Ali Farka Touré

Singer · Mali · 1939–2006

Scorpio 7.2° · born October 31, 1939
Birth time unknown

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

The day, read honestly

Tightest of all, Mercury holds a trine to Jupiter at 0.9° — close enough to weld thinking to expansion. Trines are read as inheritance rather than achievement: the ease is genuine, and nothing about it was earned.

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

Where the Sun actually stood

At the noon reference the Sun sits 7.2° into Scorpio — the first decan, which the old scheme hands to Mars. Same sign, different decan, different chart.

The personal registers

Day to day the chart speaks through Mercury in Scorpio (29.0°), Venus in Scorpio (21.7°), Mars in Aquarius (18.3°): thought steeped in tone and memory, attraction that works by atmosphere, effort aimed through strategy and words.

The angles that hold

Mercury to Jupiter is the closest call of the day, a trine within 0.9°. A trine is an open channel. The two cooperate without being asked, which is exactly why it is easy to spend and easy to take for granted. Behind it, Venus opposition Uranus at 1.2°, and Mars square Uranus at 2.1° — both still well inside the orbs this site uses. All of it stands whatever the hour was: each angle was tested from midnight to midnight before it was written down.

The standing structure

Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto close a triangle of trines. A grand trine is read as self-sufficiency in one element: the current circulates whether or not anything is asked of it. Venus opposes Uranus while both square Mars. A t-square aims the whole axis at its apex planet; the tradition reads it as the chart’s standing assignment.

The classical map

Read against the old dignities, three placements stand out. Venus in Scorpio at 21.7° is in detriment — the planet opposite its home, working against the grain; Jupiter in Pisces at 29.9° is in domicile — the planet in its own sign, running on home rules; Saturn in Aries at 27.1° is in fall — the tradition’s uphill placement, strength earned rather than given. The table describes circumstance rather than quality — a planet in detriment is inconvenienced, not diminished.

The shape of the whole

Counting only the 10 placements whose signs hold for the whole day, the chart runs 4 water, 2 air, 2 fire, 2 earth by element and 6 fixed, 3 mutable, 1 cardinal by modality. Water reads the room before the room speaks — atmosphere first, analysis later. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus 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 Gemini for the whole of that day at the birthplace, covering 13.3° 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 15.6°.

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

Source article: Ali Farka Touré · revision 1363294792
Wikidata: Q334947 · revision 2483583925
Retrieved: 2026-07-26T18:47:50.947Z
Birth date: 1939-10-31 · day precision · proleptic-gregorian
Birthplace: Timbuktu, Mali · Q9427
Coordinates: 16.7733, -2.9994 · from Timbuktu
Reference instant: 1939-10-31T12:00:00.000Z · noon civil time, not a birth time
Omitted: Rising sign, houses, angles, and sect—all require a birth time.
Unknown-time range: Moon travelled 13.31° · The Moon remained in Gemini throughout that civil day.
Engine: astronomy-engine (repository dependency) · @zodiacs/engine/internal/math
Portrait: Tagles · public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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