The sky at the moment of the Bitcoin genesis block

Bitcoin’s birth chart

The Bitcoin network · 3 January 2009 · 18:15 UTC

Tropical zodiac, no houses: it happened at no one place on Earth

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Bitcoin’s reading
Bitcoin’s reading

Four planets in Capricorn

3 January 2009 · 18:15 UTC · The Bitcoin network

☉ Capricorn · ☽ Aries

The Bitcoin genesis block, block 0, carries the timestamp 1231006505, which is 18:15:05 UTC on 3 January 2009. Drawn for that second, Bitcoin's birth chart has a Capricorn Sun and an Aries Moon, with Mars, Jupiter and Pluto joining the Sun in Capricorn: four planets in the sign of foundations and long-term building.

Bitcoin's genesis block arrived with four planets in Capricorn: the Sun at 13°, Mars at 5°, Jupiter at 29° and Pluto at 1°. Capricorn is the sign of rules, structure and patient construction, the one that thinks in decades rather than days. Jupiter, the planet of growth, is in the sign's final degree and Pluto, the planet of deep transformation, in one of its first, so the group stretches from one end of Capricorn to the other. Lilith is there too, within a degree and a half of Pluto. It's a sky with a builder's temperament: serious, ambitious and in it for the long haul.

The Moon was at 4° Aries when the genesis block was timestamped, in the sign of beginnings, firsts and striking out alone. Aries opens the zodiac, so its Moon is a fitting emotional tone for a block numbered zero. The Moon makes a square to Mars in Capricorn, a degree from exact, and since Mars rules Aries, the pairing hums with drive and initiative. An easy sextile to Mercury in Aquarius links that instinct to quick, original thinking.

Outside Capricorn, the genesis block's sky puts Mercury and Neptune in Aquarius and Venus and Uranus in Pisces. Aquarius is the sign of networks, invention and the collective, and Mercury, the planet of messages and exchange, sits in its early degrees, with the North Node in Aquarius as well. Venus, the planet of what we value, had just crossed into Pisces and makes an easy sextile to Pluto. Saturn in Virgo stands opposite Uranus in Pisces, order and reinvention holding each other in balance. Pluto's sign has its own page: Pluto in Capricorn.

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Earth50%

Earth grows slowly and holds its shape: patience, skill and care for what is real and lasting.

It is the ground you stand on most here, so you trust what you can build and touch.

It shows in who you are at your centre, how you go after things, where luck and growth come easily, what you take seriously and build slowly and where you change most deeply.

☉Sun in Capricorn♂Mars in Capricorn♃Jupiter in Capricorn♄Saturn in Virgo♇Pluto in Capricorn
Bitcoin’s elements

Mostly earth, with water next

Tap an element in the picture or on the bar to see which planets feed it. The Sun, Moon and rising sign count extra.

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♑ Capricorn

Capricorn

ambition · structure · the long game☉ ♂ ♃ ♇

Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto sit here.

Bitcoin’s signs

Where the planets fall around the zodiac

Without a birth time there are no houses, so each leaf is one of the twelve signs and each berry is a planet. Hover or tap a leaf or berry to see what’s there.

Bitcoin’s crystal

Smoky Quartz

An earth stone · grounding, protection, release

An earthing stone for steadying the body and letting go of what is heavy.

Smoky quartz is quartz that has darkened to brown or grey because natural radiation in the surrounding rock acted on traces of aluminium in the crystal. It is found in Brazil, Madagascar, the Swiss Alps and Colorado, and in Scotland, where it is known as cairngorm. Scottish Highlanders traditionally set it into brooches and dirk handles, and it is associated with steadiness and letting go.

Smoky quartz is hard enough to carry loose, though points and edges can chip if dropped. Keep it away from strong heat, which can bleach its colour, and clean it with warm soapy water.

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Where the time comes from

When
3 January 2009, 18:15:05 UTC
Where
The Bitcoin network (no rising sign or houses without a place on Earth)
Time from
The timestamp written into block 0 itself, 1231006505, is 18:15:05 UTC on 3 January 2009. Source
Note
Satoshi Nakamoto set this timestamp, so it records the moment the block says it was made. Block 1 is dated six days later, 9 January 2009.

Questions

What time was the Bitcoin genesis block made?

Its own timestamp, 1231006505, is 18:15:05 UTC on 3 January 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto set that timestamp, so it records the moment the block says it was made. Block 1 is dated six days later, 9 January 2009.

What sign is Bitcoin's Sun in?

Capricorn, at 13°30', alongside Mars, Jupiter and Pluto.

Why does Bitcoin's birth chart have no rising sign?

Rising signs and houses come from the horizon at a particular place on Earth. The genesis block belongs to a network, not a place, so there's no horizon to use. The Sun, the Moon and every planet are placed exactly for 18:15:05 UTC.

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Where each planet stood at that moment, and what it stands for. Tap one to find it in the sky.

The chart, drawn flat

The same sky the way astrologers read it: as the traditional wheel, or as an orrery with Earth at the centre.

♈︎ARIES♉︎TAURUS♊︎GEMINI♋︎CANCER♌︎LEO♍︎VIRGO♎︎LIBRA♏︎SCORPIO♐︎SAGITTARIUS♑︎CAPRICORN♒︎AQUARIUS♓︎PISCES☉︎13°☽︎4°☿︎2°♀︎0°♂︎5°♃︎29°♄︎21°♅︎19°♆︎22°♇︎1°☊︎10°⚸︎0°

Without a birth time, the wheel is shown in standard 0° Aries orientation — the horizon and angles are omitted. Lines between planets are their aspects.

☉︎Sun13°30′ CAP
☽︎Moon4°33′ ARI
☿︎Mercury2°47′ AQU
♀︎Venus0°15′ PIS
♂︎Mars5°36′ CAP
♃︎Jupiter29°33′ CAP
♄︎Saturn21°45′ VIR ℞
♅︎Uranus19°19′ PIS
♆︎Neptune22°31′ AQU
♇︎Pluto1°21′ CAP
☊︎North Node10°48′ AQU ℞
⚸︎Lilith0°01′ CAP

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