Alfred Hitchcock

Film director and writer · United Kingdom · 1899–1980

Leo 20.5° · born August 13, 1899
Birth time unknown

Birth date sourced. Birth time unknown.The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day. Everything below uses only what the complete civil day settles.

The day, read honestly

The Sun stands at 20.5° Leo, in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules. Of everything the chart can be read for without a birth time, that is the loudest single fact in it.

Positions at 12:00 civil time in Leytonstone—a reference instant, not a birth time. No houses, rising sign, angles, or sect were computed.

Where the Sun actually stood

Leo, but precisely: 20.5°, third decan, 20°–30°, under Mars in the triplicity scheme. The tradition kept these divisions because thirty degrees is a long street.

The personal registers

For the fast movers, Mercury was at 0.9° Virgo, Venus was at 11.3° Leo, Mars was at 4.7° Libra. Read together: a mind that trusts the measured and the checked; taste that runs toward the vivid and the immediate; drive that argues its way forward.

The angles that hold

Nothing in the geometry sits closer than Saturn and Pluto: 0.6° from an exact opposition. An opposition is the tradition’s tug of war. Both ends are real, and the work is holding them at once rather than picking a winner. Behind it, Mars sextile Uranus at 0.7°, and Mercury sextile Jupiter at 2.5° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. These are the day-proof angles — present at midnight, present at noon, present at the next midnight.

What the angles build

The Moon stands apart from every major angle the day held — the tradition reads an unaspected planet as a voice that speaks on its own schedule, unmodulated by the rest of the chart.

The classical map

The classical table has four entries for this chart. The Sun in Leo at 20.5° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; the Moon in Scorpio at 8.6° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given; Mercury in Virgo at 0.9° is in exaltation — the tradition’s honoured-guest placement, working at its best; Mars in Libra at 4.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain. The old table grades terrain, not talent — a placement in fall works uphill, nothing more.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 fire, 3 air, 2 water, 1 earth by element and 5 mutable, 4 fixed, 1 cardinal by modality. Fire weights a chart toward initiative — starting, asserting, spending energy to find out what happens. Mercury and Saturn were retrograde — apparent backward motion from where the Earth sits, which the tradition reads as a function turned inward before it is turned out.

The Moon, and how far it can move

The Moon stayed in Scorpio for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 12.7° between midnight and midnight. Fast enough that its degree is approximate, slow enough that its sign is not in doubt. At the noon reference it stands at 8.6°.

Where this comes fromSources, revisions, and exactly what this chart assumes

Source article: Alfred Hitchcock · revision 1365926614
Wikidata: Q7374 · revision 2521797188
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1899-08-13 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Leytonstone, United Kingdom · Q1368969
Coordinates: 51.5690, 0.0100 · from Leytonstone
Reference instant: 1899-08-13T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 12.73° · The Moon remained in Scorpio throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Ante Brkan · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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