without losing contact with reality; this makes imagination, empathy, creativity, and permeable awareness central to how they pursue a lived connection to imagination and compassion.
Nikola Tesla's Neptune in House 6 touches work, health, service, habits, and maintenance. It asks them to turn this energy into sustainable practice. Retrograde turns their Neptune's imagination inward. Their inner world runs deeper than what they show, and their sensitivity works best as a private compass, not a performance.
Pluto in Taurus
Birth time: 12:00 (default, exact time not public) · Pluto in the 7th house
Nikola Tesla's Pluto in Taurus. Transformation begins by building slowly enough for trust to grow; this makes embodiment, enduring value, and patient commitment central to how they pursue truth beneath fear, attachment, and power.
Nikola Tesla's Pluto in House 7 touches partnership, agreements, attraction, and projection. It asks them to meet this quality in themselves and the other.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Nikola Tesla's rising sign?
Nikola Tesla's Rising sign is Libra, calculated for 12:00 unless an exact birth time is public.
What is Nikola Tesla's birth time?
No exact time is public, so this page uses 12:00 local time as the default.
Is Nikola Tesla a Cancer?
Yes. Nikola Tesla's Sun sign is Cancer in the chart shown here.
How we calculate. Planet signs use the Timing natal chart engine (Swiss Ephemeris based). When an exact birth time is not public, the chart is calculated for 12:00 local time on the birth date, including Rising, houses, and angles; these placements can differ at another time. Publicly sourced birth times are marked reported, unverified.
Updated September 2026
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