Birth certificate data is June 6, 1980 at 8.28Pm CDT: 44N59; 92W16 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
His chart’s astrodyne report
Dominant planet is Sun (his power urge and desire for significance, awards and medals). It’s in Gemini – I think – and he’s mentally active, versatile, loquacious, restless, and changeable.
Sun decanate is Canis Major – fidelity – and he is unswervingly loyal to work and duty, faithful to partners, profoundly respectful, and naturally inclined to obey his sense of right and wrong.
Sun in house 7 (partnership, marriage, foreign affairs and enemies) is his worst planet. It’s square Mars (strife, war and violence), square Saturn (work and responsibility difficulties), opposition Neptune (dodgy schemes and chaos) and trine Pluto (benefits through group activity).
His high discord power-significance Sun thought-cell activity expressing as dictativeness and self-esteem issues will continue to attract very distressful experiences until he learns what he is doing wrong, grows up and gradually – through experience – develops into his true self.
Pluto in house 10 conciliates the Sun-Neptune (house 1-house 7) opposition and somewhat appeases the uncontrolled imaginings and confused split thinking associated with separation.
Moon is in Pisces and his I believe mentality expresses sympathy, idealism and dreaminess. Discordant Pisces inclines towards worry and to magnify the actual or threatened importance of adversity.
Moon decanate is Cassiopeia – vicissitudes – and he’s having an eventful life, a diverse range of experiences, a variety of careers, various changes of fortune and a fair share of uncertainty.
Moon (his mentality and domestic urge) is square Venus (emotional problems), opposition Saturn (selfishness, fear and anxiety), trine Uranus (sudden change and advancement) and square Neptune (confusion, lies and broken promises).
The Moon-Saturn-Neptune T-square inclines towards difficulties with the common people, domestic intrigues, delays and losses with work, heavy responsibilities, extreme mood swings and mental chaos.
Uranus in house 11 (his friends) conciliates the Moon-Saturn (house 3-house 9) opposition allowing him to somewhat escape the worry, mental anxiety and split-thinking associated with separation.
Ascendant is in Sagittarius and his I see personality is energetic, ambitious, loyal, patriotic and candid. He has strong animal tendencies and higher more noble, generous impulses. Discordant Sagittarius is sportive, boisterous, noisy and inclined to bouts of morbid self-examination.
Ascendant decanate is Aquila – exploration – and his mind is focused on seeking out and exploring new physical, mental and spiritual knowledge. He has executive ability but confinement and restriction breed discouragement, dejection and discontentment.
Ascendant is opposition Sun (those in authority), square Mars (the military and soldiering), square Saturn (insecurities, fear and loss) and conjunction Neptune (lies and scheming). The ascendant-Sun-Mars T-square is high discord.
Neptune is in house 1 and his utopian urge expressing through schemes, lively imaginings and the ability to promote his ideas and thoughts defines his personality. It’s opposition Sun in house 7, square Moon in house 3, opposition Venus in house 7 and square Saturn in house 9 and he’s very prone to vague, wishful thinking, living in dreamland, making things up, breaking promises, inflating his self-importance, chaotic entanglements, deception, roller-coaster emotional rides and chemical addictions.
Mercury is in Cancer and his I feel intellect and speech is emotional, indirect, tenacious and mediumistic. Discordant Cancer is touchy and moody.
Mercury decanate is Canis Minor – moods – and he’s easily carried away by his emotions, susceptible to domestic and other intrigues and mediumistic.
His chart is very high in discord with 153 discordynes.
Sun, Neptune, ascendant, Venus (his social urge and affections) and Mercury (his intellectual urge and writing) are prominent and discordant.
Best planet is Jupiter (his religious urge). It’s his weakest planet
Worst planet is Sun and it’s dominant.
House 7 (marriage, other people and enemies) dominates and is high in discord. House 9 (public speaking, publishing, published works and courts) and house 1 (his personal life and health) are prominent and high in discord.
Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were retrograde when he was born. Mercury turned retrograde in November 2001; Pluto turned direct in April 2002; and Venus turned direct in April 2010.
His life is just his character, as mapped by his prominent planets and houses and keynote decanates, doing its thing.
His story
Peter Brian Hegseth is former television presenter, former Army national Guard and US secretary of defence.
He was raised in Forest Lake, Minnesota, and graduated from Forest Lake Area High School in 1999.
In 2003 he received his Bachelor of Arts in politics at Princeton University. He was active in conservative and Republican politics since his undergraduate days and wrote for The Princeton Tory magazine, the university’s conservative student newspaper, and became its publisher (house 9).
After graduating from Princeton, he was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Minnesota National Guard and during 2004–2005 his unit was called to Guantanamo Bay Naval base where he served as an infantry platoon leader and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal (Sun-Mars).
In 2005 and 2006 he volunteered to serve as an infantry platoon leader and civil-military operations officer in Baghdad and Samarra, Iraq. He was awarded (Sun) the Bronze Star Medal.
In 2012 he unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in Minnesota.
He then returned to active duty as a captain (Sun) and volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan (house 7-house 9) with the Minnesota Army National Guard to train Afghan security forces.
In 2004, Hegseth married his first wife, Meredith Schwarz (house 7). They divorced in 2009 after he admitted to five affairs. In 2010 he married his second wife, Samantha Deering; they have three sons.
In 2014 he was promoted to the rank of major and left active duty. He was assigned to the Army Individual Ready Reserve and joined Fox News (Pluto) as a contributor (house 9).
In August 2017, while married to Samantha, Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet gave birth to Hegseth’s daughter Gwen. In September 2017, Samantha filed for divorce. He married Jennifer on August 16, 2019.
Hegseth says he underwent a religious transformation following his third marriage and is a member of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship,[a church in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
He has authored multiple books (Mercury-house 3), including The War on Warriors and Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free; and defends service members accused of war crimes.
He lives with his third wife and seven children in Tennessee.
Hegseth was Donald Trump’s pick to be US secretary of defense. (Neptune in his chart is conjunction Trump’s Moon and their Mercury’s are conjunction in Cancer.)
On January 14, 2025, at his hearing before the US Senate’s Armed Services Committee, he faced questions for more than four hours about his ability to run the defence department, including its three million employees and $849bn budget and accusations of sexual assault, infidelity and drinking in the workplace.
On November 24, 2025 he got the job when a tied 50 yes-50 no vote in the US Senate was broken by vice president J. D. Vance.
Biographical data is from his Wikipedia entry.
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