Birth data from her biography Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power by Susan Page is March 26, 1940 at 3.10pm EST: 39N17; 76W37 (Baltimore, Maryland)
Her chart’s astrodyne report
Midheaven (honor and publicity) dominates. It’s conjunction Venus, Mars and Uranus and she’s led a very public life constantly attracting public notice.
Venus (her social urge) is her dominant planet. It’s in the second decanate of Taurus – Orion (struggle) – and by using her powers of analysis and discrimination she overcame physical and material limitations to climb the ladder of success in US politics. Taurus (I have) dominates.
Venus is opposition (separation) Moon (feelings and hunches), conjunction Mars (aggressive thinking and desire to attack opponents), sextile Mercury (reasoning and problem-solving thinking), conjunction Uranus (disruption and original thinking) and trine (luck) Neptune (idealistic-utopian thinking).
Midheaven, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Moon and Neptune have above average power and have played a prominent role in her life story.
Moon (her mentality and domestic urge) is prominent in the second decanate of Scorpio – Ara (responsibility) – and she has vivid passions, powerful sexual needs (Venus is conjunction Mars), a strong sense of duty and important positions to fill.
Moon – her worst planet – is trine (luck) Mercury and opposition Venus, Mars, Uranus and Midheaven and sextile Neptune – here best planet.
Moon (her hunches and feelings) intercepts her high discord Mercury-Neptune opposition (confusion, unrealistic thinking and faulty judgements) and provides an accurate feeling assessment of what’s going on.
Moon trine Mercury – her best aspect – indicates her unconscious feelings and unreasoned thoughts are harmoniously connected to her objective thinking.
Mercury (her intellectual urge) is prominent in the second decanate of Pisces – Andromeda (self-sacrifice) – and she has a natural understanding of universal brotherhood and a deep need to serve others. She has regular contact with unseen intelligences and may have been chosen to carry out an important task.
Mercury intercepts her Moon-Uranus opposition (sudden disruptions and dissatisfaction) and allows her to objectively navigate the unexpected turmoil.
Sun (her power urge and desire for significance) is non-prominent in the first decanate of Aries – Triangulum (activity) and she’s a trail blazer who was born to lead.
The Sun is trine Pluto (her universal-welfare urge and desire to cooperate.)
Ascendant (her personality) is in the third decanate of Leo – Corvus (ambition) – and her desire for power and leadership drove her to the top in US politics.
Ascendant is square Mars – her worst aspect.
Houses 9 and 10 dominate and she’s a very public figure.
Sun and Jupiter (abundance) are in house 8 (other people’s money) and she’s a prolific fundraiser who raised over $1 billion.
Mercury, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde. Mercury turned direct in July 1942, Pluto turned direct in July 1957, Neptune turned direct in October 2008; and Venus turned retrograde in October 2010.
Her story
Nancy Pelosi became a politician, the highest-ranking woman in US congressional history.
The daughter of Congressman, Thomas D’Alesandro, she was raised in politics, saying of her childhood, ‘Our lives were about campaigns.’
She studied political science at Trinity College in Washington D.C. and in 1962 graduated with a bachelor’s degree.
In 1962 she married Paul Pelosi and in 1967 they and their five children settled in San Francisco where she worked as a volunteer Democratic organizer earning a reputation as a highly effective fund-raiser.
She served on the Democratic National Committee and as chair of both the California Democratic Party (1981–83) and the host committee for the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
Pelosi was first elected to the House in 1987 and will serve as a U.S. representative from California till her retirement in January 2027.
In October 2001 she was elected House Democratic Whip and after the November, 2006 presidential election on January 4, 2007 she was elected to the prestigious and powerful position of Speaker of the House. She became the first woman to serve as speaker in U.S. history.
The Democrats fared poorly in the November 2010 elections and lost control of the House and despite calls for new party leadership, Pelosi was elected to serve as minority leader in the next Congress.
The 2018 midterm elections saw a massive resurgence in Democrat support as they regained control of the House and in January 2019, Pelosi was officially elected speaker, becoming the first person in more than 60 years to serve non-consecutive terms in the post.
Joe Biden won the 2020 election and with the Democrats maintaining a slim majority in the House she was elected to another term as speaker in 2021.
In August 2022 she became the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to visit Taiwan in 25 years; and following the November 2022 midterm elections, in which the Democratic Party narrowly lost control of the House, she announced that she would step down as leader of the House Democrats but would remain a member of Congress.
Nancy Pelosi is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Profile in Courage Award (2019) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2024); and she wrote (Mercury): Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters (2008) and The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House (2024).
On November 6, 2025 she announced she would not seek reelection in 2027.
Her chart progressed to November 6, 2025
Event marker is a progressed aspect to Mercury (announcements).
Progressed Mercury at 23 Cancer 46 in house 11 was sextile progressed Uranus at 24 Taurus 07 in house 1o and sextile birth chart Neptune at 23 Virgo 49R in house 2 activating their birth chart opposition.
And progressed Moon at 5 Capricorn 11 and 18S25 in house 5 was square birth chart Sun at 6 Aries 01 in house 8; sesquisquare birth chart Uranus at 19 Taurus 27 in house 9; and parallel birth chart Midheaven at 18N22.
Her term in Congress ends January 3, 2027.
Her chart progressed to January 3, 2027
Event markers are a progresses aspect to Sun (politics and her positional power) and the ruler of house 10 or Midheaven (her career).
Progressed Sun at 00 Cancer 02 and 23N26 in house 11 is sextile birth chart Saturn at 00 Taurus 45, parallel progressed Mars at 22N45; and semisextile birth chart Pluto at 00 Leo 40R in house 12.
Progressed Mars – the chief ruler of house 10 – at 22 Cancer 27 in house 11 is sextile birth chart Midheaven at 22 Taurus 24; and progressed Venus at 8 Cancer 16R in house 11 – the cusp ruler of house 10 – is trine progressed ascendant at 9 Scorpio 03 in house 3.
And progressed Moon at 20 Capricorn 33 and 16S54 in house 5 is trine birth chart Venus at 20 Taurus 25 and parallel birth chart Uranus – planet of change – at 17N19.
Biographical data is from Britannica.
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