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Ralph Waldo Emerson is a philosopher, poet, writer (United States).
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans," and Walt Whitman called Emerson his "master". Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, "Nature". His speech "The American Scholar," given in 1837, was called America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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| Born | 25 May 1803 |
| Profession | philosopher, poet, writer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Educated at | Harvard Divinity School, Harvard College, Harvard University |
| Spouse | Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker |
| Children | Edith Emerson Forbes, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Awards | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Cancer |
| Nakshatra | Pushya (Pada 4) |
| Sun Sign | Taurus |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Virgo |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 25 of them (8%) have the Moon in Cancer, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, and 10 (3%) share the Pushya Nakshatra — the #17 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25 May 1803. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Moon sign (Rashi) is Cancer and the Nakshatra is Pushya, pada 4, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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