NadarBirth Chart
Gaspard-Felix Tournachon
06/04/1820 04:00
AA - Birth record cited
Paris
France
48°52' ↑ North - 2°20' → East
00:09 East
Sun Moon Asc
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Félix Nadar, the pen name of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, was a central figure in nineteenth-century French cultural life as a photographer, caricaturist, journalist and inventor associated with ballooning. Recognized as one of the first great portraitists, he documented the intellectual and political elite of his time and helped elevate photography to the status of art, publicly defending its technical and aesthetic dimensions. His Paris studio became a landmark from 1854 to 1949, where his brother Adrien and his son Paul worked; the legal dispute known as the “Nadar Trial” consolidated his right to his name and artistic identity. Nadar also innovated in methods: he introduced electric lighting, made long-exposure photographs and recorded previously unseen scenes such as the sewers and catacombs of Paris. Passionate about human flight, he patented ideas for aerial photography and built the balloon Géant, as well as using captive balloons and carrier pigeons for communications during the 1870 siege—actions that influenced contemporaries such as Jules Verne. His work and technical experiments left a lasting legacy in the history of photography and the imagery of the nineteenth century.
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↣ Sun in Aries - 16°16' - in house 2
↣ Moon in Capricorn - 14°20' - in house 11
↣ Mercury in Aries - 26°58' - in house 2 - retrograde
↣ Venus in Taurus - 26°52' - in house 3
↣ Mars in Cancer - 24°50' - in house 6
↣ Jupiter in Pisces - 10°40' - in house 1
↣ Saturn in Aries - 05°08' - in house 1/2
↣ Uranus in Sagittarius - 28°50' - in house 10/11 - retrograde
↣ Neptune in Capricorn - 00°53' - in house 10/11 - retrograde
↣ Pluto in Pisces - 27°34' - in house 1
↣ North Node in Aries - 01°49' - in house 1 - retrograde
↣ Ascendant in Aquarius - 27°44' - in house 1
↣ Midheaven in Sagittarius - 15°35' - in house 10
↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Pisces - 13°01'
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↣ Mercury and Neptune trine (3°54' separating)
↣ Mercury and Ascendant sextile (0°46' separating)
↣ Venus and Mars sextile (2°02' separating)
↣ Venus and Pluto sextile (0°42' applying)
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↣ Venus and Ascendant square (0°52' separating)
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↣ Mars and Pluto trine (2°44' applying)
↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (2°21' separating)
↣ Jupiter and Midheaven square (4°55' separating)
↣ Saturn and Neptune square (4°16' separating)
↣ Saturn and Pluto conjunction (7°35' separating)
↣ Saturn and North Node conjunction (3°20' separating) parallel
↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant parallel
↣ Uranus and Neptune conjunction (2°02' separating)
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↣ Uranus and North Node square (2°58' separating)
↣ Uranus and Ascendant sextile (1°06' applying)
↣ Uranus and Midheaven parallel
↣ Neptune and Pluto square (3°18' applying)
↣ Neptune and North Node square (0°56' separating)
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↣ Pluto and North Node conjunction (4°15' applying)
↣ North Node and Equatorial Ascendant parallel