Skip to main content

Swami Vivekananda - an Astro-profile


Swami Vivekananda [born  12 January 1863 at 06:33 am LMT, Calcutta, Rodden Rating AA] was a Indian religious leader, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna inspired by his teacher to serve men as visible manifestations of God. An illumined being of the highest order, he was the forerunner who brought the spiritual teachings of India to the West in 1893 at the convening of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, greatly influencing the last hundred years of spiritual growth in Europe and America.



Shown here is his horoscope. With an exact time of birth we notice that  he has a powerful angular T-square with Jupiter, the planet of religion and spirituality on the MC opposite the adventurous,  pioneering and assertive Mars in its own sign Aries on the IC. Both these are square to Sun in Capricorn on the Ascendant conjunct the stars of the constellation Lyra.

“The lyre was originally bestowed with the qualities to invoke and communicate the messages of the gods. As the harp of the angelic messengers, its tuning and voice are not merely for pleasure, but specifically to harmonically translate divine information into vibration that supports healing and evolutionary unfoldment.”[1]


Here is the progressed solar return for 11th Sept 1893, the day he delivered his famous speech at the Parliament of Religions. Notice the TNP Poseidon associated with religion and spirituality on the Ascendant square Pluto-Neptune on the MC.




Poseidon-Pluto: To recognize the power of ideology, religion, persuasion or beliefs and to see attempts to influence people through these things [2]

The Sabian symbol for Poseidon completes the picture:

PHASE 163 (VIRGO 13°): A POWERFUL STATESMAN OVER-COMES A STATE OF POLITICAL HYSTERIA.

KEYNOTE: The focusing of the collective need for order and structural interdependence into a personage who incarnates the answer to this need.

We are at the stage where a powerful realization of the very purpose of the cycle of existence faces the chaotic remains of a dis-structured past. The character of the leader is always delineated by the need, subconscious though it may be, of the unformed agglomeration of entities he is called upon by destiny to lead. In time the leader will be worshiped as the "divine Father" of the society he structured.

At this third stage of the thirty-third sequence we see a new type of characterization of the many-faceted polarization of positive and negative. We have before us a personage endowed with CHARISMA, this elusive and mysterious power that comes from a man's or woman's openness to the power of planetary evolution.[3]

[1] Lunar Planner, Nick Fiorenza
[2] The Orders of Light; Martha-Lang Wescott p.101
[3] An Astrological Mandala; Dane Rudhyar

Comments