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Makemake Through the Signs

This shows the year Makemake first enters one astrology sign (tropical, geocentric), to the year he first enters the next sign. Because he’s very slow, orbital period just over 306 years, it takes at least a couple of years of retrograding back out and in over a sign cusp before he changes signs for good. To see full details of those ins and outs for any particular sign change, click the links.

Gemini : 1603 - 1627

Cancer : 1627 - 1653

Leo : 1654 - 1681

Virgo : 1681 - 1710

Libra : 1710 - 1742

Scorpio : 1742 - 1777

Sagittarius : 1777 - 1809

Capricorn : 1809 - 1835

Aquarius : 1835 - 1854

Pisces : 1854 - 1870

Aries : 1870 - 1887

Taurus : 1887 - 1907

Gemini : 1907 - 1930

Cancer : 1930 - 1957

Leo : 1957 - 1984

Virgo : 1984 - 2013

Libra : 2013 - 2044

Some Contemporary Aspects

Please click on the links for full details of the dates and times of the aspect history.

Makemake square Pluto

Virgo to Sagittarius 2002 - 2004

Makemake opposite Uranus

Occurring now and last occurred 1891 - 1894 (Taurus to Scorpio)

Makemake conjunct Saturn

Will be exact in Virgo in September 2009

Last occurred in Leo in 1977

Cancer in 1945

Gemini in 1913

Some Astrology charts with Significant Makemake Aspects Within One Degree

Billy Graham
Makemake (15 ge 23′42″ Rx) conjunct Mean South Node (14 ge 34′52″ Rx)

Kurt Cobain
Makemake (9 le 27′44″ Rx) square True Node (9 ta 34′51″ Rx)

Tiger Woods
Makemake (20 le 26′30″ Rx) square true Node (20 sc 55′37″ Rx)

Frida Kahlo
Makemake (0 ge 41′39″) conjunct Moon (29 ta 42′43″)

Cesar Chavez
Makemake (23 ge 40′ 5″) square Moon (22 pi 46′26″)

George W. Bush
Makemake (17 cn 6′ 7″) square Moon (16 li 42′21″)

USA Sibley Chart
Makemake (27 sc 45′ 1″ Rx) square Moon (27 aq 10′17″)

Rush Limbaugh
Makemake (22 cn 14′37″ Rx) opposite Sun (21 cp 33′20″)

Thomas Midgeley (no birth time)
Makemake (2 ta 47′ 5″) conjunct Venus (2 ta 58′26″ Rx)

Michael J. Fox
Makemake (2 le 46′24″) square Venus (2 ta 57′34″)

Placido Domingo
Makemake (10 cn 34′23″ Rx) opposite Venus (9 cp 57′55″)

Salvador Dali
Makemake (25 ta 6′23″) conjunct Mars (25 ta 10′52″)

Johannes Kepler
Makemake (7 ar 28′56″) opposite Mars (8 li 16′32″)

Xanana Gusmao
Makemake (16 cn 43′ 1″) square Jupiter (17 li 30′12″)

Bruce Springsteen
Makemake (21 cn 59′58″) opposite Jupiter (22 cp 22′58″)

Marlon Brando
Makemake (20 ge 7′ 2″) opposite Jupiter (19 sa 53′47″)
Makemake (20 ge 7′ 2″) square MC (20 vi 32′ 3″)

General Data

Mythology here and here

Summary of discovery and naming circumstances on Planet Waves here

Orbital period 306.74 years

Discovery date: 31st March 2005

Discovery position: 20+ Virgo

Provisional designation: 2005 FY9

Minor planet number: 136472

Orbit diagram here

Online astrology ephemeris including Makemake here

Makemake aspectarian to end of 2008 here

NASA JPL database page on Makemake here

The discoverer’s blog, Mike Brown.

Philip Sedgwick’s initial ideas on Makemake delineation.

A lot of Makemake research has already been posted to the Centaurs (Zane Stein) and Centaurs2 (Mark Andrew Holmes) egroups, where there are many astrologers who’ve studied the object since well before it was named.